When I heard that Sesame Street was doing a parody of Mad Men I seriously broke out in song. "These are two of my FAV-OR-ITE THINGS!" My two favorite things came up in the another context recently.

Apart from the giant yellow bird, the red furry monster and the blue Muppet with an insatiable appetite for cookies, “Sesame Street” appears as real as the New York City streets that inspired it.

When "Sesame Street" was created in 1969, it was a test - could television teach children? The program was developed with lower-income families in mind, and the set was meant to represent a block in ...