9 Characters That Were Kicked Off Sesame Street

Sesame Street seems like the kind of place where a puppet is free to be a puppet, and the fleece skinned characters that live there seem extremely tolerant of all puppetkind, but some puppets are just no darn good.

They’re the unwanted denizens of Sesame Street, the characters who were removed from the show due to dullness, bad behavior or because their foam forms began to disintegrate after years of use.

But bad puppets aren’t the only ones who have been cut from the cast of Sesame Street, a few human offenders have been fired to hammer home a point about following the rules.

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Here's a classic mental_floss article about 9 Muppets Kicked Off Sesame Street, revealing why so many puppets were getting unemployment checks in the 1970s.


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If you loved Watership Down you should read The Plague Dogs - brilliant tale of 2 dogs escaping from a research lab and going on the run. I have recommended this to everyone I know.
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I was 11 when I saw the movie on it's release. I'd already read the book at school. Yes it's a very dark story, but it isn't something that kids of that sort of age shouldn't be able to deal with. Very educational, without being too traumatic. However it's obviously worthwhile warning kids before they watch or read it that it isn't a happy fairy story about bunny-wunnies.
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I remember being brought to watch it as a 'treat' when I was five or six. It was shown in the local library for the kiddies, and the three of us that turned up were brought into a room and left to watch it. No movie has ever traumatised me more. And I'm including being forced to watch Aliens when I was 8 and Christine when I was 4 (gotta love older brothers)

I can't bring myself to either watch the movie or read the book now I'm a so-called adult! I wish I could...
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I read Watership Down when I was 15 and really enjoyed it. When I was 23, I read Shardik. It's been my favorite novel ever since.

It's different from Watership Down, but it's also the work that Adams considers to be his best. I agree with assessment.
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I'm 43 and this still creeps the hell out of me. I was one of those kids who was shown this animated feature at too young of an age. Now that I think about it, I'm sure it would still creep me out. I guess that confirms that it was a powerful tale.
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I love-love-loved this movie when I was as a kid. It's right up there with Animal Farm as far as neat mind opening (for a kid) stories. The social dynamics were so cool. Of course, I had no idea what social dynamic meant at the time, but I knew there was drama.
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Great book. Loved it in HS. Wanted to re-read it the other day. Found out that Amazon's Kindle version is $13.99!

Really! After all of this time?

I'm going to the local used paperback store and find a copy for $3. Stick it you greedy publishers.
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I hate the film of this so much! everyone thought it was for kids so it kept being shown as a supporting feature to disney and other kids films. Scared the hell out of me, makes me shudder even now aged forty just thinking about it :-(
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