Japanese Sesame Street video

[geri_chan]

I thought we could all do with a little cheering up these days, so I wanted to share this Sesame Street video that really made me smile. It's Elmo and Cookie Monster doing a parody of the PPAP (Pen Pineapple Apple Pen) song that's gone viral. (They've changed it to CBCC, or Cookie-Butter-Choco-Cookie), and they have PPAP singer Pika-Taro helping them with the dance moves. It's really adorable, and it is kind of bizarre but totally cute to hear Elmo and Cookie Monster speaking Japanese but still sounding exactly like the US versions of the characters.

Various versions of the video can also be found on YouTube, but since the Arama version has subtitles, I've linked to that blog post.