The article was about how the content of Sesame Street has always been driven by research, but I clicked on the “What’s the Name of that Song?” video and fell so in love that I stopped reading article mid-stream to write this post. 

The adults on Sesame were so cute!  I had never realized it before.  David and Bob actually kind of wish they were doing musical theatre, but Gordan and Susan really seem happy there on Sesame Street.  And while people make a lot out of the fact that the Sesame cast is multi-racial (as well as, of course, multi-species), I think it’s also appealing that some of the adults are single, some are married, and they all hang out together.  (When I was a Sesame viewer, adults came in two kinds: married parents and single teachers.  Even if they were ‘Mrs,’ everybody knew they slept in the classroom.)

Another random Sesame factoid: since I seem to have a compulsion for admitting random ignorance (for example, the whole ‘wait–bees have feet?’ business, which appears on my website), I didn’t realize until a recent article about tv vampires that Count von Count was, yes, a vampire.  What?  He had a Transylvanian accent and pointy fangs, and yeah, maybe he was groovin’ on his cape, but what was Herry Monster?  Or Bert or Ernie, for that matter?  Was there a species of yellow oval-shaped creatures somewhere, and I just didn’t know about it?  I didn’t think so.  Similarly, I thought Count von Count was just…a Count. 

I guess it just goes to show that at young ages, kids will accept all sorts of images of normalcy.  Maybe that’s actually the point of the article about research in Sesame Street.  Guess I’ll go read it now and find out. 

Oh yeah.  And what’s the name of that song?