Sesamstraat

Seasamstraat (Dutch pronunciation:  ['seːsɑmstraːt] ) is a children's television show in the Netherlands, and a spin-off of the US children's program Sesame Street . In its early days the show was broadcast in Flanders ( Belgium ) as well. It is the second longest running foreign adaptation of Sesame Street without interruptions, behind only Sesame Straße .

Contents

 * 1 Characters
 * 1.1 Muppet characters
 * 1.1.1 Pino
 * 1.1.2 Tommie
 * 1.1.3 Ieniemienie
 * 1.1.4 Troel
 * 1.1.5 Purk
 * 1.2 Humans Sesamstraat
 * 2 History of the show
 * 3 Licensing
 * 4 See also
 * 5 External links

Pino [ edit ]
A blue Big Bird -like character, approx. age 4-years-old, a relative of Big Bird. He is always cheerful and eager to learn new things. He's a little younger than his friends and Tommie Ieniemienie, and sometimes He Has a little trouble keeping up with them. Being the second youngest, he likes to play with Purk. He is best known for his funny laugh and his catchphrase "Really ?!" ("Really ?!") He is sensitive and also very HAS BEEN on the show since the beginning.

Pino has had many different performers through the years, Dirk-including Grijspeirt (1976), Theo Joling (1977), Bert Plagman (1979), J. Erik Meijer (1980) and Leo Dijkgraaf (1984). In 1991, Renée Menschaar started performing Pino, and his leg She has regular performer ever since. She is the first woman to play Pino, Who has always Remained a boy character.

Tommie [ edit ]
Tommie is six years old. He is clever, energetic and creative. Tommie can write a few words, his own-including particular-which he is very proud of. He is famous for his own made up exclamations, like "Poe hee!"(Approximately pronounced as: pooh hey) and "Hats Flats". In the 2005/2006 season, Tommie got his own racing car.

Tommie HAS BEEN around since the beginning in 1976. The first puppet was made by producer Tommy Ton Hasebos from an old fur coat. He was a teddy bear-like creature That Walked on fours. Through the years he evolved from a 'teddy bear' child or creature to a more doglike animal. Tommie's recent look-which was Introduced in 1981, was designed by the Jim Henson company. The recently refurbished Tommy Has A lot more fur in his face.

Like Pino, Tommie has had a few different performers-including Stef van der Linden in 1976 and Martin Pragt in 1978. In 1979, Bert Plagman Became Tommie's performer, after sharing the part with Martin. Renée Menschaar ( Pino 's performer) and Judith Broersen ( Purk 's performer) both started Their Sesame Street careers as Tommie's right hand. Nowadays, Daphne Zandberg performs Tommie's right hand.

Ieniemienie [ edit ]
Representing the psychological age of a six-year-old, Ieniemienie is the oldest of the group. She is very clever and smart-alecky, and sometimes she Tends to be a little bossy. Her best friend is Tommie . Being the smallest person on Sesame Street, she hangs out with or at Pino . Ienie is famous for her giggle, as well as her signature movements like scrunching her nose When she's angry or raising her shoulders When She's confused.

Ieniemienie was Introduced in 1980. She started out as a mouse who lived in a hole and was searching for or at cheese. Through the years, When female emancipation was not as much as an issue on the street, her personality Became more childlike and girlish.

The puppet HAS BEEN refurbished a few times, but without drastic changes; except for the 1996 anniversary special, in-which Ieniemienie's legs were shown for the first time, falling on a stilt walking scene.

Ieniemienie's performer is Catherine van Woerden . Her arm rods are manipulated by upkeep Marijke cake or Lindai Boogerman .

Troel [ edit ]
Troel is a fluffy white poodle girl. She is very feminine and a little naive, and she speaks in a high-pitched voice. Her best friend is Tommie .

Introduced Troel was consistently the second season in 1977 as the first girl Muppet to star with Tommie and Pino. She was designed to look like a girl version of Tommie.

Troel was ormed by Marijke Boon .

Even though the viewers had no problems with her, the producers found her too feminine for a show That dealt with female emancipation, so she disappeared after a year. A newspaper article mentions another reason for her disappearance: her performer did not get paid as much as the male performers [ citation needed ].

Troel was Replaced by Ieniemienie a couple of years later.

The Dutch word "Troel" means "dear" or "sweetheart" in a more informal, sometimes even negative way.

Purk [ edit ]
Purk was a baby piglet. She wears a diaper and a little bow in her ear. She is clumsy and messy and loves to get herself dirty. She is still learning how to talk, and she can not walk yet. She's taken care of by everyone on Sesame Street. Everybody loves Purk.

Introduced in 2003, Purk is the newest of the Muppet characters, and she's very popular. She was created in order to introduce the subject of "a younger child in the family". It overtook three years for Sesame Workshop to approve the character: They felt Purk That Should not be too fat due to the issue of obesity. The actual puppet was based on a drawing by Sesame Street actor and mime artist Hakim Traïda.

Purk debuted in a Sesamstraat " Sinterklaas "special as a surprise. In the special, Tommie runs away from Sesame Street, after the adults gift to his stuffed crocodile Purk. Before the taping of the special, Sesame Street Organised a press convention about Purk's 'birth', hosted by Tommy and Baby Bear. Purk came falling out of the sky.

Purk was designed by Ed Christie and built by Rollie Krewson .

Humans Sesame Street [ edit ]

 * Neighbor Bossy, a cranky neighbor from the poppy Street (Poppy Seed Street), hating being disturbed by the people (and Especially the Muppets) and Sesame Street. His (nick) name Means literally "Neighbour Bossy", being so called Because in his first episode (in 2003) he is encountered Tommie with the word "master". Since then everyone calls him like that, Although his real name is Drommels. He is played byMartin Waardenberg . He is the program's equivalent of Oscar the Grouch .


