The Sesame Street was a show about different characters who face everyday problems like real people and have the support of friends and family to get through or solve those problems. Comedian Dave Chappelle once said, "Sesame Street teaches kids to judge people, they treat Oscar like crap the show, then they wonder why kids grow up and step over homeless people". Obviously that was just a joke but pretty much every person you know grew up on Sesame Street.
Puppets are there for all of us, in different countries you can bet everyone had their own version of Sesame Street, or The Muppets to entertain and educate their children. Although the art of Puppetry is its own tradition, it is used in nearly every other form of theatre, not every show, but every form or technique of traditional theatre has used puppetry in one of its shows.
Puppets have been altered since even we were kids, when you saw a puppet you knew it was a kids show and that it would not be very entertaining for an adult, then the world changed and the way people use tools did as well. Now there are children-like television shows for adults, the one that comes to mind is Crank Yankers, it is a visually striking show that entails puppets acting out scenes in which comedians have made prank phone calls to real people and hilarity ensues.
(The video above depicts how puppets went from being essentially only used to entertain children to entertain adults in more of a crude manner, because a lot of people say, if its in a cartoon or puppet, there are no limits.)
Sources: www.puppetstudio.com; www.schoolofpuppetry.com; www.vivekanada.hubpages.com; World of Theatre by Mira Felner.
