Grover: How about the museum? You can look at pictures of the mummies... And the daddies.
Fat Blue: I don't want to look at pictures of the mummies and the daddies.
Big Bird: Never refer to me as an item. I'm a bird.
Elmo: Oh look, it's Mr. Noodle's brother, Mr. Noodle.
Oscar the Grouch: Say! Aren't you Johnny Trash?
Johnny Cash: No, Cash.
Oscar the Grouch: Cash, Cash.
Johnny Cash: Yeah. Have a rotten day.
Cookie Monster: Cookie Monster thief, not liar.
Bert: Oh, I love pigeons more then anything else in this world... besides oatmeal.
Gordon: Sally, you've never seen a street like Sesame Street before. Everything happens here. You're gonna love it.
Grover: Hello everybodeeeeeeeee! It is I, Grover.
Slimy: Read! Read! Read.
Oscar the Grouch: Okay, Slimy, although I do enjoy your pestering.
Answer: It is absolutely true. This is from Wikipedia: "The children's television show Sesame Street...was the first show of its kind that utilized a detailed and comprehensive educational curriculum, with specific educational goals, in its content. Its goals were garnered from in-house formative research and independent summative evaluations, and its first curriculum was created in a series of five seminars in 1968."
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That is how they created the show. By talking to researchers on child development.