“Sesame’s engagement has been waning,” the ... Bert eventually reaches his breaking point, and one of the human characters, Alan, helps the two friends name their feelings.

The actor, tenor singer, and children's author was one of the longest-running human characters on Sesame Street, along with Loretta Long, who played Susan Robinson. His final episode, titled ...

(In VanDerWerff's more direct words, "PBS doesn't own Sesame Street ... in which dogs rise up and attack the brutish human owners in an allegorical triumph of the working poor over the moneyed ...