"I Am What I Am" on SESAME STREET

Cookie Monster is singing "Me Am What Me Am" on Sesame Street which sounds like a parody of "I Am What I Am" from LA CAGE. Mario Lopez is the host of Extra Sesame Street and catches Cookie eating vegetables and continues to report, while taking it out of context, and is dubbed the Veggie Monster. Cookie says that he is not the Veggie Monster even though he likes vegetables. Mario says what's wrong with begin the Veggie Monster and Cookies replies "it's not who me am", thus breaking out into song.

Just thought you'd like to know. lol.

It's cool how this song of affirmation from an "adult" musical has become so mainstream that it becomes a kiddy song. The only other time I can think of that something similar has happened in recent years is the Village People's "YMCA" becoming a favorite at Bar Mitzvahs. It also happened in ancient times when a song about the dead victims of the bubonic plague became a kiddy favorite -- "Ring around the Rosy."