Sesamstraat is a children's television show in the Netherlands and Flanders, spun-off American program Sesame Street. Children's television series are Television programs designed for and marketed to Children normally broadcast during the Morning and Afternoon The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Sesame Street is an American educational Children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard combining
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Characters
Muppet characters
Pino
A blue Big Bird-like character, approx. The Open PINO Platform (or just PINO) is an open Humanoid robot platform with its mechanical and software design covered by the GNU Free Documentation License Big Bird is a full-body Muppet, featured on the children's television show Sesame age 3-years-old, who is Big Bird's nephew. Pino is played by Renée Menschaar.
Tommie
Tommie is six years old. He is clever, energetic and creative. Tommie can write a few words, including his own name, which he is very proud of. He is famous for his own made up exclamations, like "Poe hee!" (approximately pronounced as: pooh hey) and "Hatseflats!". In the 2005/2006 season, Tommie got his own racing car.
Tommie has been around since the beginning in 1976. The first Tommie puppet was made by producer 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' kind of 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 Tommie has a lot more fur in his face.
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 Sesamstraat careers as Tommie's right hand. The Open PINO Platform (or just PINO) is an open Humanoid robot platform with its mechanical and software design covered by the GNU Free Documentation License Nowadays, Daphne Zandberg performs Tommie's right hand.
Ieniemienie
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 Sesamstraat, she often hangs out with Pino. The Open PINO Platform (or just PINO) is an open Humanoid robot platform with its mechanical and software design covered by the GNU Free Documentation License 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 often searching for cheese. Through the years, when female emancipation wasn't 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, during a stiltwalking scene.
Ieniemienie's performer is Catherine van Woerden. Her arm rods are manipulated by either Marijke Koek or Lindai Boogerman.
Troel
Troel is a fluffy white girl poodle. She is very feminine and a little naïve, and she speaks in a high-pitched voice. Her best friend is Tommie.
Troel was introduced during 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 performed 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 didn't get paid as much as the male performers.
Troel was replaced by Ieniemienie a couple of years later. Sesamstraat is a Children's television show in the Netherlands and Flanders, spun-off American program Sesame Street.
The Dutch word "Troel" means "dear" or "sweetheart" in a more informal, sometimes even negative way.
Purk
Purk is 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't walk yet. She's taken care of by everyone on Sesamstraat. Everybody loves Purk.
Introduced in 2003, Purk is the newest of the Muppet characters, and she's very popular. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. She was created in order to introduce the subject of "a younger child in the family". It took three years for Sesame Workshop to approve the character: they felt that Purk should not be too fat due to the issue of obesity. Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop (or CTW) is a non-profit organization behind the production of several educational children's The actual puppet was based on a drawing by Sesamstraat actor and mime artist Hakim Traïda.
Purk debuted in a Sesamstraat "Sinterklaas" special as a surprise. In the special, Tommie walks away from Sesamstraat after the adults gave his stuffed crocodile to Purk. Before the taping of the special, Sesamstraat organised a press convention about Purk's 'birth', hosted by Tommie and Ieniemienie. Purk came falling out of the sky.
Purk was designed by Ed Christie and built by Rollie Krewson. Ed Christie is a Muppet designer and builder Christie started out as an intern with Henson Associates in 1978 Rollie Krewson (sometimes credited as "Rollin Krewson" is a Puppet designer and builder known for her work on various Muppet productions
Humans in Sesamstraat
- Buurman Baasje, an angry neighbour from the next street, hating being disturbed by the people (and especially the muppets) of Sesamstraat. His (nick)name means literally "Neighbour Bossy", being so called because in his first episode (in 2003) he encountered Tommie with the word "baasje". Since then everyone calls him like that, although his real name is Drommels. He is played by Martin van Waardenberg.
- Elvan (Elvan Akyldiz) was introduced in 1995, taking over the role of a teenage character.
- Frank (Frank Groothof) joined in 1983, in the role of a naughty 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 took up the role of Gerda's sister Peetje, a funny Surinamese lady who is always using naughty tricks on everyone.
- Hakim (Hakim Traïda) joined in 1984. He is an often silent mime character, often in his own inserts. In his first episodes he never talked, but later he was more seen in stories in the street and spoke more.
- Lot (Lot Lohr) joined in 1988, taking over the role of a teenage character (often referred as "Lotje" by meneer Aart). Since 1995 she is more in the role of a working mother, often seen behind a laptop.
- Meneer Aart (Aart Staartjes) debuted in 1984. Aart Staartjes (born March 1, 1938, Nieuwendam) is a Dutch Actor, director, Television presenter and Documentary The idea was introducing a "snake in the paradise". Meneer Aart demanded to be called "Meneer 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 doesn't like Buurman Baasje. He always calls Pino "Piño".
- Paula (Paula Sleijp) joined in 1982. Her role is some kind of grandma, but since 1996 in a more stern way. In the 1990's Paula Sleijp also played the character of the Baroness, a silly and dumb lady with a French accent.
- 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, which often do not work. He is also a thick man, who enjoys eating and hates sports.
- Sien (Sien Diels) was already in the first episode in 1976. She runs a store. In the first seasons she was often wearing overalls ans using tools, because of the focus on female emancipation.
- Lex (Lex Goudsmit), a grandpa, he died in 1999
History of the show
In 1992, the Amsterdam Artis Planetarium created a show called Sesamstraat en Melkweg. Lex Goudsmit ( March 15 1913 Brussels - Dec 10 1999, Amsterdam) was a Dutch actor In the show Pino, Tommie, Ieniemienie and Mr. Aart travel through the galaxy. After finding the sun, they don't know their way back to Earth. The Sun (Sol is the Star at the center of the Solar System. They become friends with Flonkertje, a little star who directs them home. The show ran until 1996.
On 23 December 1999, the characters of the show went to the Paradiso in Amsterdam, and performed in front of a live audience with notable Dutch singers. Songs performed were written by Harry Bannink and Hennie Vrienten. Harry Bannink ( July 10, 1929, Enschede - October 19, 1999, Bosch en Duin) was a Dutch Composer, Henny Vrienten ( Tilburg, July 27 1948) is a Dutch composer of TV- and film-scores
In the 6 October 2002 episode of Dutch radio show Antenne 2 (in the recurring Stemgeheim item), actress Renée Menschaar discussed her challenge of convincing producers that the character of Pino could be performed by a woman, while it had traditionally been a man's role. France 2 is the largest French public Television network It is part of the France Télévisions group along with France 3, France 5
In April 2003, Sesamstraat en Melkweg was brought back to the planetarium, digitally remastered. Mastering, a form of audio Post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a Data storage device It played until September of that year.
Licensing
For Sesamstaat, Rubotoys is a licensor since February 2005.
See also
- Hellen Huisman (female voiceovers for Sesamstraat)
External links
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