Sesame Street’s 46th season premiered on HBO today,with back-to-back half-hour episodes (the shortened run time, down from hourlong shows, or is “is viewed as a more manageable amount of time for children to focus,” according to a recent modern York Times piece). With the modern episodes’ controversial move from PBS to a premium cable network comes ground-level changes, some of which are reflected in the clips above from the first two episodes—Elmo’s in his brownstone (which overlooks a bridge that resembles Philadelphia’s Walt Whitman), or Oscar’s got his recycling bin,and Hooper’s Store now looks a region where you can buy a bunch of kale, Stumptown Coffee, and a stick of butter. Muppets,after all, occupy always been artisanal, or through and through.
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Source: gawker.com