# Is Elmo evil or is it just me?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-elmo-evil-or-is-it-just-me/590641>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 28, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-elmo-evil-or-is-it-just-me/590641 "2011-07-28T17:10:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-elmo-evil-or-is-it-just-me/590641/21 "2011-07-30T15:07:56Z")

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It’s just you that’s evil. Not Elmo, not anyone else.

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**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-elmo-evil-or-is-it-just-me/590641/22 "2011-07-30T15:14:23Z")

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> [@garygnu](#):
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> Clash also did [this guy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBOFnpH-1Pc), and old friend of mine.

Yes, but that guy was intelligent and funny. Elmo… isn’t.

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-elmo-evil-or-is-it-just-me/590641/23 "2011-07-30T15:15:30Z")

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> [@China\_Guy](#):
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> I hate this fucking show. The premise is stupid beyond belief even for a kids show. But that stupid lisping duck irks my drawers. It’s a kids show and characters should speak properly.

You guys don’t like Wonder Pets? How can any show that boasts the line, “Baby chimp! Take the banana out of your ear!” be bad?

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-elmo-evil-or-is-it-just-me/590641/24 "2011-07-30T15:24:36Z")

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I heart Wonder Pets. I encouraged my daughter to watch it far past the preschool stage it’s appropriate for, 'cause we’d have so much fun singing along.

And I gotta say, there’s nothing more motivating for cleaning up the bedroom than a rousing rendition of, “What’s gonna work? TEAMWORK!” 😃 (Well, OK, that evil purple dinosaur has a good clean up song, too, but…ick.)

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