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  Chapter 10: 50 Years, A Pandemic & Counting... Not many, if any, TV shows have managed to stay afloat for 50 years. And in 2019, both Sesame Street and Scooby-Doo both made that achievement. But this biography is not about Scooby-Doo, so let’s focus on Sesame Street’s 50th birthday. So how did Sesame Workshop decide to celebrate the show that gave us all 50 years of education, friendship, silliness, music, and imagination? Why, the only way you can do that! By having a year long celebration!! And let me tell you guys, there was so much great Sesame-related stuff this year that I don’t think I’ll be able to go through every single thing, and we’re already close enough to the end as it is, so I’ll just highlight the top twenty-five things I loved the most, so try and keep up. #1: This awesome song by Thomas Rhett called “This Is My Street”, which really really REALLY has to be heard to understand how amazing it is. #2: An amazing hour-long special that I also did a review on. ...

  Chapter 9: New Digs HBO and Sesame Street. Not two things you’d really think would go together terribly well. Regardless, in late 2015, Sesame Workshop made a deal with the Home Box Office that they’d premiere new Sesame episodes, before they would air on PBS Kids, nine months later. And despite certain people and parodies saying otherwise, Sesame Street was not changing its core motive: Teaching kids in a fun and entertaining way, but that didn’t mean there would be no changes at all. On the contrary, this would probably be the biggest set of changes the show had ever made. Yes, even more so, than Around the Corner. And like Around the Corner, the set was getting a redesign, but instead of expanding the set, changes were made to the set they already had. And I will go over all of them, right now. Elmo and his family would move to the 123 building and take residence in Gordon, Susan and Chris’s old apartment. Oscar would move his trash can to the left side of the building, right ...