Nicknames: "House of Boredom", "The Sesame Workshop House", "Cheesy House"
Logo: On a white background, we see an abstract green house with a purple roof and the text:
sesameworkshop
outlined below. The window of the house is filled with yellow glitter. The house bounces and the roof explodes open to the right, sending the glitter sprinkling all over. Some of the glitter remains to form a lightning bolt crowned with a star, some sprinkles to the left to fill the "sesame" text with purple, and some sprinkles to the right to fill the "workshop" text with green, rendering it like this:
sesameworkshop
Variants: Here are the nine variants of this logo:
Green house and purple roof (most common variant; it replaces the CTW logo shown on 1999 episodes of Dragon Tales).
Purple house and red roof (second common variant; it usually plasters older CTW logos). This one is the first to contain the byline as described below.
Blue house and green roof (seen on Plaza Sésamo and perhaps other foreign-language co-productions of Sesame Street).
Red house and blue roof (seen on Sesame Street Sports for the PlayStation, a CineGroupe Star VHS promo for Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat and later episodes of The Upside Down Show).
Green house and green roof (seen on Shara'a Simsim and Alam Simsim).
Purple house and green roof (seen on CTW/Noggin co-productions such as Upside Down Show).
The text "The nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street and so much more" (in the same color as the house) is shown below on occasion.
On some occasions. the "www.sesameworkshop.org" URL can be seen underneath the "sesameworkshop" text.
Another variant has been discovered using the purple house and red roof, and features a byline reading "A nonprofit educational organization" underneath the "sesameworkshop" text, and the "sesameworkshop.org" URL can be seen underneath.
Some have a copyright date.
There is an extended variant that is practically the URL and the "nonprofit organization" variants combined into one, where it fades in between the bylines (from the nonprofit one to the URL one).
In-Credit Variants:
On 2003-2007 Sesame Street episodes, the in-credit variant from 2001 was displayed during the end of the credit sequence.
On 2007-2008 Sesame Street episodes, another in-credit variant of the logo was used, which consisted of the Muppet character Abby Cadabby floats past, her magic dust forming the phrase "a production of sesameworkshop" and the "The non-profit organization..." byline as well, all in green text, as the background fades to black. This was eventually replaced with the second logo in the next season. This also appears on the new series of The Electric Company (without the byline or Abby Cadabby).
A superimposed variant can be found at the end of Sesame English.
On some VHS and DVD releases of Sesame Street, the logo is still. This one has no byline or URL underneath at all.
On Tiny Planets, the logo appears to the left of the Pepper's Ghost Productions logo.
Plaza Sésamo Variant: On episodes of Plaza Sésamo from the early 2000s, a picture of the logo flies around with the Televisa logo.
FX/SFX: The sparkles and house forming. The logo was designed by Carbone Smolan; the animation was done by The Ink Tank.
Music/Sounds: A bass clarinet plays as we hear a "pop" sound for the roof with giggling children, and then a short accordion riff.
Other Music/Sounds Variants:
In some cases, it uses the closing theme of the show.
On the still variant, we hear a breathy synth-chime theme. This was used on Alam Simsim as well.
The extended variant had stock music and a woman narrator saying "Sesame Workshop: The nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street and so much more, learn more at sesameworkshop.org".
Availability: Uncommon.
Editor's Note: It's cute, but it may be considered annoying due to its omnipresence, though its presence was significantly toned down in recent years.
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