Sesame Street characters take part in a photo shoot for today's Google doodle commemorating the show's 40th anniversary.
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Sesame Street Google doodles coming to a close?
The seventh Sesame Street Google doodle appeared Tuesday, along with a high resolution gallery of the iconic images.
By Andrew Heining | 11.10.09
OK, it was cute – for a while.
But we at Innovation can’t be the only ones not exactly sad to see Sesame Street characters make their exit from Google’s homepage.
In a post on the company’s official blog, Google’s Marissa Mayer acknowledged that the furry creatures that Google visitors had seen hanging around the site’s homepage were there to celebrate the 40th birthday of Sesame Street, the longest-running children’s show on television.
In addition, Mayer invited readers to look through a gallery of high-resolution images of the Sesame Street Google Doodles, including one that gives a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the ensemble image gracing screens today (We’ve got it at the top of this post, but Mayer encouraged fans to make the doodles their desktop backgrounds and hang them around their cubicles.)
US visitors to Google’s homepage saw a line-up that included Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Bert & Ernie, Oscar, Elmo, and Count von Count, but a look through the gallery reveals that other countries’s Google pages hosted a few characters a little less-familiar to US viewers. Ieniemienie from the Netherlands, Boombah and Chamki from India, Abigail from Israel, Kami from South Africa, and Mexico’s Abelardo Montoya all posed for their countries’ Google hompages last week. (Also, German Google took a break to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall this week and Wallace and Gromit got a nod with a UK doodle celebrating their show’s 20th anniversary.)
We first took notice of the furry Google visitors last Monday, when Big Bird’s distinctive legs subbed-in for the L in the familiar Google logo. The post got us remembering our favorite clips from show’s run, and we collected them in a greatest-hits post (with a little help from YouTube.)
And when we saw that this Sesame Street trend was here to stay (for a few days, at least), we polled readers on who they thought should next get the Google doodle treatment (and boy, did you respond!)
After today, we imagine the Google homepage will be back to normal, but don’t be surprised if you see another doodle – or a perplexing disappearing act – sometime soon.
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2. P | 11.10.09
Thank you for all the creative doodles. I’ve enjoyed looking at them each day and have downloaded some of them to my computer. Thank you for providing jpegs to download.
3. Pauline Weiland | 11.10.09
I remember when Sesame Street first aired. I was 8 and it was a hit with me. We were a little more juvenile a little bit longer in those days. I loved Bert and Ernie (or Ernie and Bert) the best. The Odd Couple for kids.
4. Xocoytl | 11.10.09
I absolutely loved the Seasame Street doodles! Google has shown to be pretty creative when it comes to their doodles. Keep it up G-squad!
6. Velia Calderòn | 11.10.09
Hmmm….Google can draw up a whole week of puppets, great.!
But why can’t I get them to respond with a valid reason as to why, after almost ten years of Google Doodles, no one at the Google office, which is located in California,ironically, has had the notion to commemmorate a doodle for Cesar Chavez.
César Estrada Chávez (March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was a Mexican American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW).His work led to numerous improvements for union laborers.
César Chávez’s birthday, March 31, is celebrated in California as a state holiday, intended to promote service to the community in honor of Chávez’s life and work.
P.S
Oscar the Grouch’s doodle was the best, by the way.
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1. pgrimes | 11.10.09
Did Sesame St. receive royalities for use of the images?