Dissertation on seasme street. It was this wonderful woman pioneer joan gance cooney who came up with the show. I did my research on her. And then i started thinking about there are faith themes in the show, even though it never discusses organized religion. But its kind of the underlying rule as far as the golden rule in the show. And its taught in very subtle ways but besides teaching numbers and letters and colors and shapes, you know, this is the underlying thing. Love your neighbor as yourself. Yes. Who are the people in the neighborhood . And who are our neighbors. Yes, yes. And as we are in the season of lent we do focus on loving our neighbors, caring for our neighbors, and serving our neighbors. So im just so fascinated and curious about how these themes were taught to children and through which characters. So lets start with big bird. Tell us what what did big bird teach us about the golden rule, loving our neighbors. The big bird was designed specifically to be like a 2yearo