Sesame Street is the go-to provider of all things Sesame Street. Conceived in 1966 as a way to create a children's television show that would grab hold of the apparent addictive aspects of television while preparing them for school with the skills and talents needed to succeed in life. In a combined effort between Joan Ganz Cooney, the Children's Television Workshop, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, and the U.S. federal government, Sesame Street premiered in 1969 utilizing a combination of the fantastical Jim Henson's Muppets, animation, and short films, in order to have the first ever preschool educational television program. Sesame Street is not only humorous and educational; it is also one of the only shows developed with laboratory research and a curriculum. Now an icon in lives all over the world, Sesame Street is considered one of the most important television shows in history with its crucial and very popular Muppets. Not many people today don't know of Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, the ticklish Elmo, the ever-invisible Snuffleupagus, Bert and Ernie, the voracious Cookie Monster, and the counting Count von Count. MORE

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