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  Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Sesame Seeds, the series where we look at the progression of a Sesame Street character, from humble beginnings to present day. Today, we’re looking at a muppet who stands eight foot two, with 4,000 yellow turkey feathers and a positive outlook that has captured the hearts of many people, young and old, and a muppet who’s celebrating their birthday today. And that muppet is Big Bird. Now even though Elmo is the most known Sesame Street character, Big Bird is definitely second, because for the first few decades, he was where Elmo was, but how did it all happen? Let’s find out. It all started when Sesame Street was screening their first few test pilots, where the muppets and humans were segregated to their own segments throughout the show. But research was showing that kids were WAY more interested in the muppets than they were the humans. So there was only one solution: Bring the muppets to the street. So Jim Henson immediately started sketching plans ...

  This is something new I’m trying out, so please let me know what you think of it. One of the reasons we love TV is character. It doesn’t really matter what your premise is, as long as you have good characters that your audience can watch and connect with, your show is gonna do great. But, as TV shows go on, these characters change, in either design, personality, maturity, or sometimes all of the above. And our lovable friends on Sesame Street are definitely no exception. For 51 years and counting, Sesame Street has created over a thousand characters generations have grown up watching, and while a good chunk of them don’t have that much significance, most of them do, and that’s what we’re here to talk about. My name is Noah, and this is Sesame Seeds . For this series, my objective is to spotlight one, possibly even two Sesame Street characters, either muppet or human, and go over how they started out, their history, my experiences with them, and where they are now. And I’m startin...

  Hogwarts. For those of you not in the know, Hogwarts is the main setting of the Harry Potter movies and books. It's a wizard school where Harry, Ron, Hermione and the rest of the characters learn wizardry and have crazy adventures. In Hogwarts, each student is divided into to one of four groups: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. Now, choosing Harry Potter houses is sort of like a who you are as a person type of question, the house you choose says a lot about your personality, they say, so after thinking about for a few days, I decided to play the role of Sorting Hat, and put our Sesame Street pals into whatever houses they would fit the best in. This wasn't an easy task mind you, I'm nowhere close to the biggest Harry Potter fan ever, so I had to do my research, and consult more knowledged people. And while results varied, the biggest challenge for me was trying to decipher who went where, because on a surface level, it would look like a good majority/at le...