Thursday, June 30, 2022

Getting Schooled: Elmo takes the vaccine (2022)

 Seven, nearly eight, months after Big Bird was shown getting the COVID vaccine, another Sesame Street character has followed.

Now that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which joined forces with Sesame Workshop to produce the following PSA, has authorized vaccines for younger children, the long running series, seen on PBS, HBO, HBO Max, & PBS Kids, used Elmo, a Muppet character nearing his 40th anniversary (debuted in 1984), to illustrate not only how safe the vaccine is for preschoolers, but also having his father, Louie, express his concerns when Elmo is off camera.


Unfortunately, Texas Senator Raphael "Ted" Cruz (we call him Timex Cruz over at The Land of Whatever) had a cow over this, and took to Twitter to whine about it, just like he did in November after Big Bird got his shot. Cruz doesn't get it, doesn't want to get it, and doesn't want to let any other Muppet characters (i.e. Ernie) get a shot without him getting his two cents in, if you will. Once again, Cruz is piggybacking off Sesame Street doing the right thing.

Well, I've got a solution. I'd like to see Sesame Workshop invite Cruz and a few other Republican peabrains (if you follow The Land of Whatever, you know who I mean) to appear on Sesame Street to get formally schooled with the rest of us. On the other hand, when is Cruz going to learn to stop picking fights on Twitter he can't win? That may be a harder question to answer than how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

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