Don't really have a favourite, necessarily. I have love and respect for all those characters. I do find that bear with the speech impediment muppet to be sort of annoying I guess.
I feel he was badly misnamed though, he isnt a grouch at all, he just carries a healthy cynicism towards the extravagances of an unsustainable society that focuses far too much on the rote memorization of numbers and letters and misleads children by enforcing the idea that strangers on the street may break into shockingly well choreographed song at any moment.
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I don't think I ever had a favourite character. I don't even think Elmo was a character when I was young enough to watch. If I had to pick a couple, it would be Guy Smiley or Don Music I think.
Sometimes I still find myself singing; "There are chickens in the tree..." or saying things like; "Yay yay, capital N", just out of the blue. They are just burned into my brain.
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I miss 70s Sesame Street. Bring back Guy Smiley and show Elmo the door.
I still watch Sesame Street from time to time in five minute doses. Somewhere along the line they made The Count not so scary and Oscar not so grouchy. No wonder todays kids are a bunch of wimps.
And oddly enough my favourite character was one of the human characters, Gordon.
I also loved the song 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12. I found out years later that it's sung by the Pointer Sisters.
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edit: to address surferguy's original question: Grover because he's 100% committed to whatever his duty is, to the point of exhaustion. Oscar because he's an individualist.
Parents embraced “Sesame Street” for several reasons, among them that it assuaged their guilt over the fact that they could not or would not restrict their children’s access to television. “Sesame Street” appeared to justify allowing a four- or five-year-old to sit transfixed in front of a television screen for unnatural periods of time.
Neil Postman, author of Amusing Ourselves to Death.
For the record, I am a Grover man. Always was, always will be.
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[When the Beatles' catalogue was still owned by Northern Songs, the company attempted to sue Children's Television Workshop for $5.5 million. They cited that the song too closely resembled "Let It Be." Before the case came to trial, Michael Jackson purchased the Lennon/McCartney catalogue and the suit was dropped. The Children's Television Workshop was only fined $50, which was paid out of Christopher Cerf's own pocket. Paul McCartney, who was not involved in the lawsuit, wrote to Cerf saying that he liked the song].[1]
Telly is my favorite, but I wonder what happened to some of the characters like Guy Smiley, Harvey Kneeslapper, Bruno, Herry Monster, and the Shrelock Holmes guy.
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The diverse cast of Sesame Street
