The BEST episodes of Sesame Street
Every episode of Sesame Street ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Sesame Street!
On a special inner city street, the inhabitants, human and muppet, teach preschool subjects with comedy, cartoons, games, and songs.
#1 - Cardboard Castle
Season 51 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/10/2020
When the Queen doesn't have enough bricks to build a play castle for her daughter, Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Rosita wonder if they can make it with something else. What if they use cardboard instead? Let's try!
#6 - Big Bird Worries That Susan and Gordon Will Forget About Him (819)
Season 7 - Episode 24 - Aired 1/1/1976
Big Bird is going to the post office to buy postage stamps. He passes by Susan and Gordon, who forget to say hello to him. He's afraid that they'll forget all about him in the time it takes to get to the post office.
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#11 - Potluck Pickle
Season 51 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/25/2021
There’s a potluck party for everyone on Sesame Street, including Steph and Ayesha Curry! Elmo, Abby, Cookie Monster, and Gonger want to bring a vegetable lasagna but don’t have all the ingredients and the oven is broken. They wonder where they can find tomatoes, what else they could use for pasta noodles, and how they can cook their dish. What if they get tomatoes from Abby’s garden, use zucchini as noodles, and cook the lasagna with Norbert’s solar oven? It works! They didn’t give up and cooked their veggie lasagna just in time for the potluck.
#12 - Match It!
Season 51 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/8/2021
Elmo and Abby learn how to compromise and collaborate to make a brand-new song out of both of their favorites! (Guest: Billy Porter).
#14 - The Super Shape Heroes
Season 52 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/2022
Telly, Rosita, and Elmo reprise their “Helper Bot” characters and use their shape-shifting abilities to help a Sesame Street visitor find missing shapes.
#15 - Kind Alan
Season 52 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/7/2022
Elmo, Rosita, and Julia are disappointed that plans changed and they can't have story time with Alan at the moment; to pass the time, they paint pictures of all the kind things Alan has done for them.
#16 - A Bulldozer's Unlucky Day (repeat)
Season 55 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/15/2025
When Lucky gets upset about making mistakes on his first day as a bulldozer, Big Bird and Nina teach him that it's okay to make mistakes.
