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[brad haslett]

March 23, 2003
Sesame Street to Add Saddam Muppet 
(2003-03-23) -- The Children's Television Workshop
(CTW), producers of Sesame Street, announced today
that the show will soon feature a muppet called
Saddami. The new muppet will be used to educate
children about tolerating diversity in human behavior.

The idea came to Sesame Street writers while watching
a video of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein recorded
after the so-called 'decapitation attack.'

"We saw Mr. Hussein on the video and he looked so
life-like," said an unnamed writer. "His puffy round
head, funny glasses, French beret and broom-like
mustache just shouted out 'Muppet!'. Combined with the
way he turned the pages on that steno pad, you could
almost see the little rods controlling his arm
movements."

In the first episode of the new season, Saddami will
attack Ernie, Bert and Grover, turning them into "a
pile of crumbled foam and rags". At first Big Bird
will threaten to peck him to death. But the show's
human cast members will persuade the residents of
Sesame Street to leave Saddami alone, because "it
takes all kinds of behavior to make up the circle of
life, and we shouldn't punish Saddami just because his
morals are different."



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