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| − | '''Sesame Street''' is a [[liberal]] <ref>http://www.sesameworkshop.org/aboutus/why_research.php</ref> television show for children on the [[elitism | elitist]], taxpayer funded [[PBS]] [[television]] network. It has been around since 1969 and has spawned a series of movies, books, magazines, and toys. Sesame Street features hand-operated puppets called [[muppet]]s interacting with adults and children in an educational setting that emphasizes learning numbers and letters, but occasionally engages in [[indoctrination]] of children with liberalism and [[multiculturalism]] based values. <ref>http://www.sesameworkshop.org/aboutus/whole_social.php</ref> The show has won a number of [[Emmy Award]]s and is shown in over 25 languages around the world. | + | '''Sesame Street''' is a [[liberal]] <ref>http://www.sesameworkshop.org/aboutus/why_research.php</ref> television show for children on the [[elitism | elitist]], taxpayer funded [[PBS]] [[television]] network. It has been around since 1969 and has spawned a series of movies, books, magazines, and toys. Sesame Street features hand-operated puppets called [[muppet]]s interacting with adults and children in an educational setting that emphasizes learning numbers and letters, but occasionally engages in [[indoctrination]] of children with liberalism and [[multiculturalism]] based values. <ref>http://www.sesameworkshop.org/aboutus/whole_social.php</ref> The show has won a number of [[Emmy Award]]s and is shown in over 25 languages around the world. Controversially, one foreign version of the program features a character with HIV<ref>http://gay_blog.blogspot.com/2002/07/pbs-caves-hiv-positive-muppet.html</ref>. |
==Spinoffs== | ==Spinoffs== | ||
Revision as of 22:32, May 7, 2008
Sesame Street is a liberal [1] television show for children on the elitist, taxpayer funded PBS television network. It has been around since 1969 and has spawned a series of movies, books, magazines, and toys. Sesame Street features hand-operated puppets called muppets interacting with adults and children in an educational setting that emphasizes learning numbers and letters, but occasionally engages in indoctrination of children with liberalism and multiculturalism based values. [2] The show has won a number of Emmy Awards and is shown in over 25 languages around the world. Controversially, one foreign version of the program features a character with HIV[3].
Spinoffs
Sesame Street successfully launched the career of Jim Henson's muppets and has produced countless imitations and variations. A number of Sesame Street movies have been made, including Follow That Bird and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland. Sesame Street characters have made appearances on a number of game and talk shows. Many stuffed animals of the Sesame Street characters are sold in amazing quantities and the Tickle Me Elmo is considered to be one of the best selling toys of all time. A number of musical albums have been released by Sesame Street characters, most notably Bert's Blockbusters which scored an unexpected success in 1974 with the single Doin' the Pigeon.[4]
Muppet Characters
- Big Bird -- A huge yellow bird taller than most people who walks on 2 legs, a good natured but simple creature
- Cookie Monster -- a lover of all cookies
- Snuffleupagus -- a creature who looks a bit like an elephant; at first only big bird saw him, but that has changed
- Oscar the Grouch -- lives in a garbage can, has a generally cantankerous nature
- Elmo
- The Count -- a vampire who loves to count
- Bert & Ernie -- human muppets; Ernie's child-like goofs are balanced by Bert's more serious nature
- Telly Monster
- Kermit the Frog -- a green frog hand muppet who went on to star in the muppet movies
- Grover -- typical friendly monster, also the voice of Yoda
- Miss Piggy -- prone to explosive outburts, she also has a crush on Kermit
References
- ↑ http://www.sesameworkshop.org/aboutus/why_research.php
- ↑ http://www.sesameworkshop.org/aboutus/whole_social.php
- ↑ http://gay_blog.blogspot.com/2002/07/pbs-caves-hiv-positive-muppet.html
- ↑ Bert's Blockbusters - #4 Album of 1974
