And a great reminder of why they're best friends.

Bobby goes from 7th grade to 8th grade at some point, but being a late bloomer is a big part of the character (in the Halloween episode we see Hank at Bobby's age and he's exactly as pear-shaped). I think the real reason he didn't grow up more is probably the voice actress though. She can do a pretty impressive…

I just saw the season 2 (!) episode where Peggy finally finds out about Nancy and John Redcorn (one of my favorite subtle jokes is that no one ever calls him just "John"). It's just such a great example of Peggy at her Peggiest.

Peggy taking over the "musings" column of the local newspaper was such an inspired character development.

Tom Landry's actually in dream sequences in at least two different episodes. I think this one had him as a hwack-a-mole mole.

My favorite part of that episode is still Boomhauer's 911 call. "Sir, I can't understand you, you'll have to slow down." "Dang… ol… meg lo… mart…"

Flagged for ebaums.

Yes.

Most of the Sesame Street characters are explicitly childlike, even if not actually stated as children. They're there for the kids to identify with. So Elmo and Bert and Ernie and Grover are all basically children. Other characters like Oscar and the Count are depicted as a little older and children aren't suppose to…

Kermit and Miss Piggy are from a different show with a more adult audience. Neither of them are Sesame Street regulars and it's not like anyone else on SS is having romantic misadventures. That kind of context matters. Not all googly-eyed felt puppets are the same you know. Racist.

Oh shut up. They're kids! When I was a little kid I did a lot of things — like say bathing naked — with other boys that I would never do as an inhibited straight adult. There was nothing sexual or romantic about it. I was just a kid playing with my friends and no one had told me it was "gay" yet. Small children…

Holy shit! This song is 20 years old? And by a band called "Cracker?" I always just assumed it was off some Incubus album I'd never listened too.

Au contraire, every English teacher whose ever taught me Shakespeare has insisted on making us watch some terrible adaptation or other so we can see how it's "supposed to sound." I still resent having to watch Romeo + Juliette and like three different gray gloomy Macbeths. The underage tits in the other (better) Romeo…

What? But faeries hate iron!

Yeah I'm waiting for the show where a Twain look-alike just spends an hour making fun of a different classic american novelist every week.

No it's about that tight-rope walker who went between the world trade center towers.

Yeah his mumbly sing-song lyrics really lend themselves to inattention.

Yeah I'd never heard of this woman either. I avoid all crime news like the plague.

Corruption and abuse by the Arizona legal system? Now I've heard everything!

I always wondered what happened to Cynthia. She sort of just disappears without a trace after Malcolm's first year of high school.