Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Sesame Street Characters From Around The World

We all know that The Sesame Street Series has been around for a very long time, so we should be aware of the influence it has around the world, that's why i wanted to share all the more popular sesame street characters from around the world other than in its headquarter in the United States. There are actually lots of interesting sesame street characters out there, some of them even have the uniqueness and quality to be included in the main show of the series, to be up there with the likes of Elmo, Bert and Ernie, Big bird, and the others. From this point we could see that there is literally no limit when it comes to imagination for the team behind the original sesame street.



Tommie (Netherlands)

Sesame Street Characters Around The World Tommie
Sesame Street Characters From Around The World Tommie

Tommie is a doglike character from Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street.
Tommie is six years old. He is clever, energetic and creative and likes to invent things. He is also a little naughty and likes to do things his own way. Tommie can write a few words, including his own name, which he is very proud of.
Sesame Street Characters Around The World Tommie
Tommie from Netherlands

Tommie is famous for his own made up exclamations, like "Poe hee!" and "Hotseflots!", and wearing all sorts of objects on his head. In the 2005-2006 season, Tommie got his own racing car.


Kami (South Africa)

Sesame Street Characters Around The World Kami
Sesame Street Characters Around The World Kami

Sesame Street Characters Around The World Kami with Whoopi Goldberg
Kami and Whoopi Goldberg at the 2002 World AIDS Day at the United Nations
Kami is a monster from Takalani Sesame, the South African co-production of Sesame Street. She made international news in September 2002 when she was introduced as the world's first HIV-positive Muppet.


Brosh (Israel)

Sesame Street Characters Around The World Brosh Israel
Sesame Street Characters Around The World Brosh
Brosh is a character from Sippuray Sumsum, the second solo Israeli co-production of Sesame Street. He is a seven-year-old character with orange fur and red hair. He is responsible to a fault and loves order. His day is run according to a strict schedule that he expects others to follow too. Along with this love of structure comes a real competitiveness. Brosh likes to win, losing just is not part of his plan.


Nimnim (Egypt)

Sesame Street Characters Around The World Nimnim Egypt
Sesame Street Characters Around The World Nimnim
Nimnim is a large, green, fuzzy full-bodied character from Alam Simsim, the Egyptian co-production of Sesame Street.
Nimnim is a charming character who delights in life and nature. He is very young, but wise for his age. Although he is big—almost 2 meters tall—he is sweet-natured, gentle, and patient. To Nimnim, everything is fresh and amazing. He reacts deeply and with genuine emotion to all new experiences. He loves to share his love and enthusiasm for life and nature with his many friends.


Khokha (Egypt)

Sesame Street Characters Around The World Khokha Egypt
Sesame Street Characters Around The World Khokha
Khokha is a peach-colored Monster who has black hair, with streaks of yellow and purple who lived on Alam Simsim, the Egyptian co-production of Sesame Street.
She is a four-year-old character with a passion for learning. She wants to know everything about everything. She is curious, creative, industrious, resourceful, and loves to solve problems. She enjoys making things and also taking things apart. Her friends often join her in her pretend workshop to create, invent, and have fun.


Xiao Mei Zi (China)

Sesame Street Characters Around The World Xiao Mei Zi China
Sesame Street Characters Around The World Xiao Mei Zi
Xiao Mei Zi is a character from Zhima Jie, the Chinese co-production of Sesame Street. Her name means "Little Plum".
She is a bright red, three-year-old monster, who loves to read books and listen to stories. Little Plum is very smart, quick, and curious. She is also innocent, naïve, extremely optimistic, and easily distracted. She tends to overlook messes and doesn’t mind her own messy hair. What a unique sesame street character, right?


Hu Hu Zhu (China)

Sesame Street Characters Around The World Hu Hu Zhu China
Sesame Street Characters Around The World Hu Hu Zhu
Hu Hu Zhu is a furry blue pig from Zhima Jie, the Chinese co-production of Sesame Street.
He is an ageless, furry, blue pig with many siblings and relatives who are all the same unique color. Hu Hu Zhu admires his blue fur and tail and takes meticulous care of both. He loves the arts especially opera and enjoys singing despite his untrained voice. One more singer in the whole sesame street character squad.


