Probably the most noteworthy scene in the history of Sesame Street featured the human adult characters attempting to explain to the child-like Big Bird that Mr. Hooper was gone forever and never coming back.
They chose to air this episode on Thanksgiving Day of 1983. I imagine that the reasoning must have been that children would be home from school that day with their parents. Personally, I missed it. I knew that he had died because my mother read it in the newspaper and told us. But on THANKSGIVING DAY itself we were sort of doing other stuff. So I missed the actual broadcast.
Mr. Hooper was able to tolerate Big Bird. He could help Ernie and Bert get along. He could give Cookie Monster things to eat. He could give the Count things to count. He was smart enough to help Sherlock Hemlock solve crimes, and charitable enough to give David a job. He probably overpriced expired food on purpose just to give Oscar a reason to complain. (Oscar enjoyed complaining.) He was a friend to Bob and an enemy of Captain Vegetable.
When he died, EVERYONE was sad.
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