So I’m watching Sesame Street with my daughter last week, and I notice a few easter eggs thrown in for the adult viewers. A taxi driving muppet is made to look just like a mohawked Travis Bickle in one episode, another features a CSI parody complete with a David Caruso muppet, etc. The most amazing adult bit I’ve seen so far just had to have been thrown in there for the dads.

As you know, they always pick some random word to assign a bit too in order to teach kids what the word means. On this particular episode, that word was “struggle” and they gave it to celebrity guest Tyra Banks to illustrate. So, for about a minute or so, I had Tyra Banks on my TV screen laughing about how much of a struggle it was for her to put on a sweater, all the while fighting and pulling and twisting to get this too-small bright yellow sweater over her head an on her body. Then, once she’s finally squeezed herself into the damn thing, she takes a breather, repeats the word “struggle” for the kids and then laughs about how much fun it’s going to be to take the damn thing off as she starts writhing about again just as the show cuts to the next lesson.

I really, really wish I hadn’t deleted this episode from my DVR, but it’s gone and oddly enough, a search online is turning up no copies of it. So my verbal description will have to suffice, though it most certainly doesn’t do the segment justice.

God bless the Children’s Television Workshop.

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