I will not turn my back on the little guy, now. I will loudly and proudly proclaim my love for him.
MY SISTAH!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I will not turn my back on the little guy, now. I will loudly and proudly proclaim my love for him.
MY SISTAH!
Elmo ensured my family ate foods other than pizza. FACT.
Elmo aided in the elimination of asthma inducing agents from our home. FACT.
Elmo preserves and promotes parental urinary tract health. FACT.
Elmo saved my mental health. MOSTLY.
Elmo preserves and promotes parental urinary tract health. FACT.
Not in person (muppet?) I hope.
That's between you and your muppet, Frank.
On the news. Grr. Some muckety-muck in the government is saying that cities and states need to pay more of the security costs for public transportaion, that the federal government is already spending a fortune on airplanes. As he put it..."An airplane can kill 3,000 people. A bomb on a subway might kill thirty."
Lovely. And for the two-fer, the Senate has just reaffirmed the principle that rural Wyoming needs just as much if not much much more protection as do NYC, LA, etc.
Oh, I'm sure my brother and SIL would agree he was useful. They tolerate the red menace for the reasons you listed.
How old are their children, sara? Tolerance may yet bloom into love, or at least loyalty. This tender feeling may be bolstered by the idiocy of the shows their children will want to watch, once they've outgrown Elmo & co.
Right now Cyberchase is King with both my kids. Postcards from Buster comes in a close second for my daughter.
I like Cyberchase. It sneakily promotes thinking. The same is true for Blue's Clues (Steve was far superior to Joe, though, imo). I like most of the shows on Noggin, too. And I love the Noggin music.
This summer, we're limiting TV, though. This is making me UNpopular.
The nephew is just 2.5. They don't avoid the elmo, not at all. They just find him really really annoying, but the kid loves him, so....