Samson (Germany)

Sesame Street Characters Around The World Samson Germany
Sesame Street Characters Around The World Samson
Samson is a character from Sesamstrasse, the German co-production of Sesame Street.
He was one of the first two local Muppets on Sesamstrasse, and remained a regular character until 2010.

Samson is a sweet, big shaggy brown bear. He has a black spot on his nose and two large sneakers on his feet. He is big and tough, and a little clumsy. He is probably the most underrated sesame street characters to date.

Lola (Mexico)

Sesame Street Characters Around The World Lola Mexico
Sesame Street Characters From Around The World Lola
Lola is a pink monster who lives on Plaza Sésamo, the Mexican co-production of Sesame Street. She appears in the Street segments of the show, and also has her own segment, "Lola Aventuras".
Lola is a furry pink girl with a fringe of orange feathers. The four-year-old loves riddles, rhymes, songs, and surprises. She also likes counting, numbers, the letter "L" and the color pink. Haha... Would be nice if she was among those sesame street characters who people will remember for so long.


Zeliboba (Russia)

Sesame Street Characters Around The World Zeliboba Russia
Sesame Street Characters Around The World Zeliboba
Zeliboba is a full-bodied character on Ulitsa Sezam, the Russian co-production of Sesame Street. The character was originally created by Ed Christie with a coat of soft brown fur and leaves. When presented to the Russian producers, though, they requested that he be made blue, the color traditionally associated with spirits in Russian culture.
Ed Christie considers Zeliboba his favorite character creation; he remarked that it resembles a large moving mulch pile.
Sesame Street Characters Around The World Zeliboba Russia
Zeliboba in action
Zeliboba is a tall furry blue spirit who enjoys nature and lives in the hollow of a gigantic oak tree. He is a very large, somewhat awkward, kind-hearted, warm and trusting character. He has an exceptional nose, which he uses to detect smells, moods, the weather, and even music. Whenever he encounters something new, he sniffs it, he will knows for sure if he was to be awarded as one of the most admired sesame street characters, i mean he will know he has to sniff the trophy.

Those are actually not all of them, there's still so much more we could share but decided not to because we believe that the sesame street characters above already represents most of them as a whole.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Top 5 Funniest Sesame Street Characters

This time it is the funniest sesame street characters that i will try to share and discuss with you fans out there, you should already know that i have shared the most popular characters in my previous post, right? Well, that was a category where most people already knew about, because it's most popular, you know what i mean, right? But this time, it is really a matter of perspective whether a character is funny or not, they might be funny for some, but not at all to others, i'll let you decide.
Now that you know my purpose, let's begin the funniest ride from the undeniably glowing sesame street characters below

Grover

Funniest Sesame Street Characters Grover
Grover

Funniest Sesame Street Characters Grover
Funniest Sesame Street Characters Grover

Grover is one sesame street character who describes himself as a cute and furry little monster. He rarely uses contractions when he speaks, giving him a distinctive vocal pattern, in comparison to many other television characters. He is multi-talented, taking on many different roles and professions throughout the series.


Mr. Snuffleupagus

Funniest Sesame Street Characters Mr. Snuffleupagus
Mr. Snuffleupagus

Funniest Sesame Street Characters Mr. Snuffleupagus
Funniest Sesame Street Characters Snuffy And Big Bird

Mr. Snuffleupagus first appeared on Sesame Street in the third season. When he first appeared, many of us assumed that he was Big Bird's imaginary friend, due to a series of coincidences and very near-miss encounters that continually kept Snuffleupaguses from human interactions. Big Bird would often try to find ways for Snuffy to meet the adults, but something would always cause Snuffy to leave before the humans could see him. Sometimes, all it would take for the adults to see Mr. Snuffleupagus would be to turn their heads, yet they usually wouldn't do so until Snuffy had already gone.
It is really one of the funniest thing seeing all that.

