With all the news of Sesame Street turning 40, we couldn’t help but stop to think of our favorite characters and episodes. When Emma was about 3 years old, she had a particular segment that she just loved. It featured a hammer that danced around pounding in nails. Sesame Street always throws a little something in there for the adults, and in this segment it was using a take off on M C Hammer’s U Can’t Touch This as a backdrop (get it, MC Hammer – a hammer pounding nails?).
Perhaps to fully understand this story you need to see the segment for yourselves, so click here
Okay, are you back? I’ll continue with the story. Of course, Emma had no idea who MC Hammer was. The double entendre was doubly lost on Emma, however, because she misheard the lyrics. When she heard it for the first time she began jumping up and down and chanting along with the chorus, “Go Emma, Go Emma, Go Emma!” And no matter how many more times she saw it, she was always convinced that they had developed that segment just for her.
And, in case you wondered, that story was the inspiration for name of the blog.
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