I watch a lot of vintage Sesame Street because I have a one year old. One of the things I have noticed is how the design of muppets has changed over the years. The clips from my youth, the videos made in the 70s and 80s, show off some raggedy looking puppets. It is as if every single character is based off a once or future junkie. There are the anonymous blue and green figures given square hipster sunglasses, with goatees and berets and turtlenecks. There are the blowsy female muppets with stringy blonde hair. So many heavy dark eyebrows. And Toots the Owl, who looks like a 65 year old jazz man who only recently beat the horse but still has the taste for sugar it causes.
Every neighborhood has a Sparky. I felt this deeply.