Early Aug. 13, Sesame Street announced a surprising partnership with HBO that will give the premium cable network, known for graphic, graphic content, a whole lot of children's programming.
Sesame will be able to produce almost twice as much new content as previous seasons, and for the first time ever, make the show available free of charge to PBS and its member stations after a nine-month window.
It didn't take long for Twitter to weigh in on this turn of events.
HBO presents Sesame Street Walkers #MakeAKidShowSerious pic.twitter.com/kYtqHoXrf6
— Chris aka Fucktart (@clamgoblin) April 7, 2015
"a lighter, happier westeros this season on hbo" pic.twitter.com/jK5MachyNB
— darth™ (@darth) August 13, 2015
Yes, the clues to this HBO / Sesame Street partnership were subtle, but they were out there. pic.twitter.com/hPYOiFRGh1
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) August 13, 2015
sesame street on HBO finna be like pic.twitter.com/SYG2SLV7aW
— Tracy LaFway Clayton (@brokeymcpoverty) August 13, 2015
Big Bird's big @HBO welcome was pretty intense today. http://t.co/gC4kvfmRpF pic.twitter.com/Y3WMV3NFU7
— James West (@jameswest2010) August 13, 2015
There were lots of True Detective season 3 jokes.
#TrueDetectiveSeason3 pic.twitter.com/OCNkPntLua
— James Viscardi (@JimViscardi) August 13, 2015
Thanks, Internet.