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I think there are multiple reasons, but let's face the big one: the Henson crew is gone. Some of the current Muppet puppeteers are still involved, but until the late 1970s Sesame Street was the primary creative outlet for Jim Henson and company. That influence lasted for a longtime after, but it...

I just picked up some Sesame Street DVDs from the library for my son, and was planning on buying one that was a hit with him. But after playing a couple of them, I'm wondering: do some of these early DVDs have pretty awful sound quality? I'm thinking specifically of "Sing Yourself Silly" and...

I'm not necessarily sure it would be a good thing, Disney owning Sesame. But I've only recently come to see the show in it's current form, now have a Sesame-age child. And I've been amazed at not only it's narrow focus, completely abandoning older kids, but the same episodes of it's new...

It's part of Sesame Workshop's strategy of incompressible randomness. Step 1) Cater to infants and toddlers with bright colors; simpler plots; 1-dimensional, bubbly characters. Step 2) Gradually phase out 30 years worth of material that appealed to all age groups. Step 3) Defeat...

I find it hard to believe any of this would be the result of oversight. This is a meticulously researched show. Big Bird just isn't star material on today's Sesame Street. He's too subdued and not "cute" enough. They would never drop him, if only out of loyalty to Carroll and nostalgic parents...

So when I first saw this clip on the Robinson blog, I was amazed that the Sesame folks had found a new, young puppeteer that does a dead-on Count Von Count. http://www.sesamestreet.org/parents/blog/-/blogs/the-woman-underneath-rosita On second viewing, I see that the puppeteer appears to...