Yeah… I've frequented Reddit for a few years now, and I've managed to pretty much avoid hordes, racists, Pepes, and doxers. It's a good place to find mildly amusing videos and gifs, and to learn the same interesting facts about Steve Buscemi and Rick Moranis over and over.

Frank Oz's documentary also includes Jerry Nelson, who died five years ago. So Whitmire's absence in the film probably has nothing to do with this news.

Brian is a puppeteer and has continued to run the company, and people loved the idea of the son taking on the father's most famous character. I understand why it became a misconception, but yeah, it never happened.

Do you have the all-white embossed cover of the Torch going nova? I missed out and had to settle for the all-red embossed reprint.

I don't spend much time thinking about Gumby, but I impulsively bought some of the 2006 series, and it was delightfully bonkers. If this is anything like that one, it should be fun.

I still have my cassette tape of the soundtrack with the original line. I bet it's worth a million dollars now.

I actually don't see anything sinister in that barbecue episode. It's not a drug he gives men to incapacitate women, it's really good barbecue sauce that seems to have the side effect of making couples who already like each other act especially affectionate. And it comes at the end of an episode in which all the men…

That's what I thought this was going to be about when I saw the headline. I thought Disney was getting sued for stealing an idea from their own theme park. That would be wacky!

Haven't you heard? Food is pop culture now. For some reason.

His name is Michael Moschen, which is a great name for a juggler.

It's really easy to miss those details. I've often thought Sarah's arc would play better if the exposition about her mother had been delivered more clearly.

Tracy really screwed up allowing himself to be distracted by Breathless Mahoney.

I just remembered that he had pretty much the same voice as Eek the Cat.

As soon as I saw the headline, I immediately heard Bubsy say "Whatever blows your hair back!" in my head.

She was fourteen in Labyrinth.

You're right, that kind of thing would never make it today. Which is why they put disclaimers on the Old School DVDs noting that the DVD were intended mostly as nostalgia for grown-ups… and then everyone got all bent out of shape over the disclaimers ("OMG, Sesame Street says the episodes we watched as kids are…

Yep. This is actually Prairie Dawn "playing the role of" Piper. Stephanie D'Abruzzo, who was in the original cast of Avenue Q as well as being a Muppet performer, was cast as Prairie Dawn after her original performer Fran Brill retired.

It aired on HBO, then it aired on PBS, and it's just now been uploaded to Sesame Street's official YouTube channel.

The Rapunzel sketch teaches loud, louder, and loudest. The prince yells for Rapunzel to let down her hair, she can't hear him, he yells louder, she still can't hear him, so he yells loudest. But yeah, it was really just an excuse for the puppeteers to screw around. That one ends with the prince suddenly realizing…

That's a great counterpoint to the alarmists on Sesame's Facebook who were saying "What if this causes my child to seek out the real Orange Is the New Black? This is INAPPROPRIATE!"