Look: Big Bird has been living off the taxpayer for going on 43 years. Now, I’m all for a social safety net, provided that’s what it is: a safety net, meant as a last resort to help those who are truly struggling. But come on. Dude. Four decades on and still no time for, say, paralegal classes at the University of Phoenix?
I’m not buying it.
You’ve got a unique look and voice. You’re big as a Lakers’ center. Why not try making it as a character actor or a kid’s birthday party performer?
Apply yourself, Big Bird. Lift yourself up by those giant (potential) bootstraps. You’ll feel better about yourself, trust me.
You don’t need our money. You just need to trust in you. I’m pulling for you, big guy. Really I am!
He’s kinda big, he’s a bird, and it’s getting close to Thanksgiving. Just sayin’.
All these years over on Nickelodeon, Dora’s been doing the work American kids’ programming won’t do. For filthy, filthy money.
A 43 year old bird would be pretty tough eating. I guess we can make soup out of him.
By the way, Big Bird is the only creature that can see the snuffaluffagus, right? My guess is the snuffaluffagus doesn’t actually exist and Big Bird has been strung out on hallucinogens all this time.
Welfare makes it easy to be a junkie.
I always wondered why Sesame Street was set in the ‘hood. I don’t know about the rest of y’all, but I grew up in the country and then in a few small towns where there were no mouldering Brownstones and the like. Likewise, my kids were raised in the leafy suburbs. Maybe that’s why they all hated it and liked Warner Brothers cartoons and the Three Stooges.
Anyway, Big Bird, being a 1 percenter ought to gentrify that joint or move to Long Island.
All this talk about Big Bird but when are we going to address the serious issues regarding Bert’s alcoholism and domestic abuse of Ernie?
@ 0:50 mittens chain saws big bird
Obama-Romney presidential debate 2012: Mitt clobbers Obama
Big bird is a mentally challenged(by human standards, but he IS a bird) homeless bird who has been five for forty years. He’s a more charismatic Baby Huey. It’s a wonder he isn’t carnivorous and dangerous at his size. He is a masterpiece of genetic terror that teaches children to be tolerant and friendly to things that could easily be predators.
Therein lies the crux of the matter: The safety net has become a hammock.
Hmmph. US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens raped and murdered in Libya on 9/11. But, #BIGBIRD!!!11!1!!1!
Obama studied for the defense of our Republic and it’s outposts as well as he studied for that debate in Denver. Nine attacks on American consulates, and he’s caught with hid head stuck in the sand. Dummerer than a sack of bird feathers.
BIG BIRD!
I the way that Romney hits his boxing gloves together and in response Obama defiantly spins his beanie propeller in that animation. And the muppets voting for Obama getting spattered in blood was a nice touch. As were the donkey headed democrat viewers throwing tomatos into their TV set.
serr8d, Susan Rice had more security around her on the Sunday talk shows than Chris Stevens did in Libya.
Hillary was busily tossing Rice under the bus last I heard. Rice can kiss off thinking she was going to advance to State.
PBS sucks.
Eh, I’m a bit grumpy this evening. My Red Raiders lost. Tommy Tuberville should be fired. During his tenure, Texas Tech hasn’t won a Big 12 conference game at home since November 6, 2010. At that game (which I attended), Tech beat Missouri 24-17. Seems like a century ago.
Sesame Street is a complete waste of money.
Older shows, like Capt Kangaroo and Miss Francis, had a tiny production cost and conveyed more useful information for kids…
…and they weren’t Soviet psyops designed to decay American society.
Once they made the cookie monster start eating healthy (“cookies are a sometimes food”) it was past being over.
Mike: BOOMER SOONER!
Heh, just wait ’til next year!
We’ll try not to beat you so bad next year, okay? ; )