I got my sister the first year of Sesame Street (1969) on DVD for Christmas. She called me this morning.
Whipcreamy: So we watched another epsidode of Sesame Street the other night.
Me: Oh, yeah? Which one.
Whipcreamy: It's the one where they introduce Snufalupagus--and he looks nothing like the regular Snuffy--this one has crazy eyes and stuff, anyway, at this point nobody else can see Snuffy he's still Big Bird's imaginary friend. So Snuffy has a conversation with him and then he turns around and nobody else sees Snuffy.
Me: Wait, did you just say he?
Whipcreamy: Ha ha ha ha! Yeah.
Me: Big Bird's a boy? You can't assume Big Bird's a boy! I thought they left him unisex to be all PC and open minded about people's sexuality or something. They don't call him "he" in the show do they?
Whipcreamy: No, I think Big Bird's a boy.
Me: How do you know?
Whipcreamy: Because in Big Bird Goes to China he wears a tie.
Me: Ha ha ha ha ha!
Whipcreamy: Ha ha ha ha ha!
Me: You know who else wears a tie?
Whipcreamy: Who?
Me: k.d. lang
Whipcreamy: Ha ha ha ha!
Me: So they just decided Big Bird's sexuality all of a sudden? When did Big Bird Goes to China come out, like ten years ago?
Whipcreamy: 1984.
Me: Oh.
4 comments:
it scares me that you have these conversations about sesame street.
hehehehe
Big Bird will have to find the four places pictured on the scroll, and in each place he'll get a clue from a monkey.
even the china blogger thinks he's a he.
Big Bird is a boy played by a woman. It's true.. look it up!
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