To help children with an incarcerated parent cope, we launched an initiative to equip adults and children with strategies and resources to help them feel comforted and connected through this difficult time. In , military deployments were at record levels, but existing resources often overlooked the youngest members of military families.
Sesame Street reported for duty with a multimedia initiative that equipped families with child-friendly tools to tackle the unique challenges of military life. Topics include deployments and homecomings, grief and loss, military-to-civilian transitions, and how to stay healthy as a family. In September , Sesame Street was in the middle of production. We created a special series of Sesame Street episodes to give kids tools for coping with fear, loss, and culturally-motivated bullying—including one starring real New York City firefighters.
In , following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, we aired a special episode about Big Bird dealing with the aftermath when his nest is destroyed in a storm. We also created a series of resources that families still turn to during natural disasters. In the mids, a Sesame Street co-production in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza introduced original characters who modeled cooperation and mutual respect to the youngest generation of Israelis and Palestinians, earning a letter of commendation from President Bill Clinton.
As part of a race-relations initiative, Whoopi Goldberg and Elmo compared and celebrated the colors and textures of their skin and fur in a now-classic segment. For many years, the adults on Sesame Street thought that the shaggy, elephant-like creature called Mr. That changed in In the wake of a string of high-profile child abuse cases, we wanted to show children that the caring adults in their lives would believe them.
Will Lee, who portrayed beloved shopkeeper, Mr. Hooper, passed away in The program won an Emmy Award and struck an emotional chord with a generation of viewers. The success of Sesame Street in the United States sparked interest from broadcasters around the world. In , we launched The Electric Company to combat the literacy crisis facing children ages Sesame Street changes and morphs depending on whatever cultural context it's dropped into, but it remains recognizably the show that was created in — one whose characters have become international ambassadors of teaching kids to read and, yes, expressing the American ideal of turning just about any medium into a way of pacifying young ones.
Television is unquestionably a better medium because Sesame Street exists, but it's also possible the world itself is a better place. Not bad for a bunch of well-meaning educators and some puppets.
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Julia, though, later became the subject of contention. Hooper, the neighborhood grocer. He was much admired by the rest of the cast, and the writers decided to reckon, on air, with grief. Big Bird, told that Mr. That episode was a high point. The Reagan years marked the beginning of the fall.
The federal government all but stopped funding educational television in , and deregulation meant that the F. Story lines, contorted to fit these fads, have grown more and more contrived. In one episode, the cast had to figure out how to use a pulley to lift Mr. Snuffleupagus into the air as part of the Dance of the Six Swans.
But there was actually something weirder behind the recasting of Cookie Monster, which had to do with an interest in addressing A. Cookie Monster? In , Sesame Workshop introduced a Muppet named Lily, whose family struggled with hunger and, later, homelessness; in , Alex, whose father is in prison; in , Karli, a child who has been placed in foster care because her mother suffers from addiction.
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