Muppet's father lands in jail.

The puppet won't be seen on the normal Sesame Street show according to the link, just some online show...but when did a show that was supposed to help kids count and read start feeling the need to teach kids that life sucks? This is depressing.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/sesame-street-creates-first-muppet-have-parent-jail-6C10345061

 

Story never tells us why the Muppet's father is in jail, so I guess it's up to us to fill in the blanks.

He tried to tickle Elmo?

 

I'm sure it was a hate crime of some sort. Those Muppets are shifty fuckers.

 

Alex learns early never to trust a bitch.

 

Since we've already had Bert and Ernie, Alex's dad won't be the first Muppet to get his stuffing pushed in.

 

Gilbert Gottfried is catching flack for making an Elmo jail rape joke about it on Twitter.

 

Can you repeat the joke?

(I nearly crashed once while listening to his jokes on XM)

Edit: I found it. No big deal - said the new muppet would get raped in jail by Elmo.

TMZ has some stuff from November where Gilbert offered to be the new voice of Elmo, along with some examples you will never see on PBS.

 

Approximately 1983, when Mr. Hooper died.

 

Yeah, Sesame Street has been dealing with topics I guess you could call "touchy" for years and years, and done a fine job of it too.

 

Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Supermax Street.

 

This Sesame Street is brought to you by the letter C, for Cellblock, and the numbers 2-4, for Years Sentenced to Jail.

 

Didn't the South African version have a character with AIDS?

I remember Artie Lange did a bit about Snufflelupagus having AIDS in one of his specials...

"Got AIDS Bird..."