Sesame Seeds (Episode 15): Rosita
Hola amigos, and welcome back to Sesame Seeds, the series where we look at the progression of a Sesame Street character from humble beginnings to the present day. You may have noticed I greeted you in Spanish. Well, that’s because today, we’re looking at Rosita *La Monstrua De Las Cuevas* (*The Monster Of The Caves*) Now Rosita is a young monster from Mexico, who’s been used to help kids learn many things about hispanic culture, but she went through a few changes, before she could get to where she is now. Before her creation, there was one notable hispanic muppet: (not counting the characters from Plaza Sesamo) Osvaldo the Grouch, a local that Oscar met and befriended in season 11, when he and the cast took a trip to Puerto Rico. But in the early 90s, Jim Henson wanted to come up with a new character of latin descent that would actually become a major player, but being that he himself wasn’t from latin descent, he figured he was gonna need some help, and he found some in the form...