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Let's Make Even Worse Sesame Street Characters

#sesamestreet#filipino#grover#cookiemonster#elmo
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0:00 [Music] you guys saw that Sesame Street recently came out with a new character right the Filipino one y got a Filipino Pull up picture yeah I know he Filipino cuz they just look like Muppets because likeo you saying Filipino people look like Muppets no all the characters do they just look like round Potato Head thank you Paul wow does he speak with the yeah Filipino why does he have this com over what that's spot on though yeah so there are some funny things about it I'll let you get a first impression oh my God is he a nurse his name is DJ DJ does he play ukulele my name is TJ let me read his bio you're going to be

0:51 like okay I want to make AOS today let me I get a hurger so uh let's see what is TJ like he's a four-year-old second generation Filipino Amer he enjoys spending time with family gardening with his grandparents and playing basketball in addition to having dance offs with his cousin Filipino sounds pretty Filipino very Filipino basketball and dance offs basketball and dance offs the occasional karaoke right yeah and then uh yeah and he's I guess he lives in New York right cuz the ssame street supposed to be in New York yeah yeah oh it is yeah I've seen it being filmed yeah it's really cool but he has like West Coast family that visits him in New York and then that's when he like learns talog from his grandma and other family and his family is from Eagle Rock or something yeah they go to Seafood City

1:43 yeah so he does they'll do like word of the day like Filipino like the today is Balo yeah it's pretty sweet today is tab tab that's so cool yeah pretty cool there is a kind of a funniness to it where it's like no I don't think I don't think it's bad I just think it's funny that like you're so they made a Filipino character I guess so like to have representation or so kids could see something like oh that they can see themselves in it but it's based off of like something that Filipino kids already are and are already doing on screen it feels redundant to me really is there another is there another character or no because it's like thing that you can point to is that like in one way maybe more relatable or like

2:33 less I think it's like it it would have been like helpful if when I was a kid to see because this didn't exist at all but like now that we've already lived through the stereotype existing already that like cuz now you see them and you're like I get why that they picked that but then if like that's true if this didn't exist at all and you were a kid and you saw that for the first time is that I feel like it' be a bigger effect on me because I would have went Filipinos are on ssame Street that's crazy yeah cuz I didn't know what a Filipino was but like literally the um the what is it called the Blues Clues dude was is Filipino so it's like they're everywhere the new one is yeah DJ I had Filipino friends I didn't know what Filipino was TJ no I just made that when did you guys know what a Filipino was I still don't know like when I was five maybe my next door neighbor was no

3:23 but I knew Filipino people but I didn't know till I was like in junior high when I was a kid Filipino kids I just thought they were chinesee there was a girl named chrisy kunanon very Filipino I was like oh yeah she's Chinese but she wasn't she was Filipino I think I knew because my mom would tell me they're Filipino like in Chinese like oh thas is a Filipino I'm like oh okay they're not me see I how you know that you were my my parents taught me some ████ up ████ my grandma thought Mexicans were Spanish she would be like oh you're Spanish friends right and the the was no even word for Filipinos Japanese people just don't recognize what Philippines are cuz they're like oh that was a old colony of ours we don't know what it is yeah they just don't know anything we colonized it but we don't know what we colonized whatever I know what Koreans were but I

4:15 didn't know what Philip I and then like my friend was la oh yeah and I I didn't know what laan was or anything like that yeah I just thought they were Thai well you can't say that to them they'll get really mad like anyone who's not Tai I know what Thailand was because my cousins went there oh yeah so then they I went to Thailand and I'm like that's so cool yeah yeah but then yeah where did you go as a missionary again I went to Thailand oh okay yeah didn't you also go to spreading the gospel spreading the butt cheeks I was sent by my church to what kind of mission is that kind of gay ass Mission were you on just kidding the but what the ████ what kind of gay ass we were sent to build churches child labor oh essentially child

