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This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.Subscribe
This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.
How do you know that Oscar doesn’t wear pants? Have you been dumpster diving on Sesame Street again?
If there were a place where furry, unibrow and pantsless connected, you’d have my Uncle Al.
intersection: the big guy fro Monsters, Inc.
Sounds even more terrifying than sharp teeth.
Also: both have signature theme songs (“I love trash” and “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.”)
They also have in common their roles, so far as purpose of creation might be argued — they’re both there to serve as examples to children of what they’d rather not be when they grow up, though I think the Grinch’s spiritual growth more readily highlights positive traits as opposed to merely reinforcing a possible negative as cast through Oscar.
Maybe I’m being overanalytical, but then again, I also wanted to be a garbage truck (not driver) when I was younger; I should probably attribute some element of this to Oscar.
technically, the grinch wasn’t misanthropic.
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sorry, im a jerk.
@mike. Where on earth does it mention pants.
Also, since when did Oscar have a pet?
I had to look misanthropic up – ‘hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind’.
It really ticks me off when people make me work like that.
@Rancorous:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slimey_the_Worm
And pants are mentioned in the title of the post. (“And neither one wears pants.”)
Name contains “The Gr–ch”
I never thought of Slimey the Worm as sad.
Quiet does not imply sadness.
Oscar was originally orange. Olde schule Sesame Street is crazy. Gordon looks completely different, Big Bird’s head is smaller and he’s just a complete moron rather than a kind-hearted and curious simpleton, the filler segments were even more lame and boring (if you can believe it), etc.
Also, I’d say Oscar is not so much a model of what kids should not be like than he is a means of understanding diversity. The cliché “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” comes readily to mind. His ways seem backwards to us (in his family, insults are appreciated and compliments are rude), but our ways are backwards to him. He’s different, but he’s still treated with respect. That, I think, is the real lesson.
I’m agreeing wholeheartedly with n0mia here. Slimey doesn’t seem sad. More like determined, pensive… I’m here to make a stand for the joy of Slimey!
So shouldn’t there be a separate circle from the three with pants labeling it?