A few days ago, HBO announced that they picked up Sesame Street for 5 more seasons. So what does that mean for the show that has spent 45 years on PBS? So That Happened got their hands on the first trailer and there will be cursing and so much more. This is not the Sesame Street we grew up on, but it is the Sesame Street I want to watch now. I just won’t let any kids watch it. Which is OK because they are watching Dora the Explorer and Doc McStuffins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2B5d-8H588 The Muppets isn’t going to debut until September 22nd, and ABC released the 10 minute pilot presentation two months before the premiere. These are not The Muppets we grew up, but they are The Muppets we can grow old with.
Sonia Manzano, who has played Maria on Sesame Street for 45 years, announced yesterday that she is retiring from the kids educational show according to The Hollywood Reporter. She joined the show back in 1971 and became a mainstay 3 years later. Once she was part of the show, we saw her date, get married and have a kid. Now it is time for her to move on.
As she grew up on the show, we all grew up watching her. If you think about most of us have watched Sesame Street at some point in our lives, so she has been part of all of our lives. Now it is time for her to enjoy her life and I wish her the best! We will miss her, but we will remember her with a big letter F as in fondly.
Mad Men ended on Sunday and Christina Hendricks is already back on our televisions. The much loved red head is going to be on Sesame Street and she is going to teach Elmo about technology. Something Joan Holloway knows nothing about, but Hendricks does. She knows all about lap tops, cell phones, cameras, tablets and eReaders, while only one of those readily available back in the days of Mad Men. Hey kids, can you guess which one that is?
Want to feel really old, ask a kid which item was around the ’60s and see how many of them guess the right answer.
Sesame Street did a parody on The Avengers, and Aveggies wound up ruining the blockbuster. When went to see the movie, we were impressed by all of their powers but maybe we shouldn’t have been. Because as Cookie Monster ate their abilities, they seemed useless.
Watch the video and tell me how pointless Captain America seems without his shield and how wasteful Thor is without his hammer. They are just like you and me and we are boring.
Cookie Monster smash. As in he destroyed a great movie.
