Why the fuck is Sesame Street being treated so much better than The Muppets?

>HBO Max
Why are people pretending to give a fuck about Quibi 2.0?

Anyone remember the Count parody where he says he really likes to fuck?

>watching undisputed
BASED

Because it was for kids and therefore was easier to succeed.

That was pretty funny. I remember that.

because they're holding Close Enough hostage

They don't make Sesame Street any money, either, which is why they're selling out to anybody who pays them.

I'm 40 and don't even live in the US and there's never been a time in my life when Sesame Street hasn't been making mad bank from merchandising, and none of that has been something that's only happened outside the US.

Elmo didn't get his own spinoff show because PBS thought another hour of educational puppetry would really help kids in the inner cities avoid becoming urbansuperpredators, he got his own show because it made money and was a convenient way of getting even more celebrity guests on.

As far as memberberries shit, remember that there's nothing wrong with nostalgia as a concept in moderation, but uncritical nostalgia for a place or time or thing that was never really as we remember it is a very bad thing. It's natural to want to revisit the past, it's dumb to go there pretending that it was exactly as you remember it. Memory is fallible.

Disney

Kermit was never owned by Sesame Workshop even at the start, Jim Henson wanted him to be usable in other projects. When Disney bought the Muppets they bought Kermit, but he's appeared in several Sesame Street and Elmo's World episodes since.

You have to remember that, back then, Sesame Street merch was basically keeping that shit afloat despite the terribly minuscule funding of PBS. The whoring was to keep making Sesame Street and shows like it publicly accessible even to the lowest income households. Of course there's the human element there, of course people also want money because money, but user is correct that it's escalating and distancing from the initial intent.

How in the god damn fuck do you forget Jim Henson's name I'm so fucking mad.

this isn't quibi 2.0 at all, better comparison is dinsey plus.

I really wish this was any other muppet.

>to use public funding to teach and counsel them through difficulties.
One of the largest contributor to PBS is fucking Shell. Fuck off with your romantic bullshit.

>better comparison is dinsey plus
except people actually BOUGHT Disney+

Fpbp
He's been fucking dead for about 30 years

I actually bought Disney+

I guess I just took offense because I was already a full adult well before his death. I forgot most people here were probably born after he was dead for 10 years.

Muppets and sesame street were split to begin with. IIRC, Jim Henson pulled Kermit off as a regular after the first season because he was worried about losing ownership of the character.

And Henson spent his whole life fighting to keep Sesame Street out of Disney's greedy hands.