History Repeats Itself

This morning, Sesame Workshop's official YouTube channel featured several clips with George Washington as a main character (in honor of Presidents' Day, I assume). This cartoon, based roughly on a famous painting of Washington, has him explain the difference between "all", "some", and "none" to his soldiers on a boat.

Back in the early 70s, though, Grover taught a similar lesson to a group of anonymous monsters; they kept tipping and sinking Grover's rowboat by sitting at the same end at the same time. Déjà vu all over again? I'd suspect that the cartoonist had the Muppet sketch in the back of his brain as he worked, at least.

A Sesame Street Thriller

I just discovered this fan-made tribute to the scarier moments on Sesame Street (thirty-odd years' worth). True, the writers did favor monster-movie ripoffs a lot in CTW's early years; what else could have inspired them to use a Count Dracula ripoff to teach numbers? It surprises me, though, that more old-school fans aren't admitting "Yeah, that skit scared the living [bleep] out of me when I was in kindergarten!"

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