Awesome Sesame Street

Yes, we know this clip dates back to 2009, but since we’ve never seen it, we figured maybe you hadn’t either. A hilarious use of Cookie Monster’s voice from a kids’ telephone toy to help provide vocals for a Rammstein track. Cookieeeeeeeee!

It was recently announced that Sesame Street would be airing episodes on HBO. But if the guys at Barely Productions are to be believed (and they aren’t), the gang will be getting decidedly more adult, per HBO standards.

Their Clash of the Titans parody might not exactly timely, but Sesame Street’s lesson about focusing and paying attention is still amusing, as Cookie Monster aka Furseus is tested by a cow named Moodusa on his quest to reach Zeus at Mount Olympus Diner.

Sesame Street parodies this summer’s blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron, replacing our protagonists with a bunch of nutritionally-conscious heroes. Except for Cookie Monster. And Zuchin-eye is as useless as you’d expect.

Sesame Street takes on another very adult TV series and makes it family friendly. This time, they mock Game of Thrones, with the denizens of Jesteros playing musical chairs to earn their place on the throne. That golf club throne looks familiar.

I Am Big Bird: The Carroll Spinney Story is a documentary about the man behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. It features candid footage of Carroll with Jim Henson and Frank Oz as well as with his wife Debra.

Sesame Street pokes fun at the all to common internet video trend of walking us through the unboxing of items in ridiculous and unnecessary detail. It still amazes us that a character with such bad grammar is on an educational show.

The gang from Sesame Street takes on Netflix’s hit show House of Cards, replacing Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood with the evil Frank Underwolf, who wants to blow down the three little piggies’ white houses to make his way to the oval office.

“How many different ways can you learn the alphabet? Lots apparently.” Carol Spinney – the original voice and puppeteer of Big Bird – ruminates on his career over a cacophony of drums with his alter ego in this Birdman parody.

To teach the concept of self-control, Sesame Street made this pastry-themed parody of Star Wars. Can Flan Solo (Cookie Monster) resist the urge to devour his sidekick Chewy (a cookie)? Inside jokes and puns abound.

Cookie Monster team’s up with Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver to bring us the latest news – as long as it has something to do with words. And what is up with the word “abbreviation?” Can’t it be shorter? Be sure to watch the outtakes too.

Inspired by the hilarious illustrations of artist Matt “gavacho13” Crane, FlavourMachine’s browser-based Sesame Street Fighter lets you deliver button-mashing beatdowns, while helping you practice your spelling and typing prowess.

Sesame Street mocks The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Cookieness Evereat and her friends are forced to play yet another series of challenging games against their will. We always thought Peeta sounded like a piece of bread too.

Vimeo user Chester Fielder wanted a doo doo rhyme, so he created a full version of the Wonderful Creative’s Sesame Street x Beastie Boys mashup. You can’t, you won’t and you don’t stop!

Elmo is one of the most famous puppets in the world, but little is known about Kevin Clash, the man behind the beloved Sesame Street resident. This is his story. Directed by Constance Marks.

We’re thinking that it was Oscar the Grouch hanging out in a pile of rancid trash that started the viral outbreak on Sesame Street, leaving Bert and Ernie horribly disfigured and craving brains.

A stop motion version of Sesame Street’s 12 pinball sequence. We love Beirut, and Perrin Cloutier’s rendition isn’t bad at all, but the original music is just way too groovy to ever be replaced.

The Sesame Street gang busts out some classic Beastie Boys rhymes with their muppet-ized rendition of Sure Shot. We had no idea that Grover could handle the flute so adeptly.

Sesame Street’s banana-headed Bert sits down and has a conversation with SNL’s Andy Samberg to learn about the SNL star’s family, life, habits, and socks. Even funnier is Part Two here.

Matt Crane has combined classic characters from Sesame Street with the ultimate fighting game to create some superfun sticker characters, with names like Acountma and Zellygief. (Thanks Matt!)

Cookie Monster wants to branch out from his monotonous Sesame Street day job, so he’s decided to try out as a guest host on Saturday Night Live. Here’s his audition tape.

Sesame Street takes on pop culture once again – this time aping Apple’s “there’s an app for that” tagline with their even more-useful-than-an-iPhone gadget, the iPogo stick.

Sesame Street is sure getting plenty of inspiration from pop culture these days. Last time we checked in, they were spoofing True Blood. Now, they’ve got the Old Spice guy. What’s next? Bed Intruder?