Originally published at: 'Sesame Street' introduces TJ, their first Filipino muppet | Boing Boing
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Wonderful. CTW understood from the beginning that representation matters.
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Well done, Sesame Street!
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Hey cool. Pretty sure I remember a Filipino child on the show, talking about food and explaining a festive Filipino meal. Glad they’ve added muppets too.
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CTW caught flak from its inception for its matter of fact representation.
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Oh man, and just when Tucker lost his TV show. What he could have done with this.
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I like this world more where he gets his strings cut and we get more inclusive Muppets.
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I thought the point of the multicolor pink, orange, yellow, green, blue muppets was that they didn’t have a race.
It’s more about the character sharing his ethnicity and heritage and culture than it is about his physical experience.
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They’ve always had some characters that don’t reflect any clear ethnicity or race or nationality and some that do. And of course they have some human actors that appear on screen too.
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And - of course- The Count was the first Transylvanian muppet.
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Every Muppet Counts!!
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But especially that one.
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“One! One Transylvanian Muppet. Mwa ha ha!”
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