Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Elmo Rise meme explained. One of the internet's most iconic GIFs is of Elmo, the world-famous red Muppet beloved by children ...

With his bright red coat, big orange nose, and wide eyes, Elmo is arguably the most famous of the Sesame Street muppets–but he didn’t always have it this good. Elmo began as an ‘Anything Muppet’–an ...