Ober Dicta

12:14 PM

"Herry was sort of scary in the beginning days of Sesame Street. He was always going on about how strong he was, and he liked to prove it by picking up cars and other heavy objects. I definitely didn't want to mess with him as a kid... He seemed like a monster on the edge. However, I'm not convinced that this monster is actually Herry. That looks more like Herry's cousin who is either a) experiencing a psychotic break, b) has taken some bad LSD, or c) has just gotten out of prison after serving most of his term."

"The Trouble with Herry and the Epistemology of Betty Lou", over on the Tough Pigs Muppet Book Club, featuring Sherlock Hemlock and the Great Twiddlebug Mystery and the Club's commentary.

"I think Prairie Dawn and Betty Lou are just two different versions of the little-girl Anything Muppet, who originally didn't have a consistent voice or characterization. They were the Schrodinger's Cat of Sesame characters -- both Prairie Dawn and Betty Lou at the same time. When they started doing the Sesame Street Pageant sketches, they discovered that the Prairie Dawn character worked -- so the Betty/Prairie waveform collapsed, and from then on we only had Prairie Dawn. So not only does Betty Lou not exist, but echoes from the collapsing waveform rippled backwards through space-time, so in fact Betty Lou has never existed. I challenge you to prove otherwise."