My children grew up with Sesame Street. When they were toddlers, we enjoyed the “hard-working dog” clip, the “one of these things is not like the others” matching game, and laughed at the interaction of the friendships between humans and Jim Henson’s Muppets. For those very earliest years of their lives, Sesame Street nudged little brains into action in a delightfully light-hearted way.
The award-winning long-running show has been on-air for 46 years. Now comes news that Sesame Street shop owner “Maria” is retiring after 44 years of playing the same character that generations of children have grown to know throughout the years (see Maria, surely the most-loved person on TV, is leaving ‘Sesame Street’):