Can You Tell Them How To Get, How To Get To The Unemployment Line?

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1... 2... 3... Sixty-five layoffs, but The Count probably won't follow this one up with his signature laugh. The last street you thought you would see the repo-man on is the next one he might be hitting. The producers of "Sesame Street" said they have to cut their workforce by 20% because of the recession. Could the conversation wherein you fire Elmo?

It would be a hard conversation to have with any plush character, but at least one of them has to go. If you had to kick one of them off the street, who would you choose?

Personally, I would probably kick Bert and Ernie to the curb. I can't remember a single thing I learned from either one of them except that Ernie loved his rubber duckie (in a totally platonic way, of course) and Bert was more of a neat freak than my Mom. On that note, did Big Bird ever really teach me anything either? No, not really... Now that I think about it, maybe they should just scrap the whole show and put "The Electric Company" back on.