A thing I like about Sesame Street is that adults are positively and proactively involved in the lives even of kids they're not related to. This is cool and should be normal--being good to kids and helping them grow up should be a whole society's responsibility.
I also like that a theme of the show is that the grownups in your neighborhood are generally good people who you can count on to help you, which is the opposite of almost everything else we've been told by mass media for 40 years.
