# Sesame Street Sesame Street is the long-running American children's show whose puppet skits and celebrity guest bits became a bottomless well of source clips for YouTube Poop, MAD remixes, and reaction edits. A 2008 Elmo segment with Jack Black defining the word octagon is the single most-recycled moment, spawning countless remix videos across YouTube. ## Origin Sesame Street premiered on public television on November 10, 1969, created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett and built around Jim Henson's muppets[1]. By August 2014 the show had aired 44 seasons and more than 4,000 episodes, giving remixers decades of archived footage to pull from[1]. The show itself is not a meme, but the meme-adjacent life of Sesame Street took off once clips started migrating to YouTube. Jack Black's Octagon segment aired in 2008 and became a signature source clip for remixers, cited on Know Your Meme as common material for YouTube Poop Music Videos and MAD video remixes[1][2]. - **Platform:** PBS (source show) / YouTube (viral remix spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 1969 ## Overview As a meme, Sesame Street mostly lives on YouTube, where clips from the show get chopped, looped, and pitched around into YouTube Poop and MAD-style remix videos[1]. Elmo, Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie, and the many celebrity guest segments give remixers a rotating cast of instantly recognizable characters, which is a big reason the show is such a common source[1]. The single most-quoted bit is Jack Black's Octagon, a 2008 segment in which Elmo asks Jack Black to define an octagon and Black responds with an oddly intense performance[1]. That mismatch between wholesome puppet and unhinged guest is exactly the kind of raw material remix communities gravitate toward, and the segment kept showing up in YouTube Poop videos for years afterward[2]. Beyond Black, other guest star clips and old classic Sesame Street sketches feed a steady drip of reaction GIFs, out-of-context screenshots, and edits[1]. ## How It Spread The remix afterlife plays out mostly on YouTube. The Jack Black octagon clip has been re-uploaded, pitched, and looped in various fan edits, and other Sesame Street segments have been used the same way[2][3]. Related videos surface across the platform under both official Sesame Street uploads and fan channels[4][5]. Sesame Street the brand also grew a large official social footprint alongside the remix scene. As of August 2014, the show's Facebook page had roughly 840,000 likes, its Twitter around 860,000 followers, and its YouTube channel had passed one million subscribers[1]. Fan communities gathered on Tumblr blogs like fuckyeahsesamestreet, on the /r/sesamestreet subreddit, and on DeviantArt, which hosted over 12,000 pieces of Sesame Street fan art by that point[1]. The show's status as a cultural fixture also kept it visible in awards coverage, with 11 Primetime Emmy nominations in Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming (six wins), a Grammy for Best Recording for Children in 1971, and Peabody Awards in 1970 and 1990[1]. That decades-long run is a big part of why the show is still such a reliable well for remix creators[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Sesame Street? Sesame Street is an American educational children's show that premiered in 1969 on public television, using Jim Henson's muppets, and its clips are now a heavy source for YouTube Poop and other remix videos[1]. ### Where did Sesame Street come from? It was created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett and first aired on November 10, 1969, on public television[1]. ### What does Sesame Street mean as a meme? As a meme, Sesame Street refers to the practice of remixing show clips, especially the 2008 Jack Black octagon segment with Elmo, into YouTube Poop and MAD-style edits[2]. ### How do you use Sesame Street clips in memes? Remixers typically cut, loop, and pitch-shift Sesame Street segments, with Jack Black's Octagon being one of the most commonly reused clips in YouTube Poop videos[2]. ### Is Sesame Street still popular? The show had run 44 seasons and over 4,000 episodes as of August 2014, with more than one million YouTube subscribers on its official channel, keeping it a classic remix source[1]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmICU1gMAAw]() 2. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sesame-street]() 3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1__qqnfue0]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyYZfSmwH3c]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ2taTzhwrI]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/sesame-street Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library