40 Years of Sesame Street: Happy Birthday!!

This summer I did a series called 40 Years of Sesame Street in anticipation of the upcoming 40th anniversary of what is probably my favorite TV show of all time, Sesame Street.  Well I am excited to announce the day is finally here at that it is today that Jim Henson's wonderful brainchild turns 40!

To celebrate I'm going to re-post all the entries from my summer series (admittedly I only made it through about 20 days, not 40--but 20 days of SS is still a lot) that show how Sesame Street handles many of the issues we here at TakePart deal with and then I'm going to post a few special videos that will always be near and dear to my heart--my favorites and some birthday themed ones!

Before I get to that though I want encourage you to check out Google today and their Sesame Street inspired logo and also to go to the "act" section of this post to learn how you can support all the important work that Sesame Street does.

40 Years of Sesame Street: Recycling!
40 Years of Sesame Street: The Food Industry
40 Years of Sesame Street: Eating Healthy
40 Years of Sesame Street: The Oceans
40 Years of Sesame Street: Healthcare
40 Years of Sesame Street: School
40 Years of Sesame Steet : The Importance of Art
40 Years of Sesame Street: The Moon!
40 Years of Sesame Street: What is Weather?
40 Years of Sesame Street: In the Kitchen
40 Years of Sesame Street: The American Revolution
40 Years of Sesame Street: Flies!
40 Years of Sesame Street: Cooperation and Collaboration
40 Years of Sesame Street: Judaism
40 Years of Sesame Street: China
40 Years of Sesame Street: Learning Foreign Languages
40 Years of Sesame Street: Movie-watching

Highlight montage

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Love The Count so much - I used to dance to this ALL the time

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More dancing, this time with the always hilarious Bert!

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Grover will always be my hero

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The wonderful world of T-Shirts and Kermit the Frog

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Ernie and more dancing

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This still (and will always) makes me laugh

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Oscar + James Taylor = MAGIC

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How crayons are made!

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Teeny Little Super Guy

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Cookie Monster, Prarie Dawn and computers

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Bird and Snuffy at the DISCO!

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and finally, Happy Birthday!

*photo by Steel Wool (CC)