5:07 labor weren't you in like a Mong Village yeah and that's in Thailand in Thailand cuz M people don't have a country that's what I learned yeah I don't really know what Mong is but I have a nail tech who's M oh dope yeah we got a lot of I just don't ask her questions oh for real what up sh sho don't do that don't do that you'll find way more of them in in Northern California yeah but there's a good cuz m is different from Mongolian yeah way he's more Mongolian can't you tell yeah once I grow these guys out it yeah yeah straight out of Mulan I think that's you guys knew all Asian countries though growing up when you're in elementary school like you knew I didn't no I didn't know all of them no I just thought they were on the same umbrella they were in the same team I think I I just definitely had Filipino friends so like when you have a friend you know that thing yeah and I didn't know

5:58 Vietnamese were ghetto yeah give as ████ when did you learn that cuz they fooled you with the jewelry didn't they cuz I had I think two Vietnamese friends and they were um already like second or third generation one of them played tennis so he's like from a Fufu ████ type of family wussy stuff and then it wasn't until I came here and I was like oh ████ A lot of these guys are ████ refugees and like 12 people in one house type ████ I'm like I didn't know you guys were ghetto until I came here I didn't know um I would go to fall restaurants with my uncle cuz he was like let's go eat f f noodles right and I didn't know that was Vietnamese I just thought it was Chinese I didn't know what Vietnamese was until like when it said f Vietnamese noodle soup you didn't see that part I couldn't read I was like I was like six

6:49 or something expecting too much out of them the first time I saw F I was like uh my where the k no my homie how took me like dud you got to try that man that's so good and I'm like all right cool we go there and I'm like dude are we seriously going to eat dog food and soup that's what that's what it looked like said it to him no I'm not going to lie yeah cuz there's like tripe and all kinds of it does look crazy so over over stimulating what the ████ the visual the first time you look at it you're like this is not human food I'm like they didn't even bother to butcher this well cuz that's hard mode fun and it's no and it's like it doesn't come cook in the so it's raw it's just level Noodle and then you eat it like this is so good but the first but the first presentation and then you know all the you just didn't know dog tasted that good huh no and then you know you had like sriracha and like the Hoon sauce and the lime or

7:39 whatever and I was like wait so it's incomplete when the soup comes to you you still got a season it I was like what the ████ how do you feel about Korean barbecue you got to cook that ████ yourself in front of you I think by that time I was less dumb and I understood there's different ways to eat things by that time but when you're a kid it's just yeah you what the ████ is this I was like yeah if I get clam chowder the ████ everything's done I don't have to add more sh in the bread clam chowder you you know what it is I just realized it you know what's weird about this the the Sesame Street thing it's cuz he looks like the starter kit Filipino starter kit yeah because like no no no like think about it this way it's like if you're if you're trying to make something that's be a symbol of

8:30 like oh aren't you proud to see this it's like we grew up with like Rufio right or Kino I didn't even know he was Filipino though that's true I didn't I know it was it was for Filipino kids but like when you grow up and you see that he's cool and then you find out he's Filipino that's why it hits you you don't have to go oh he's a Filipino and that's all you need it's like they LED with he's Filipino well yeah yeah yeah and it's but then he doesn't do anything he's just Filipino but then like you he dances with his family bro Loki he kind of looks Indian we're talking about TJ not Ryan so so physically he's actually pretty accurate but then the idea that like I think what makes people proud to see themselves is that it's it's someone who's already doing something you respect yeah that and that's it's cool and then you're like oh damn oh that D's

9:21 Filipino that's tight I could do what he's doing but not like I don't follow Sesame Street like do they have a lot of other ethnic representation yeah they do and they've always had that really I thought it's just always been animals I thought straight up creatures that's why I was like no they didn't make like alligator or some ████ you know I was like that would have been funny Bert's Puerto Rican Ernie is I think BT's Puerto Rican I'm sorry what just I had no idea hey I think a good Filipino character I I got a good Filipino character it's little bird and it's a little bird inside of a egg what what's up guys we got some new offerings for you on our patreon so as you guys know C be deleting footage all the time we got missing episodes and now we can get

