Some people go to rehab for illegal drugs. Some people go to rehab for alcohol addiction. Some people go to rehab for things they’ve done to animals sexually. Finally, some go to rehab for their extreme Sesame Street addiction.
I have an addiction…Um, I mean a friend of mine has an addiction to Sesame Street which some people might say is “unhealthy” and “perverse,” and I have…I mean he has gotten a lot help for it. His addiction began innocently as a young child watching Sesame Street daily on PBS. Little did he know that his love of learning numbers, letters, and basic Spanish words and phrases would turn into a love stronger than anything he’s ever imagined.
A love so wrong, yet so right.
Perhaps his love of learning and the pressure of getting good grades were the catalysts for his Sesame Street obsession. They say repetition is one of the ways to learn something and I spent…Um, I mean my friend spent hours watching repeats of the Emmy-award winning show. In no time, he became proficient at counting up to ten, learning all 26 letters of the alphabet, and used the Spanish phrase muy bien regularly in his conversations with others.
However, that wasn’t enough for him. He didn’t want to just watch Sesame Street, he wanted to sweep the clouds away on his way to where the air is sweet. He wanted someone to tell him how to get, how to get to Sesame Street, but no one could tell him how. Instead, thanks to extensive merchandising, he surrounded himself with everything Sesame Street.
Even at the age of 31, his apartment is a shrine to the world’s greatest educational children’s television series EVER. With all of the Sesame Street merchandise he’s collected over the years, some call his apartment an “eBay goldmine,” while others call it “a total chick repellant.”
During his free time as an adult, he spent it doing something Sesame Street-related. For example, because they don’t make adult-sized male Sesame Street pajamas, he took Sesame Street bed sheets and used it as fabric to sew his own pajamas. He also created his own Sesame Street episodes, using puppets he bought in 1990s, that taught the characters important lessons, like the need for Oscar the Grouch to wear deodorant, teaching Snuffleupagus how to hide his marijuana stash from drug sniffing dogs, and tutoring Ernie on the importance of safe sex.
Eventually, it got to the point when my…I mean his Sesame Street addiction took an unusual turn. Whenever cookies were around, he would loudly say Cookie Monster’s catch phrase, “Me want cookie!” and then sing the C Is For Cookie song. He also began inappropriately using his vibrating Tickle-Me-Elmo for entertaining purposes, but not the entertaining purposes it was intended for.
His gradual psychological deterioration caused by his Sesame Street obsession can be seen in the forms of artwork he’s done over the years, which began as a fingerpainting of Big Bird in kindergarden, then doodles of Bert and Ernie in the margins of his high school physics notes, and recently, his anatomically-correct oil painting of Grover.
Before the intervention, his family and friends tricked him into going to by saying they were taking him to see the ice skating production of Sesame Street on Ice, he personally tried to seek help for his Sesame Street addiction by drinking several cans of Rehab Energy Drink. Its berry flavor was good, the light carbonation made it easy to drink, the 120 milligrams of caffeine and the B Vitamins gave a good boost of energy, and it had polyphenol and catechin antioxidants, which is rare for an energy drink, but all of that didn’t help with his addiction.
He should’ve known it wouldn’t work for him, after all it didn’t work with Lindsay Lohan and her whorish ways. Perhaps she should seek professional help, like I did…I mean my friend did. Today, he’s slowly overcoming his Sesame Street addiction and has been spending more time with the slightly less addictive and slightly less time consuming World of Warcraft.
Item: Rehab Energy Drink
Price: $2.29 (12 ounces)
Purchased at: 7-Eleven
Rating: 4 out of 5
Pros: Good berry flavor. 120 milligrams of sweet caffeine. Lots of B Vitamins. Easy to drink. Lots of polyphenol and catechin antioxidants. The educational qualities of Sesame Street. Using a Tickle-Me-Elmo to entertain.
Cons: Pricey for a 12-ounce can. My addiction…I mean my friend’s addiction to Sesame Street. Lindsay Lohan drinks it. Repelling women with a Sesame Street shrine. Using a Tickle-Me-Elmo to entertain.
Sesame Street wasn’t a bad introduction, but the Schoolhouse Rock series is a much better educational show. After all, you can shout “Me want Cookie!” whenever you see one, but I’ve passed a Civics exam by singing…I mean properly quoting…the preamble to the Constitution thanks to SHR.
