Viewer Gender Confusion/Puppet Shows

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Examples of Viewer Gender Confusion in Puppet Shows include:

  • Big Bird from Sesame Street is a boy?
    • This may be because of his original voice actor's Gender Blender Name. Yes, Carroll Spinney is male.
    • The Dutch version of Sesame Street features a blue Big Bird called Pino, who started out being played by a man. When he retired a woman got the role, there was actually some debate among the creators about whether they should make the bird a pink girl and rename her Pina. In the end they chose gender confusion over gender bending.
    • The German version once got a snail called "Fienchen".[1] Fienchen started out being male, but due to his "cute" name and high pitched voice, he caused so much gender confusion, they actually changed him into a girl.
      • That's the one case where gender confusion would be appropriate. Snails are hermaphrodites.
  1. ↑ "chen" is a German diminutive -- i.e. literally means little/small, can be used in nicknames as an expression of endearment
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