About Big Bird

[Jennicut]

13. Big Bird is huge to those of us of in Gen X.

And Gen Y too.

Suzi Parker at the Washington Post put it better then I could:

A collective stab pierced the heart of Generation X who grew up with Big Bird, Bert and Ernie and Oscar the Grouch as their best friends. I immediately thought, “Oh no, Big Bird will be unemployed if Romney wins.” I wasn't alone.
As is normal these days, Big Bird started trending on Twitter. Memes magically appeared on Facebook showing Big Bird sitting on a stoop holding a sign “Will Work For Food." http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2012/10/04/big-bird-will-haunt-mitt-romney/

A collective stab to the heart of a generation that has turned around and let their own children enjoy Sesame Street. I know my girls loved Elmo, Count, Cookie Monster and of course, Big Bird himself. They have grown out of it a bit at 7 and 8 but still watch a Halloween Elmo video every year. Screw you Mitt. You are nearly as bad as Hollywood at trying to destroy every sacred memory of our childhoods (don't let me get into the Smurfs remake!). That last part was sarcasm.