Talk:Joe Raposo

"Diehard fans" comment
I don't know much about diehard fans of Sesame Street (although, like the rest of my generation, I was practically raised by Mr. Hooper). Is it really NPOV to say, as the article does at the moment, "Many diehard fans linked his death to the start of a constant shrinkage of the irreverence that originally helped Sesame Street's popularity"? Is this a widespread or notable opinion? Can we provide a source for it? If not, maybe it ought to go. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 21:21, 2 April 2006 (UTC)


 * This really should be sourced. And if there was a noticeable decline in the show's irreverence around that time, why wouldn't "diehard fans" link it to Jim Henson's death? Eric.d.dixon 07:22, 3 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I've removed the sentence; if anyone can find a source supporting it, feel free to reinsert. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 07:26, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Sense of Humor section
I removed the "Sense of Hunmor" section, not because the joke was off-color (and I admit I did laugh at the punchline), but because it seemed an unnecessarily long digression for an encyclopedia article. It would be in interesting in a book or full-length article on Raposo, but not in an encyclopedia entry. If people insist that an allusion to it remain, perhaps a sentence "Raposo was known for his bawdy sense of humor" and a footnote to the Schwartz book could be included. Really, a case could be made for eliminating the "Famous Friends" section as well, which also goes into minute detail and relies too heavily on Schwartz as a single source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.250.20.77 (talk) 18:34, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Needs sources
This article is in need of some reliable sources. I should just put the appropriate template here, but lack of reliable, third-party sources seems to be the case for most Sesame Street-related articles. It's not like there aren't enough. For example, here's a sweet article about Raposo and his wife Pat Collins from People in 1977:. Christine (talk) 12:29, 11 October 2010 (UTC)