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In Sesame's New Show, To Play Is To Learn

Monsters and maker-play join forces in Esme & Roy, a sneaky fun vehicle for a whole lot of learning.
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Turn on your TV and surf the stuff meant for kids. I dare you.

You'll likely find a surfeit of fast action and fart jokes. And that's what makes Esme & Roy so unusual.

The new show, about an unlikely duo who babysit monsters, is Sesame Workshop's first animated children's program in more than a decade, and it deftly combines the Workshop's parallel passions is dedicated to an idea that can feel radical these days:

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