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Economy Rocks Sesame Street, Layoffs Ensue

Posted Mar 11th 2009 4:26PM by TMZ Staff

Sesame StreetFirst Wall St ... then Main St ... now the economy is taking its toll on Sesame St.

Sunny days could not sweep the clouds away ... and now the good people behind the world's greatest children's show have announced they must regretfully cut their workforce by 20% -- 67 positions in total.

The letters of the day are B and S.

When not asked to weigh in on the situation, Kermit the Frog responded by throwing up his hands, and screaming the following statement:

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

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1. People losing their jobs is not very funny

Posted at 4:48PM on Mar 11th 2009 by Oliver

2. People losing their jobs is not very funny

Posted at 4:49PM on Mar 11th 2009 by Oliver

3. Kermit? why kermit? kermit only makes sparatic guest appearances! why would he know anything?? i want to hear from Oscar! from Big Bird! and from Abby Kadabbie!

unfortuanately, since sesame street relies on donations, it was inevitable people have to cut their donation amounts to they themselves can survive.


aww...hopefully, sesame street will survive this fall. i'd actually cry if it went off the air.

Posted at 4:55PM on Mar 11th 2009 by Isa

4. Obama will fix this

Posted at 5:00PM on Mar 11th 2009 by stead

5. Today's show is brought to you by the color pink.

Posted at 5:04PM on Mar 11th 2009 by Al

6. So are they looking for a "hand out" or "hand in" ???

Posted at 5:12PM on Mar 11th 2009 by chicken stripper

7. I know it is wrong, but this is just too funny. I guess we will soon hear reports of Sesame Street walkers. And Bert and Ernie can do a gay porn.

Posted at 5:15PM on Mar 11th 2009 by Sebastian Stoker

8. Maybe someone can "pull some strings" and get some more funding.

Posted at 5:13PM on Mar 11th 2009 by chicken stripper

9. We need to start spending big bucks on lowering poverty rates.

The Borgen Project has some good info on the cost of addressing global poverty.

$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$550 billion: U.S. Defense budget

Posted at 5:28PM on Mar 11th 2009 by Abel Tsegga

10. That sucks =(

Posted at 5:46PM on Mar 11th 2009 by Crispy_Bug_Pilot

11. Sparatic? #3 did not watch enough.

Posted at 6:15PM on Mar 11th 2009 by Brian

12. Actually, #3 does watch it. Kermit is now the property of Disney, as well as the rest of the Muppet Show gang. The current Muppet "cast" of Sesame Street is owned by Sesame Workshop. This has been the situation for the past few years, and ever since then, Kermit has never made an appearance on Sesame Street. Really a sin, though. He was an integral part of the show.

Posted at 6:25PM on Mar 11th 2009 by Julia

13. Awesome. Thanks for the laugh! :)

Posted at 6:28PM on Mar 11th 2009 by Good God

14. "The letters of the day are B and S" is the wittiest thing TMZ's written in quite awhile.

Posted at 6:39PM on Mar 11th 2009 by Thanks for one good one liner

15. First, Cookie Monster starts eating 'sensibly' and limiting his cookie intake. Now this!?!? What a sad, sad world we live in.

Posted at 7:14PM on Mar 11th 2009 by lost in lalaland

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