And he’s inarguably the most central human character introduced on the show this millennium. Notable Character Debut: As Gordon’s nephew and Alan’s assistant, newcomer Chris has one foot in 123 Sesame Street and the other in Hooper’s Store. And you know what’s great about that? I wasn’t just able to watch my daughter fall in love with my Sesame Street she was able to show me how to fall in love with hers. And one of them stars Prairie Freaking Dawn.īlink and you’d think it was still 1985. In the 13 years from the Season 30 premiere to the Season 42 finale, a handful of episodes would spread their street stories throughout the episode, but only two episodes were produced without Elmo’s World. But wait! Remember when Anthony Strand called Season 29 “ Sesame Street’s last rodeo in its original form”? I think he’d be as surprised as I was to discover that Season 38 featured not one but two episodes (41) in Sesame Street’s honest-to-goodness original form. Short-lived recurring segments from earlier season like “Monster Clubhouse” and “Journey to Ernie” had been abandoned and not yet been replaced by the likes of “Abby’s Flying Fairy School” and “Ernie and Bert’s Great Adventures,” which left room for classic Ernie and Bert sketches and songs in almost every episode.Īs for the street stories – sure, it took me a bit of time to get used to having them all told at the beginning of the episode instead of peppered throughout. ![]() But old favorites were still fixtures: Maria and Gordon were especially integral to the street stories, not yet relegated to emeritus status. And Chris and Murray were making their debuts. The next generation of characters was just beginning to take shape. When we happened upon this batch of episodes on Amazon Prime, it felt like the perfect blend of old and new, with something for each of us. And while she ended up loving classic songs and sketches like “Rubber Duckie” and “C Is for Cookie,” the full-length episodes from the 70s and 80s frustrated her. I went looking for classic episodes to imprint my pop culture preferences on my child. So I did what any xennial parent would do. The eclectic mix of songs, sketches, and animations that had defined my childhood had made way for “programming blocks” that spent long stretches of time on CGI and stop-motion versions of our favorite characters instead of their more charming, furry and fleecy counterparts.Įlmo’s World wasn’t even on anymore. It was circa Season 43 or 44, and - after 30 years – the show’s format was virtually unrecognizable. I started watching Sesame Street as an adult when my oldest daughter was two or three years old. We came of age during the the show’s Follow That Bird era, couldn’t pick Elmo out of a lineup until he started showing up in store windows, and still don’t know what happened “Around the Corner.” Wait, “What’s a xennial,” you ask? Xennials are the microgeneration on the cusp between Gen X and Mill ennials. If you’re a xennial like me, Season 38 is a real sweet spot for watching Sesame Street with your kids. The number with that might be a little higher.This week’s review was written by Tough Pigs’ own Peter Papazoglou. This doesn't count the movies and TV and direct to video specials that existed of SS. And if you actually have access to the show's entire 4000+ episode library, which, chances are, you don't.īut this is only just the regular episodes. But that is IF you're binge watching all of the episodes straight non-stop. Divide that number by two, and you get an 105 hours.Ĥ,381 plus 105 equals 4,486 total hours, which equals a grand total of 186.91 days. ![]() Doing the math on that, as of Season 51, there has been an additional 210 half hour episodes. ![]() After Season 46, the show was cut down to 30 minutes, but expanded the episode count to 35 episodes per season. That helps add things up as that would make 4,381 hours. There were 4,381 episodes after the hour long format ended after Season 45 (Muppet Wiki lists it as 4,386, but I'm eliminating the test pilot shows here).
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