Buffy Sainte-Marie, breastfeeding, and more

If you aren't familiar with Buffy Sainte-Marie, she is a gifted musician, educator, and person.  She gave up a career in "popular" music to instead become a resident of Sesame Street.

She formed a particularly strong relationship with Big Bird (as seen above), and is a really good teacher.  a lot of the residents of the Street are good at singing, but other than people like Hoots the Owl and Bob, they aren't necessarily "musicians."

Buffy is a musician.

Click to view... The Moon.

One segment she is particularly known for is teaching Big Bird about breastfeeding.  There was no song in that one, though.  Maybe she will write one later.  Birds, including "Big" ones, do not generally understand breastfeeding because they do not do that.

Click to view... "That's nice."

Might have made more sense to have Mr. Snuffleupagus be the breastfeeding observer instead.  He at least is a mammal, I'm pretty sure.

It would have been kind of complicated because nobody besides Big Bird was supposed to know that Mr. Snuffleupagus existed at that time, but Buffy didn't interact with the other humans too often so who was she gonna tell?  Cody obviously wasn't "talking" and her husband Sheldon seemed to be a bit of a lump that nobody would really trust anyway.  Buffy and Snuffy should be friends, it even rhymes.

Click to view... Wynken Blynken and Nod

Herry and Grover and the Art of the Interview

Kermit is obviously the all-time top Sesame journalist.  But other puppets were really good at it too.  Grover, for example.

Click to view... Forwards is not backwards.

Why couldn't Grover be the main reporter guy?  He seemed to have pretty decent ambition.  Imagine Grover's typical morning.  Alarm clock goes off, he's all like "dang it."  Shower I GUESS.  Do monsters shower or do they just bathe themselves like animals?  He probably took the bus to work.

Grover had a lot of jobs.  I wonder which one he liked best?  Waiter?

That ain't too good of a job.  Plus he was bad at it.

Back to interviewing, Herry was an underrated talent.

He was never really given a chance.  Herry was big and strong, he would have made a good investigative reporter.  Knocking on Oscar's can all like "HEY, why are you such a JERK?"

Speaking of jerks, here is his interview with Edith Ann.

Click to view... "and that's the truth."

Kermit is still the best though.  He could get secret dirt out of anybody, but chooses not to.  He has integrity.  He does not harass the Old Woman That Lived In The Shoe about having so many bastard children.

Instead, he is nice.

Click to view... The Alphabet.

Is Big Bird even a bird?

First tip-off: no wings.

He does have arms that he REFERS to as "wings," but you know what?  Birds do not have hands.

Click to view: THIS is a bird.

He also does not hop around like a bird does.  Ever see a bird hopping around?  It's always with two feet at once.  Big Bird does not do that.

Also there are all these birdseed and canary "jokes."  Yeah okay, cause he's totally a BIRD-bird.  Let's see him act like one for once.

Sometimes the residents of Sesame Street do not look like the animals that they are supposed to be.  Kermit does not look like a frog.

Some other animal puppets actually do look like animals.

I think everybody just accepted Big Bird being a bird because they were told he was.  Same as Kermit being a frog.  and Grover being a MONSTER.  Rah.

Click to view... There's a Bird on Me

Are you afraid of Frazzle?

If not, maybe you should be.

Frazzle doesn't make a lot of sense (literally).  He's an "emotional" puppet, but he also doesn't talk and always has the same facial expression.  a scary one.

His friends trump him up as a really cool guy, but I see no evidence.  They SEEM to be able to tell how he's feeling, but what if they're wrong?

Click to view... Laughing, crying, or just annoyed?

What about other feelings?  Does Frazzle get ANGRY?  How would you know, unless he actually attacked you?  What kind of noise does he make when he's scared?  Or especially proud of himself?  I would imagine it's just more of the same.  That has to be rough, being cooped up inside your own head like that.  Unable to communicate.  Linda should have taught him sign language.

Is Frazzle allowed in Mr. Hooper's Store?  How would he ask for something?  If the children on the Street are afraid of him, how can he tell them not to be?  and what if they aren't, but SHOULD be?  What if Frazzle is secretly dangerous?  Certain characters have gone missing over the years.

I'm not ACCUSING him of any wrong-doing, but where did everybody get the idea that Frazzle was happy and fun?  What if he's COMPLETELY misunderstood, and that sound he keeps making just means he's getting madder and madder?  Could be a ticking time bomb.  "I'm NOT crying right now I'm CONTENT.  Look, THIS is crying.  See the difference?  Will ANYBODY ever understand me?"

Click to view... "Then what happened?"