Sesame Street muppets perform Beastie Boys’ Sure Shot

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in Video on Monday 11 March 2013

Sure, this mashup by UK-based Wonderful Creative Agency first popped its head up a year ago, but it’s one of these gems that has to be watched again and again. Grover, Oscar and Cookie Monster take turns to rap, Elmo contributes guest vocals while Bert and Ernie guest-star on drums. It’s as fun as the [...]

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Sesame Street’s take on Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

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By Low Lai Chow in Video on Tuesday 4 December 2012

Existential Sesame Street characters. Is it even possible? In a 1996 episode of Sesame Street’s Monsterpiece Theater, Telly and Grover wait for Elmo to turn up. ‘What if we wait here all day and he never shows up?’, Telly asks. Because it’s Sesame Street, the tree next to them comes to life and walks away. [...]

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Superstition performed live on Sesame Street

Jennifer Eshelman Reader Find

By Jennifer Eshelman in Video on Thursday 2 August 2012

When I worked at Sesame Street, I was researching clips to be included in a Home Video and stumbled across this one. I was too little at the time it aired to remember it, but watching it now just shows what a bad ass show Sesame Street was when it started. I smile every time [...]

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Sesame Street sends up the Mad Men TV series

Zolton Contributor

By Zolton in Video on Wednesday 21 March 2012

Leave it to Sesame Street to do the seminal take-off of that perennially compelling TV series, Mad Men. Don Draper never looked so, erm, dashing.

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Xbox 360 reinventing TV with Kinect Sesame Street TV

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By Kira Heuer in New Trends on Thursday 26 January 2012

They just don’t make ‘em like they used to. Big Bird, Fozzie and the gang at Sesame Street team up with Microsoft to create a Kinect-based show interacting with the kiddies. Gets them off the couch and moving along with the shows. I want to play.

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The Fellows and the Blondies: new work by Kate McCarthy

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By Beck Wheeler in New Art on Friday 2 September 2011

The Fellows and the Blondies is Kate McCarthy’s new exhibition. McCarthy uses childhood memories and child-like spontaneity to create her painterly painted pieces. She mentions the 1970s series of Sesame Street among her influences.

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Goonies mashed up with Sesame Street t shirt

Contributions Reader Find

By Michael B. Myers Jr. in New Fashion on Tuesday 9 August 2011

Born in the 80s? Grew up with a TV in the house? Then you will probably appreciate this bizarre mashup of The Goonies unlikely duo and Sesame Street’s lovable pair. Available on Monday August 8 for 24 hours only.

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Jordan Bernier

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By Gerry Mak in New Art on Tuesday 24 August 2010

Jordan Bernier’s vaguely architectural, densely-patterened shapes remind me of the pinball number count segment of Sesame Street for some reason.

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