News: Today Sesame Street Celebrates It’s 40 Year Anniversary

An article by Senor Kaos

Starting last Wednesday I noticed Google.com had Big Bird’s legs on the site as apart of the Google Doodle. Then the next thing I know on Thurs. Cookie Monster was there, Friday Elmo, Sat. Bert & Ernie, Sunday Oscar, and yesterday The Count was there. I said hey what’s going on here.

Clicking on the Google link I found out that today November 10th, 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of my favorite childhood TV show Sesame Street.

Today if you visit www.google.com you’ll notice it features all of the characters who have been present the past few days and a few more.

To celebrate the 40 year anniversary, today First Lady Michelle Obama appeared on the show with Elmo and Big Bird to teach the block how to plant a garden.

Words below from David Zurawik at the Baltimore Sun

How can this be? On a day of such great celebration, the 40th anniversary of “Sesame Street,” Big Bird wants to leave the urban nest that has been home for four decades and migrate to the rain forest? The rain forest!

Elmo is so rattled he can barely speak as Big Bird comes to say goodbye. “But Sesame Street is where Big Bird lives,” Elmo squeaks to the group of old friends, including Gordon, Maria and Snuffleupagus, who have gathered to see the yellow feathered one off.

The rest of the world might be focused on first lady Michelle Obama coming to The Street today to show Elmo and some of the children how to plant their own vegetable gardens. And symbolically, her appearance to help launch this special season is huge. As I said on WYPR last week, “Sesame Street,” with its groundbreaking message of multiculturalism, did more to pave their way for the election of the first person of color as president than any other series in the history of the medium.