Sesame Street (1969– )

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On a special inner city street, the inhabitants, both human and puppet, teach preschool subjects with comedy, cartoons, games and songs.

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Cast

Series cast summary:
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 Big Bird (169 episodes, 1969-2013)
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 Bert (164 episodes, 1969-2013)
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 Herry Monster (150 episodes, 1970-2013)
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 Ernie (134 episodes, 1969-1993)
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 Maria (128 episodes, 1971-2013)
Bob McGrath ...
 Bob (119 episodes, 1969-2012)
Martin P. Robinson ...
 Telly Monster (116 episodes, 1982-2013)
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 Gordon (115 episodes, 1974-2012)
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 Elmo (114 episodes, 1982-2013)
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 Luis (100 episodes, 1971-2012)
Loretta Long ...
 Susan (95 episodes, 1969-2012)
Fran Brill ...
 Prairie Dawn (81 episodes, 1970-2012)
Richard Hunt ...
 Two-Headed Monster (79 episodes, 1974-1993)
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Storyline

The setting is in a small street in a city where children and furry puppet monsters learn about numbers, the alphabet and other pre-school subjects taught in commercial spots, songs and games. Written by Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>

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Sesame Street Unpaved  »

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Trivia

On August 14, 2012 Sesame Street announced it is hold a casting call on August 20 for a new Hispanic character for the show's 44th season. See more »

Goofs

During the final stanza of the Anything Muppets' song "J Friends", when the four Muppets jump up at the line "Let's jump with Jane", the hair and forehead of Muppet performer Frank Oz are briefly visible at the bottom of the screen. See more »

Quotes

Cookie Monster: [as Alistair Cookie, host of Monsterpiece Theatre] Today, we bring you greatest play in English language: Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. It no get classier than this.
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Crazy Credits

Most episodes aired from 1969 to the 2000s do not have complete closing credits; ending credits usually appeared at the end of the Friday installment, or when another weekday episode ran short. See more »

Connections

Referenced in The Spoony Experiment: Warrior #4 (2011)
Linkara sings "one of these things is not like the other..." See more »

Soundtracks

"A NEW WAY TO WALK"
Written by Mark Saltzman and Joe Raposo
Performed by The Oinker Sisters
1986 Sesame Street Records, Instruct. Children's Music, Inc. (ASCAP)
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Classic show, but lowering it's standards
2 January 2001 | by (South Portland, ME) – See all my reviews

This is a children's television classic. It's educational and entertaining, and not painful for parents to watch with their kids. At least it never used to be. It used to be quite edgy, high-brow, very adult-accessible. It's been dumbed down considerably over the years. This is a result of playing to lower age-groups, shorter attention spans, and competing with the run-of-the-mill trash in the kid's TV arena.

The adults have virtually vanished, the muppets have gotten annoying (I'm sure we're all familiar with Elmo by now), the show has shrunk to 40 minutes, the last 20 being a new show-within-a-show known as "Elmo's World". As if the 20 minutes of Elmo aren't enough, even more grating is that there are only about 10-20 episodes of Elmo's World, yet it runs every day! And rather than dealing with reading, writing, counting, nature, social skills, Elmo's World revolves around things like balls, puppies, hair, etc. Yes, this is not your parent's Sesame Street, or probably even the Sesame Street you grew up with. It's a more modern, simple, conformist Street that has considerably less charm but at least more educational value than the other, more commercial stuff out there.

The only reason to turn your kids on to television is rapidly shrinking into another Barney.


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