This Sesame Street scene is too real for media professionals to handle – 21 hilarious headlines
Although it involves a strange collection of odd-shaped animals and people, living in a wide range of circumstances, Sesame Street is not actually real life. However, one clip involving Cookie Monster has got journalists and other media professionals questioning that theory.
Negotiating that new year salary increase like: pic.twitter.com/1fv2UMbqgY
— Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) January 7, 2019
Cookie Monster asks Big Bird and Abby Cadabby to discuss salary, benefits, time off and a retirement package for the journalism vacancy, which seems reasonable, but ends up accepting one cookie – which is obviously on brand, but still a kick in the …does Cookie Monster even have balls?
Anyway, having conjured up uncomfortable mental images, let’s move on to how people have reacted to the savage negotiation fail.
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damn if this isn't the most searing indictment of digital media hiring i have seen https://t.co/iGswsX6c5n
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) January 7, 2019
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Sesame Street is now a documentary. https://t.co/cEKTI6FibT
— Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall) January 7, 2019
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It’s how they get you, every single time. https://t.co/flSyR5Iw9r
— Quentin Sommerville (@sommervilletv) January 7, 2019
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Too real, Sesame Street. https://t.co/Eq5njqo6bB
— MehGyver (@AndrewNadeau0) January 7, 2019
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how/why is sesame street dragging literally all of media right now https://t.co/rbxJgOxcT4
— karen han (@karenyhan) January 7, 2019
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never thought I’d know how it feels to be brutally dunked on by a beloved children’s show but there’s a first time for everything https://t.co/itgThcSgJG
— Whitney McIntosh (@WhitneyM02) January 7, 2019
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Just…dragged a whole industry to the wood chipper & threw it in. Cotdamn. https://t.co/yKUXiPpEij
— ❄Mikki Kendall❄ (@Karnythia) January 8, 2019
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This was 100 percent written by an ex-journalist https://t.co/LjqDcAkJ30
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) January 7, 2019
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Oh gawd. The accuracy. It BURNS https://t.co/apAxl3XSju
— Amy Remeikis (@AmyRemeikis) January 7, 2019
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Fuuuuuuuck too real https://t.co/rl7AK3x24g
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) January 8, 2019
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tfw your entire profession gets owned by Sesame Street https://t.co/GPdfauKpvu
— Brian Platt (@btaplatt) January 8, 2019