Susan is frequently overshadowed by Gordon. Gordon is awesome, so that sort of thing just happens. But let's focus on Susan for awhile. She deserves attention, too.
If you are too young to remember the story, Gordon and Susan started out as the principle patriarch and matriarch on the Street. All of the puppets (Big Bird, Ernie and Bert, Oscar, and everybody else) served as their surrogate children. That was the original concept of the show.
Thing was, while Gordon was a very happy, healthy, educated man working a full-time job, there was this problem in regards to why Susan was staying at home every day with no kids. There was this vague notion of offering the Sesame Street children and puppets "milk and cookies" every day, but basically she had nothing to do.
So then there was this plot twist, if you can call it that, where she demanded to be ALLOWED to GO to WORK as a professional nurse. Gordon was initially not comfortable with that, but eventually conceded.
The other thing is this concept of "favorite numbers."
Mine was 8.
Click to view... King of 8.
Bert enjoyed the number 6.
(Really.)
Susan, for whatever reason, picked the number 2.
Click to view.... Favorite number.
Nobody has any idea why. She just apparently was really fascinated with the number 2. Which is not any kind of bad number.
Click to view... 2 of everything.
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