too street. not street enough. too hip-hop. not enough. they cut the puppet because everybody could not agree how a black puppet should be presented. there wasn t another black puppet on sesame street for 50 years. absolutely. i think that is the point. there is no character that can make everyone happy. sesame street probably tried more than any in history to represent every child, you know, even red muppets and purple muppets. i am a grover girl.
everybody couldn t agree how a black puppet should be presented. there wasn t another black puppet on sesame street for 50 years. and that s the problem when people can t decide, or they think they think a whole culture has to rest on the shoulders of one character. yeah, no, absolutely. and, marilyn, i think that s the point too, there is no character who can make everyone happy, but sesame street probably has tried more than any other show in history to represent every child, you know, even all of the not even real children. there were red muppets and purple muppets and muppets who can fly. i love grover. but there s every fantasy kind of tree creature, and fairy tale friend. i just wonder what will we learn about sesame street ? that s subversive to have done in the 1960s. what do you want people to take away from this documentary? i want people to take away