Best Sesame Street characters

Gonger

I can tell you what weren't the best. These fricking aliens gave me nightmares.

Don Music. They actually banned the character sometime in the 1980's.

Beat me to it.

Cookie Monster and The Count, too close to call.

You still watchin it for the kids not the animals, creeper

1.) Oscar
2.) Snuffleupagus
3.) Mr. Hooper
4.) Guy Smiley
5.) Maria

True story: First, in 1971/1972, Sesame Street was pretty much the only TV show for kids that had black kids on it. As a youngster raised in South Louisiana, it didn’t take long for me to learn the “preferred” term for black people. I didn’t know it was bad. I was 3 or 4, for chrissake! SO I always thought the 2nd verse of the theme song went like this:

Come and play
Everything's A-OK
Friendly n****** there
That's where we meet

I mean all the kids were friendly, and a good many of them were black, so it made sense.
I found out that that was NOT, in fact, the word used when I was in kindergarten. The teacher rolled out the tv and played Sesame Street for us and we all started singing the song as loudly as we could. That’s when I learned that word was a bad word.

And that youthful indiscretion is why I can never be a Supreme Court Judge.