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11:54 just going to eat him no he's a little bird he's a permanent character that's what I mean is we both already had like 30 years of and when you try to eat him he goes no no no not today I hope I T good thank you Paul the salt burst yeah I'm not jellybee it feels late to be like look who we made you and he's based on you it does feel late huh wait what what other what other ethnic groups or or races are there in s Street what other ones are there in Sesame Street we don't have a Chinese one yet uh let me see just put me on game is there VI one he's wearing white beer and like gold chain and ████ wow oh there's a new character that's the the Filipino character is a new character that they just came out with yeah count chacula chocula I mean I don't know which ones are new he's like Armenian dude I'm not

12:46 saying new I'm just saying what other like there's a ton of them I don't know I don't but I don't know who's new I really thought it was just animals that's crazy well I haven't seen s sheet in like 30 years yeah yeah what is Burton Ernie are they bananas I always thought one of them was banana a banana on a potato I don't know dude red potato G oh really oh cuz they do sleep on the same bed yeah yeah but then I thought they was just like BFFs I don't know you shouldn't do that with your BFF we shouldn't teach our kids how to do that stupid right I love sesame not the right gender no Do You Remember theti song like all the bats that would come in oh from the uh the count yeah ████ hated that for yeah I've been kept up yeah Sesame Street is dope Y what kind of what kind of character would you guys add to Sesame Street if

13:36 you could I don't know what the that you think like kids need oh Snuffaluffagus ████ yeah dude I love snuff kabby baby bear Sesame Street and as a kid I'm like what did they do they would ████ taught us how to read you teach how to spell right yeah they spell and count they have objectives I just don't remember it's highly educational and it also teaches a lot of like how to be like considera of people it it really did like help me I learned English from Sesame Street yeah for real oh I know what character I like the Crooked politician crooked slick back hair that way that way the kids can start learning that ████ politicians aren't as straightforward as you think they are this politician is lying all the time gabing stupid that's a cool character did you

14:27 just think anyone in a suit like you could trust him you know he's like big promises never and then you're like wait a minute Gavin Gavin I want to have like a just big cauliflower ear character no just one big ear no we got to keep kids away from all that stuff I didn't really like big bird I thought he was obnoxious but snuff phagus was really dope y'all y'all's character should be ████ Uncle chin and Uncle unle chin andle say would be lit that could be a New York character yeah just yelling at everybody all the time too what would what would Uncle Chim and Uncle Sam teach people they basically just be inside the suit hiber remember I used to really like Oscar the Grouch Oscar the Grouch is ████ remember he was just always funny and I remember as a kid he was being mad

15:19 was just made me laugh oh Oscar yeah because he would always also be on the the ████ end of everything too cuz he's just negative all the time his grouchiness always like caused him a problem and then he would have a turn and be like Oh I'm sorry I think my favorite character was that blue one Cookie Monster no no no is it Goomer oh Grover Grover Grover the nose yeah Grover yeah I always like Grover that was always hugging kids I didn't I didn't trust him he was wasn't he a kid Grover no he just seem like a happy go lucky guy Grover is a kid I Elmo is it's supposed to be groper defitely groper Elmo was my favorite Elmo was lowkey kind of sassy yeah yeah CL back El Elmer was one of the best uh Elmer Elmo had like the best IP he probably made the most billions who Elmo

16:09 Elmo Elmo CRA who kept Sesame Street alive ████ yeah dude kept the lights on over there Grover is supposed to be four years old an elephant what is he I'll don't trust him he's kid ████ kids he's way too hard if you do you remember like so they all had different these scenes right Grover would always be hugging kids that was his thing like and they he he love them I love you they probably don't act like that anymore huh really I don't know I feel like they don't they probably don't like be touching each other like that only when their parents around or something like thaten ████ now yeah there's just always parents in the shot every shot and then they could hug damn I got to pay hella money for every attracted person oh come on that's the PC way to say it okay new character for

