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**Sesame Place** is an American theme park in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. It derives its theme from the *Sesame Street* television program and characters like Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Ernie, and Bert. It includes a variety of rides, shows, and water attractions suited to very young children. It is one of 10 parks operated by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, a division of The Blackstone Group.

## Overview

Sesame Place first opened in 1980 near the Oxford Valley Mall and initiated the expansion of the commercial complex in the vicinity. It was designed by Eric McMillan, a Canadian designer. The park is open from early May through Halloween, and is also open on Thanksgiving weekend. The original park was Template:Convert and featured play areas and large computer labs where kids could color their favorite Sesame Street characters. Since then, it has expanded to Template:Convert with rides and water attractions. The expansions included the construction of Sesame Island and Twiddlebug Land.

In 2007, it became the first theme park in Pennsylvania to become completely smoke free.

## Related parks

Sesame Place is one of 10 parks operated by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment. Others include SeaWorld Orlando, SeaWorld San Diego, SeaWorld San Antonio, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Discovery Cove, Aquatica (Orlando), Adventure Island (water park), and Water Country USA.

For about 30 years, Busch Entertainment operated Sesame Place in Pennsylvania. In 2009 and 2010, under the new ownership, kiddie areas in Busch Gardens and Sea World parks were converted to Sesame themes. A second Sesame Place park also existed in Irving, Texas from 1982–1984 (a Walmart Supercenter now sits in its place), closing its doors due to poor attendance and a large number of water parks competing for its business. A third one in Tokyo, Japan (Tokyo Sesame Place) was open from 1990 until December 31, 2006.

There are also several international *Sesame Street* themed attractions in Monterrey, Mexico (Plaza Sésamo) and São Paulo, Brazil inside the Hopi Hari theme park.

## Attractions

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**Park Entrance Area**

* **Grover's Vapor Trail** - a roller coaster geared toward small children as young as three years of age. A custom Vekoma family roller coaster with several helixes.
* **Twiddlebug Land** - an area themed to the Twiddlebug characters. Everything seems oversized here.
* **Sky Splash** - a large raft water slide that stands more than 6 stories high, from which one can see the Philadelphia skyline on clear days
* **Teeny Tiny Tidal Wave** - a Template:Convert wave pool formed from Ernie's wild garden hose.
* **Slimey's Chutes** - two spiral tube water slides. Single and double tubes are used.
* **Silly Sand Slides** - three giant slides; A large watch, a spoon on a bag of marbles and a dumped bucket of sand.
* **Mix n' Match Twiddle Tracks** - a kid-powered railroad for the little ones.

**River Area**

* **Big Bird's Rambling River** - a slow-moving, Template:Convert waterway winding through Sesame Island.
* **Ernie's Waterworks** - a small water play area for the little ones.

**Sesame Neighborhood Area**

* **Sunny Day Carousel** - A carousel with Sesame Street designed horses. Its location was formerly the home of the famous Big Bird Steps.

**Splash Castle Area**

* **The Count's Splash Castle** - The park's largest attraction opened in the Spring of 2009. This multi-level, water park attraction features over 90 play elements, including a 1000 gallon tipping bucket.
* **Sesame Streak** - A pair of tube water slides, one for single riders and the other for double riders.
* **Slippery Slopes** - Four short vertical water slides that drop into a three foot pool.

**Elmo's World** - an area themed to the popular *Sesame Street* segment

* **Peek-A-Bug** - riders spin and slide from side to side on the back of a smiling bug.
* **Blast Off** - a frog hopper, tower drop ride in which riders travel to Planet Elmo with the furry red monster himself.
* **Cloud Chaser** - riders fly around in swings.
* **Flyin' Fish** - two people can ride together on the fins of an Elmo fish.

**Near Elmo's World**

* **Snuffy's Slides** - two long dry tube slides for kids 12 and under.
* **Bert & Ernie's Slip & Slide** - two intertwining body flumes that empty into a splash pool.

**Nets Area**

* **Nets & Climbs** - hundreds of yards of cargo netting connected by Template:Convert of suspended net tunnels.
* **Ernie's Bed Bounce** - a huge, springy yellow air mattress.
* **Grover's World Twirl** - a character-themed teacup ride.
* **Big Bird's Balloon Race** - a Template:Convert high balloon tower ride that affords a view of the park.
* **Cookie Mountain** - a tall blue mountain that kids seven and under can attempt to scale on their own.
* **Big Bird's Court** - a small playground and Big Bird's Nest, a large padded area with blocks kids 5 and under can build with and run around on.
* **Monster Maze** - a small, sand bottom pit with large "monster" bags kids can run around in.

