History Awesome / SesameStreet

* Big Bird responding to threats to cut Creator/PBS funding by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tSPtkRSFCA appearing on Saturday Night Live]]. Rather than taking sides, he lets his presence speak for itself. His arrival nearly brought down the house.

-->[[BigShutUp '''Be quiet, Oscar!''']]

* In a meta sense, Music/CarlyRaeJepsen's ApprovalOfGod of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qTIGg3I5y8 "Share It Maybe"]]:

* Big Bird standing up to an Egyptian god in the special ''Don't Eat The Pictures''.

* "Put Down The Duckie".

* Cookie Monster [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bgnAn5a2EA&feature=relmfu shrinking to win a cookie.]] He'll do ''anything'' for a cookie.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLHXwC7lkas Casey, played by Cookie Monster,]] conducts a trainload of cookies and sweets that gets stranded after avalance. Cookie contemplates eating the cookies, but he determines to get the train through by eating the snow because the kids would be unhappy without their cookies. Aw, he's got his priorities set.

--> "''Sesame Street'', man. It doesn’t get any better than that!”

* In a meta sense, Music/CarlyRaeJepsen's CelebrityEndorsement of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qTIGg3I5y8 "Share It Maybe"]]:

* In a meta sense, Music/CarlyRaeJepsen's CelebrityEndorsement of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qTIGg3I5y8 Share It Maybe]]:

* For those of us who are to young to have experienced ''TheMuppetShow'', ''SesameStreet'' and ''ElmosWorld'' are proof that it is possible to make a Muppet version of ''anything''.

* An operatic remake of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaF7kT5Moc0 "C is for Cookie" by Marilyn Horne]]

* Cookie Monster [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bgnAn5a2EA&feature=relmfu shrinking to win a cookie.]] He'll do ''anything'' for cookie.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLHXwC7lkas Casey, played by Cookie Monster,]] conducts a trainload of cookies and sweets that gets stranded after avalance. Cookie contemplates eating the cookies, but he determines to get the train through by eating the snow because the kids would be unhappy without their cookies. Aw, he's got his priorities set.

* "12 pinball countdown".
* Cookie Monster [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bgnAn5a2EA&feature=relmfu ''shrinking'' to win a cookie.]] He'll do ''anything'' for cookie.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLHXwC7lkas Casey, played by Cookie Monster,]] conducts a trainload of cookies and sweets that gets stranded after avalance. Cookie contemplates eating the cookies, but he determines to get the train through because the kids would be unhappy without their cookies. Aw, he's got his priorities set.

* Cookie Monster [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bgnAn5a2EA&feature=relmfu ''shrinking'' to win a cookie.]] He'll do ''anything'' for cookie.

* Cookie Monster [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bgnAn5a2EA&feature=relmfu ''shrinking'' to win a cookie.]]

* "12 pinball countdown".

* "Put Down The Duckie".

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYF1dQFo-cY "Fourty years and we're still going strong. You're all part of our neighborhood."]]
** There's also something [[CrowningMomentOfFunny oddly amusing]] about the Cookie Monster [[spoiler: trying to eat the award.]]
* The show gets one for planning and filming "Goodbye, Mr. Hooper," as well as airing it over Thanksgiving [[WordOfGod so families could be home to explain death to the little ones]].
** What made it even more awesome is that the entire scene was taped in one take. The genuine show of emotion by the adults, who gently explain to Big Bird why the beloved Mr. Hooper was not coming back, showed to children that even adults feel sad and cry when someone they love are close to dies. (There have been rumors that the producers wanted to scrap this take so the adult characters would keep their emotions in check, to show their strength to the disconsolate Big Bird, etc. ... but it would have killed the impact.)
* Patrick Stewart on Sesame Street delivering [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA7lv1SDzno&feature=related a Hamlet-style soliloquoy about the letter B.]] Go ahead; watch it and try to tell yourself this isn't awesome.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkd5dJIVjgM Smell Like A Monster]]. It really says something for the series to parody [[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike something]] which the target audience would be entirely unfamiliar with. And it ''works''.
* Basically, any time Oscar gets called out. He questions Santa in front of Big Bird, who decides to wait outside for him in the middle of a snowstorm. Gordon severely dresses Oscar down.

* The parody of the disaster-prone Broadway show ''Spiderman''. When ''Sesame Street'' is making fun of you, you've got problems.
* StevieWonder performing a mind-blowing, nearly 7 minute version of "Superstition" during the peak of his artistic powers in 1973 is something any program of the time would have killed for...and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE he did it for "Sesame Street"]].
* Not only was "Superstition" a major coup for ''Sesame Street'', so was one of its signature songs from its early years becoming a huge hit for one of America's most popular duos. "Sing" was conceived and written as a children's song by Joe Raposo, a staff song writer on the Children's Television Workshop staff; in late 1972, Richard Carpenter decided that he and his sister, Karen, should record the song (perhaps seeing an adult message in the song). With the Jimmy Joyce Children's Choir providing backing vocals, ''Sesame Street'' got its biggest mainstream hit ever -- the children's song, "Sing," a No. 3 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1973.
** ''Sesame Street'' got its first mainstream hit three years earlier with "Rubber Duckie," performed by Ernie (the loveable Muppet performed by Jim Henson). The song reached No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1970, largely due to novelty airplay. Less than a year after ''Sesame Street'' debuted, the show began having an impact on mainstream popular culture, thanks to "Rubber Duckie."

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYF1dQFo-cY "Sing of fourty years and we're still going strong. You're all part of our neighborhood."]]

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkd5dJIVjgM Smell Like A Monster]]. It really says something for the series to parody [[TheManYourManCouldSmellLike something]] which the target audience would be entirely unfamiliar with. And it ''works''.

* Big Bird standing up to an Egyptian god in the special ''Don't Eat The Pictures''.

* Big Bird standing up to an Egyptian god in the special Don't Eat The Pictures.

* [[ButtMonkey Bert]] gets sucked into playing Ernie's silly drum game, and you think it's going to be a typical "Ernie drives Bert crazy" sketch...and then Bert just keeps ''winning'', getting every sequence right, and Ernie is so flabbergasted he ''gives up''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjhTmDhFB8&feature=related "Well...I can't lose 'em all." *laughs*]]

* You want to know how powerful this show was from the very beginning? How about when the Mississippi state government initially refused to have it aired on their PBS stations on account of it having Blacks and Whites living together in harmony, various commercial broadcasters responded with "If you won't air it, ''we will!''", and forced the state government to back down. The show began airing there a month later.

* You want to know how powerful this show was from the very beginning? How about when the Mississippi state government initially refused to have it aired on their PBS stations on account of it having Blacks and Whites living together in harmony, various commercial broadcasters responded with "If you won't air it, ''we will!''", and forced the state government to back down.