Sesame Street: An HBO Original Series


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Cut to a dark and dirty alley. Garbage is strewn about, there is urine pooling in corners. The streetlight on the corner is broken, the glass still on the sidewalk.

Cookie Monster stumbles into the alley and slumps against the wall. He pulls out a sleeve of Chips Ahoy and starts smashing them against the pavement, over and over until the sleeve contains nothing but cookie dust. He takes out a well worn syringe and a spoon. After heating up the cookie dust with some water, he injects it into his fuzzy vein.

Cookie Monster’s eyes roll into the back of his head, a little drool escapes his half open mouth and he lets out a long deep sigh.

Cut to Sesame Street credits on screen, over the Cookie Monster image.

Next Scene

Elmo is walking down a street at night, headphones on. He is humming the ABCs, totally oblivious to what is around him. Beeker grabs him from behind and shoves a chlorophyll soaked rag over his mouth and nose. Elmo collapses. Beaker looks down at the body, pauses, and quietly says “meep,” before taking Elmo by the legs and dragging him out of the frame.

Cut to the basement of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew’s house. Close up of Elmo’s eyes as he slowly wakes up and looks around. Camera pans out, we see Elmo is tied to a rusty gurney with hospital restraints. Dr. Honeydew walks into the frame holding a scalpel. We realize he is going to attempt to extract Elmo’s eyes and transplant them into his own head, finally giving himself the ability to see. Camera goes in for a closeup of the panic registering in Elmo’s face, then pans out past the glint of light off Dr. Honeydew’s eyeglasses, till we see the entire basement lab, with Beaker standing by the instrument tray. As Dr. Honeydew starts to cut, Beeker runs to the corner of the room, closes his eyes and says “meep, meep, meep” over and over frantically while rocking back and forth. The Sesame Street theme music starts playing loudly, incessantly cheerfully over the gruesome scene.


Cut to sponsorship ad: This episode of Sesame Street was brought to you by the letters F, M and L.

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