It was mentioned as an oral history book about Sesame Street, with the author having explained how the change in Snuffleupagus's character was informed by child abduction cases of the time.
There was a book that's like an oral history of Sesame Street and I went to a reading that the author did, take questions, and I asked what, how did that switch happen? Where everyone met him and why?
— Episode: "Nomi Malone Muppet" (w/ Shalewa Sharpe)
Episode: "Nomi Malone Muppet" (w/ Shalewa Sharpe)
It was mentioned as an oral history book about Sesame Street, with the author having explained how the change in Snuffleupagus's character was informed by child abduction cases of the time.
There was a book that's like an oral history of Sesame Street and I went to a reading that the author did, take questions, and I asked what, how did that switch happen? Where everyone met him and why?
It must be asked and the author explained to me that, oh, around the time that they decided to make that switch was when children were being abducted, and so they wanted kids to feel like adults would believe them.
Smart, so they made it so that people could now believe Big Bird because he, you, they met Snuffleupagus.