Hat gets ru! ('Sesame Street' Wednesday)

It's uproarious when things gets ruined on TV.

Like on 'Seinfeld' when Poppie peed on the couch. Or on 'The Dukes Of Hazzard' when Flash chewed up a playing card. All that stuff got ru!

Utterly, completely, totally ruined!

Stuff even gets ru on 'Sesame Street'! Like in this sketch that aired in the '70s, in which a hat gets ru:



The prankster's name was Harvey Kneeslapper. This character was performed by Frank Oz, but he was discontinued because his voice was very hard on Oz's throat.

The blue Muppet whose hat is ruined though must be a total wimp. Most people would pummel ol' Harv if he crushed their hat like that. But the mustachioed blue Muppet just decided to take the abuse and run away.

Maybe he was an alumnus of my first high school, where they teach people not to fight back.