Poll of the Day > You get 2 million dollars if you watch all 4,626 episodes of Sesame Street

(+) Yeah! (+)

Do you do it?!?!
You have to sit through every episode, no phones, books etc.

that's 160+ days of nonstop watching with no breaks

Do we get 8 hours of sleep plus meal breaks?

JixHedgehog posted...

Do we get 8 hours of sleep plus meal breaks?

Yes

Sign me up. I'll volunteer for a 5-tour term of service, please. Can't wait to sing along with Big Bird again.

yes

Absolutely. Especially those years when Jim was still alive. Legitimately good stuff.

Do we have a timeframe in which it must be completed? Regardless, I'm leaning towards no. That's just too much of anything.

Sure I could finally learn all the letters

VampireCoyote posted...

Sure I could finally learn all the letters

and numbers

JOExHIGASHI posted...

and numbers

Nobody can learn ALL the numbers dude, they like, go on forever

Yes, no question. Every time I start to get bored I'd just remind myself that there's a big sack of money at the end with my name on it. Could buy a really nice house with a lot of land and build my dream recording studio. Would also be able to put a hefty sum aside for my daughter

Zareth posted...

Nobody can learn ALL the numbers dude, they like, go on forever

theres only ten

after that its just team ups of the original squad

Done

That's 1542 hours

So if I did this 10 hr a week I could get this done in 154 days which is less than half a year

Thats only 2yrs of watching it if you do 40hrs a week.

Ill take it.

Assuming you don't have to complete it in a very short period of time it would be pretty stupid not to take the deal.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

That's 1542 hours

So if I did this 10 hr a week I could get this done in 154 days which is less than half a year

Nooo it's way more than that.
Sesame Street is an hour long even with no commercials. It'll be 4,626 hours

if i can watch at my own pace, yes. I could watch like 10 episodes a day and knock it out in a year and a half

put it on x16 or higher....
done super fast

Krazy_Kirby posted...

put it on x16 or higher....
done super fast

Not allowed :P

Ferarri619 posted...

Not allowed :P

didn't say in opening, it's a loophole

Yes, I could do that. But, I would watch it in reverse. The new stuff is to corney with the claymation Burt and Erney. There jokes are not good. So I would keep the old stuff for the last to save the best.

I mean, if it was paid in installment as I completed it, that'd be a possibility since otherwise I'd have to forgo working for a few years. Otherwise I'd have to break it up over the course of maybe a decade or so.

Regardless, the payout for effort would be pretty good.

Ferarri619 posted...

Nooo it's way more than that.
Sesame Street is an hour long even with no commercials. It'll be 4,626 hours

So you're counting the credits? Plus doesn't PBS run in-house ads for other programming?

damn the jokes in a show made for 5 year olds arent good?

Ferarri619 posted...

Nooo it's way more than that.
Sesame Street is an hour long even with no commercials. It'll be 4,626 hours

In that case it'll take me about three years

I'd watch all the early 90's stuff for free, that was my shit back in the day

JOExHIGASHI posted...

That's 1542 hours

So if I did this 10 hr a week I could get this done in 154 days which is less than half a year

look at mr my math is better than yours over here

also the show is only 50 minutes long

it does have commercials.

I mean that is a shit ton of work for the payout.

IF you have enough money to support yourself while doing it, and you break it up into a normal work week of 40 hours (or you could like watch kids while doing it so you get paid now for that), then it's about 120 weeks of work at 40 hours a week.

Not horrid, you can pop that out it about 2 years, still have weekends off etc. And 1 mill a year is a pretty good paycheck. Not exactly a blast of a job, but I mean you can eat snacks etc while doing it.

So yeah, I'd say most people would do it. Heck even if you could only do it a few hours a day after work and on the weekend, and just popped out 20 hours a week total while living a normal life, you'd still finish it in 4 years and then retire.

hera posted...

also the show is only 50 minutes long

it does have commercials.

The early episodes wouldn't have had commercials since they were on public television so I'm not sure why they are only 54 minutes long.

because it literally still has commercials

like

pbs does have commercials for their own shit, and they do run them in the show

anyways it would take around 187 days if you watched it without doing literally anything else. you didn't get up, you didn't get a break, if it ran 24 hours a day, every single day

the show went to a half hour a while ago

that's about 230ish episodes , coupled with the 4000 whatever else, you're looking at that many hours because that's how that works i really do not know how that guy got a fourth but w/e moving on

then you just divide it by 24

for 2 mil ill watch every episode and do a write-up on every season

I'm sure I could do it if there's no time limit. My friend always has it on for her daughter, one of the songs called I Wonder, What If, Let's Try has been stuck in my head constantly. It's kinda catchy though

Kanatteru posted...

for 2 mil ill watch every episode and do a write-up on every season

This guy gets extra for his dedicated journalism.
So you can take the money from the articles you write. lol

If I can watch it in shifts and get done whenever I get done, then yeah, sure, maybe I would.

I've done shittier jobs for far worse pay. Sign me in.

hera posted...

pbs does have commercials for their own shit, and they do run them in the show

This.