Sesame Street Characters
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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.
I hope you enjoy it too!
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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.
Oscar The Grouch
The grouchiest Sesame Street character of them all
The producers then went to work to change Oscar the Grouch's color. The first color that they came up with was orange. Oscar was orange for almost the entire first month of taping. Then one day, someone came up with the idea of changing his color to green. This idea for the color of Oscar is what we have grown up with.
What was the Inspiration for Oscar? Jim Henson and a few other workers from the show used to go to a local diner in Manhattan called Oscar's Tavern. A waiter there that usually waited on the group was so grouchy everyday that he would ruin the mood of the patrons. Many of Oscar the Grouch's famous sayings came from this waiter.
Why is Oscar a Grouch? Oscar is a bit of an antisocial creature. The term, grouch, does not necessarily just refer to his demeanor, but it is also his species. Grouches prefer to live around garbage, as it is their favorite thing in the world. The producers of the show created this allusion in an attempt to show that grouchy people belong in the garbage. This idea has stuck with many children over the years.
What is in the Can? In Oscar the Grouch's can, he keeps his pet worm, Slimey, and his pet elephant, Fluffy. He keeps a strange orange creature that is actually considered to be the original Oscar puppet.
Sesame Street DVD's
So Many Sesame Street DVDs, you will have a hard time picking your favorite
Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
With over 5 hours of iconic moments, favorite song more...1 point
Sesame Street - Learning About Numbers
Learn to Count with The Count! Ah Ah Ah AH!1 point
Count It Higher
Learn to count higher withThe count, Ernie, and Bi more...1 point
Best of Elmo's World DVD Collection
Elmo's World: Birthdays Games & MoreJoin Sesam more...0 points
Sesame Street - Old School, Vol. 1 (1969-1974)
Do you remember how to get to Sesame Street? Reliv more...0 points
Sesame Street: Vol. 2 - Old School (1974-1979)
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Sesame Street - TV Episode Fun Pack, Vol. 1
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Sesame Street - Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
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Sesame Street: Abby in Wonderland
Sesame Street's newest muppet, fairy Abby Cadabby, more...0 points
Sesame Songs - Sing Yourself Silly!
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Elmo's Christmas Countdown
Uh-oh, Christmas is in trouble! When the ten numbe more...0 points
Aloysius Snuffleupagus a.k.a Snuffy
The Hard to Meet Sesame St. Character
Every chance of meeting him has always been a near-miss encounter, making him seem invisible to humans. Mr. Snuffleupagus is a Muppet character created as a woolly mammoth without two visible ears or tusks, and with some brown hair, a nose that drags on the ground as he walks and also a long thick tail that is pointed. He is actually 4 years old and was born on the 19th of August. He lives in a cave outside of Sesame Street with his family. He was actually a mammoth who loves to eat spaghetti and cabbage, and loves to drink sassafras tea. He is one of the most adored characters in the show and gives it a bit of humor and creative fun among its kiddie audience.
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.
Who is Abby Cadabby?
Learn about Sesame Street Character Abby Cadabby
She was only a three year old fairy under training when she moves to the Sesame Street along with her wand. She is a very inquisitive little fairy who loves to pop in and out of thin air, and turn things into pumpkins. She is loves learning some basic skills like counting and drawing letters with crayons. She is a cute and adorable character that always uses her favorite phrase, "That's so magical". She belongs to a land of fairies and a magical land, which is almost always appealing to little children as they have fun observing and learning simple things from her.
Sesame Street Plush Toys
Gund Sesame Street 13-Inch Elmo
This soft, yet durable, plush Elmo doll by Gund is baby safe and made with quality. It stands 13" tall and is surface washable. Not only is this a great gift, it is a collectors item as well.1 point
Fisher-Price T.M.X. Tickle Me Elmo
T.M.X. Elmo is here - did you know that T.M.X. stands for Tickle Me Tenth Anniversary?
He's up, he's down, he rolls around and he giggles endlessly. Tickle Me Elmo has never giggled and moved around so much. Elmo's impressive automatic stand up action keeps you going while he continues to giggle and say, "I got tickled." You can't help but laugh right along with him.
He has three modes of giggle action - Press his foot or belly and hear him say, "You tick...
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Gund Sesame Street Abby Cadabby
Abby Cadabby is an inquisitive, 3-year-old, fairy-in-training who has just moved to Sesame Street from Fairyside, Queens. The daughter of a Fairy Godmother, she is learning magic but is not quite proficient yet and has a propensity for turning things into pumpkins with her "training wand."
Abby loves to practice her magic and rhyming, but what she finds truly amazing and magical is what she discovers on Sesame Street, such as learning to count, drawing a let...
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Fisher-Price Sesame Street Classic Plush Ernie
Soft & Cuddly. Styled in his classic furry look, this soft friend makes a perfect huggable pal. Ernie is approximately 14 inches in height.1 point
Fisher-Price T.M.X. Tickle Me Extreme Cookie Monster
Giggles are impossible to resist with the popular "Tickle Me" pals. Touch their bellies to send them into uncontrollable fits of laughter accompanied by funny phrases.
