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hello. this is me, myself, & I. That is all for now. but be4 i go, an article i wrote on sesame street.

Sesame Street The hit new show. Or is it? Yesterday, on November 10th, 1969, the hit show Sesame Street premiered on the National Educational Television network. This revolutionary new show features “Muppets”, puppets that seemed to be real, with changing _expression, and moving mouths. These puppets are actually wire skeletons, with cloth stretched over the rubber in them (but don’t tell your kids that!!). Underneath the stage, up to four people per Muppet make these lovable characters sing, dance, and spring to life. Jim Henson, the mastermind behind the Muppets, has been intrigued by puppets all of his life. When Henson was thirteen years of age, televisions made their big debut into American life.. Jim was entranced by these “moving pictures”. His favorite show was “Kukla, Fran, and Ollie”, a puppet show. On this show Burr Tilstrom was the puppeteer, Fran a woman host, and Kukla, and Ollie being the puppets. This simple show with hand puppets and no written script, but it is what spurred on Jim’s dream to become a puppeteer. As soon as Henson was old enough to get a job, he approached all the little studios in Washington to apply. He soon found a station that needed a puppeteer for “The Junior Morning Show”. Working with another boy, he made some puppets for the show. These puppets were “Pierre”, a rat, and several cowboys. At this stage in his life, puppetry was merely a way for him to get on television. While his career was still young, Henson went to college, taking many courses, including one in puppetry. While in college, he got a job, working on a show called “Sam and Friends”. The character Sam was unable to speak, but merely danced and clowned around while music played in the background. The show was only about five minutes long, but it made puppet history. Sam and his co-stars were no ordinary puppets. They were the forefathers of the “Muppets”. “Kermit”. Does the name ring a bell? One of the most famous “Muppets, he made his first nation-wide appearance on “The Tonight Show” in 1956. On this appearance, he wore a blonde wig, and sang the song “I’ve grown accustomed to your face” to a purple Muppet named Yorick. Also appearing on the show,was a monster who could eat his own face, and also try to eat Kermit. He was operated by the puppeteer Jane Nebel. This was the first time anyone had seen the Muppets outside of the Washington, D.C. / Baltimore area. Thereafter, the Muppets appeared on many national television programs. Kermit appeared with Bill Cosby, and other well known movie stars. Rowlf the Dog appeared on “The Jimmy Dean Show” in 1960, and became a regular. A year later, in 1957, the Muppets began to work in T.V. advertising. These commercials were a new style of commercial. Instead of straightforwardly selling products, they were humorous. In one such commercial, a happy Muppet asks a grouchy one, “What do you think of Wilkins Coffee?”, to which the grouch replies “I have never tried it”. The grouch is promptly blasted with a cannon, which was then turned onto the audience (that is, the people at home), along with the question “What do you think of Wilkins Coffee?”. Ads like these became popular quickly. You may ask, “What do these commercials have to do with “Sesame Street?”. This Muppet/ commercial mix are essentially what “Sesame Street” is. “Sesame Street” which premiered yesterday, is a series of real people interacting on the street in different plots, with short “commercials” in between. These commercials feature the Muppets, or different animations. They help teach time (with days of the week and clocks), Arithmetic (the number of the day, along with counting, and simple subtraction and addition), colors, and the basics of reading (letters and word recognition). Also included are segments that help teach how to lead a healthy life, such as Big Bird eating his apple. Henson’s commitment to a career in puppetry faltered at times. At one point he wished to be a painter. He traveled the European countries of Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and England, leaving friends in charge of his show “Sam and Friends”. But he was still interested in puppetry and visited the local puppet theaters while traveling. In the end, he came back to puppetry. What will “Sesame Street’s” newer shows contain? Will they stand the test of time? What new characters will the future reveal? What would our kids watch if Jim’s career collapsed? These are all questions we have, but for most of them, we can watch the show and find out. As for this article, it was brought to you by the letter “A” and the number “3". by the way: this is the way it is meant to be.