When I was growing up and my imagination was running wild, the best character on Sesame Street was Snuffleupagus. It was a simpler time back then and everyone on Sesame Street believed Snuffleupagus to be Big Bird's imaginary friend. For some coincidental reason, Sunffleupagus (or "Snuffy", as Big Bird called him) only showed up to hang out when no one else was around. It drove Big Bird crazy and he was usually distracted when his friend came over to play. He'd run out of his nest (a back alley of Sesame Street) and try to convince people and muppets to come back with him and meet his friend. Meanwhile, Snuffy would realize that he had left the iron on or some other ludicrous thing and would wander away just as Big Bird came back with Oscar or Maria or any one of his peeps from the Street. "Oh Big Bird," they would say, "You have such an imagination!" And then Big Bird's face would turn beat red and the veins would pop out of his forehead and he’d start kicking over garbage cans and punching walls. … Well, maybe I’m embellishing my memory a little. In any case, everyone thought the bird was nuts, and, as a viewer, we never really knew that he wasn't. It was awesome.
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