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Sesame Street introduces homeless Muppet to raise awareness
EW ^ | December 12, 2018

Posted on 12/12/2018 11:27:33 AM PST by SMGFan

As Sesame Street gives one of its Muppets a new story, the children’s show continues to confront important issues with viewers.

Lily, a previously introduced character, has become the first homeless puppet on the program in an effort to raise awareness of childhood homelessness. In a heartbreaking moment from a series of online videos, her schoolmates make their way out, but Lily hesitates.

“I miss our apartment and now we don’t have our own place to live,” she says. “And sometimes I wonder if we’ll ever have our own home again.” With help from her friends, she learns that “home is where the love is” and those who love her will always be there to take care of her.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: homeless; pbs; sesamestreet
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They had the opportunity years ago , but never did a "Who are the People in your Neighbor" stanza for the homeless person , the drug dealer, the gang banger, the lady on the street corner. etc.
1 posted on 12/12/2018 11:27:33 AM PST by SMGFan
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Does the homeless Muppet slap people in the face and throw people into oncoming traffic


2 posted on 12/12/2018 11:28:26 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: SMGFan

I thought Oscar was homeless, unless a garbage can can be considered a home.


3 posted on 12/12/2018 11:30:01 AM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: dead

Touche’


4 posted on 12/12/2018 11:30:50 AM PST by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: SMGFan

Leftist propaganda/indoctrination is constant and relentless.

Hitler and Stalin and Mao would be envious.


5 posted on 12/12/2018 11:31:37 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SMGFan

Does the homeless muppet hold a cardboard sign that says, “anything helps, God bless”?


6 posted on 12/12/2018 11:31:53 AM PST by webheart (Grammar police on the scene.)
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Will they portray him as an addict?

You know....to create awareness....

7 posted on 12/12/2018 11:32:26 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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Does the homeless Muppet slap people in the face and throw people into oncoming traffic

No but I bet it poops in the street and leaves used needles lying around.

8 posted on 12/12/2018 11:32:28 AM PST by DannyTN
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the children’s show continues to confront important issues with viewers indoctrinate youngsters to the Liberal agenda.

There. Fixed it.

9 posted on 12/12/2018 11:32:41 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should be less concerned about who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire)
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To: SMGFan

Seems like a bum to me.


10 posted on 12/12/2018 11:32:44 AM PST by onedoug
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I want a gun rights muppet to raise awareness.

Really REALLY need to start co-opting these techniques.

Or maybe we need a muppet that’s suffered child abuse from a sexual predator? Too soon?


11 posted on 12/12/2018 11:33:31 AM PST by Skywise
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12 posted on 12/12/2018 11:36:29 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: dead

His trash can could be compared to Snoopy’s dog House or Dr Who TARDIS. Much larger in size.

Oscar has a pet elephant in there!


13 posted on 12/12/2018 11:38:05 AM PST by SMGFan
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Then comes the obese muppet, the bully muppet and his victim, muppets of every gender, muppets of every religion (plus the hijab muppet, but omitting the Christian muppet), the orphan muppet, the climate change muppet, the entitlement muppet, the gender-question muppet (as if that’s a problem with muppets anyway), the anti-fascist muppet (replete with garb), the “shout down opposing ideas” muppet and, soon to come, a Trump muppet in effigy.

Let’s throw in the horny muppets who expose kids to sex while we’re at it.
/s


14 posted on 12/12/2018 11:38:50 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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Homelessness is only a problem when we have a Republican President.

Its the politics, stupid.


15 posted on 12/12/2018 11:39:04 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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The Muppet portrays a homeless child, not an adult. A child can’t do anything about how the parents are living. They should portray an adult who doesn’t want to go into a shelter because he can’t get drunk in there. A tad more realistic.


16 posted on 12/12/2018 11:40:03 AM PST by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: webheart

Saw a lady in Nashville last weekend. Her sign read “Too proud to steal and too ugly to prostitute”


17 posted on 12/12/2018 11:40:06 AM PST by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: SMGFan

How can this be? Sesame Street makes billions.


18 posted on 12/12/2018 11:40:32 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: SpinnerWebb

Democrats have NOT licked homelessness. Film at 11.


19 posted on 12/12/2018 11:42:02 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SpinnerWebb

She should have added: “Too lazy to get a real job”


20 posted on 12/12/2018 11:44:05 AM PST by NEMDF
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