Sesame Street celebrates its 40th anniversary this week with much fanfare and Muppet mania. People are reminiscing about and putting together their favorite moments from...
via news.bbc.co.uk In a special edition, Matthew Stadlen travels to Sesame Street to spend Five Minutes with Cookie Monster, Elmo, Big Bird, Grover and Oscar the Grouch. Posted via web from Jack's posterous
Here are some biggies on the TV schedule this week: *** "Mad Men" has delivered an extraordinary season. The third year in the life of Don Draper (Jon Hamm, pictured) concludes at 10 tonight on AMC. You know how good...
Sesame Street is celebrating its 40th season, beginning on November 10, and is boasting an impressive roster of celebrity guests including First Lady Michelle Obama, Ricky Gervais, Paul Rudd, and Medium’s very own Patricia Arquette. Arquette appears about midway through the season in an episode about amphibians. Her co-star is the lovable Abby Cadabby, and they talk about the “Word on the...
During an episode of Sesame Street that was originally broadcast two years ago, a character tells Oscar the Grouch, who happens to be reporting for “GNN” (Grouchy News Network), that she is switching her news viewing loyalties to “Pox News,” adding, “Now there is a trashy news show.” Right winger Andrew Breitbart’s “Big Hollywood” blog [...]
COOKIE!!! Cookie Monster is no doubt the least good-for-you part of Sesame Street but it was always my favorite. And then there’s Oscar the Grouch, who’s already been the subject of a Geek Dad post. One of us. Likely the Cookie Monster is the favorite of many others too, since Google placed him on their homepage to celebrate [...]
Sesame Street turns 40 Tuesday, making it the longest-running childrens show in history. Anna Jane Hays returned to the show on Saturday Hayes became an author and publisher of Sesame Street Magazine...
I don’t know if you have noticed it, but Google’s home page is showing some really cute images. I think they started doing it yesterday or the day before. What are these cute images? Everyone recognises them – character from Sesame Street! People of all ages around the world are joining forces to [...]
this has real potential to be awesome. the "controversy" has already crossed into the non-fox mainstream media, i heard it on the radio yesterday. but the story i heard was more about the weird stuff that people get excited about than echoing their point. apparently, this is yet another example of something that may make sense to the folks blowing a gasket over it, but looks totally bizarre...
on November 10th. Wow! It's hard to believe that Sesame Street has just turned 40 years old this year! I remember watching the show as a kid and I'd be captivated by the colorful characters on the screen. I think it's great that if it's still on and they change it to adapt to kids nowadays. Ralph says his favorite character has always been Elmo and he can clearly remember some of the greatest episodes...
Sesame Street 's 40th anniversary is fast approaching, and there has been a slew of birthday-related shenanigans going on all around us. Let's take a moment to fondly remember them before Sesame Street gets old enough to need bifocals. The most noticeable celebration has been over at Google , where Sesame Street characters have been incorporated into the Google logo every day. As of press time, we've...
Bert and Ernie shared space on Google''s home page on Friday with an ad for Motorola''s Droid, the Verizon Wireless smartphone that went on sale on Friday.
This week marks the 40th anniversary of an iconic show of my childhood. Heck, when I was a kid, it was THE show. Not much other competition that I can remember, and I believe that’s why they created it. My how times have changed for the child and parent searching for good stuff on TV. Obviously, [...]
Google Doodles for Sesame Street's 40th Anniversary | 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street on Google All week Google will be showing Google Doodle's on their home page in honor of Sesame Street's 40th Anniversary. We can look forward to seeing some of our favorite muppet doodles up on the Google homepage. The muppets are very cool celebrities in the eyes of parents and children. They have also been known
“Mad Men” becomes the subject of parody for PBS’ “Sesame Street” and the characters have been translated into muppet forms. Presented by EMC instead of AMC, the skit sees Don Draper holding a meeting for a honey ad with two of his execs.