Sesame Street and Mad Men

By Kay Krhin

When I heard that Sesame Street was doing a parody of Mad Men I seriously broke out in song.

"These are two of my FAV-OR-ITE THINGS!"

My two favorite things came up in the another context recently.

Ben and I were leaving Bert & Ernie, Goodnight .

We were holding hands walking to the parking ramp. He looked at me and said. "Hey, now we can go home and watch Mad Men!"

Um, no.

Well, now I have something that's safe for him to watch. You want to watch Mad Men honey? Go ahead we'll watch this link below. A nice squeaky clean version that talks about emotions.

I'd have to agree with some of the comments I saw on You Tube - they should have used "Glad Men" instead of "Happy Men". Mad, Sad, Glad.

But I must give kudos to the writers - this was probably the first time the word "sychophant" has been uttered in the 40 years Sesame Street has been on the air.

I remember years ago asking my vocabulary loving father what "sychophant" meant once. His answer?

"Well, a sychophant is someone who's obsequious, of course.... go look it up in the dictionary!"