How Elmo Ruined Sesame Street
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How Elmo Ruined Sesame Street
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#2As with literally every article written by kotaku, oh my god I just don't care
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#3I recently watched "I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story" documentary and I had this impression that the show shifted towards a younger audience with Elmo. I wonder that this was probably related to a bigger audience on this age range.
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#4To my mind, Jim Henson's death and the resulting loss of his voice, puppet characters, and leadership, dealt a blow to Sesame Street from which it has not really recovered.
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#5As with literally every article written by kotaku, oh my god I just don't care
The main problem with this article is that it makes the "Why Snoopy ruined Peanuts" article utterly redundant. Its clear that the author is just taking "Why popular character X ruined (show) he was from" as a formula.
http://kotaku.com/how-snoopy-killed-peanuts-1724269473
I guess its interesting from a sense of irony or maybe a creative exercise. But it almost feels like textbook "clickbait".
Re: How Elmo Ruined Sesame Street
#6As with literally every article written by kotaku, oh my god I just don't care
I agree with this. Kotaku articles have no place on the front page of HN, especially ones like this that don't understand the larger context of the program, and its inability to thrive in the "junk food media" environment that is being force fed to kids.
If I ever have kids, I'm going to continue to not have TV in my home. They can read all the books I read when I was a kid, or watch select TV shows from the past 20+ years that aren't just constant pointless bullshit.
Re: How Elmo Ruined Sesame Street
#7As with literally every article written by kotaku, oh my god I just don't care
How Massive Amounts of Non-Gaming Content and Inundation by Perpetually Offended Millenials Ruined Kotaku
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#8I love the internet. I love that someone wrote a whole article on something so arbitrary.
I'm not sure why it's on HN though.
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#9Worse are Mr. Noodle and his brother.
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#10There is no substance on earth more addictive than Elmo is to a two year old.
In most television shows and movies what people are looking for is somebody that represents them - call it an "avatar" if you must. When kids watch Sesame Street they relate directly to Elmo.
He's younger, smaller, has an insatiable curiosity, and is in a permanent mode of questioning and discovery. He even has similar mannerisms to children - he laughs a lot, has lots of energy, and is frequently confused as to what's happening around him.
The reason the author doesn't like Elmo is because Elmo acts like a two year old. The reason two year olds love Elmo is because Elmo acts like a two year old.
Sesame Street was created for two-year-olds, not bitter Internet pundits.