October 4, 2008 
..Because mine doesn’t. I’m not sure what it is, but 2 1/2 year old littleQ much prefers it when the colorful and unrealistic characters of today and yesterday’s children’s shows and cartoons stay safely away from him within the confines of the LCD TV screen.
A few weeks ago, I saw that Sesame Street Live: Elmo’s Green Thumb was set to perform at Nassau Coliseum here on Long Island, so I scooped up 3 tickets on Ticketmaster and patiently awaited the night of the performance so littleQ could be awestruck by Elmo’s live awesomeness.
Wow was I wrong. Maybe it was in the timing, because we did arrive about 15 minutes after the show began due to traffic, but once we sat in our seats and littleQ got a good look at the stage full of adult size stuffed-animal looking monsters he turned to me and with his brow furrowed pleaded quietly, “Go home?”
After appeasing him with a $6 one and half foot (yes, I said 1.5 ft) long hotdog and a similarly overpriced order of cheese drenched nachos, he stopped repeatedly asking to have the lights turned on so we could leave. During the second half of the 90 minute production, he even danced along to the upbeat music with the beetles and the bees and the Sesame Street regulars, but I had been anticipating that he’d be jumping up and down laughing and clapping.
Ah well. In retrospect I should have anticipated that, because although he loves Elmo on TV, Tickle Me Elmo with all his robotic giggles and jerky movements creeps him out. Maybe next year’s Sesame Street Live will fare better for littleQ.
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