16:59 Street right now go that you think Society needs Society yeah that they'll benefit from all right there's going to be a um a only fans addict named ████ monster the addict ████ monster is crazy this is definitely making how are they going to how are they benefiting from that he's always looking at his phone up and be like a s oh so he's kind of like Oscar the Grouch where it's like you don't want to be like you don't want to be the ████ monster all right he's always in debt yeah he comes out at the same time as the new cuckle D do comes out God what's his deal what does he look like well they just got to be friends so they can help you balance each other out what's what do these characters look like like a Nick cuckle Doo looks like me D no there's another character named simp Nick what does he look like s Nick he looks like Nick all you the flowers in

17:49 his hands all three of them look like Nick it's like three brothers you're like these characters are confusing it's like the the the meme of the Three Dragons you know what I mean they're kind of kind of the same person though s and the Scrooge's nephews characters are just to dissuade kids like Elon Tusk elephant version of Elon Musk Elon Tusk he's just you know billionaire but little cucko maybe we need new characters that are like they're not there yet like the animals cuz there's already elephant there's already Bird yeah there's already like a vampire I think you got to put a monkey in there but you got to have a yeah you have to lessons D are there lessons from each and one of cuz like Cookie Monster is just a greedy ████ that just likes Cookie all day right yeah but I think that also gets him into trouble and teaches him a lesson yeah yeah he

18:41 can't have like diabetes and stuff yeah okay I feel like Cookie Monster is like a toddler that everyone's like oh he's like my little brother I'm annoyed of him but Grover's an adult for sure crob yeah he's crober oh I think also Cookie Monster they used them as a symbol of like sharing to oh he doesn't share well he remembers to share usually yeah yeah yeah that I think so yeah yeah I remember that yeah and then already ate everything yeah yeah yeah what was elbow thing okay I don't know imagination I think or something cuz he was like he just needed to be touched what about Big Bird he did take you into like a like a black hole into like this white room and he'd always be like spinning a little bit he's always holding people yeah cuz he he had El world like thing yeah he had his own

19:33 separate yeah what was Big Bird's I don't Big Bird was kind of like the I thought big was like the the governing like he was the boss yeah the boss he was the head of HOA HOA yeah he he ran that ████ dude I really like snuff alop agus he just looked like a cuddly ████ and remember there's always scenes where kids would run up and hug his leg and stuff that's true yeah it's two people in that suit yeah you're right a lot of hug lot of CH Chinese lion dance blink eyelashes like shenyun that would be a cool character oh Shen Yun would be a good character yeah I heard it's a cult Shen unicorn Shen that was good Shen unicorn is that you said unicorn yeah it's a it is a very uh

20:23 complicated organization shed unicorn be sick just come just riding around being like hey this is before communism 5,000 years ago don't let China erase thousands of VI of our history please donate to our cause and it has like QR code that' be good they just give a lesson on like you can do great marketing like us dude fantastic marketing boots on the ground marketing for sure Billboards on the moon know person who's seen the show dude I haven't I want to have you ever had one of those ladies come to your business they'll come in and they'll just like they want to leave Flyers they just put a whole stack and you're like no no it's okay and they'll just put it we'll throw them away then thank you yeah yeah appreciate it my girlfriend has seen the show I think like dozens of times really because she because she used to be an usher in Australia at the

21:13 theater oh and she had to watch it that many times damn not because she paid for a ticket she was she was working so she could tell you like every like detail is it good no she said it's the most boring thing a yeah ████ have sucks a I want to see it but now I don't want to see anymore but you might like it cuz you know I want to see Chinese ladies flying do they fly I I don't they have to fly there's some aspect of it cuz fly in the air they can't give us posters like this where it looks like a Kung Fu lady flying in the air fly's no flying if there's no flying I'm going to be pissed it's just like it's the show that your parents would like let's just put it down okay okay okay okay yeah there better be more flying lot of forun than a for-profit church it's definitely not like the cir show that we have cool stuff it's just very like well I'm going to a cir show you

22:05 show them man stick stick it to the m

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