[blackbart.223]

"I have a really dumb question: why can't Big Bird and Clifford, etc., PAY THE BILLS?"

Because they don't have the ratings to do so. Plus no one with a brain gives a shit about them anyway.

[Howlin]

So you all are basically saying that if the Bird and the Dog didn't have PBS, they wouldn't be popular?

Well, then, if that's the case, why doesn't PBS own the toys and pay that $46 million from that?