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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So it seems they’re unaware if they have to put something like this up. Of course we’re aware, seems they’re limited in scope.
It’s a fuzzy piece of cloth.
Does he smell like stale urine, babble incoherantly as a form of street camoflage, and steal everyone’s shit for drugs?
As if that isn’t thrown in our face about every ten minutes this time of year...
You forgot the sexting politician muppet.
So there’s no hand up his backside then?
Socialist Street doesn’t share the wealth around
The Cookie Monster always was looking for his next fix.
>Democrats have NOT licked homelessness.
Correction: SOCIALISM has *INCREASED* Mankind’s ills/problems, let alone ‘reduced’...and Heaven forbid it should SOLVE a single one.
They won’t even show on the TV show. No reason given.
” According to CNN, Lily’s story won’t be featured on the television program, but will be expanded across this digital space.”
Oscar how much room do you have to let some homeless move in?
Ah, yes. My bad.
“Grooming Gramps” (aka Paedophile Pops), as well.
Amateurs.
The modern American MSM is the best propaganda machine of all time. It’s not even close.
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Uh, excuse me....why do you think I said they would be ‘envious’?
“If you want to see a vision of the future, imagine Elmo screaming in Oscar’s face, forever.” — Big Bird
Um ... Oscar the Grouch isn’t homeless? He lives in a trash can, for crying out loud!
Theyll be sorry when they find this puppet out in the alley with a needle in its arm instead of on set.
Bert and Ernie have a nice apartment. Cant they take her in?
Does the Honor Killed daughter’s ghost haunt Sesame Street?
I don’t have a clue about what you’re talking about.
Empathy is not charity. Awareness is only the first step, if any, to a solution.
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