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On Friday, January 29, 2010 The Future wanted to know the inside scoop. For the past 40 years Sesame Street kept us entertained.

Sesame Street the American children’s television program known for its combination of Jim Henson's Muppets, animation, short films, humor, and cultural references premiered on public broadcasting television stations on November 10, 1969, to positive reviews, some controversy, and high ratings. It was the first preschool educational television program to base its contents and production values on laboratory and formative research, and the first to include a curriculum "detailed or stated in terms of measurable outcomes". Does size really matter?

If this doesn't make you want to whip your hair, nothing will: Willow Smith meets Sesame Street in electric new viral

Surely it wasn't that long ago that Willow Smith was watching Sesame Street herself.

Now her first single has been given a Sesame Street makeover - and the result has been electric.

A YouTube mash-up of nine-year-old Willow's 'Whip My Hair' has been set to footage of a Sesame Street skit entitled 'I Love My Hair'.

Two days on, the mash-up has gone viral - catapulting young Willow's first song into the stratosphere and taking the internet by storm.

The video also represents another viral success for Sesame Street after its clever parody of the infamous Old Spice man commercials - starring Grover. The original 'I Love My Hair' skit features a muppet singing about all the different ways she can wear her hair.

The message was meant to be a boost for young girls with African-American hair - an affirmation that their natural hair is beautiful and that they do not need long, straight hair to feel proud. The original has been viewed nearly 300,000 times on YouTube in the five days since it was posted there. Thousands of comments on the video were praising Sesame Street for the message.

But then Willow Smith released just a few lines from her new single 'Whip My Hair'.

GROVER says - Smell Like A Monster

Sesame Street's parody of the Isaiah Mustafa Old Spice advertisement had become an instant hit on the Internet, proving once again that the children show remain popular with adults as well.

In the Old Spice parody, Sesame Street's Grover tells audience why is it important to smell like a monster and using the word "on" correctly in the show's rip-off at the "Man Your Man Could Smell Like" advertisement.

"Anything is possible when you smell like a monster and know the word on," quips Grover. The Sesame Street parody of the Old Spice advertisement had received more than two-million hits in the Sesame Street channel.

One viewer said, "This goes to show you that it is possible to write children's entertainment that is genuinely clever."