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Sesame Street, Last Gasp of the Monoculture, Faces Existential Threat
For decades, shows like Sesame Street practically raised many kids. Today, not even Elmo is safe from the nation's culture wars and shifting media landscape.
Opinion: Let’s take ‘Sesame Street’ out of the equation for PBS funding
As Congress threatens to defund public broadcasting, the defenders of PBS and NPR keep defending themselves by pointing to ...
Inside ‘Sesame Street’ as it fights to survive
“The Bert and Ernie dynamic is so perfect for learning ... “and it is our duty as Sesame Street to introduce it to the ...
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THEN AND NOW: The muppets of 'Sesame Street' over 50 years later
Bert still has a single ... like fruits and vegetables. Ernie's head shape changed slightly. When Ernie was shown in the first season of "Sesame Street," he had a slightly different type of ...
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The Great Muppet Caper: Bert and Ernie go missing from Londonderry shop
Crystal Rollins and her co-workers fanned out and searched every inch of their easy-to-get-lost-in 24,000-square-foot Londonderry shop, but Bert and Ernie were nowhere to be found. Sometime on the ...
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Democrats Mock GOP Attacks on PBS, NPR Execs at Hearing: ‘Are Bert and Ernie Part of an Extreme Homosexual Agenda?’
Garcia asked Kerger about “Sesame Street” puppet duo Bert and Ernie. “These two guys actually live together. They’re friends. They’re supportive of each other,” he said. “Now that ...
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The Great Muppet Caper: Bert and Ernie go missing from Londonderry shop
but Bert and Ernie were nowhere to be found. Sometime on the afternoon of March 15, the two late-1970s-era hand puppets (Muppets to be precise) left the building and Rollins, manager of Deja Vu ...