Sesame Street

SESAME STREET: The iconic kids' program turned the big 4-0. The doctor told the Cookie Monster to start cutting back on his sugar. ...

By Danny Gallagher Poor Oscar the Grouch. Not even PBS' ombudsman will cut him a break. No wonder he's so grouchy. Well that and he lives in a garbage can. That would make me more than a little perturbed. I was shocked when I saw it. Oscar the Grouch has a frigging girlfriend?!?

By Jen Carlson If you want to join in on the fun, there's a Sesame Street special exhibit about to open at the Brooklyn Library's Central Libary (on November 14th). They'll have limited edition Elmo library cards, and say they've collaborated with the Jim Henson Legacy for the three-month multi-facete...

And while the script sent from Sesame Workshop's public relations' team to FoxNews.com read “Pox,” even the PBS ombudsman Michael Getler said he thought he ... Oscar the Grouch Makes Google Sesame Street Logo FilthyAssociated Content

By brokeymcpoverty 5.  ‘Rubber Ducky’ – Ernie - adulthood taints everything.  in listening to this as a 27 year old, i felt some kinda way hearin Ernie sing about findin somethin ’short and yellow and chubby’ in the tub.  :-/ 4.  ‘C is for Cookie’ – Cookie Monster

By chernikoffj To help celebrate the Sesame Street’s 40th birthday, we thought we’d share 13 characters we adore. Enjoy our selections and add some of your own below! (We didn’t want to separate the best friends who are seldom seen apart, so Burt and Ernie are together.)

By chernikoffj Oscar the Grouch – This bad boy of Sesame Street who seems to have a permanent case of the Mondays is mean, lives in a pig sty and doesn’t give a hoot – he loves trash! Grover – He’s neurotic, over the top and he sometimes transforms into a bumbling superhero (Super Grover!) but that doesn’t sto...

You're looking at Kami, a Muppet that's part of the South African Sesame Street where the AIDS crisis has left so many orphans living with the disease. ...

Sesame Street Muppet and fairy-in-training Abby Cadabby also amused the crowd with her confusion over her boss' award, believing at first that it was the ... KIDS and Fashion Delivers Annual Gala Surpasses Goal, $1.15 Million Raised ...SYS-CON Media (press release) all 5 news articles »

hellomagazine.com Since Barbara Bush, Sesame Street has kept the tradition of having the first lady as a guest on the show. Helping celebrate Sesame Street's anniversary, ... Michelle Obama to host celeb cookery showIndia Business Blog (blog) all 10 news articles »

The listTop 10 "Sesame Street" character searches on Yahoo over the past 60 days. The PBS educational institution turns 40 on Tuesday, an event best ...

Sesame Workshop Awarded Grant From MetLife Foundation to Promote Healthy Habits Utilizing the Muppets of Sesame Street New Healthy Habits for Life material ... and more »

The left screen is for Sesame Street character Elmo and the right screen features a "custom GUI video conferencing application built with PyQT and the ...

By noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Roe) This week, I’m preparing for the beginning of Sesame Street’s 40th season next week by watching old Sesame Street anniversary specials. Yesterday I watched the 10th anniversary special A Walking Tour of Sesame Street, and today I’m watching 1989’s Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting.

By Greg(noreply@blogger.com) Sesame Street will celebrate its lankmark 40th anniversary next Tuesday. To promote the kick-off of show's big 40th season, the Muppets of Sesame Street will visit their friend on late night television to plug the show and celebrate the occasion.

By Greg(noreply@blogger.com) Just in time for Sesame Street's big 40th anniversary, KOCH Records and Sesame Workshop are proud to present the Sesame Street: Old School - Volume 1 music collection, a collectible reissuing of three early Sesame Street albums. This new CD collection features three classic albums - "Th...

By noreply@blogger.com (Joe Hennes) Now, to preface, this is not a show where Sesame Workshop has shipped puppets off to a regional theatre and entrusted locals to bring the classic characters to life with little to no puppetry experience. Instead, for the first time ever, actors are being allowed to professionally portray...

By noreply@blogger.com (Greg) For nearly 40 years, Sesame Workshop and our beloved Sesame Street Muppets have addressed educational and community needs through the creative use of media. We have never shied away from delving into deep and complex issues and finding accessible and age appropriate ways to talk about t...