## Shows

* **Neighborhood Street Party**  - A parade with Elmo, the Count, Bert, Ernie, Abby Cadabby, Zoe, Cookie Monster, Rosita, Big Bird, Murray, and Telly.
* **Elmo's World Live!** - An interactive show that encourages audience participation and imagination. It is about 15 minutes long.
* '*Abby Cadabby's Treasure Hunt* '- Elmo, Cookie Monster, Rosita, Grover, Oscar, and Abby embark on a treasure hunt. Generally running about 20 minutes long
* **Elmo Rocks!** - An all new Rock n' Roll show starring Elmo, other *Sesame Street* characters, and two out of costume characters.

## Costume characters

Families can have breakfast with the characters an hour before the rest of the park opens. This is not included in regular admission price. The entire Sesame Place crew struts down Sesame Street twice a day in the "Neighborhood Street Party" parade. This features all of the Sesame Place characters, large floats, dancers, and music. The characters include:
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* Elmo
* Big Bird
* Ernie
* Bert
* Grover
* Abby Cadabby
* Rosita
* Zoe
* Cookie Monster
* The Count
* Telly Monster
* Prairie Dawn
* Oscar
* Murray

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* Sesame Place web page

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***Yakkity Yak*** is an Australian/Canadian animated television series created by Mark Gravas that ran on Teletoon in Canada and on Nickelodeon in Australia from November 9, 2002 to December 12, 2003. The show was known for its extreme lack of reality, and for its extreme silliness and featured a style of animation which broke with past Nickelodeon tradition. The show features an anthropomorphic yak named Yakkity who wants to make it to stardom by becoming a comedian. Along the way, he has adventures with his two best friends Keo (an actual anthropomorphic pineapple) and Lemony, a young human girl.

## Theme song

A song from 1958 named *Yakety Yak* by The Coasters is used. Children sing parts of the updated version of the song.

## Characters

* **Yakkity Yak** (Lee Tockar): A 13-year-old yak student in Onion Falls High and the school's mascot who wishes to be a comedian. Yakkity works as the school mascot since his grandfather also served as mascot when the football team won the state championship in 1925. The football team, instead of the mascot, got all the glory (despite having not won a match since 1925), much to Yakkity's distaste. Yakkity now lives with his Granny and her boarder Professor Crazyhair. His closest friends are Keo (who lives next door) and Lemony. Over the course of the series, his parents have never been seen or mentioned.
* **Keo** (Brian Drummond): An anthropomorphic pineapple who is actually a human with a pineapple for a head. He is very intelligent but is camera shy and has stage fright. He has rivalries with his father who is only a pineapple, but deep down, he loves him.
* **Granny Yak** (Pam Hyatt): Yak's grandmother. While she is a good sounding board in a parental way, she also has some of Yakkity’s impulsive genes.
* **Lemony** (Andrea Libman): A blond-haired human girl who has a vivid imagination.
* **Mr. Reginald Highpants** (Ian James Corlett): The town's leading vendor of candy and all things with sugar. He also runs many small businesses.
* **Trilo** (Jason Schombing): Yakkity's trilobite agent and former circus performer who owns his own Entertainment Agency, does children's parties for the characters, and is always looking for money. His clients are Yakkity, Fairy Wanda and Chuck Damage, who he uses for parties.
* **Professor Crazyhair** (Scott McNeil): A scientist and teacher at Onion Falls High whose hair changes colour like a mood ring, hence his name. He lives in Yakkity's basement, where he built a laboratory.
* **Penelope** (Tabitha St. Germain): A robot who works as Professor Crazyhair's assistant but lacks any social skills or confidence. Whenever she's embarrassed, her face turns red and she squirts out fire fighting foams from her arms transforming into fire hoses, squirting everything around her.
* **Rondo** (Ian James Corlett): Lemony's football playing brother who is a senior in high school. He is one of Yakkity's main antagonists often competing for the spotlight.
* **Keo's Dad** (Michael Daingerfield): A pineapple who can be bossy and rude at many times, and Keo's father. The identity of his wife (Keo's birth mother) is unknown and never explored; it can be assumed that she either died or got divorced before the events of *Yakkity Yak*.
* **Miss Wanda Harper** (Brenda Crichlow): a fairy who works as Onion Falls High's librarian.
* **Jackie Pachyderm**: An elephant comedian and successful movie star who is Yakkity's idol.

## Broadcast

*Yakkity Yak* debuted on Canada's Teletoon on January 2003. It currently airs on BBC Kids. On January 17, 2004, it was added to the Nicktoons Network schedule for a few years, but it was removed from the rotation on March 2, 2007.

## Episodes

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†Previously known as "The Yakking".

## Awards

The show was nominated for a Leo Award for "Best Musical Score" in 2004. The creator Mark Graves was nominated for Australian Film Institute's Award for "Best Short Animation" in 2002. Template:Citation needed

## External links

* *Yakkity Yak* at Kapow Pictures
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