After Elmo asked how his Twitter followers were doing, a string of concerning responses spurred Sesame Street to intervene. The friendly red puppet is ... with a throwback meme line.

Its popularity caused it to become a meme ... some related it to Elmo's World, a production of Frog Island Flicks, which performed a famous parody of the puppet, showing a fictional scenario ...

One meme that has taken the internet by storm is the Elmo on fire meme, a picture that features the beloved Sesame Street ...