By noreply@blogger.com (Greg) Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, and others Muppets from the cast of Sesame Street will be on hand to celebrate the special occasion. The Muppets will perform a musical medley of patriotic favorites as well as classic songs from their iconic children's television series.

 GA “Bert and Ernie want to be forest rangers, Cookie Monster wants to be a firefighter, Grover wants to be a police officer and Elmo wants to be anything and everything,” Ebel said. The Muppets perform in the costume of the job they want and learn from ...

By noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Roe) With so few episodes of Sesame Street produced these days, these direct-to-video specials are like extra bonus episodes, and this one isn’t about to waste any of its running time... There are no opening credits, just the title, and then boom!, we’re on Sesame Street, where Elmo and Abby Cada...

Sesame Street's" Gordon and Elmo are spreading the word about healthy habits to protect families from the H1N1 flu virus. In a new public service campaign from the Department of Health & Human Services, the Ad Council and Sesame Workshop, Elmo and ...

By noreply@blogger.com (Joe Hennes) Sesame Street is nominated for New Approaches - Daytime Children's. I have no idea what constitutes a "New Approach", so I'm gonna assume that Sesame will win, if only because it's freaking Sesame Street. Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition? Yeah, Sesame Street.

 IA By Rob Cline CEDAR RAPIDS—The marketing folks for the “Sesame Street Live” shows have clearly concluded that Elmo is their marquee Muppet. As we were driving home from “Sesame Street Live: When Elmo Grows Up,” I suggested to my wife that this is ...

By SunnyChanel This is the best album cover, ever! The 1978 release of Sesame Street Fever features disco inspired tunes by the cast of Sesame Street. The highlight is for sure Sesame Street Fever featuring Robin Gibb, The Count, Big Bird, Ernie and the Cookie Monster. Other tunes feature the vocal stylin...

 WA From Sesame Street to Fraggle Rock to the variety show starring Muppets, Henson fans have enjoyed his unique kind of entertainment for nearly five decades. Falk, who says she was a big fan of The Muppet Show, is one of the few who have been able to ...

 OH Turning the corner from Sesame Street toward its downscale intersection with Avenue Q, two-thirds of the characters are Muppet-like puppets, operated in full view by the actors. Occasional videos parse words and ideas, although their meanings are not ...

By Greg(noreply@blogger.com) Since its 1969 debut, Sesame Street has helped entertain and educate audiences around the world. In the United States alone, approximately 8-million people tune in to visit the street each week. Sesame Street is now entering its landmark 40th season, set to debut on PBS in November 2009.

By texas buddha Meanwhile on a cultural level the characters of the show were used for predictive programming of the culture to accept the cultural problems that we as a society are only now beginning to realize exist. For example, Cookie Monster’s character telescoped our nation’s diabetes and obesit...

By Elmo Live Guide I remember when Elmo’s World became a regular segment on Sesame Street. It was huge for my family. I actually enjoyed sitting down with my two year old daughter and watching Elmo learn about something new every segment. ...

By Julie Wolfson Elmo: Elmo loves wasabi. That's why Elmo has no eyelids. Elmo: Elmo is scared when he gets a cold. Elmo: No Elmo: Elmo didn't take it personally. Elmo: No. Elmo: Well, Abby, you know more than Elmo! Elmo: Gonpachi! Elmo: And scones? Elmo: Where is it?! Elmo: We love LA.

By Lenore Skenazy Only Oscar the Grouch seems to have escaped the current crisis unscathed, for reasons that are, in retrospect, obvious: He avoided the real estate bubble by residing in a garbage can. As in the rest of the world, these are not such sunny days on Sesame Street. Bert is furious that Ernie insist...

By noreply@blogger.com (Joe Hennes) The CD contains music from Sesamstraat (The Netherlands), Takalani Sesame (South Africa), Zhima Jie (China), 5 rue Sesame (France), Ulitsa Sezam (Russia), Plaza Sesamo (Mexico), Galli Galli Sim Sim (India), Shara’a Simsim (Palestine), Rechov Sumsum (Israel), Kilimani Sesame (Ta...

By noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Roe) Ryan: So, fellow Tough Pig Anthony, there certainly are a lot of great Sesame Street songs, aren't there? Anthony: I agree. And as you say, it's an essential ingredient in the Muppet recipe, not just the Sesame Street one. The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, Bear in the Big Blue House - all of them w...

By noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Roe) Telly is by far the most underrated Sesame Street Muppet. I mean, the dude can't catch a break. He's been a major Sesame regular for decades now, but he always gets ignored when it comes to merchandise, and no kid ever names him as his or her favorite character. Telly is the middle child of the Ses...

By noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Roe) There are so many great Sesame Street characters that it's impossible for all of them to interact with each other. Which is why it's pretty exciting to see this Snuffy/Ernie team-up. Those guys are usually seen in the company of Big Bird and Bert, respectively, which just happens to be what t...

By Brett Singer 1.    Sesame Street Fever/Disco: these were both brilliant records – and they were records, the vinyl kind; as far as I know neither one has been released on CD. The first, Sesame Street Fever, featured Grover in a white John Travolta jacket on the cover, and included Bee Gee-ized versions o...

 OH - In 1969, Henson joined the children’s television program Sesame Street and the Muppets became a household name. Henson wanted to branch out and entertain ...

Jim Henson (the creator of the Muppets and voices for Kermit the Frog, Ernie from Sesame Street, and more) shows viewers the wide variety of puppets used around the world and he even shows you how to make your own puppet. ...

By saraknee A new artist will be hanging out with the furry and feathered friends. However, she's a wonderful artist, and she'll be singing one of her largest singles. In fact, if you don't like under a rock, you've probably heard it. Don't know whom I am talking about? Think iPod.

By Simone Snaith Last week I went to see Jim Henson's Commercials and Experiments at the Silent Movie Theater on Fairfax. It was with high hopes because Henson has always been a hero of mine, having created several of my favorite movies and TV shows (Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Fraggle Rock, The Muppet Show &a...

By Joe Hennes 7:07 – Oscar is great. Not that should be of any surprise to anyone. I like the reference to “I Hate Christmas” from Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. 7:47 – There’s something about Muppets wearing hats that I absolutely adore. And Grover’s Christmas top hat is no exception.

By Ryan Roe BINKY: Hey, you know that show Sesame Street? BINKY: YES! They said it's because Cookie Monster used to hold a pipe sometimes! BUNKY: Those scoundrels! Sesame Street is way too politically correct now! YOU: I'm a rational grown-up Sesame Street fan.

By Izzy Neis It's just a shame that I can't bring myself to watch the new Sesame Street. The new muppets they have PALE in comparison to old school muppets like Telly, Ernie, Grover, Guy Smiley, The Count, etc. Sure they may be featured here and there-- but that Elmo? BAH!

By Izzy Neis technorati tags:Henson, Sesame, Street, Panwapa, Safety, Nations, Education, Avatars Blogged with Flock Sesame Street’s parent company Sesame Workshop has launched its newest initiative for 4- to 7-year olds: Panwapa. The project aims

Tina Fey Rocks Sesame Street's World (and Vice Versa) by Megan Walsh-Boyle TV Guide: Who was your favorite character back then? Fey: It's weird because I grew up pre-Elmo. I like Ernie and Bert — they're truly a comedy team — and also Grover was a big deal. Source: TV Guide

Sesame Street launches its new season 7Online.com, NY - This year, Abby and her Muppet friends are learning 26 words as part of Sesame Street's focus on literacy. To do that, the show, a creation of the ...

By Lindsay Sesame Street's Big Bird and Dora the Explorer Mattel Inc, which owns Fisher-Price, said 83 types of toy were affected, including figurines of Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Dora the Explorer. The recall relates to 967000 Chinese-made ...

By Joyce, CBB Correspondent Alice is interested in TV. she wants to watch TV. She wakes up in the morning and goes, 'TV? Elmo? Elmo? TV? TV?' She loves Sesame Street and I let her watch it. It's really good. I am as interested in it as she is at this point. Alice has met her idol, Elmo. She accompanied Tina to her taping of a Sesame St...

By Richard Porter Recently, in the news as listed on the ABC News website, it was reported that Sesame Street Workshop is now promoting their "Healthy Habits" program in order to combat epidemic cases of childhood obesity. By introducing this new found health awareness, they hope to better educate childr...