How do you feel about Elmo?

It might depend on how old you were one autumn 40 years ago, when the diminutive, fuzzy red monster first appeared as a regular character on the educational children’s television program “Sesame Street.” If you were a small child who watched the PBS mainstay in its earlier years, you were conditioned by the classic cast of Jim Henson’s eclectic, irreverent monsters: In other words, you’re Team Grover. If you were a toddler viewer in the latter half of the ’80s and beyond, it was Elmo who left an indelible imprint on your rapidly developing brain. November 1985, Season 17 of “Sesame Street”: This is the Muppet meridian.

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