$2.29 for 12 ounces does seem a bit pricey. What do they think they are, Red Bull?
I like Schoolhouse Rock also, and Sesame Street. Kind of got sick of Mr. Rogers and The Electric Company though. With regards to Tickle Me Elmo, I generally prefer Tickle Me Emo for entertainment.
I figured this was about you. Well, I’m addicted to typefaces. Yes, I’ll go see the movie dedicated to Helvetica. I won’t drink or eat anything with bad typography, and I’m drawing the line at this Rexhab. It’s like the designer had a good idea and then gave up mid-way. Shame.
Sounds expensive, but I can see how they justify it, just look at the can: ‘made with powerful ingredients’, you know you’re getting what you pay for with this!
i hope ‘your friend’ gets the help he needs, marvo. I used to watch Mr. Rogers more than Sesame Street. That explains a lot about me, huh…..
I was more of an Electric Company kid myself. Sesame Street was too soft for me.
Sesame Street sucked after Elmo took over.
Question: Is drinking vodka in rehab energy drink not allowed cuz last time I checked you cant have alcohol in rehab.
I love vodka redbulls……….maybe i need to switch to vodka rehabs
Electric Company! woo hoo! 🙂
Marvo, I’m LMFAO! One of the best reviews yet.
But I can’t help but remember, is this…addiction the reason why you showed us that XXX Rated Tickle Me Elmo video some time ago?
Oh my gosh – I never realized that Marvo played both sides of the field. Entertaining with Tickle Me Elmo and anatomically correct Grover? You might as well just say that you are marrying Jack but seeing Jill on the side. Pick a side and stick with it Marvo.
I’d like to see those adult Sesame Street lessons. Snuffleupagus hiding his stash sounds hilarious, yet valuable.
But the question remains, how does it taste with vodka?
Hmm…maybe that question means I need some rehab myself.
Hapless – Really? It’s hard to pass a civics exam if you can’t spell, which my friend learn via Sesame Street. My friend also learned how important it is to brush his teeth thanks to Ernie.
Chuck – Mr. Rogers was a little too weird and boring for me. But Mr. Rogers’ voice did help put me to sleep.
Domokun – Well I guess I shouldn’t change the font of TIB to Courier or Comic Sans MS. That would suck ass.
Terry – I think it’s the antioxidants that adds to the cost or the fact that I live in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Webmiztris – Yeah, Mr. Rogers seems like someone who smokes weed. He’s so laid back.
Peachy – Too soft? I danced…I mean my friend danced to the Sesame Street theme song every day.
Sep – I still want to know if Elmo is a dude or a chick.
nicole – But alcohol makes rehab more fun. Sure it’s a step back, but it’s step back to good times.
onewayoranother – Sesame Street! Booyah!
Brie – Addiction? I don’t have an addiction. My friend has the addiction and the XXX Rated Tickle Me Elmo video on his video iPod.
Clevegal42 – Again, it’s not me, it’s my friend who has the addiction. But he loves women AND muppets, and if possible he’d like to piggy Miss Piggy.
Melanie – His trunk is a trunk…of weed. Too bad he couldn’t make his trunk into a bong.
Ace N. – I drank several cans of it over the course of a couple of weeks and I have four bottles of vodka in my freezer, but I didn’t think of mixing them together.
I learned basic Spanish from Sesame Street. I then learned Spanish dirty words in high school Spanish classes- from my friends, not the teacher.
Holy crap that was beautiful! i did not enijoy sesame street only their movies like dont’ eat the pictures and the one where big bird runs away.
never trust energy drinks to rehabilitate you if we could rely on drinks to rehabilitate us than whores and crazy would not be running the street crazy flashing their hoohaa and shavin their head
Toni – I learned profanity in Japanese from a book called Making Out in Japanese that was in my university library.
megan – What’s wrong with flashing hoohaas? 🙂
i love the “made from powerful ingredients” on the can… it makes the drink sound so much better! ^_^ and the name rehab… that’s priceless.
Tamara – Rain is liquid sunshine. Booze is liquid happiness. This energy drink is liquid rehab.
there is a life size statue of jim henson here at the university of maryland if you ever …
threechordme – Maybe someday I will…