I hear that he's an online-only character...for now. So at least those kids whose fathers have been incarcerated by The Man still have internet access.
I've never much cared for Sesame Street, despised it to be honest, and really dislike that I'm forced to fund it. I'm against government-run TV & radio on principle but if we're going to have it, would it have killed them to have made it into something halfway decent (Which SStreet ain't)?