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"Sesame Street" Director Dies At 71

I believe MarcB was referring to the superstition of bad news (for the staff of "Sesame Street") coming in threes with each piece of bad news being in proximity to each other.
 
It's very possible that the show will have to be cancelled within the next year or so. Many see it as a "washed up" old show that seems tired. It's changed quite a bit since the early 90s, but a lot of the same people had been there for years. It's gotten to the point where most of the original people aren't there anymore. Carroll Spinney isn't gonna be alive forever, and most of the humans on the show are in their 70s and hardly ever on anymore. It isn't even that popular anymore with a million channels and so many different options.
 
ssetta said:
It's very possible that the show will have to be cancelled within the next year or so. Many see it as a "washed up" old show that seems tired. It's changed quite a bit since the early 90s, but a lot of the same people had been there for years. It's gotten to the point where most of the original people aren't there anymore. Carroll Spinney isn't gonna be alive forever, and most of the humans on the show are in their 70s and hardly ever on anymore. It isn't even that popular anymore with a million channels and so many different options.
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I'd like to think that Sesame Street can live on forever in reruns. There may be room to point out the flaws in that idea though.
 
I thought it had to be deaths that come in threes.
The Voice of Elmo just resigned, he didn't die.
Someone predict who's "#3" based on that?
 
I think he meant it metaphorically. Clash himself may still be alive, but his career with CTW pretty much kicked the bucket.

F.Y.I., they really should have cancelled it about a decade ago when it first started to really skid into the rut that it's stuck in now, essentially becoming "the Elmo Show". I mean, almost half an hour dedicated to the same tired old "Elmo's World" blocks? You can only do so much with so little.
 
Yeziknoradio said:
ssetta said:
It's very possible that the show will have to be cancelled within the next year or so. Many see it as a "washed up" old show that seems tired. It's changed quite a bit since the early 90s, but a lot of the same people had been there for years. It's gotten to the point where most of the original people aren't there anymore. Carroll Spinney isn't gonna be alive forever, and most of the humans on the show are in their 70s and hardly ever on anymore. It isn't even that popular anymore with a million channels and so many different options.
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I'd like to think that Sesame Street can live on forever in reruns. There may be room to point out the flaws in that idea though.
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I have actually thought that same thing, especially about 10 years ago when they were changing everything over to the block format. No offense to the show's producers, but if they had reruns of the show from the golden era (1969-1992, IMO), I would be completely happy. The Noggin network used to have old reruns YEARS ago before they revamped, but I don't see old episodes coming to TV anytime soon. There are a few Old School box sets, with the 3rd volume just released earlier this month, but all episodes are missing the theme song, because apparently they had to pay extra royalties to use it. I feel like you just cannot have an episode of Sesame Street without the theme song.
 
Darth_vader said:
I think he meant it metaphorically.
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There can be no metaphoric references to the undeniable, logical, hard-and-fast inevitable Rule of Threes. I only wish it hadn't been invoked. But now, we must wait for The True Third Shoe to drop (also, not a metaphor).
The Rule of Threes does not allow for metaphors. It's been invoked, and it will only be satisfied when it has realized its undeniable completion!
Maybe things wouldn't be so angst-ridden if we took things in stride and made the best of them, without having to put every death on a Rule of Threes framework....*sigh*
Wait, maybe Jim Henson was actually #1? I forget the date requirements for The Rule of Threes. Maybe there should be a website or shaky-camera "found video" movie done for this?
 
I think the idea was that each new generation of children would find Sesame Street fresh and interesting. But the show was a victim of its own success as it spawned many imitators, even on PBS. Now the concept seems stale. But the characters are perennials, like the Disney characters, and still very popular.

Maybe it's time for CTW to create a new concept, a new show using the Muppet characters and retire Sesame Street.
 
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