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1	Fridge examples for ''Series/SesameStreet''.
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4	* One odd piece of old vampire folklore is that they were compelled to count every grain of sand or each individual grain of rice in a pile. [[Series/SesameStreet Count von Count]] is a reference to this superstition, and that is ''awesome''. --{{Tropers/Haven}}
5	** A smaller one, but the Count's "Ah Ah Ah" laugh has the same cadence as a bat screeching.
6	* So Countess Von Backwards only made a couple of appearances in the nineties before she got dumped. Maybe it was because ''she was holding the Count back''.
7	* One concerning Cookie Monster: Of all the characters to promote healthy foods, why ''him?'' Well, not only does it work for {{Irony}} (after all, it's really saying something if even a cookie junkie like him likes veggies and fruit), but one of the main hurdles of promoting healthy eating is encouraging the young audience to get over being picky... and no character in the entire show is ''less'' picky than ''[[ExtremeOmnivore Cookie Monster]]!'' We don't know if this was the true idea behind it, but it's kind of a neat notion to think about. --Tropers/ShakaRaka
8	** Except, y'know, Veggie Monster is a myth easily dispelled by sitting down and watching any recent episode of the series...but that works too. --Tropers/{{Wackd}}
9	*** Oh, I know that, but he's still been used as a spokes-monster for healthy foods a fair few times in the past; even on the front page of the official site for "Healthy Food Day." I never said anything about him being a "Veggie Monster." --Tropers/ShakaRaka
10	* It's easy to view Fat Blue/Mr. Johnson as TheWoobie in the various sketches involving him as a customer and Grover as a waiter/photographer/tailor/rental agent/hotdog vendor/etc. However, if you watch some of the earliest sketches, you can see that Mr. Johnson is an incredibly fussy and obnoxious UnsatisfiableCustomer who drove ''Grover'' crazy with his absurd demands. Later sketches involving Grover driving Mr. Johnson crazy with his supposed incompetence could be seen as Grover getting back at him for his {{Jerkass}} behavior. LaserGuidedKarma delivered by a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass, with a dash of BewareTheNiceOnes thrown in for spice!
11	* Oh, the field day viewers must have had with Luis and Maria's courtship and marriage! Luis and Maria, [[KissingInATree sitting in a tree]], K-I-S-S-I-N-G! First came love, then came marriage, then came Maria with a baby carriage! It's a PlaygroundSong come true!
12	* One of the best qualities of the show is when the lessons are able to be applied to people of all ages, and here are quite a few of the songs that have [[AnAesop lessons]] that are applicable to both children and adults:
13	** "All By Myself" (sung By Prairie Dawn)- A song about being proud of things that you can do by yourself.
14	** "What Do I Do When I’m Alone" (sung by Grover)- A song about how it’s better to be with another person than it is to be alone.
15	** "Little Things" (sung by Joe Raposo on the show, covered by Prairie Dawn on audio releases)- A song about how big and important little things can be.
16	** "Sing" (sung by just about everyone)- A song about how creation can be a positive thing, or about self-esteem ("Don't worry if it's not good enough for anyone else to hear"), or a bit of both.
17	** "Doin’ the Pigeon" (sung by Bert), "Clink Clank" (sung by Bert and Ernie) and "I Love Trash" (sung by Oscar)- Songs about how people may not see value in what you like, but you should not let that get to you.
18	*** Building off of this, "Counting Is Wonderful" (sung by The Count) is also about things you like, but it rather encourages the idea that hobbies are a good thing to have. It could also be interpreted as having a moral about the importance of mathematics.
19	** "Put Down the Duckie" (sung by Ernie and Hoots)- A song about how you shouldn’t let distractions get in the way of your goals, or about how sometimes you just need to do one small thing to solve a problem.
20	** "Be Doodle Dee Dum" and "Happy Tappin’ With Elmo" (both sung by Elmo)- Songs about how you can cheer yourself up.
21	** "Monster in the Mirror" (sung by Grover)- A song about how your fears can actually be just be something harmless.
22	** "One Small Voice" (sung by Bob, Telly, and the kids. Audio releases replace Bob with Hoots, Prairie Dawn, and Elmo)- A song about how one person can inspire.
23	** "I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon" (sung by Ernie)- A song about how moving away can make you miss all the places and people (plus activities) you love.
