{"id":5904,"date":"2015-04-27T03:23:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T11:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=5904"},"modified":"2015-05-06T22:23:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T06:23:25","slug":"did-the-state-of-mississippi-once-ban-sesame-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2015\/04\/27\/did-the-state-of-mississippi-once-ban-sesame-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the State of Mississippi Once Ban Sesame Street?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about TV and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the TV urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

TV URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: The state of Mississippi once banned Sesame Street<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Mississippi has a unique place in the history of Sesame Street<\/em>. Most importantly, Greenville, Mississippi was the birth place of Jim Henson, creator of Sesame Street and he lived in nearby Stoneville, MS during his childhood. In fact, another nearby city, Leland, MS claims to be the “birth place of Kermit the Frog,” since Henson spent so much time there as a child.<\/p>\n

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Henson never challenged the claim and in fact, in 2002, Jim Henson Productions filmed Kermit’s Swamp Years<\/em> in Mississippi, effectively confirming that the swamp that Kermit grew up in WAS in Mississippi.<\/p>\n

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