Kevin Clash, the voice and puppeteer of everybody’s and nobody’s favorite Sesame Street character Elmo, decided to take matter’s into his own hands during a taping of a recent Sesame Street show. Clash, who just signed a 10-year contract extension with the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) realized the mistake he made by signing the contract extension.

 During the taping of one of the show’s scenes, Elmo was supposed to have a discussion with Oscar the Grouch about the very controversial “5 minute rule”, but instead decided to try and capture Elmo’s death on film. After Elmo dropped his corndog on the ground, Oscar look down and started to sing a song called, “Who cares, it’s still good, just eat it“, Clash made Elmo jump on top of one of the garbage cans, tie a pre-hung noose around Elmo’s neck, and started to rock back and forth to get the rusty can to knock over.

The intrigued and shocked video crew didn’t stop rolling the tape until about 15 seconds after Elmo’s legs started swinging from side to side.

Unfortunately for Kevin Clash, the head of CTW only gave Clash a slap on the hand and sent him to the corner for 5 minutes and made him apologize to Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird. Apparently, they also know that being Elmo for 10 more years is punishment enough for Mr. Clash.

In a statement, Clash said, “I am sick of doing that voice, Elmo not only annoys me, but even haunts me in my dreams at night. However, I understand that Elmo makes kids all over the world happy and he gives me a steady paycheck. I apologize for my actions. I just wish I had the balls to hang myself!”

All footage and media of this scene were destroyed.

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