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#69: Katy Perry On Sesame Street

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This episode of Sesame Street is brought to you by the letters "Ohhhhh" and "myyyyyy".

Katy Perry was a rising star in 2010 when she was invited to perform a fun sketch with Elmo on Sesame Street based on her hit song "Hot and Cold". In it, Elmo would play hide and seek, and she would track him down, singing whether she was "hot" or "cold" depending on where Elmo was. The sketch itself was fine, not risque at all, albeit a tad on the cringey side depending on how much one likes Elmo. However, once the sketch was uploaded to Youtube, it immediately received backlash due to Perry showing way more cleavage than is typically seen on Sesame Street. Though she wasn't showing all that much (and even the parts of her chest that were bare were covered by a mesh), people still got upset, to the point where the sketch had to be pulled from an upcoming episode, and eventually even taken down from Youtube until the heat died down. And... yeah, as fun as the sketch was and as pretty as Katy Perry is, it's a bit bizarre that Sesame Street didn't go with a more conservative outfit. Indeed, even the producers of the sketch said that they would've covered her up a bit more if they knew how bad things were going to get. Still, the backlash far exceeded what was really warranted. and it came off an incident where the only one who really looked good in the end was Katy Perry. She had a lot of fun on the show, and ended up spoofing the incident several times in subsequent weeks, including a memorable Saturday Night Live segment in which she shows off a lot more skin. She took it in stride, while everyone else was left looking as silly as the sketch itself was. Even the Sesame Street characters themselves poked fun at the incident, with Elmo expressing later on that he wanted to have another "playdate" with Katy Perry, and Grover asking George Stephanopoulos if his own Super Grover outfit was too revealing.