Sesame Street is the popular long-running children's series starring puppet characters such as Elmo, Bert, Ernie, Oscar The Grouch, Grover, and many others.
Lucas and Kirk are parodies of Bert and Ernie, two very popular characters from the show. Brownie Monster is a parody to the character Cookie Monster, another popular character of the show and Fred The Postman is a parody and relative of Grover. Rufus appeared in a episode segment on the show with his puppeteer, Sam.