Guest post from RACS RANTS…

If you have a child, you have watched Sesame Street, deny it… fine, silent admission is ok with me.  I am not sure if I am the only one to notice, but I really relate to Oscar the Grouch.  I mean he’s consistent, never trying to be someone else, like  trying to learn to read like Big Bird or count like Count Dracula.  He is consistently an asshole who lives in a trash can,  that is why I love the guy at 7 am.  He is this small fury figure we watched as children with the same rat face that our children identify with through the television.  He is not happy go lucky or unnerving, like that small puppet Elmo, who refers to himself constantly in the third person (and we wonder why children speak so horribly nowadays?).

Speaking of Elmo, has anyone noticed Mr. and Mrs. Noodle on Elmo lately?   I don’t know about you, but I am checking the sexual offender database to see if Mr. Noodle’s name shows up there and if he lives anywhere close to me.  With that mustache he looks as if he drives a large gray molester van and trolls county fairs and elementary schools. 

But I think I am most bothered by Mrs. Noodle who is at least 20 years younger and chipper at 7 am.  As I was sipping my coffee the other day,  I noticed she was wearing knee high boots, hair in pigtails and swinging (yes on a swing) with a smile on her face.  What are we teaching these youngsters?  I know I have not looked that good at that hour in some time (and I certainly was not sober and it was definitely PG, pre Gavin).  But I figured it out, why Mrs. Noodle was attracted to Mr. Noodle, he doesn’t speak – ever…so that explains a lot even at 7 am.