Elmo's parents

I'm so not kidding. That's his dad and his mom. The Sesame Workshop produced a dvd to help military families talk to kids about deployment. I guess Elmo's dad is going overseas or something. I suppose it could be his mom, but his dad's is wearing a tracksuit...which means, um, nothing. My powers of deduction are pretty weak. My sister and I started discussing how a tan muppet and a red muppet could have produced Elmo, who is purely red. However, my sister thinks muppet genetics may be different than human genetics, which cracked me up.