Sesame Street Characters

Didn't you just love Sesame Street characters? I just adore them.

The colorful, funny characters were all such fun and they are still going strong after all these years.

My boys loved Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch and I loved to see them laugh at all the Sesame Street characters

I've so enjoyed putting this page together and gathering up all the wonderful pictures and interesting information.
The Best Sesame Street Characters

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Sesame Street Television Series

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment.

Sesame Street is well known for its Muppet characters created by Jim Henson. As of 2007, 4,160 episodes of the show have been produced over 38 seasons.

Sesame Street is one of the longest-running U.S. television shows in history.

Sesame Street is produced in the United States by the non-profit organization Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop (CTW), founded by Joan Ganz Cooney and Ralph Rogers. It premiered on November 10, 1969, on the National Educational Television (NET) network, and the following year it was moved to NET's replacement, the Public Broadcasting Service.

As a result of its positive influence, Sesame Street is one of the most highly regarded educational shows for children in the world.

No other television series has matched its level of international recognition and success. The original series has been televised in 120 countries, and more than 30 international versions have been produced, not including dubbed versions.

The series has received 109 Emmy Awards, more than any other television series. An estimated 77 million Americans have watched the series as children; millions more have watched around the world, as have their parents.

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The Sesame Street Characters

Sesame Street is known for its multicultural element and is inclusive in its casting, incorporating roles for disabled people, young people, senior citizens, Hispanic actors, Black actors, and others.

While some of the puppets look like people, others are animal or "monster" puppets of different sizes and colors.

This encourages children to believe that people come in all different shapes, sizes, and colors, and that no particular physical "type" is any better than another.

Jim Henson commented that "The only kids who can identify along racial lines with the Muppets have to be either green or orange."

In harmony with its multiculturalist perspective, the show pioneered the idea of occasionally inserting very basic Spanish words and phrases to help young children become acquainted with the concept of a foreign language, doing so almost three decades before Dora the Explorer made her debut on Nickelodeon.

Perhaps in response to the popularity of Dora, the recently revamped format gives Rosita, the bilingual muppet who "emigrated" in 1993 from the Mexican version of the show, more time in front of viewers, and also introduced the more formalized "Spanish Word of the Day" in every episode.

Each of the puppet characters has been designed to represent a specific stage or element of early childhood, and the scripts are written so that the character reflects the development level of children of that age.

This helps the show address not only the learning objectives of various age groups, but also the concerns, fears, and interests of children of different age levels.

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Sesame Street Cookie Monster Hooded Towel/ Wash Mitt/ Washcloths Set

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* A favorite friend from Sesame Street helps make bathtime extra-fun
* 100% polyester hood on an 80% cotton/20% polyester towel; appliqués and embroidery add detail
* Matching plush puppet bath mitt is perfect for playing tickle and singing songsabout cookies, of course
* Also comes with three knit terry 80% cotton/20% polyester washcloths
* Machine wash
* Blue Multicolor

The History Of Sesame Street

The shows format called for the humans to be intermixed with the segments of animation, live-action shorts and Muppets.

These segments were created to be like commercials-quick, catchy and memorable-and made the learning experience much more like fun. The format became a model for what is known today as edutainment-based programming.

CTW aired the program for test groups to determine if the revolutionary new format was likely to succeed.

Results showed that test watchers were entranced when the ad-like segments aired, especially those with the jovial puppets, but were remarkably less interested in the street scenes.

Psychologists warned CTW against a mixture of fantasy and reality elements, but producers soon decided to mix the elements.

A simple dose of cartoon-like characters lets the humans deliver messages without causing viewers to lose interest.

Prior to its national debut, a week of test episodes were seen in July 1969 on Philadelphia educational station WUHY-TV (now WYBE).

Sesame Street, along with several other Sesame Workshop-produced shows (such as The Electric Company, which was produced for six seasons, when Sesame Workshop was still known as CTW) were all taped in New York City. Originally they were shot at the Teletape Studios at West 81st Street and Broadway in Manhattan, but to make room for the incoming production of Search For Tomorrow, Sesame Street moved first to another Manhattan studio that was formerly WNET's Dick Cavett studio at 9th Ave. and 55th St in 1982.

With the bankruptcy of Teletapes parent company Reeves Entertainment in 1986, operation of Sesame Street's studio was taken over by Unitel Video NY in that year.

In 1992, the production moved again to Kaufman Astoria Studios in neighboring Queens where it is to this day.

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Sesame Street - Do the Alphabet

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I'm a home daycare provider. I take care of kids from ages 6 weeks to 5 yrs. The toddler and preschoolers really love this video. I love that it goes the whole alphabet 5 times so kids learn the order of the alphabet.
other great rescoures are:
Leap Frog - Letter Factory (2003) Great Phonics Video
Sesame Street - The Alphabet Jungle Game (1990)
and book
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Aladdin Picture Books) -- by Jr, Bill Martin

The Muppets

Big Bird is an 8 ft 2-inch (250cm) tall yellow bird who lives in a large nest on an abandoned lot which is located in 123 Sesame Street's garbage heap.

