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It was
my birthday last week and my parents bought me a box
set of Sesame Street
songs. I don’t know what it is, but
anytime I hear “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon” by Ernie, tears
immediately
form in my eyes and I nostalgically sing along.
There’s just something magical about it.
But it’s not just that song that made Sesame Street
great. How about all of those clips from
the 70’s
that took you on tours of the crayon factory and helped you count to 12? Wow, those were great. Even
to this day, after I’ve counted some
apples, I finish by saying, “This was brought to you by the letter W.”
While we’re on that subject, I
think I would
like to have my own show and it could be a spin-off of Sesame Street
called, University
of Sesame. If hadn’t already guessed, it would be aimed
at college students. Of course, I’d host
it and I would keep the same human/puppet thing that they started, but
my show
would bring it up a notch. UofS would
have puppets that appealed to a slightly older demographic. Wouldn’t you love to learn about hypothesis
testing of independent samples from Yoda?
Or how about the Jurassic Park
dinosaurs teaching
you about differential equations? Gollum
could take you on a tour of The Facebook headquarters and the South Park
kids could show you where those Livestrong bracelets are made. In between these little segments, there would
be a small storyline involving me and some of the interesting
college-related
situations I get into.
For example, in
one episode, I could run out of debit dollars on my ID card or in
another
episode, I could try to get a class I’ve already taken to count as a
U.S.
Diversity course. I think this show
would be a huge hit because, not only is it incredibly exciting, but it
would
be a handy resource for today’s college students. Oh,
and one more thing, at least once an
episode, we’ll have Cameron Diaz come out and sing “I Don’t Want to
Live on the
Moon”. And if you don’t know the lyrics,
we’ll put them at the bottom of the screen and you can follow the
bouncing ball...although
I think that’s the last thing most of the guys will be following.
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