So, this is happening:
Man, when I was little, I used to love Elmo cause I thought he was my secret lesser-known favorite side character — everyone else could have Big Bird and Snuffy and Oscar as much as they wanted — but he went totally mainstream in the 90s and he just keeps getting bigger.
I used to go see him perform at shady-ass Lower East Side heroin dens in ’89 when there’d be three people in the crowd wandering in to get out of the cold and figuring they could score some H if they stuck around the band long enough, but now all the sudden EVERYONE’S a huge Elmo fan, his face is on everything, Tori Spelling’s wearing him as a puppet, yadda yadda whatever. Success totally went to that dude’s head — I don’t even recognize him anymore. Yes, even though he’s a very noticeable red puppet with giant eyes.
