Muppet genealogy obscurata

[nonnihil]

ukelele pointed me to this -- an NPR piece on new Sesame Street episodes dealing with Elmo's coping with his father's deployment with an unspecified branch of the military, presumably to Iraq

Comments

[desireearmfeldt]

No, I can't say I ever wanted to put a Twiddlebug under a microscope. And the lack of parents and kids didn't particularly bother me in the same way it doesn't bother me for a random single adult human character in a work of fiction: yeah, they presumably have parents, but it's not relevant to the story, so why should I worry about it? (Actually, the thing that bugged me was when the muppets were treated as explicitly child-like, because I generally took them to be *adult* muppets. The muppet-show muppets are clearly adults, with jobs and love lives and homes in cities that they don't share with family. The sesame-street muppets are more ambiguous, but still: they live on their own, like the human adults, which makes them adults. So when parents *did* show up, it always bugged me, because suddenly Grover was a *child* as opposed to goofy and child*like

[ukelele]

I don't think what bothered him was the lack of parents, but the fact that they didn't exist at one point and then they did at a later point; why did they become allowed, and how did previously nonexistent parents come to be? It's continuity-breaking. Pick one and stay with it; no crisis on infinite muppeverses

[arcanology]

I would totally buy the hardcover collected edition of Crisis on Infinite Muppeverses.

[madmanatw]

I SEE PRE-CRISIS DC MUPPETVERSE!

[dolohov]

How Wodehousian of them.