Don't get me wrong, Elmo is one of the best characters(in my opinion) in Sesame Street, but anyone think he's kinda hogging the show?

ya he is i just posted a thread with like 20 sesame street clips from the eighties and i saw elmo for a quick second in alot of the clips i saw on youtube, before he would have a segmant with another muppet. no its like all elmo

The Elmo's World segment takes up like half of a Sesame Street.

Elmo, i guess, is what kids want considering the merchandise. I dislike it when one character overshadows other characters on the show.

Elmo pretty much took over in the early-mid 90's for some reason, which I never quite understood as I remember Elmo being on the show as far back as when I was a baby, which would be 1985-ish. He did little short cute sketches back then if I recall. Too much of him can get rather annoying.

The 80's had their elmo though, I remember Big Bird was the huge one in the entire show, either him or Oscar, with Kermit in Second. But even then Big Bird did not overshadow the other characters, he was just the most popular. Now you hardly see either of those two mentioned anymore, I don't even think snuffleuppagus is on there either.

I miss those good ole' days of Scanimate, Teeny Little Super Guy, and oranges singing Carmen songs.