Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration

Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration is the best Sesame Street thing to ever be produced. I watched it multiple times after its release, I made a list of 12 things that made it so amazing, I even put it as the definitive best Sesame Street moment on my top 55 list, so I’m gonna try not to sound like a broken record here.

Now, first I want to address some complaints that I found some people saying online. Now if you feel that the criticisms I’m about to dissect are right, that’s totally fine, but I’m just trying to offer my take on them.

The first one I wanna talk about is someone who said that they wish more characters got more to do than just their “remember me” moments, and while I’m sure that would be nice, I think how they structured it is perfect for the kind of show Sesame Street is. Think about it, Sesame Street is a neighborhood, and all of the characters are technically neighbors with each other, so a block party where these characters, many of which, mind you, haven’t appeared in over 20 years, all make appearances, is probably the most ideal way they could’ve incorporated them into this. It’s like a family reunion, you’re getting to see faces you haven’t seen in such a long time, even if it’s for a little while. The same thing applies to the celebrities, since I heard some people complain that some of them were unnecessary, and again I get where they’re coming from, but it doesn’t really matter to me, because like I said, this is a party, and these were people they decided to invite, and for what it’s worth, they all look happy to be there. (Besides, whether it was necessary or not singing “Count Me In” was exactly the kind of thing Meghan Trainor would do.)

Another thing I heard people saying was that there was too much Joe, I say he appeared just enough. I’ve said it before, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the Walter of Sesame Street, he is THE definitive Sesame Street fan. Just the way he interacts with all of the characters just feels like he...