Still i'd like to present to you the top 5 most popular sesame street characters, even though most people probably already know about this, and the other reason that make me post this entry is that my niece loves elmo so much, she just can't take her eyes off this furry little red monster.
For those of you who don't know about it, The Sesame Street premiered on November 10, 1969 and is
the longest running children’s program on US television, with an amazing
39 seasons and 4,186 episodes aired.
Now already available in so many countries with their own language versions.
So i make myself to post something about them. Hope you'd like it!
TOP 5 MOST POPULAR SESAME STREET CHARACTERS
ELMO
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He is a furry red monster with large white eyes and an orange nose. He currently hosts the last full 15 minute segment on Sesame Street, Elmo's World, which is aimed at toddlers. He is accompanied by his goldfish Dorothy and silent Charlie Chaplin–like characters named Mr. Noodle, Mr. Noodle's Brother Mr. Noodle, and sometimes, Mr. Noodle's sister Miss Noodle.
Elmo is self-described as three-and-a-half years old and characteristically refers to himself in the third person.
Did you know that Elmo is the only non-human puppet ever to testify before the U.S. Congress. At the request and with the assistance of Rep. Duke Cunningham, he testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education in April 2002, urging support for increased funding in music education.
Did you know that Oscar inspired an Apple Macintosh hack written by Eric B. Shapiro and shown at the 1989 MacHack conference, featuring a singing animated Oscar that appeared from the trash can whenever a file was thrown away. The hack was so popular that some parents lost the entire contents of their hard disks to preschoolers wanting to see more of Oscar.
He
is best known for his voracious appetite and his famous eating phrases:
"Me want cookie!", "Me eat cookie!", and "Om Nom nom nom" (said through
a mouth full of food). He often eats anything and everything, including
danishes, donuts, lettuce, apples, bananas, as well as normally
inedible objects such as salt and pepper shakers, signs, napkins,
pencils, typewriters, telephones, motorcycles, Peabody Awards, trucks, a safe, a VW Beetle, and the Letter of the Day.
However, as his name suggests, his preferred food is cookies. Chocolate
chip cookies are his favorite kind; oatmeal cookies are his second
favorite. He is known to have a mother, a younger sister, and an
identically-designed cousin, who all share his characteristic blue fur
and "googly eyes".Cookie Monster's theme song, "C is for Cookie", is one of the most famous songs from Sesame Street.
Bert and Ernie are two roommates on the long-running television show Sesame Street.
The two appear together in numerous skits, forming a comic duo that is
one of the centerpieces of the program. Bert and Ernie were built by Don
Sahlin from a simple design scribbled by Muppets creator Jim Henson.
According to Frank Oz, Sahlin also defined their characters on the basis
of their physical appearance: Ernie was an orange and Bert was a
banana. In a classic pairing, Ernie appears chubby while Bert appears
quite skinny.A typical Bert and Ernie skit follows one of two similar
patterns, both beginning with Ernie devising a hare-brained idea and
Bert calmly attempting to talk him out of it. Usually this ends with
Bert losing his temper and Ernie remaining oblivious to his own bad
idea. Sometimes Ernie's idea miraculously turns out to be correct, much
to Bert's evident frustration.
Did you know that there are some
rumors and misconceptions that Ernie and Bert are gay lovers? This was
denied by SesameWorkshop but the idea of Bert and Ernie as a couple is
sufficiently widespread that it has been used as the basis of jokes on
the shows Saturday Night Live, Family Guy, Supernatural, Friends and American Dad!.
BIG BIRD
Big Bird is an eight-foot two-inch tall bright yellow bird. He can roller skate,
ice skate, dance, sing, write poetry, draw and even ride a unicycle.
But despite this wide array of talents, he is prone to frequent
misunderstandings, on one occasion even singing the alphabet as one big
long word (ABC-DEF-GHI), pondering what it could ever mean. He lives in a
large nest behind the 123 Sesame Street brownstone and he has a teddy
bear named Radar, after Walter "Radar" O'Reilly of M*A*S*H, who
had a teddy bear and was also lovably naive and innocent. Radar was
given to Big Bird by Gary Burghoff when he guest starred on the show.
Later on, however, it was said that Big Bird got the bear as a gift from
Mr. Hooper.It is believed that Big Bird is probably a giant canary. However, in an episode of Sesame Street Big Bird was asked if he was related to the cassowary, he replied, "I'm more of a condor."
Those are the some of the stories behind those human created imaginative creatures that lives for a long time from the past and will be in the longer ones in the future, i now close the curtain for the top 5 most popular sesame street characters ^_^
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