While we now know the reasoning behind Sesame Street's shrinkings — Big Bird's literal one, and Elmo's therapeutic ... bowing out of the Big Game, Cookie Monster has been spared from suffering ...

As a kid, you likely spent a lot of time learning your ABCs from characters like Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Elmo, and Oscar the Grouch. "Sesame Street" has been on the air since 1969, and has ...