Big Bird is often visited by his friend Aloysius Snuffleupagus, who is a very large, brown creature, which looks very much like the prehistoric wooly mammoth, and is known more popularly by his nickname "Snuffy".

Various other Snuffleupaguses have appeared on the show from time to time, most notably Snuffy's little sister Alice and his unnamed mother.

Initially, Snuffy showed up when no one but Big Bird was around, leaving the rest of the neighborhood to think he was imaginary.

In the mid-1980s, however, Snuffy was revealed to be "real" and incorporated into the regular cast of the show.

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Oscar the Grouch lives with his pet worm Slimey and his pet elephants Fluffy, Sophie, Blitzen, and Schopenhauer in a garbage can in the heap.

He is always grumpy, and loves everything that other people hate, and vice versa- he loves rainy days, but hates cute puppies and kittens.

His favorite thing in the world is rubbish (trash, or garbage), hence his signature song, "I Love Trash", and consequently, he lives in a garbage can.

Bert and Ernie two of the most-recognized Muppets, are roommates who share the basement apartment of 123 Sesame Street, and regularly engage in comic routines which showcase their odd-couple personalities.

Ernie's flower box was once a hot spot for Twiddlebugs, a colorful family of insects.

Ernie is a fun-loving orange Muppet who is always ready to play a game, and is always trying, often in vain, to interest Bert in his latest idea for one.

Bert usually ends up grudgingly, or in the case of the "Feelings Game", unwittingly, joining in.

Ernie especially loves his Rubber Duckie, who is the subject of several of Ernie's songs. Bert's idea of having fun involves doing things which most people find boring, like playing with pigeons, and collecting paper clips and bottle caps.

The Bear family, which is identified as the bears of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, resides in Sesame Street.

This family, headed by Papa Bear and Mama Bear, welcomed their second child Curly Bear, and Baby Bear became a good friend of the monsters Telly and Zoe, Mexico-born Rosita, and the furry, red preschooler Elmo.

Elmo has his own segment near the end of each episode, in which viewers explore topics in Elmo's World.

New to Sesame Street is Abby Cadabby, a fairy-in-training who attends Storybook Community School with Baby Bear.

Grover's regular segment, Global Grover, follows the self-described "cute, furry monster" around the world as he explores local cultures and traditions.

Grover has had several notable roles over the years, often as a waiter or a superhero (Super Grover).

In the waiter sketches, Grover always serves the same customer- a blue Muppet with very little hair on his head. Grover always serves the customer inappropriate food, and he eventually loses his temper.

Cookie Monster fights with his conscience daily during Letter of the Day, as he tries to control his urges to eat the letters, shown as icing on cookies.

Prairie Dawn often attempts to help Cookie Monster refrain from eating the letters, but never succeeds and always leaves frazzled.

Count von Count has fewer problems during the Number of the Day segment, where he indulges in counting until the mystery number is revealed by his pipe organ.

He is usually known simply as "The Count". He has more songs than most of the other characters. They are usually catchy songs, such as "The Batty Bat", and "The First Day of School", in which he tells the story of how he soon settled in at school, because he enjoyed counting his fellow pupils.

Humphrey and Ingrid are a married couple who have a baby named Natasha, and they are the proprietors of the hotel known as The Furry Arms, which is located near the Sesame Street Subway station.

The hotel's bellhop, Benny Rabbit, tends to be easily irritated, but begrudgingly helps out. His sketch usually includes someone mistakenly referring to him as Bunny, which makes him very angry.

The Two-Headed Monster sounded out words coming together, and the Yip-Yip aliens, furry blue monsters with long, curly antennae, named after the only word in their vocabulary, discovered telephones and typewriters.

For two seasons, Googel, Narf, Mel and Phoebe hung out in the Monster's Clubhouse.

Kermit the Frog hosted the segment Sesame Street News Flash.

The newsflashes were often takes on popular fairy tales, although there was also one about the first ever day at school, in which Kermit assists the inexperienced caveman teacher, Mr. James, in his lesson about the letter "N". In other segments, Kermit would play straight man to the wacky antics of other Muppets.

Incidental characters include television personality Guy Smiley, who presented various game shows, such as "Beat The Time", and "Mystery Guest", construction workers Sully and Biff, the large Herry Monster (who does not know his own strength), and The Big Bad Wolf, who is not a terror to the Street. Forgetful Jones, a cowboy with a short-term memory disorder, rode his trusty Buster the Horse with his girlfriend Clementine, and Rodeo Rosie was an early cowgirl.

The Amazing Mumford tries his hardest to amaze with his magic, but his tricks always end up backfiring. "Sherlock Hemlock", was the self-proclaimed World's Greatest Detective, although he was actually rather hapless, and it was usually someone else, often his dog Watson, who solved the mystery.

Whenever he discovered a clue, he would say "Egad!". He had only one song, "X Marks The Spot"

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My favorite character was Mr. Snuffleupagus or Snuffy. Besides Sesame Street, I also loved to watch Mister Rogers Neighborhood. Please check out my lens: http://www.squidoo.com/MrRogersNeighborhood

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I need to find pictures of the beepers for an 18th birthday card - any ideas?!

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