Against Big Bird, The Gods Themselves Contend In Vain

[scott_lynch]

I was a hard-core Sesame Street viewer from about 1979 to 1984, and my memories of the show are the sort of deep nostalgic tangle you'd expect, with a great deal of idiosyncratic noise blended into the signal. So, for many years, I carried around a vague but emotionally vivid recollection of a Sesame Street episode in which Big Bird and

Comments

[sartorias]

Why didn't I get to see THAT one when I had to sit with my daughter and snore through fifty billion all-alike episodes?

[scott_lynch]

Heh. Sesame Street is probably a little different for those of us who experienced it from 2-7 rather than 30-35. ;)

[sartorias]

Yep. It was a relief when she, about three and a half, decided one day she'd had enough--not only did everybody consider Big Bird a liar because they wouldn't believe about the Snuffelupagus, but "Everybody is a boy. They don't have any girls."

Unfortunately, her next big crush was Disney's Babes in Toyland . . .

[joenotcharles]

Huh? When did Sesame Street ever "not have any girls"?

[malana]

Yay for youtube! I shall pour myself a glass of wine, and dive in.

[b_vainamoinen]

[vicar]

Yeah totally sucked me in.

[thnidu]

Hee! So's yer LJID. Don't forget yer harp!

[nihilistic_kid]

And I thought I was strange for being the only one to remember the episodes where they go to Hawaii.

[scott_lynch]

That one was scorched pretty deeply into eBear's memory! I was only a couple months old when it aired.

[nihilistic_kid]

[matociquala]

I may have made him watch some of that. Like the metal detector scene....

[xraytheenforcer]

<3 <3 <3
Made my day, man.