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Lloyd Morrisett, who helped launch 'Sesame Street,' dies at 93

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By MARK KENNEDY

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A fantastic show!

Using television as an educational medium is obvious but even now still not developed enough.

Lloyd Morrisett was truly a pioneer

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God Bless Floyd Morrisett. He and Jim Henson helped make learning SO much fun. My kindergarten teacher was a nitwit but watching this show after school made education an adventure for me and many others. In the succeeding grades we'd watch this show (and the 'Electric Company') on PBS while our teacher would be grading papers.

I've seen 'Sesame Street' in several languages on TV and it's essential to kids everywhere. 'Captain Kangaroo' was good, the 'violent' cartoons didn't make me a bad person (so those namby-pambies had better shut-it-up), 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' continues on with an animated series and one with puppets, and the term 'Romper Room' is a despairingly slang phrase because that show was marked awesome in its flat-out suckability. It was insulting to me even when I was that age.

RIP Floyd Morisette, and say hello to Jim Henson, Fred Rogers and Dr. Seuss for me!

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A truly wonderful human. We need more.

“Sesame Street” was designed by education professionals and child psychologists with one goal: to help low-income and minority students aged 2-5 overcome some of the deficiencies they had when entering school. 

And now it is on HBO Max streaming, where you have to pay to get it, keeping out the very children it was originally meant for. "shame" is not a strong enough word.

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Absolutely brilliant kids educational progam....grew up on 'Sesame strreet' ....Such a shame that over the past few years he allowed his pupputs to be used to promote that so called vaccine on kids who didnt need it !

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Every morning it was Zoom or Electric Company, then Sesame Street and then Mister Rogers. This is why I'm so smart.

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japancatJan. 26  11:14 am JST

Absolutely brilliant kids educational progam....grew up on 'Sesame strreet' ....Such a shame that over the past few years he allowed his pupputs to be used to promote that so called vaccine on kids who didnt need it !

CoVid is a real problem facing all of us and children need to know this, so they don't become muppets to these lippy motormouth cretins who keep on telling lies, ignorance, superstition and stupidity.

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