Most of us are familiar with Sesame Street teaching young children about letters and numbers. However, Sesame St. has always had a parallel emphasis on social skills and real world problems and they have not shied away from tackling tough topics in developmentally appropriate ways. The above clip illustrates how the show tackled the real life death of the character that played Mr. Hooper.
Here's another example, from the events of 9/11/2000.
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