Sesame Street teaches kids more than maths with ‘House of Cards’ parody

We’re not sure kids will fully understand Sesame Street’s House of Cards parody — unless they’ve managed to figure out their parents’ Netflix account — but chances are, watching it will teach them more than just basic subtraction.

There’s also plenty to be learned about using double entendres to make points about political excess: “Some people say there’s too much pork in this town,” says Frank Underwolf as he embarks on his journey into the ‘White House of Bricks’. “I could not agree more.”

Other lessons, covering the perilous nature of power and how to use a dramatic monologue to full effect could be lifted wholesale from the show itself. The most important lesson, of course, is as old as the story of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs and concerns the strengths and weaknesses of different kinds of building material.