Help free Mr. Noodle

Cafe Society
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I’ll admit it. Growing up in the late 60’s, Sesame Street was my friend. Gordon and Susan taught me about life and Mr. Hooper taught me about death.

Imagine my anticipation as I sat down with my 16-month old daughter this weekend to watch Sesame Street for the first time. Everything seemed okay until the last half-hour of the show, then Elmo appeared.

Now, I had heard Scylla warning me about Elmo’s World here months ago, but I chose not to heed his sage advice.

What a twisted ego-centric world the annoying red Muppet lives in. Everything is Elmo-this and Elmo-that. He bosses around the furniture and appliances without remorse (“Turn yourself on TV!”, “Come here computer!”). His poor goldfish Dorothy is always imagining new and exotic ways to torture Elmo, but she is powerless to stop him.

Then, whenever Elmo feels a need to exercise senseless domination, he raises a window shade and reveals the hapless Mr. Noodle.

Now Mr. Noodle looks like a nice enough guy, he even bears a slight resemblance to either Michael Jeter or Bill Irwin depending on Elmo’s mood.

Elmo is ordering him around, “Wash your hands Mr. Noodle!”, but poor Mr. Noodle dunks his face in the sink. “No! Your hands Mr. Noodle!”, but Bob (I like to think his name is Bob Noodle) tries to wash his elbows. At this point Elmo is taunting him mercilessly, laughing at his inability to identify bodily parts. It is probably due to repeated blows to the head, but that is just a rumor. Finally, after a last, menacing “No!, Wash your HANDS Mr. Noodle!”, Mr. Noodle manages to dunk his hands in the sink. Elmo laughs at him again. Mr. Noodle takes this as praise and tries to use some soap, but the slippery soap bar just flies out of his hands. This only increases the taunting.

When will it end people? We must free Mr. Noodle now. And lest you think I’m alone, We are a movement.

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Elmo freeing Mr. Noodle just sounds dirty. I hate Elmo. I went to see the Elmo in Grouchland Movie with DCnewsman and we chanted, “die Elmo die!” over and over when he fell into Grouchland. Unfortunately, our wish was not granted.

HUGS!
Sqrl

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Damn right Elmo is evil. He is just too young to have the power that has been granted to him. He used to be an equal Muppet on Sesame Street, and then there were the toys and the countless talk show interviews (mostly on Rosie O’Donnell). That’s where he gets his ego from. He’s not emotionally mature enough to handle the awesome power of being the most popular Muppet on Sesame Street. Big Bird, even though he’s the mental age of a 3 year old (just slightly older than Elmo) was able to handle it. So were the other Muppets, like Grover. What can we expect from Elmo? His power will grow, and he’ll inflict torture onto the other Muppets (his domination over the furniture, Dorothy, and Mr. Noodle is only the begining my friend).

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I agree that Elmo should NOT have been given his equivalent show mimicing “Wayne’s World”, in a sense. Also, Elmo userpt Kermit! And, Elmo needs to talk in 1st person!

But, Mr. Noodle (Mr. Nudo?) is hysterical to me. His quite literal interpretations of Elmo’s requests are funny. And yes, sometimes, Mr. Noodle’s brother, Mr. Noodle appears! The rest of Elmo’s world must go far, far away!

  • Jinx
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I can’t watch Mr. Noodle without thinking of The Green Mile.

I hate that stupid little red bastard with his baby talk and his high-pitched voice. He’s an insult to muppets. So is that stupid Baby Natasha. When did Sesame street get so cloying and condescending?

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I saw Natasha for the first time this morning. Granted, it was my first exposure. but I thought she was kinda cute. She was sitting in a car seat holding a breadstick while her father(?) Humphrey(?) was holding another. She wanted both breadsticks (typical baby manuever). When she was holding up one in each hand, Humphrey was going nuts because “it’s the first time she’s made a number 11!” As a proud parent I can totally sympathize. “Oooh, look at the poopy, isn’t she a good girly-wirly.” We get excited over the stupidest things.

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I don’t know why some parents waste time and energy hating Barney when they could be hating Elmo instead. He’s light-years more annoying. I think that’s why Bert turned evil.

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or his brother, Mr. Noodle, is actually Michael Jeter who has been in a ton of movies.

Why he would lower himself down to the level of Elmo’s The Great Satan World is beyond me

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Oh, for the life of me, I wish I could find that link now! It was a Sesame Street season wrap party, and one skit featured Elmo trying to get Mr. Noodle to show the audience his underwear. Mr. Noodle tried to regain some of his dignity by claiming he was a serious actor and storming offstage, but he slipped, did a pratfall, and lost his pants. There were photos, especially a beautiful one of Mr. Noodle losing it at Elmo, who was cowering behind the prop box.

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Of course, thirty seconds after I post, I find the link here.