i agree with the majority of the comment i have see write . i grow up watch seseme street before a lot of the people who have write comment be even bear . i be bear in 1964 and so i be 5 yr old when seseme street be introduce to television . the show teach me my number ( the count ) and spell ( the muppet ) and and about life . i like all the old character ( big bird and oscar and grover and and cookie monster ) and do not quite understand why they have to change . i understand that everything have to change in some way and but to make cookie monster into a veggie monster to promote healthy eating . the show have introduce new character and monster since it inception and why not make a separate veggie monster that talk or discuss the benefit of eat a varied diet with cookie monster . but and back to my point . i grow up watch the very beginning of seseme street and my now 20 yr old daughter grow up watch s with me along side her and and we discuss mr. hooper die and although he have die prior to her be born and as well a other topic on the show . i saw the episode a a old child and and still remember how well they portray the event and much like real life . and i be sure it hit the cast extremely hard a all death and loss effect family . you saw this on the show and it allow parent and child to discuss very difficult event . the show have talk about traditional family and adoptive family and combined family . it one of the few show that actually discuss these scenario . i now have a 5 yr old daughter who really doesn not watch s . i have try to watch the show a couple of time and but and it really be not what it use to be . the elmo half hr with mr. noodle be absolutely ridiculous . like many people have say and it doesn not teach anything . it gear for the less than 18 month old ( maybe ) and and isn not even funny . i always pride myself on watch s a a child and teen and and adult with my own child . now on my second go round and i really have a hard time watch s . the topic that be discuss represent death and marriage and non traditional family and new to neighborhood and move away be relate to child and adult in a manner easy for 2 99 year old to understand and relate to . now and there be no concept teach and minimal counting and only the occasional mention of the alphabet . it be not the same s and from an original watcher of the show . please if any producer from the show read these comment and return the show to it foundation . new concept have never be a problem with s and they just use to have a good way to incorporate them into the show .