Mini-Pop culture Analysis

When you think of pop culture, what comes to mind? Is it celebrities, music, and movies? Well that is exactly what pop culture is along with more. Pop culture can be old and famous toys or familiar TV shows, anything that is or was popular in our society.

            For my pop culture analysis, I chose to write about the popular children’s TV show “Sesame Street”. Sesame Street premiered for the first time on television in 1969. It became popular very quickly. The television show appealed mostly to children; it taught educational subjects like reading, your ABC’s, and numbers, as more of a fun way to learn. It became popular so fast because the TV show had such high ratings that they made tapes and DVDs, they advertised on TV, made clothes with the characters on it, and plush toys of characters for the kids to play with while watching the show etc. It also became a growing trend because the families of children thought the show was really great for their kids so families everywhere continued to the growth of the TV show. Sesame Street wasn’t just another child’s television show, it was educational and the kids seemed to really connect with the show because it’s interactive with your child.

            Sesame Street as a television show developed no cultural issues that some would. It included the main characters as “furry monsters”, like Elmo that kids enjoyed. And children of every race and culture starred on the show as characters as well. People of all race and culture thought the TV show was great and that it had and great impact on their children. Based on what I know about high and low culture, I believe Sesame Street falls under low culture. Even though it had great success but I think its low culture because we the people of low culture influence it on our children for them, and I think people of higher culture are so worried about other things and that their children would be wrapped up in what their parents are doing. I’m not completely saying people of high culture don’t influence it on their children, it’s just the TV show is more popular in the low culture stature.

            Since the show premiered it has had an unbelievable impact on our society. Sesame Street gave children the benefit to make learning fun for them. As well as society has had a benefit from it because some teachers use it in lesson plans to bring the show into the classroom, and it just prepares the child for school, and that makes schools better because all the children are doing better at learning from the benefits. Sesame Street influenced our culture as a whole because families can give their child a head start at learning. Furthermore, Sesame Street has had a positive impact on children and society. I believe the TV show will continue to grow and continue to teach children educational values. Sesame Street is a great part of our pop culture, which influenced millions of children.