I didn’t grow up with Sesame Street, but got to enjoy it with my little brother while he was growing up.  While I was in Belgium, I started to sing the school bus song one time, and then (to my horror), found out that Sesame Street never really made it with the French-speaking population.  I remember trying to expalin it to my cousin-in-law Laurence — Tu connais la Rue Sesame?  Avec le grand oiseau jaune?  Et Oscar, qui habite dans une poubelle?

Eventhough I don’t know all of the Sesame Street characters, I can tell you one thing — Elmo is overrated.  My favorite is Grover — who is just a silly blue spazz.

Kissing and hugging and helping and living together?  Sounds like fun!  I love the broad definition of marriage whenever this was made (in the 70s?). I also find the kid really cute, I like how he shuts his eyes tight from saying the word kiss.

And it took me a while to figure out why Pedram never sang along with me when I would chant “cookie cookie cookie starts with C” whenever cookies were around.  This is probably outdated, as mothers would prefer their kids to associate the letter C to words like carrot and capsicum, but C is for cookie, and that is good enough for me.