I beg to differ, many children did watch them all, or as many as possible. If you’ve had kids in the past 25-30 their media consumption was likely markedly different than the time of Sesame.
Today’s child may or may not have more or less screen time, varies by household, but today it’s media on repeat, repeat, repeat. What parent hasn’t remarked about some particular movie or such that they the parent themselves knows the dialogue start to finish for having seen it 4 times and heard it a dozen more times?
Before it was just tv, and no repeats, except in the manner you suggest, repeated segments within the program.
Kids absolutely would watch each and every episode. That’s why I looked for more. I’d rather the episodes where some esp animated segments get heavy repeat, I mean, that was part of the point of those segments.
As for the difference, an example, Matt Robinson, “Gordon” from 69-72, was in 60 episodes. What percentage of those segments survived being monetized I just don’t know, but it wasn’t all of them, and at one episode + 1.15 hours curated per season, ol Gordon’s getting erased, without much cause, given that full seasons & curated are not mutually exclusive except by the whim of whoever controls the ip.
Intellectual property that was created specifically for everyone.
Apologies for length, I remember being ticked off and thinking of this while scouring the web for episodes a few years back.
