Joe - I echo your anti-Elmo stance, but I realized something after my kids were born - the average age of the Sesame Street viewer has (seemingly) dropped. When we were kids, it made sense for Big Bird (age 6) to be the audience proxy, but as the audience got progressively younger, it made sense to employ a new character (in this case, Elmo, age 3 1/2). We hated it because of how cloying Elmo felt (especially from a show that made a point of not pandering to its audience), and the aggressive marketing (Tickle-Me Elmo, anyone?) just rubbed salt in the wound.
Coming back to the show now, I don’t find Elmo as bad as I once perceived him to be. It helps that, due to the new 30 minute format, “Elmo’s World” is *much *shorter (and doesn’t wear out its welcome quite so quickly). On Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 10:41:51 AM UTC-8, Joe Hass wrote: > > Spinney only retired the puppeteering part of Big Bird in 2015, and keep > doing the voice until last year. > > I've always believed the primary reason us old schoolers are so > aggressively anti-Elmo is that the role that Elmo is designed to play > already existed on the show in Big Bird. And it was Spinney who made that > magic happen. > > I'm literally in tears as I write this. Stupid television. > > On Sun, Dec 8, 2019, 12:33 Steve Timko <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> >> https://www.kolotv.com/content/news/Sesame-Street-puppeteer-Carroll-Spinney-dies-at-age-85-565945521.html >> >> Was rage voice of Big Bird >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yyAJQPL80hWD2XJGJ4159GgGSQr7TLexzoCr1BQoV_EJQ%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yyAJQPL80hWD2XJGJ4159GgGSQr7TLexzoCr1BQoV_EJQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/3e0cbb9d-f0d0-408e-b250-e17aaf23c90d%40googlegroups.com.
