The Desert Mermaid

I think Elmo's voice is what gets to me, specifically; there's a pitch to it that most actual children's voices don't quite hit that grates on my nerves super fast, and referring to himself in the third person drives me up a freaking WALL. He feels more like a caricature of a three-year-old, while Big Bird feels more like an actual child. I don't know how much of that is me and how much of that is the acting/voicing, but that's MY beef, anyway.