As a very young child, one of my favorite books was There is a Monster at the End of this Book. It was a delightful piece of silliness, and I read and re-read it countless times, always in Grover’s voice. When my son was born, it was one of the first books I bought (my copy had pretty much deteriorated from all that reading) to read to him. It was a wonderful, terrible mistake, as reading in the Grover voice each night made him laugh and wrecked my throat for the rest of the evening.
So yesterday afternoon, as I was reading through Twitter, I saw this appear:
There is a MONSTER at the end of this Twitter conversation. http://t.co/h9CnQ2qu—
Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) January 30, 2013
What followed was, by any measure epic, as Grover continued to tweet:
Grover: WHAT DID THAT SAY?—
Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) January 30, 2013
Grover: That tweet, did it say there was a MONSTER at the end of it?—
Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) January 30, 2013
Grover: It did? Well, please do not retweet that tweet!—
Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) January 30, 2013
Grover: YOU RETWEETED THE TWEET!—
Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) January 30, 2013
Grover: AAAAH!! http://t.co/TDAoM1R6—
Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) January 30, 2013
Later, Wil Wheaton was pulled in on the fun:
Grover: AAAAAAAAAH @WILW WHY DID YOU RETWEET THAT? http://t.co/qKX6Sd5z—
Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) January 30, 2013
@sesamestreet @wilw DUUUUUUUUDE!!!!!!!!!! THAT WAS GROVER!!!!!!!!!!! So. Cool.—
Jeri Ryan (@JeriLRyan) January 30, 2013
@JeriLRyan @sesamestreet I KNOW RIGHT—
Wil Wheaton (@wilw) January 30, 2013
To see the rest of the the posts, you can look over at the Sesame Street twitter feed. Between moments like this and astronaut Chris Hadfield’s amazing photos from space, I really don’t know how I get anything done.
Great use of social media. That’s Sesame Street for the win.