Carol Spinney is dead - RIP Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch

[Drunk and Pour]

Reminder that we could have lost him far sooner than we did:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Le2CR2fNkvI
Not that this makes his passing any less sad, but the fact he lived this long instead of being another casualty in one of the worst shuttle disasters of all time is definitely a good thing in hindsight.

DUDE! I never heard about that. This thread had me tearing up, but reading that hit me right in the gallows humor. I watched that live in class as a kid. I'm imagining 7 year old me watching Big Bird get blown up live. A generation of kids thinking NASA and the space program killed Big Bird.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Reminder that we could have lost him far sooner than we did:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Le2CR2fNkvI
Not that this makes his passing any less sad, but the fact he lived this long instead of being another casualty in one of the worst shuttle disasters of all time is definitely a good thing in hindsight.

Holy shit.