Some 'Sesame Street' viewers sense a gay-friendly vibe

[oberliner]

Reporting from New York — Bert and Ernie are not gay. In their 31 years on "Sesame Street," they've never marched in a Pride parade or plastered a rainbow sticker on Oscar the Grouch's trash can. Sesame Workshop has always contended that they're just friends who happen to live together and sleep side by side in well-tailored pajamas.

On June 11, the mono-browed Muppet tweeted about the premiere of the recent "A-Team" remake. ( "Sesame Street" plans to air a parody of the movie in November.) "Ever notice how similar my hair is to Mr. T's?" Bert asked, name-checking the original "A-Team" star. "The only difference is mine is a little more 'mo,' a little less 'hawk.'"

Reading "mo" as slang for homosexual, gay bloggers rejoiced. To some, it seemed as if "Sesame Street" was aiming sly in-jokes directly at them, right under the noses of unsuspecting straight viewers. Ed Kennedy of the gay pop culture site AfterElton.com noted that the tweet came during a week when many cities were hosting Gay Pride celebrations. "The people at Sesame Street are way too clever for their own good," he wrote.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/24/entertainment/la-ca-sesame-street-20101024

[WillParkinson]

1. LOL

I was just reading the article on AfterElton.

[HopeHoops]

2. Everyone knows Bert and Ernie aren't gay - it is Big Bird and Kermit who are!

E-GADS! I just hurt my OWN eyes with that mental imagery.

What the hell is up with people looking for something they consider "evil" in Sesame Street? Wasn't there an issue about some woman's "revealing outfit" recently? It is the most successful educational show for children that has ever aired. Leave it alone already.

[Myrina]

4. Well, you know what will happen if we start ACCEPTING people!

Dogs will be sleeping with cats, chickens with sheep, all hell will break loose!

We just can't have that kind of ... TOLERANCE ... in 21st Century America! ;-)

[DefenseLawyer]

5. Paging Rick Santorum

All this talk of sleeping with animals has him all excited.

[HopeHoops]

8. Rick met up with Diaper Vitter...

... heading out to find some critter.

[Myrina]

13. I always think of Bill Murray in Ghostbusters

"Dr. Peter Venkman: Or you can accept the fact that this city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor– real wrath-of-God type stuff! Fire and brimstone coming down from the sky! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddmore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria! "


:rofl:

[John Kerry VonErich]

3. Does that mean Elmo is gay?

:rofl:

[Akoto]

7. No. He just has a tickling fetish. n/t

[fishbulb703]

6. lol, is mo slang for gay? never heard that. abbreviation for black gays and 'maybe on the low'?

[oberliner]

9. Never heard that one either

I think people are reaching.

[Javaman]

10. When I was in junior high, yeah, it was a slang term for being gay.

this was like 33 years ago.

[fishbulb703]

12. yeah, i think the term is a little out of date :P. calling someone a mo now would be calling them

the ugly suicidal bartender from the simpsons, heh

[Eric Condon]

11. John Kricfalusi (Ren and Stimpy creator) absolutely nailed it

When asked if Ren and Stimpy were gay, he replied "I don't know if they're gay, that's their business."

[KatyaR]

14. Bert has a Twitter account?

Must find.... :yoiks: