Does the Sesame toy characters enjoy popularity across status lines in AMerica?

[The Backlash Cometh]

Are Sesame Street characters as equally in demand by upper class kids as lower class? Or are do they have a steady market among the lower to middle class because of the Sesame Street Show?

[IndianaJones]

1. I enjoy Seasame Street characters and am a multimillionaire...

thousandths of a time over.

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3. Now, here's the follow-up question:

What are rich kids watching today? What with all the cable channel options. Like the Disney Channel?

[IndianaJones]

5. Giadda on Food Network.

SciFi.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

2. Who couldn't love Elmo?

[porphyrian]

8. I don't. He reminds me too much of the little brother parents would force you to play with. -n/t

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

4. Sure they are ,kids are kids .

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6. Welcome Grammy.

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

12. Thanks for the welcome !

[porphyrian]

7. I think it may be more of a generational thing than a class thing.

I grew up watching it in the Seventies when, like the Muppet Show, it was written for kids and parents. Some time in the Eighties, it became less of a family show and more of a kids' show, though it ran many clips and segments from its prime in the Seventies. People who watched the show when and as I did probably loved it and encouraged their kids to watch it. People who tuned in years later may think of it as just another kids' show, like Barney, and may not care so much about it.

(By the way, I also enjoyed The Electric Company, with the considerably then-less-famous Morgan Freeman, and the original Zoom, which I hear they've recently remade, though I haven't seen it.)

[vi5]

9. You're obviously looking for corporate conspiracies here..

Kids love Sesame Street and they love Elmo in particular. It has nothing to do with economic status. We are far from poor and my daughter and son both love the show and it's characters. And the same goes for many that I know.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. I find it peculiar that the lead paint poison problem primarily

involved toys that appealed to latin Americans (Dora) and came from a show that was created to help, especially urban poor kids get a head start. So, I pondered and wondered if perhaps there was an intentional selection of those toys.

[rucky]

11. There's a new show on Sprout called Sesame Manor

for the upper class kids, but you have to be a digital cable subscriber to get it. There's new characters like Caviar Monster, and two attorneys named Bertrand & Ernest. Maria is back as Elmo's nanny, and Big Bird and Snuffleuppagus are mounted in the den. They still talk, though. It's a kids show.