History Trivia / SesameStreet

* ActorInspiredElement: An example of an element that ''didn't'' happen because of an actor. Bob [=McGrath=] says it was ultimately his call to not have Bob and Linda get married. In his live concerts his family performed on-stage with him, and he was afraid that people would think that he and Linda were married in RealLife, which would lead to his having to constantly explain why she wasn't there and how it's just a TV show.

** A lot of adult viewers didn't like Elmo's increase in screentime with him having more than the other characters (especially since he's one of the few that speaks broken English...on an educational show), some even joking that the show had become "The Elmo Show". Later episodes would have him still get a lot of screen time but the other characters got plenty, too.

* RecastAsARegular: In an interesting, the TV special "The Magical Wand Chase", Jennifer Barnhart [[note]] She's one of the show's regular Muppet performers, best known for taking over the roles of Gladys The Cow and Zoey [[/note]] and Violet Tinnierello played a mother and daughter in the background of a few shots. In season 50, Violet would play Charlie while Jennifer would play her mother.

* BreakthroughHit: While TV audiences in TheSixties weren't unfamiliar with Creator/JimHenson or Franchise/TheMuppets thanks to their many appearances in commercials and on variety shows throughout the decade, the runaway success of ''Sesame Street'' was the show that made Henson and his creations into household names. Albeit at the cost of typecasting Henson as a children's entertainer.

* LiveOnStage: ''Sesame Street Live'' is the TropeCodifier and one of the most popular real life examples of this trope. Created in 1980 by ex-Ice Follies staffer Vincent Egan's VEE Corporation [[note]]Now [=VStar=] Entertainment[[/note]], it is the longest-running of these shows, and even has been performed overseas to different-language-audio tracks to promote the many Sesame Street co-productions. Production shifted to Feld Entertainment in 2017, before switching to Round Room Live in 2023.

** Sesame Workshop considered the show's Around the Corner era (1993-1998) as one of its lowest points. Retrospectives tend to skip over this era of the show or only show the barest minimum. Though VindicatedByHistory as 90's ''Sesame'' is still well-remembered by those who grew up watching it and many home video releases produced during that era still remain in-print.

*** Nowadays, like several examples above, it's no longer applicable, as the two now have separate performers (Big Bird is performed by Matt Vogel and Oscar by Eric Jacobson).

*** Likewise, the same song, as well as the slightly later "Girls of the World," features both Zoe and Prairie Dawn, characters performed (at the time) by Fran Brill. Appearances of the two together following Brill's retirement now subvert this, as Zoe is now performed by Jennifer Barnhart and Prairie Dawn by Stephanie D'Abruzzo.

** Subverted in later years for Grover and Cookie Monster, a duo that previously didn't feature in many segments together due to both being performed by Creator/FrankOz. Grover (as well as Bert) is now performed by Eric Jacobson and Cookie by David Rudman, meaning the duo have been paired up in several episodes and promotional appearances.
*** Played straight for the '90s version of "Take a Rest": Bert, Cookie Monster, ''and'' Grover all feature in the song, with all three singing together at the song's end.

** Unlike Oz's characters above, Jim Henson's characters seldom appeared together even after his death, as both Kermit the Frog and Ernie were taken over by Steve Whitmire, and Kermit also seldom appeared on the show. This was finally subverted for a press conference ahead of the ''Muppet Retrospectacle'' concert in New Zealand, where [[Music/FlightOfTheConchords Bret MacKenzie]] interviewed both Kermit and Ernie at the same time, as Kermit is now performed by Matt Vogel and Ernie by Peter Linz.

** Jerry Nelson continued to voice his characters (including the Count and Mr. Johnson) and make occasional on-screen appearances until his death in 2012, though he had had to give up puppeteering due to failing health several years earlier. New material he had recorded prior to his passing was still premiering as late as 2014.

* ExiledFromContinuity: Not quite played entirely straight with Kermit the Frog. He doesn't appear too often on the show now that he's owned by Disney, but classic clips featuring him occasionally show up (particularly on the ''Old School'' [=DVDs=], which have a copyright notice that mentions him in between the credits and the PBS logo). He also appears in "Elmo's World: Frogs" as a treat for ''Sesame Street''[='=]s 40th anniversary and shows up in a television special celebrating its fiftieth.

** In 2019, it was announced that the streaming service Creator/HBOMax will make a [[https://www.sesameworkshop.org/press-room/press-releases/hbo-max-and-sesame-workshop-announce-new-content-partnership-cementing broad collection of episodes...selected from the past fifty years--many available to the public for the first time ever]]. Upon launch, over 550 episodes of the main series were made available, 55 of which were newly available.
*** However, 200 classic episodes were removed on August 19, 2022, putting them in limbo once again.

* AwesomeDearBoy: This, combined with SoMyKidsCanWatch, is often the reason many celebrities agree to do a project with ''Sesame Street''.

* StrictlyFormula: From Season 33 to present.

** Richard Hunt disliked Elmo heavily when briefly preforming the character, so much so that he ended up throwing the puppet to Kevin Clash during one session, asking him to do something with the puppet, which he very much did, going on to establish the character as known today.