I wonder if Guy Smiley is still around
You’d think that having two kids, I’d have noticed radical changes like these, but no. Most disturbing:
But the new “Sesame Street” is predicated on the idea that kids can’t handle that kind of instability, and so the day’s number is announced right at the outset and the same way every time: The Count presses numbered keys on an organ keyboard, and when the right number appears, confetti is released. That’s right, bright, colorful confetti, not gothic lightning and thunder. Then the Count counts to that number, still sans lightning or thunder. The dark, sinister master of the numeric universe has been reduced to a kind of Muppet Vanna White.
How very sad. I wonder if it’s just Sesame Street’s time to accept defeat to the marketing machines that are Disney and Nickelodeon. Maybe they already have and this is their way of saying it.