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Aloysius Snuffleupagus (/ ˌ s n ʌ f əl ˈ ʌ p ə ɡ ə s /), more commonly known as Mr. Snuffleupagus or Snuffy for short, is one of the characters on Sesame Street, a PBS/HBO educational television program for young children.
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Since Mr. Snuffleupagus made his first appearance in the Season 3 premiere, the adults had thought that Mr. Snuffleupagus was just an imaginary friend of Big Bird's. Big Bird would often try to arrange for them to see Mr. Snuffleupagus, face-to-face, but Snuffy would always be gone by the time they finally chose to look at him. After years of not seeing him and many near-misses, and in a storyline that first kicked off the previous season in Episode 1966 (where some of the adults started to believe in Snuffy sight-unseen), the adults finally got to see Mr. Snuffleupagus for the first time in this episode.
In the documentary Sesame Street Unpaved, hosted by Sonia Manzano, Snuffy's performer, Martin P. Robinson, revealed that Snuffy was finally introduced to the main human cast mainly due to a string of high profile and sometimes graphic stories of pedophilia and sexual abuse of children on shows such as 60 Minutes and 20/20. The writers felt that by having the adults refuse to believe Big Bird despite the fact that he was telling the truth, they were scaring children into thinking that their parents would not believe them if they had been sexually abused and that they'd just be better off remaining silent. In addition, during Robinson's explanation, Loretta Long uttered the words "Bronx daycare," a reference to reports of sexual abuse at the PRACA Day Care Center in New York City's Bronx borough, as covered by area TV station WNBC.
In 1988, a book about the adults meeting Mr. Snuffleupagus, titled Meet Mr. Snuffleupagus, was released. However, in that book, they meet him when he takes a toaster to the Fix-It Shop to get it fixed. The sequence in which the cast meets Mr. Snuffleupagus was included in Stars and Street Forever, Sesame Street Unpaved, The Street We Live On, 40 Years of Sunny Days, and Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration. In the latter, the special's host, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is digitally added into the scene and states that he believed Big Bird the whole time.
A script for most of the street scenes was featured in Sesame Street Unpaved.
•The flashback montage in Scene 1 features clips from (in order of appearance) Episodes 1585, 1940, 1726, 1854, 1780, 1934, 1697, and 1705.
•This episode marks the debut of a revised, up-tempo version of the music that often accompanies Snuffy when he enters a scene. This also reflects a change in Snuffy's character, who doesn't quite do or say things as slowly as he used to from this point on.
1."The day Big Bird told CBC about his life on Sesame Street", CBC.ca, December 9, 2019.
•Mental Floss article on the episode
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Nov 24, 2020 · How some disturbing real-life news reports about child welfare forced Big Bird to reveal his "imaginary" friend to the residents of Sesame Street—and the world.
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Mr. Snuffleupagus is known for his slow, deliberate way of speaking and his friendly demeanor. In the early seasons of the show, Mr. Snuffleupagus was portrayed as Big Bird's imaginary friend, and none of the other characters on the show believed he existed because they had never seen him.