Count Von Count

Funniest Sesame Street Characters Count von Count
Count von Count

Funniest Sesame Street Characters Count von Count
Funniest Sesame Street Characters Count von Count

Count von Count is a mysterious but friendly vampire-like character. He first appeared on the show in the Season 4 in 1972, counting blocks in a sketch with Bert and Ernie.
The Count has a compulsive love of counting, which was called arithmomania, he will count anything and everything, regardless of size, amount, or how much annoyance he causes others around him. In one song he stated that he sometimes even counts himself, LMAO. When he finishes counting, The Count laughs and announces his total, which sometimes even appears on screen. Then it usually accompanied by a crash of thunder and a flash of lightning, what a way to make us laugh out loud, truly one of the best moment for one the funniest sesame street characters, well deserved.


Big Bird

Funniest Sesame Street Characters Big Bird
Big Bird

Funniest Sesame Street Characters Big Bird
Funniest Sesame Street Characters Big Bird

Once again we just have to feature this big yellow creature, Big Bird, which is the world-famous bird that has been a central character on Sesame Street for the program's run, premiering in the first episode. The big yellow bird can roller skate, ice skate, dance, sing, write poetry, draw, and even ride a unicycle, pretty talented for a character described in the TV show as a 6-year-old. But despite this wide array of talents, he is prone to frequent misunderstandings, like he even thinks that the alphabet is one long word, ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ, LOL.


Cookie Monster

Funniest Sesame Street Characters Cookie Monster
Cookie Monster

Funniest Sesame Street Characters Cookie Monster
Funniest Sesame Street Characters Cookie Monster

As his name implies, his primary craving is cookies, but he can and often does consume anything and everything, from apples and pie to letters, flatware, and hubcaps. When Cookie Monster eats something, he makes a very distinct, loud munching "noise", often interpreted as "OMM-nom-nom-nom..."
Cookie Monster has a deep, growly voice, and generally speaks with simplistic diction, saying everything with "me" for instance, "Me want cookie!", as opposed to everybody probably already knew "I want a cookie!" Truly deserved as one of the funniest sesame street characters.

Just to remind you, this particular list is not specifically ordered by their funny level but it is just randomly ordered, because to be honest i am not sure how to rank them, in fact, i wanted you to decide who is the funniest sesame street characters, by voting in the poll that i provided below, so that it could make most people happy because it was quoted from you after all.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Who Is Most Popular Sesame Street Character Of All Time

These guys has been around for a very long time now, it's been 40 seasons and 4300 episodes from the day they debuted on television on November 10th 1969, that makes them 41 years old. And here we wanted to find out who are the most popular character among them with your help we hope. Let's bring on the most popular sesame street characters of all time to the world. I really believe we could pull this off if we work together. We will provide the initial list of maybe 5 or 6 characters from the series which we think gets the more positive responds from the audience, and you guys could help us by leaving your comments and casting a vote in our poll located in the end of this post. That way we aim to have the best list around, because it will be mostly based on the audience, it is literally from the audience and back to the audience. But before you really take this list for one character's favor, this list is not based on popularity rank, it is just randomly ordered.


BIG BIRD

Most Popular Sesame Street Character Big Bird
Most Popular Sesame Street Character Of All Time Big Bird

Most Popular Sesame Street Character Big Bird
Big Bird
He has starred in his own movie, and he is arguably the biggest characters, well a least in body size he is, as for being the most popular sesame street character of all time, hmm... we'll let you decide. He is an eight-foot two-inch tall bright yellow bird. He can roller skate, ice skate, dance, sing, write poetry, draw and even ride a unicycle. But despite this wide array of talents, he is prone to frequent misunderstandings, well that's one of his signature too, so don't take that away from him. I guess we don't need to say more about him as you all are his fan and you should almost know anything about him, right? You sure knows that he lives in a large nest behind the 123 Sesame Street brownstone and he has a teddy bear named Radar. Radar was given to Big Bird by Gary Burghoff when he guest starred on the show. Later on, however, it was said that Big Bird got the bear as a gift from Mr. Hooper.

In 1985, Big Bird was the star of his own movie Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird alongside the cast of Sesame Street. The plot focused on him being moved away to live with his own species by a meddling social-worker.


ELMO

Most Popular Sesame Street Character Elmo
Most Popular Sesame Street Character Of All Time Elmo

Most Popular Sesame Street Character Elmo
Elmo
In Asia he is probably the most popular sesame street character, because most parents play his videos to their toddler childs. He is a furry red monster with large white eyes and an orange nose. He currently hosts the last full 15 minute segment on Sesame Street, Elmo's World, which is aimed at toddlers. He is accompanied by his goldfish Dorothy and silent Charlie Chaplin–like characters named Mr. Noodle, Mr. Noodle's Brother Mr. Noodle, and sometimes, Mr. Noodle's sister Miss Noodle.Elmo is self-described as three-and-a-half years old and characteristically refers to himself in the third person.You should know that Elmo is the only non-human puppet ever to testify before the U.S. Congress. At the request and with the assistance of Rep. Duke Cunningham, he testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education in April 2002, urging support for increased funding in music education.


BERT AND ERNIE

Most Popular Sesame Street Character Bert And Ernie
Most Popular Sesame Street Character Of All Time Bert And Ernie

Most Popular Sesame Street Character Bert And Ernie
Bert And Ernie
Should we separate them even in this individual list of most popular sesame street character of all time debate? I guess not. Bert and Ernie are two roommates on the long-running television show Sesame Street. The two appear together in numerous skits, forming a comic duo that is one of the centerpieces of the program. Bert and Ernie were built by Don Sahlin from a simple design scribbled by Muppets creator Jim Henson. According to Frank Oz, Sahlin also defined their characters on the basis of their physical appearance: Ernie was an orange and Bert was a banana. In a classic pairing, Ernie appears chubby while Bert appears quite skinny.A typical Bert and Ernie skit follows one of two similar patterns, both beginning with Ernie devising a hare-brained idea and Bert calmly attempting to talk him out of it. Usually this ends with Bert losing his temper and Ernie remaining oblivious to his own bad idea. Sometimes Ernie's idea miraculously turns out to be correct, much to Bert's evident frustration.


OSCAR THE GROUCH

Most Popular Sesame Street Character Oscar The Grouch
Oscar The Grouch

Most Popular Sesame Street Character Oscar The Grouch
Most Popular Sesame Street Character Of All Time Oscar The Grouch
This next contender of most popular sesame street character of all time used to have the color orange, that was during the 1969–1970 season, but now he is that green creature who has no nose, and lives in a garbage can. His favorite thing in life is trash; evidence for this is the song "I Love Trash".
You should know that Oscar inspired an Apple Macintosh hack written by Eric B. Shapiro and shown at the 1989 MacHack conference, featuring a singing animated Oscar that appeared from the trash can whenever a file was thrown away. The hack was so popular that some parents lost the entire contents of their hard disks to preschoolers wanting to see more of Oscar.

COOKIE MONSTER

Most Popular Sesame Street Character Cookie Monster
Cookie Monster

Most Popular Sesame Street Character Cookie Monster
Most Popular Sesame Street Character Of All Time Cookie Monster
This last but not least contender of the most popular sesame street character of all time could become annoying on some occasion, but he is the persistent one, he is best known for his voracious appetite and his famous eating phrases: "Me want cookie!", "Me eat cookie!", and "Om Nom nom nom" (said through a mouth full of food). He often eats anything and everything, including danishes, donuts, lettuce, apples, bananas, as well as normally inedible objects such as salt and pepper shakers, signs, napkins, pencils, typewriters, telephones, motorcycles, Peabody Awards, trucks, a safe, a VW Beetle, and the Letter of the Day. However, as his name suggests, his preferred food is cookies. Chocolate chip cookies are his favorite kind; oatmeal cookies are his second favorite. He is known to have a mother, a younger sister, and an identically-designed cousin, who all share his characteristic blue fur and "googly eyes".
Cookie Monster's theme song, "C is for Cookie", is one of the most famous songs from Sesame Street.

Just to let you know, this will not be the only post about sesame street characters as we will be back with many post about it only based on many other category like funniest characters, most featured characters, and many other. All in the relation of sesame street characters, that's why we said you will surely enjoy our blog if you are a fan of the series.