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Sesame Street

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TV Series

The Resume

    (November 10, 1969- )
    Airs on PBS
    Features muppets and humans in an inner city teaching kids with comedy, cartoons and songs
    Popular characters are Big Bird, Kermit the Frog, Elmo, Bert and Ernie, The Count, Grover, Snuffleupagus and Oscar the Grouch
    Voices provided by Frank Oz, Jim Hanson, Carroll Spinney, Kevin Clash, Fran Brill, Brian Muehl, David Rudman and Judy Sladky

Why Sesame Street might be annoying:

    Elmo rose to the top of the muppet food chain.
    It is accused of focusing more on marketing characters than educating.
    Producers of an African version of 'Sesame Street' added an HIV muppet to address the growing number of people with the virus (How do muppets exchange fluids?).
    They allow celebrities like Robin Williams to make appearances on the show.
    They are sometimes overly sensitive to children, like removing a black muppet because it was a muppet that was always in detention.
    They changed the original theme song.
    Some argue that it gives children a short attention span.
    They never really explained the relationship between Bert and Ernie.
    They opened an amusement park to suck more money out of the pockets of parents.
    The producers ended a long-running gag in which Big Bird was the only character to see Snuffleupagus the Elephant as they felt adults not believing children would discourage them from reporting horrible acts like child abuse (1985).

Why Sesame Street might not be annoying:

    It originally was designed to help non-English speaking children formulate English sentences.
    It holds the world record for 'Most Popular Children's Educational Program' with the show airing in over 180 countries.
    When Will Lee died, they allowed his character Mr. Hooper to die. This was done to help children deal with death.
    It featured Jim Henson and Frank Oz, arguably two of the greatest puppeteers the world has ever seen.
    It has won numerous Daytime Emmies.
    It is a cornerstone in educational programming which is copied by many other educational television shows.
    It taught children how to learn in humorous, fun ways.

Credit: Captain Howdy


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 13 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 98 Votes: 51.02% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 151 Votes: 48.34% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 84 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 117 Votes: 41.03% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 135 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 81 Votes: 56.79% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 114 Votes: 71.93% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 26 Votes: 73.08% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 92 Votes: 51.09% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 20 Votes: 45.00% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 26 Votes: 38.46% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 155 Votes: 72.90% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 75 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 164 Votes: 60.37% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 87 Votes: 40.23% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 59 Votes: 44.07% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 1438 Votes: 45.97% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 205 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 395 Votes: 42.03% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 216 Votes: 43.06% Annoying