So, I just had my first taste of season 43:
I liked the street story actually. It had a lot of characters in it; I kinda wish Maria had more to do, but whatever. I also expected Cookie to take a bigger bite from the lampost.
I can't complain about the new tune-ins. The Museum of Modern Remembering went on a tad too long for my taste (maybe shortening the counting part would've worked).
As I said before, I think this "Count Me In" can be taken more seriously because they have it an edge. I also think the woman with the tattoos is kinda attractive...
Birdwalk Empire, always great to have some Frank. "Two is You and Me" cover was also great.
Elmo the Musical. Drtooth was right, that 11 minutes zoomed by like *snap* that! The songs were good (I really enjoyed the Chicken's) and c'mon, more Martians is always great. I can kinda see why some of the youngins would be turned off by it, but hopefully they'll warm up to it maybe. You'd think that since they eat up anything Elmo, they'd enjoy it. I liked it and can't wait to see more.