Sesame Street Introduced A Homeless Muppet And Its Name Is Somehow Not Oscar The Grouch
On today’s Podfathers, we discussed Sesame Street bringing in Lily as its “first” homeless character.
NYDN- “Sesame Street” announced Wednesday that the beloved children’s show will tackle the topic of homelessness with the very first homeless Muppet. The pink-felted, 7-year-old Lily was first introduced in 2011 to help viewers understand hunger and food insecurity, but a new series of videos will explore how she learns to cope when her family loses their home and she’s forced to stay with friends on Sesame Street. “Everyone else is going home. And well, I miss our apartment and now we don’t have our own place to live,” Lily says in a new video. “And sometimes I wonder if we’ll ever have our own home again.” Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind the show, is launching the character’s plight as a means of offering “help and hope to the growing number of young children across the United States who are experiencing homelessness,” the organization said in a press release.
Look, I’m sure Lily’s life ain’t all sunny days sweepin’ the clouds away and girl muppets should be allowed the same opportunities to shine on Sesame Street as boy muppets. But Lily can’t just show up on The Street (short for Sesame Street) simply rocking some faded clothes and become the homeless muppet.
Homeless:
Not Homeless:
The homeless muppet has been Oscar’s corner for decades. Or at least I think it has. I can’t imagine Oscar willfully lives in garbage cans and he is only a grouch because he’s a dirt poor muppet that has to eat everyone else’s trash. You know what kind of crazy shit must get thrown out in the garbage by that weird fuck Grover? And good luck getting a scrap of leftover food from Cookie Monster’s house. Yeah Sesame Street has always been a show that embraces the differences of others and they should let it be known that there are kids that don’t have their own house or apartment or even car to sleep in. But if you are going to broach the homeless topic with kids, you also may want to scare them straight a bit and let them know that being homeless is something you do not exactly want to be, whether it means you an outfit from the Salvation Army with an old macaroni necklace you somehow haven’t eaten or scouring for food through whatever stuff Bert and Ernie tossed in the trash like poor Oscar does.
We also made the Chargers the official NFL playoff team of The Podfathers after this absolutely ridiculous stat about Philip River
Being able to stay sane let alone become a Hall of Fame quarterback while having a toddler-aged child in your life throughout your entire NFL career is the most impressive thing I have ever heard. I am about to crumble mentally just from having a well-behaved 4-year-old and 9-month-old with moderate sleep issues. Meanwhile Philip Rivers is able to go all
“PHILIP RIVERRRRRRRRRS”
on teams week in and week out despite having nothing but pure chaos in his house every single day and night for almost half of Philip’s entire life. Yeah he probably has nannies and a Southern toughness that none of the assholes on our podcast have. But you still have to respect the fuck out of someone that will likely never have a moment to truly relax until he is at least 60.