how to get to Sesame Street?
I can. It's via children.
Sesame Street is one of the staple shows out there that have around forever, so it seems, and will last long beyond any single cast member or charcter. Everything that happens on Sesame Street has a lesson attached, but it's not an so obvious a lesson as to hit a kid over the head with it. It has all the elements that appeal to a little kid - cartoons and puppets and songs, grumpy people and funny people and confused people. It teaches math and spelling without kids even realizing that they are learning things that will help them way down the line.
Jim Henson, the creator of the Sesame Street Muppets, was a genius with puppetry. The Muppets are certainly not life-like, but they have a humanity to them that is amazing. That was further expanded in The Muppet Show and, explored on a large scale with detail in the movies Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. I was a huge fan of both of those movies and can tell you plot points and probably tell you which of the Sesame Street puppeteers played which of the movie characters. And it all started from the Muppets on Sesame Street.
This post is dedicated to Jenney. I'm sorry it's not more exuberant or funny or whatever. It is, after all, 4 in the morning.
Oh! I should add this, just to add a bit of a link with my charity. I had a book when I was very young entitled "The Monster At the End of This Book," in which Grover tried desperately on each page to stop you from reaching the end - building a wall on the page, or chaining the book shut. Of course, you just kept turning the pages watching Grover panic until you got to the end, where Grover turns out to be the monster. It was very clever and cute - and one of my absolute favorites. It made me giggle to see Grover's antics. I understand that they remade this several years to add Elmo to the mix. I hope it's still as much fun.