#roosevelt franklin

[jimhenson-themuppetmaster]

Who Remembers Franklin Roosevelt and his Mom ?

Fun Fact: They were voiced by Cast Members Loretta Long and Matt Robimson.

[muppette]

Pride parade on Sesame Street!

[doyouknowthischaracter]

DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?

[squashni]

I painted a roosevelt franklin for class once.

[astronoglow]

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

roosevelt franklin

[wannabesucessful]

Sesame Street Fairy Tale Calendar 1977 Pt. 1

[ariel-seagull-wings]

Roosevelt Franklin for Muppet character ask game?

@softlytowardthesun @princesssarisa

Favorite Thing About Them: That he is a teacher who uses music and storytelling to work with his students and classmates.

Least Favorite Thing About Them: Not a fan of his name being an inversion of president Franklin Roosevelt's name.

Three Things I Have In Common With Them:

*I love blues and soul music;

*I have dark hair and dark eyes;

*I believe in teaching new things to people trough art;

Three Things I Don't Have In Common With Them:

*I'm not from the U.S;

*I'm not made of magenta pink fabric;

*I don't have his singing talent;

Favorite Line: “I heard someone call me by both my names. My first name first and my last name second.”

brOTP: Same Sound Brown.

OTP: Prairie Dawn.

nOTP: His Mom.

Random Headcanon: He goes to become the leader of the teacher's union.

Unpopular Opinion: He was a good character for the beggining of the series, but unless its a cameo, I don't think he needs to return to the main cast, because the Workshop got better in developing african american muppets in a less raw way.

Song I Associate With Them:

Alphabet

Roosevelt Franklin Counts

Favorite Picture of Them:

[frogtablestudios]

roosevelt franklin from sesame street

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

[reality-detective]

[astronoglow]

Artwork by Max Goudis

[thoughtkick]

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[starlight-tequila]

I'm probably extremely right and extremely wrong