How Old Are the Characters on 'Sesame Street'? Details on the Muppets

May 2024 · 3 minute read

'Sesame Street' has been on TV longer than many of us have been alive. But over the years, the characters by no means age. So, how old are they?

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While these cherished characters have guided generations of audiences through a variety of moral quandaries, only a few folks audience know the exact ages of our favourite fluffy monsters.

Big Bird

Standing at 8 feet 2 inches tall, Big Bird is larger than most of the people on the show, and by way of a ways the biggest Muppet featured on Sesame Street.

The six-year-old is living at 123 1/2 Sesame Street, and has been a fixture on the program since its 1969 debut.

Fun truth: Actor and puppeteer Caroll Spinney, who created Big Bird's characteristics and mannerisms, was once the sole performer in the Big Bird function from the display's inception till Caroll's retirement in 2018, a year sooner than his death.

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Elmo

The impossibly lovely and extremely ticklish Elmo was once in the beginning an overly minor personality on the show, however then turned into highly regarded among audience.

This three-and-a-half-year-old did not arrive to the street until Season 11, however we are so satisfied that he is been an absolute mainstay.

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Grover

Grover, as we now know him, made his legitimate debut on the second season of Sesame Street. There was actually a previous iteration of the monster, known as "Gleep," who seemed in the first season and was nicknamed "Fuzzyface" and "The Hairy One."

Officially, Grover is Four years old. But he's a nebulous persona, who's oftentimes proven desiring his Mommie, and other instances, works as a waiter.

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Mr. Snuffleupagus

Living in a cave just off of Sesame Street, Mr. Aloysius Snuffleupagus, affectionately known as Snuffy, is eternally 4 and a half years old. 

We have been first introduced to him as an off-screen personality who was once simplest noticed by Big Bird, however Snuffy eventually made his on-screen debut in the 1985 Season 17 premiere.

While he may not age, Snuffy celebrates his birthday on August 19.

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Oscar the Grouch

The furry, inexperienced monster who lives in a trash can loves rubbish such a lot, he is hardly ever seen outside of his bin.

Constantly singing his signature song, "I Love Trash," Oscar's motto in life is to be as depressing and grouchy as imaginable, and he ceaselessly passes on his negativity to these courageous enough to pay him a visit.

As his grouchiness is slightly a grown-up trait, it must surprise no one that Oscar is the 2d oldest muppet on the block, ceaselessly 43 years old.

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Count von Count

Unquestionably the oldest persona on the block, Count von Count first made his look in the Season 4 premiere.

He has a compulsive love of counting, and can count anything else regardless of dimension, quantity, or how much it annoys the people round him.

The monster is said to be a distant relative of Count Dracula, and has an important other he is asked to marry a number of times (the couple rely these instances, of course) Countess Natasha Von Numeral.

The Count was written to "represent an adult with the psychological age of someone who is 1,832,652 years old — and still counting," consistent with Sesame Street Unpaved, however in 2017, the Count made a video for Wired, where he mentioned he can be turning six-million-five-hundred-twenty-three-thousand-seven-hundred-twenty-eight the following October.

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