The Year of Roosevelt Franklin. High on the list of
forgotten Sesame Street characters is one
Roosevelt Franklin, a reddish purple muppet with pointed black hair and a distinctly hep style of speech (provided by the late
Matt Robinson, the show's original Gordon). Despite Roosevelt's funky musical sensibilities (demonstrated in an album called
My Name is Roosevelt Franklin, later
released as
The Year of Roosevelt Franklin), the character's
classroom behavior was, well, quite frankly,
poison. His constant misbehavior in school might have been fun to watch, but was seen as representing a negative stereotype and a bad example, and so it was
adieu Franklin.
posted by Astro Zombie
on Jan 30, 2007 -
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