 * Elvan ( Elvan Akyildiz ) was Introduced in 1995, taking over the role of a teenage character from Lot.


 * Frank ( Underwood ) joined in 1983, in the role of a natural young guy. Later he Became more a kind of funny uncle towards the children.


 * Gerda ( Gerda Havertong ) joined in 1984, as a nice aunt. Since 1997 Gerda Became a less seen character, while the actress Gerda Havertong firing up the role of Gerda's sister Peetje, a funny Surinamese lady who is always using natural tricks on everyone.


 * Hakim ( Hakim Traïda ) joined in 1984. He is an or at silent mime character, or at in his own inserts. In his first episode he never Talked, but later he was seen in more stories in the street and spoke more.


 * Lot ( Lot Lohr ) joined in 1988, taking over the role of a teenage character (or at reffered as "Lottie" by Mr. Aart). Since 1995 she is more in the role of a working mother, or at seen behind a laptop.


 * Lex ( Lex Goudsmit ), a grandpa figure. He died in 1999.


 * Mr. Aart ( Aart Staartjes ) ​​debuted in 1984. The idea was Introducing a "snake in the paradise". Mr. Aart demanded to be called "Mr. Aart" (Mr. Aart). Although very clumsy, he saw himself as the most important man of the street. He was mostly grumbling at the muppet characters. Since the death of Lex, Aart HAS sometimes taken up the role of a grandpa. Just like the other characters he does not like Buurman Bossy.He always calls Pino "Piño".


 * Paula ( Paula Sleijp ) joined in 1982. Her role is somekind or grandma, but since 1996 a more stern way. In the 1990s Paula Sleijp ook played the character of the Baroness, a silly and dumb lady with a French accent. After 28 years, she left the show in 2010.


 * Rik ( Rik Hoogendoorn ) debuted in 1993 as Mr. Aart's nephew (Although he never calls Aart his uncle). Rik is a clumsy young man, trying to do silly inventions, work-which often do not. He is ook a thick man, who enjoys eating and hates sports. He left the cast in 2007.


 * Sien ( Sien Diels ) was already in the first episode in 1976. She runs a store. In the first seasons she was or at wearing coveralls and using tools Because of the focus on female emancipation.

History of the show
After a pilot episode Entitled Sesame Square (Sesame Square), Sesamstraat Began broadcasting in 1976. It started as a Dutch / Belgian coproduction, with only one thirty-minute episode a week. These episodes had only 12 minutes allotted for the English cast. At this time there were only two Muppets and three live actors, Piet Hendriks, Sien Diels, and Annet van Heusden. Peter, who owned a hobby and crafts workshop and a camper-which he would drive around The Netherlands and Belgium for live thrips. Sien, who owned a grocery store, where the exchange of knowledge and happenings were as important as the selling of products. And Annet, who played a kindergarten teacher. In 1978, Sesamstraat's format changed to a daily 15-minute show That aired in the evening, around dinnertime. Starting in September 2006, Sesamstraat expanded to 30 minutes and airs three times a day.

The first season was shot on location in a half-English, half Belgian town. It was broadcast every Sunday for a half-hour in the afternoon. For the second season, a realistic town square was built inside the studio-which slowly evolved into a more abstracted, colorful town, featuring Pino's nest, Sien's store, a workshop, two houses, an apartment building, a trailer and a treehouse. The insides of the house sets could be decorated in different ways, so the viewers That would never be certainement about who lived where.

For the 2005/2006 season, Sesamstraat moved into new scenery. The set Became completely abstract, with toy block-like buildings, broccoli for trees, and a tower with a giant light-up clock. The scenery was Introduced with a TV special. Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster, Elmo and flew over to the Netherlands for this special occasion. It was the first time the American characters visited the Dutch street.

Other special Sesamstraat episodes include the 2500th episode, and a yearly special episode focused on Christmas. The 25th Anniversary series in English-which celebrities made guest appearances on the street. On January 7, 2000, Prime Minister Wim Cook read the daily story "There's an elephant in the grass ..." (There is a little elephant standing in the grass) for the Muppet residence before They went to sleep.Wim Cook is one of the many prominent guests who read a story to them. (Normally this was done by Frank, Gerda or Paula). Other celebrities that have made guest appearances are: Freek de Jonge (Comedian), Ruud Gullit (Professional soccer player), André van Duin (Comedian) Dresselhuys (Actress), Hans Dagelet (Actor), Kees van Kooten (Writer) Brigitte Kaandorp (Comedian), Sonja Barend (show host) and Janine Kastelijn (Youth Winner for Reading in 2000).

In 1992, a 30-minute film, Sesame Street and Galaxy, was produced for the Planetarium Artis Zoo in Amsterdam.

In 2005 the show saw some schedule trouble. The government Decided to stop the funding and broadcasts or NPS. The final debate overtook place on September 12, 2005 in the Lower House. It was Decided That NPS could continuously making programs, but it had to make several at a changes to fit into modern television, broadcast-including a new schedule.

In 2008, the show got 15 minutes of extra broadcast time a day. This Meant there was room for two more Muppets. Fear Haas and Stuntkip were Introduced.

October 2009 brought` a new segment for the show. Several famous Dutch singers perform duets with the Sesame Street characters Pino, Tommie, Ieniemienie and Purk. All songs were written by Henny Vrienten.The segments air every Friday starting October 30, 2009. Among the artists are Trijntje Oosterhuis, André van Duin, Olivia Lewis, Ernst Daniël Smid, Hind, Guus Meeuwis, Huub van der Lubbe and Willeke Alberti.

All the duets were broadcast again in a special on December 25 and 28.

Licensing
For Sesame State Rubotoys is a licensor since February 2005.