24	** "Me" (sung by Grover on audio releases, two Anything Muppets on the show itself), "Happy to Be Me" (sung by Big Bird), "What I Am" and "What We Are", and "Just Happy to Be Me" (sung by Kingston Livingtson III)- Songs about self-esteem, and how you're special and unique.
25	** "Believe in Yourself" (sung by Bob, Susan, and Gordon)- [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It’s in the title.]]
26	** "But I Like You" (sung by Bert and Ernie)- A song about how two people can like different things, [[FriendshipSong but still like each other]].
27	** "Lonesome Joan" (sung by Bert and Ernie)- a song about how you don’t have to do everything alone.
28	** "Everyone Makes Mistakes" (sung by Big Bird)- a song about how [[MistakesAreNotTheEndOfTheWorld it’s okay to make mistakes]].
29	** "We Are All Earthlings" and "Bein’ Green" (the former sung by various Muppets, the latter by Kermit)- Songs about diversity. The former more about how we are all humans despite those outside differences. The latter about being accepting of who you are and not letting discrimination bring you down. Other songs with a PrejudiceAesop include "No Matter What", "No Matter What Your Language", and "We All Sing with the Same Voice".
30	*** "Fuzzy and Blue (And Orange)" (Sung by Grover, Herry, Cookie Monster, and Frazzle) is like "Bein’ Green".
31	** "The Ballad of Casey [=McPhee=]" (sung by an Anything Muppet and Cookie Monster)- a song about resisting temptation and not giving up.
32	** "It's All Right to Cry", "Big Kids Cry", and "All I Can Do is Cry" -- songs about how [[ItsOkayToCry crying is acceptable]].
33	* In one "Ernie and Bert" skit, Ernie plays music for Bert's plant, believing that music makes plants grow, and despite Bert's assertions that it's ridiculous, the plant does grow. Plants, while they can't hear music, do respond positively to the vibrations caused by sound waves. So likely, the plant was responding to the sound waves, [[RightForTheWrongReasons just not to the music per se]].
34	* The show often recycles Street Stories (not plots, entire segments) from previous seasons and repackages them with different shorts than last time. For example, [[https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_4188 Episode 4188]] was recycled into [[https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_4927 Episode 4927]]. Since PBS will only rerun whatever the current season is, reusing stories ensures that the old episodes will still air, just in a different format.
35	* As pointed out [[https://toughpigs.com/sesame-rewind-oscar-nose-of-shame/ here]], in one episode, Oscar is cursed with an ugly nose and needs to be "nice" to get rid of it. At one point, he tries to smooth out Maria's record, but ends up filing it too much so that it can no longer play. This makes her angry, and thus the nose doesn't go away despite him genuinely having tried to be nice. This explains why [[AesopAmnesia he goes back to being mean after the episode]] -- he got no evidence that being nice paid.
36	* In one skit, Ernie and the Count stay up all night, but only Ernie is visibly sleep-deprived. This might be because the Count is a vampire and thus doesn't actually need any sleep.
37	* In the song "Martian Beauty", the word "nine" is sung exactly nine times.
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40	* One of the old animated segments had an elevator operator picking up a different character on every floor until on the last floor, a mouse caused the elevator to be overloaded and explode around the operator, who fell down the shaft. So what happened to the passengers? Are they dead and reduced to particles? And did the operator survive the fall?
41	* This could also double as a FridgeSadness. In the special video series made for military families called ''Talk, Listen, Connect'', Rosita has to come to terms with her father being confined to a wheelchair. This in itself is pretty sad - [[{{Tearjerker}} especially when she tells him how she wishes that he didn't have to go to the hospital so often and that things would just go back to how they were, while on the verge of tears]] - but then it gets worse when one learns the story of her wings in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot4mVTR5e7k this interview]]. As someone else said on the Nightmare Fuel page, "The fact she said it wasn't painful despite all this, and that she hates to think about it, makes you think it was such a bad injury that her body blocked out the pain the same way you do when you get a large injury." So, with this in mind, she first has to cope with her ''entire family'' losing their wings, in addition to her own, and ''this'' is then followed by her dad losing the use of his legs... [[TheWoobie Dear Lord, someone get this poor girl a good therapist!]] --Tropers/ShakaRaka
42	** Another one about Rosita's family. Some of her family are essential workers, as revealed in one of the Covid-19 animations. Now, being an essential worker during Covid-19 in America is said to be enough to give someone PTSD. We don't know if anyone ''will'' develop PTSD, or who the essential workers are, but if one or more people do, that just adds to Rosita's misfortune on top of the wings and the disabled dad. And imagine if her dad was one of the essential workers and he develops PTSD--- imagine having PTSD ''and'' recently lost the use of your legs!
