If you followed me on Twitter, and happened to be logged in early this morning, you would have seen me post “surreal experience of the day: Dr. Elmo playing Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer……with The Roots…”

The Roots of course is a Grammy Award-winning group that is currently serving as the house band for NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. This week the show’s musical guests are apparently all Christmas themed, and thus they played with Dr. Elmo.

When I was growing up, Dr. Elmo was a big part of our Christmas routine. We had two of his holiday CDs, which feature such songs as Percy the Puny Poinsettia, Grandma’s Killer Fruitcake and my favorite, Grandpa’s Gonna Sue the Pants off of Santa.

They’re all songs in the same vein as the well-known Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, and work well if you want a break from Josh Groban singing O Holy Night. Of course once you play the Dr. Elmo CD, the situation reverses and you’re ready for a round of Groban.

But imagine my surprise when I sent that tweet last night, and almost immediately Dr. Elmo started following me on Twitter.

(Quick notes for the non-Twitter users. “Following” someone is kind of like being their Facebook friend — you see the things they post. RT — which you’ll see in a second — is basically forwarding a message someone has posted, so that all the people who follow you can see it.)

Dr. Elmo replied to my message asking if I liked the performance. My initial post was more that it was a strange pairing, considering The Roots a few weeks ago were rocking out with Bruce Springsteen and recently released an album with John Legend.

I sent him a reply, which he then re-tweeted:

My 10-year-old self would never have imagined that series of events. Of course, if 10-year-old me imagined Twitter I would have been a super genius Internet pioneer in 1993.