'True Mud' video, 'Sesame Street's 'True Blood' parody' is released - watch now!

09/23/2010 by Corinne Heller

The educational children's series Sesame Street spoofs HBO's adult-oriented fantasy series True Blood in a new segment called "True Mud", which features puppets resembling characters Sookie Stackhouse and her vampire lover Bill Compton.

In the clip, Compton's doppelganger asks Stackhouse's, a waitress, for "True Mud", a parody of the blood drink vampires consume in the original series to try and stop themselves from feeding on humans.

Stackhouse's puppet returns with a baked potato, much to his exasperation.

"Oh right," she says. "That's True Spud. Spud, mud, spud, mud - they sound so much the same. They rhyme! Guess I got confused."

"You ain't one of them Grouches, are you?" one of the bar customers asks Compton's doppelganger, mimicking the suspicion and prejudice many humans in the original series have for vampires, before he shows him his "True Dud" watch.

Compton's puppet becomes so annoyed he falls off his bar stool, prompting the customer to comment on his "True Thud".

Real life couple Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, who married in late August, portray Stackhouse and Compton on True Blood, which often features explicit sexual scenes and nudity. The show recently ended its third season (check out a recap of the finale of True Blood).

Sesame Workshop, which produces Sesame Street, recently said a segment featuring pop singer Katy Perry trying to coax Elmo to play with her will not air during the show's upcoming 41st season because viewers of a promotional online video of it complained.

In the video, Perry, a 25-year-old California singer who shot to fame with the 2008 pop hit "I Kissed a Girl", dons a green dress that shows her cleavage and a veil.

Sesame Street's 41st season returns on September 27.The show has often featured celebrities, even those more popular among adults, such as rock singers Alice Cooper and Gene Simmons of KISS, Sopranos actor James Gandolfini and rapper Ice-T, and parodied more mature shows such as Twin Peaks.

Check out the "True Mud" clip below, courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter: