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Sesame Street: Media

American television program

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Big Bird in Sesame Street
Big Bird reading a storybook during a taping of Sesame Street, 2008.
Mark Lennihan/AP Images
Cookie Monster
Cookie Monster with milk and chocolate-chip cookies, 2016.
Mikael Buck/Shutterstock.com
Sesame Street: Bert and Ernie
Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street.
Georg Wendt—EPA/Shutterstock.com
Big Bird from Sesame Street meets first lady Pat Nixon
Sesame Street's Big Bird meets first lady Pat Nixon in the White House at...
White House Photo/Nixon Presidential Library and Museum/NARA