Press Cookie Monster's belly and watch him roll around the floor while laughing and blurting out hilarious comments -- then watch your preschooler do the same! Requires 4 "AA" batteries, not included. Measures 11" tall.
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TMX eXtra Special Edition
Elmo is back and more ticklish then ever, and he's laughing like he's never laughed before! T.M.X. Elmo eXtra Special Edition features all the tickling and giggling fun of the original T.M.X. Elmo, plus even moreextra-special fun. This new Elmo is packed with hidden silly surprises that can only be discovered when kids play, pose and tickle Elmo in the right sequence. The key is to find the right combination of movements to activate the fun. And, we will provide clues to help...0 points
Gund Sesame Street 14" Grover
Soft and cuddly, the Baby Gund Sesame Street 14 inch Grover is ideal for baby to snuggle up with.0 points
Gund Sesame Street Big Bird 14" Plush
Sesame Street Big Bird is 14" of cuddly happiness.0 points
40 Years of Your Favorite Sesame Street Characters on DVD
Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
Amazon Price: $19.80 (as of 02/16/2012)
List Price: $29.93
If there was a person raised on Sesame Street, it was me. I was 2 years old when I got to watch Sesame Street for the first time. I don't recall much before the age of 4 but I do recall Sesame Street and my favorite characters.
I love sharing songs I remember with my kids. They were surprised at all the songs I knew. What I also liked and appreciated was how fast Sesame Street moves along. Back in the 70's the colors weren't as vivid the effects not as eye catching but this DVD is fast paced. Basic Sesame Street logic, keep things moving and colorful and kids will watch.
The set also comes with a book full of colorful photos and stories about the inception of Sesame Street and behind the scenes which were really fun to see.
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The Count! From Sesame Street!
Whether he's at home in his castle, talking with his friends, or hobnobbing with celebrities, the Count can always find some items that really need to be counted. He also enjoys singing about numbers while sporting his turned-up collar and monocle. An impressive crack of thunder and flash of lightning always accompany the number-friendly vampire's counting, and then his trademark laugh rings out. This is one clever count. Ah-ah-ah!
Big Bird!
The Most Famous of All Sesame Street Characters
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.
More About The Sesame Street Characters
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"
Sesame Street Pictures
How people enjoy the Sesame Street characters
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.
Sesame Street - Do the Alphabet
Sesame Street - Do the Alphabet
Amazon Price: $6.39 (as of 02/16/2012)
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
Sesame Street Elmo Live Encore
Fisher-Price Elmo Live Encore
Amazon Price: $219.95 (as of 02/17/2012)
* Encore! Encore! Now Elmo Live by Fisher-Price does even more!
* This almost life-like furry friend still has all of the magic of the original Elmo Live but now he's full of new surprises!
* Elmo will tell new jokes, stories, songs and will even try some funny tongue twisters!
* Just squeeze his nose, or press his tummy, back and toes and hell come to life talking, waving his arms, sitting, standing and singing!
Sesame Street Collectibles
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Edutopia
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- Great lens, Sesame Street has been a big part of the US zeitgeist and deserves to stay there.
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- Big Bird Rocks.
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Nov 29, 2011 @ 8:31 pm | delete
- Love this lens... it make me hum "come and play, everything's a-okay..."
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dvdmoviereviews
Nov 25, 2011 @ 3:52 pm | delete
- Great lens. I live in the UK and Sesame Street taught me to count and write. Should be part of the school timetable.
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babyandme
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- Amazing lens! I love Sesame Street! Definitely a thumbs up! :)
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- I need to bring my 3 yr old and 6 yr old to this site, they'd love this, I'll have to do just that! earned a 'thumbs up' from this reader, thank you.
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TransplantedSoul
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- It's amazing what as big part of our lives these furry guys have become.
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- The Count was my favorite :)
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- i like sesame street
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- Truly educational Lens indeed. I just finished creating a Lens on Let's Rock Elmo and was surfing for more information on the Sesame Street Characters. Two Thumbs Up for your superb effort my friend.
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- Don't forget about Grover, he is the funniest with his mistakes
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allcutestuff Aug 14, 2011 @ 11:46 am | delete
- wonderful lens. I love cookie monster the most.
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- My kids grew up watching Sesame Street so this lens takes me down memory lane. Big Bird was one of their favorite characters.
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- Oh, Cookie Monster- what a darling!
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- A great trip down memory lane. I guess it is still cool since Katy Perry even cameos it.
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- I love the video with Elmo and Katy Perry!
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- Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
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- it's a great lens, is it?
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- Amazing lens. well done. It sure brings back some memories!
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grandma_deal
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- We use the characters' names a lot in our family. When the kids start eating cookies - they are the Cookie Monster. My Chihuahua with her short snout snuffles a lot, so she is nicknamed Snuffelupagus. Loved this lens.
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