43	* Since Herman Happy's stage gimmick is to be cheerful all the time, he could easily become a StepfordSmiler!
44	* The in-universe reason for Rosita being retconned as a Monster and losing her wing flaps is that she "lost them" while flying through a cave. This implies that the cave flight in question was so treacherous that ''her wings were essentially [[BodyHorror torn off]]''.
45	* One animated skit had a man sneezing on buildings and the buildings crumble, and at the end, the dog does the same. It's meant to be AnAesop about [[DiseasePreventionAesop covering your mouth when you sneeze]], but what if people were in the buildings at the time? They could've gotten seriously injured or, worse, died. Not to mention the fact that the buildings must've been very fragile to have someone sneeze and knock them down.
46	* One VerySpecialEpisode had Louie, Elmo's father, go away for a long time (although not more than a year) to do "grown-up work". The actual nature of the grown-up work is [[AmbiguousSituation left ambiguous]], but the episode is meant to be an analogy for kids whose parents are ''in the military''. [[BewareTheNiceOnes What if Louie kills people as part of his job?]]
47	* Another VerySpecialEpisode, from the same series for children of military parents, shows Elmo's family coming to terms with the death of his Uncle Jack, Louie's brother. Combined with the above installment, it seems likely that both brothers joined the military, but only Louie came back.
48	* The song "I am Chicken" has lyrics like "I'm Grade A", "[[SoupIsMedicine When they're sick, they gobble down my soup]]", and "I've been told I've got great legs". Her backup singers also sing about the chicken being "tender", "delicious", and "nutritious". So they're singing about being eaten?
49	* The racism episode had the bigot see Savion and Gina, which means that there's a bigot ''living on Sesame Street''.
50	** It's heavily implied that what he says to Gina over the phone is not something that could be said on a children's program.
51	* The Count recaps his first day of school... only, he's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc2yFoq09ug&t=318s 6,523,728 years old]], and his classmates (Theodore, Ben, Adeline, etc) were humans, not vampires like him. That means they're dead now.
52	** NightmareRetardant kicks in when you notice he still had a beard as a kid. Vampires age differently, indeed.
53	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAV71UHWSXM A]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wblWacel_9g sketch]] from 1975 has the Count sleeping over at Ernie and Bert's place, and keeping Ernie awake by counting sheep. In the morning, an extremely haggard, zombie-like Ernie emerges, in a daze and also counting ("Forty-three thousand...eight hundred and ninety-one...forty-three thousand...eight-hundred and ninety-two...") The implication was that he was simply suffering from SleepDeprivation, but seeing as the Count has displayed mind control powers in other skits, the fact that Ernie is counting could also suggest that the Count used his power on Ernie.
54	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS5SWByK0Uk King Minus]] was a play on the story of King Midas, but instead of turning everything to gold, everything he touched disappeared. It ends with him accidentally [[WhatTheHellHero making the princess he was trying to rescue vanish,]] then ultimately making himself vanish. Seeing as the viewers don't know whether these people are still alive when they vanish, this can carry implications of AccidentalMurder and DrivenToSuicide.
55	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK73DM4yOwc This episode]] where Natasha and Slimy are having a play date, for the most part, is pretty tame up until Gordon with the finger puppet of Slimy is in front of Natasha teaching her how to be gentle with Slimy. It's going well until Natasha bites Gordon's finger and spits out the Slimy puppet! To which Oscar rightfully tells everyone that he's not going to let Natasha near Slimy because she might bite Slimy as well! It was a good thing that it was the puppet of Slimy or otherwise Oscar would've seen Natasha bite Slimy for real and Slimy would've been dead for sure! Even though it isn't meant to be scary it's still scary to think what would've happened if Natasha bit Slimy for real! It's at 10:04 for anyone who's curious.
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