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Why Sesame Street kept people and puppets apart
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Apparently, child psychologists in the 1960s were completely terrified of confusing toddlers. They insisted that mixing human actors with felt monsters would shatter children's grasp on reality. It wasn't until test audiences proved that kids completely tuned out during the boring human-only segments that Jim Henson demanded they let Big Bird interact with the actual cast.
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