Warning: the following article may shatter your sense of reality. Proceed at your own risk. Tyler James Williams is reflecting on a disturbing childhood memory: seeing Big Bird’s insides. Williams ...

“Uh oh! Does anyone know how to make me big Big Bird again?” the official Twitter/X account of Sesame Street’s Big Bird posted on January 24. Thus began Big Bird’s own Metamorphosis, in which the ...

When TIME set out to tackle the debate over children’s TV in late 1970, a year after Sesame Street premiered, correspondent Mary Cronin was sent to interview one of the show’s puppeteers—and ended up ...