For the 2026 Olympics, Elmo, Cookie Monster and more 'Sesame Street' characters are headed to Italy to help cover the Games.

1. Cookie Monster has five fingers on each hand (probably to eat more cookies). All the others only have four. 2. Cookie Monster used to have pointy teeth. 3. It takes two puppeteers to manipulate ...

If you watched "Sesame Street" as a child and have since labored under the belief that the voracious blue character Cookie Monster was always named "Cookie," you may have to rethink your assumption.

I grew up watching Sesame Street. The show helped teach me to read. Then I had kids of my own and watched hours and hours of the show with them. My oldest daughter’s favorite was Elmo, but she also ...