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  Hi everyone, 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. This is another episode I was really looking forward to, because it’s on my favorite human character, and one who doesn’t get nearly as talked about as much as she should: Gina Jefferson. Now, in the past, I’ve described Gina as the prettiest, most developed, most amazing cast member of Sesame Street, and all of that is still true to this day. But in this episode, like I usually do, I’m going to go into detail on why this is true. So Gina is played by the equally pretty and amazing Alison Bartlett, who like many of us, grew up watching Sesame Street as a kid. She shared my frustrations of Snuffy never being seen by the adults, and actually got to shake hands with Mr. Hooper during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade in 1973, or 74. She started acting when she was 12 on stage/broadway productions, but unlike the character she...

  Hi everyone, 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. Today, we’re looking at someone much newer than everyone in this series so far, but has been around long enough to qualify, Abby Cadabby. (Which, yes, is a play on the word, Abracadabra.) Abby is a four year old fairy-in-training, who's still learning about how to properly do magic. What’s her story? Let’s poof our way into this and find out. So, the year was 2006, and Elmo-mania was still in effect. Meanwhile, Sesame Workshop was planning to release a new character that would hopefully reach the same popularity level Elmo was at. They wanted this character to be a major female player that would hopefully click with the girls watching at home. They also wanted this character to be from a different culture, but not an actual human one. So after much brainstorming, they came up with the idea of a pink fairy character from...

  Hi everyone, 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. Today, we’re looking at a monster who’s not as popular as Elmo, Cookie and Grover, but still an important one nonetheless: Telly. Telly Monster, as most of us know him is an emotional, neurotic, worrying mess. The Chuckie Finster/Piglet/Courage of Sesame Street. But he didn’t start out that way. Telly was conceived in the late 70s, as a monster who loved to watch television. Hence the name. Puppetered by Bob Payne, he would first appear in episode 1257 of season 10, where we would find him parked in the arbor on top of a crate, sitting very close to a TV he plugged in, with big, swirly eyes and long TV antenna sticking out of his head. So as you can see, Telly’s thing was that he was always too busy watching TV to do literally anything else. After filming the episode, the CTW realized: “Hmmm… maybe a monster who does no...