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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That word mean different thing in the wild than in a room full of kids.

[–] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

This post wasn't alarming until I read your comment. Now I have concerns about Sesame Street

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Pretty terrifying ones too if you're an edible sized creature.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

"That's not a year, that's his kill count."

They're flocking this way.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 9 points 1 year ago

Big Bird is the legendary Thunderbird.

[–] mdd@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a young child I was apparently terrified of Big Bird.

It all makes sense now.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My son screamed like a little girl the first time he met Chucky Cheese.

[–] johan@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think most countries with their own sesame street have slightly different characters. We don't have big bird, we have the superior Pino.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Garibaldo from Brazil is the most… questionable one for those that haven’t seen it. https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Garibaldo

[–] johan@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hahaha also blue but waaaay more scary!

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

A little meth-ed up

[–] Lobreeze@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

So blue bigbird

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

big bird is the least used character in international versions. possibly because the height makes it hard to operate but that's speculation on my part.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Especially since he can't fly, and therefore doesn't need them to see where he's going in the air.

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And no one knows what happened to Mr Snuffleupagus (sp?)

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

He's clearly in some sort of quantum flux. They keep waffling if he is real or just Big Bird's imaginary friend.

[–] FanBlade@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That’s what we thought until it turned out that Elmo was the real predator all along.

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In retrospect, we should have noticed sooner. He was constantly asking kids to tickle him, after all.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do any of the muppets not have forward facing eyes? Kermit I think?

[–] sudo 5 points 1 year ago

Not sure about the eyes but miss piggy is definitely a predator

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Humans have forward facing eyes and we were prey as well as predators.

Now I'm thinking about what would be big enough to hunt big bird

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Bigger bird

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Humans have the need to kill everything bigger than us that doesn't show the proper amount of respect.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Speak for yourself

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Mr. Snuffleupagus.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Humans have never been anything more than coincidental prey. We've been killing animals much bigger and outwardly scarier than us back into prehistoric times. Hell, man, humans used to hunt mammoths with pointy sticks. We're apex predators.