![]() ![]() (Note: This is exactly what happened when the host of TV’s The Apprentice found out about the presidency in the mid-2010s.) He asks aloud, “If I could get enough people to vote for me instead of that turkey who picked up my trash, I could be Mayor?” Having discovered that the Mayor exists, Oscar decides that he could do a better job. ![]() Every single kid knows more than Oscar does, so Gordon explains to him that “the Mayor runs everything – the trash pickup, the police department, fire department, subways, buses, everything.”Įnraged by this, Oscar yells “So it’s his fault! Who put him in charge, anyway?!” Gordon and the kids explain what voting is, using the example of “Do you want to stay here with Oscar or go to Hooper’s and get some apples?” Getting apples wins 5-2, because of course most kids would rather have an apple than hang out with Oscar.īut this gives Oscar an idea. Gordon asks a group of kids who’s in charge of the city, and they all say “The Mayor!” without hesitation. He wants to send this letter “Right to the top! To the big enchilada!” but he has no idea who that is. He’s mad because trash pickup is so early that he didn’t get to enjoy that day’s yucky trash before it was hauled off. When we first see Oscar, he’s busy angrily writing a letter to the city. Will he win the election? Or is it a bad idea for a selfish grouch to run for political office? Let’s find out! In episode 1562, Oscar the Grouch decides to run for Mayor. But now it’s 1981, and one Muppet is looking to enter politics a little bit closer to home. We’re reviewing some of the best, strangest, and rarest episodes out there in our series Sesame Rewind!īack in the 1970s (and in recent installments of this series), Sesame Street Muppets loved to run for President. ![]() Personally, if I had children, I wouldn't want them to make Oscar the Grouch their role model.There are over 4,500 episodes of Sesame Street, many of which are primarily lost to the fans. I'm sure Oscar is one of those beloved characters on Sesame street that nobody likes me criticising because, well, it's a children's show, but since we complain that children can be influenced by violent video games and dodgy movies, then is it not possible that children could also be influenced by some green guy that spends all of his day bitching and moaning and living in a garbage can. It is sort of like that book that suggested (to children) that becoming a homeless bum was a legitimate career choice (well it is, technically, but I don't know any parents who ever dream of their children becoming homeless bums, or at least middle class parents – I can't really say all that much about those living in the lower class in places like – well I won't name the places but you know what I mean – who probably expect that their kids will become homeless). Personally, I don't understand why they are creating a character that lives in a garbage bin and bitches and moans all day because I don't think that that is something that we should be instilling into a children. This is a book where we spend something like twenty four pages listening to Oscar bitch and moan about how he does not like company and how he does not want anybody to bother him, only to realise at the end of the book that he wants company because if he does not have any company he doesn't have anybody to bitch and moan to. I can understand it coming up with the Picture of Dorian Gray because that was written by Oscar Wilde, and I can understand how a computer can mistake a little green man who lives in a garbage can and bitches and moans all day with Oscar Wilde, but what has Oscar the Grouch got to do with Crime and Punishment (unless Dostoyevsky has some guy named Oscar in all of his books, but since I have not read these books – yet – I am unable to comment). Why is it that when I typed in 'Oscar's Book' into the Goodread's search engine it came up with The Brothers Karamazov. ![]()
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