A Strand Apart

The Luckiest Nut in the World stars an animated barbershop quartet of nuts singing backup for a guitar-strumming peanut with a cowboy hat and a Texan drawl. It's a program that wouldn't look entirely out of place as filler between live-action segments on a children's program. But forget Sesame Street - these nuts are admonishing international institutions for unfair trade practices that prevent struggling Third World countries from catching up with the West.

July 1, 2003

The Luckiest Nut in the World stars an animated barbershop quartet of nuts singing backup for a guitar-strumming peanut with a cowboy hat and a Texan drawl. It's a program that wouldn't look entirely out of place as filler between live-action segments on a children's program. But forget Sesame Street - these nuts are admonishing international institutions for unfair trade practices that prevent struggling Third World countries from catching up with the West.