May 27
The show turns 40 this year, and what better way to celebrate than to look at some of the awesome stuff they’ve done. Clips ahoy!
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The show turns 40 this year, and what better way to celebrate than to look at some of the awesome stuff they’ve done. Clips ahoy!
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Wow, that brought back a few memories. The great thing for me was a few years ago when I bought the CD box set by the great Tom Lehrer. There were a few bonus tracks, and three of them were songs he wrote and performed for Sesame Street. “Silent E” is the main one, and it shows his cleverness extends beyond Poisoning Pigeons in the Park!
I never saw Orange Oscar before. I think I saw the show in its fourth season when I was five, so it looks like the mold had set in by then. Heh heh. It’s interesting that he’s one of the most popular characters too—he may love trash, but you know he won’t BS you.
I came across the show a few years ago and was somewhat saddened to see Big Bird was getting gray in his feathers, and Snuffy was visible to everyone. So much for BB’s lovable loser image. Imagine the “coming out” episode: “Hey everyone! Big Bird really does have an elephant friend!” “Wow, and here I thought he was playing too much with the glue!”
There was also the line between our puppet versions of the Odd Couple: “What are you doing, Ernie?” “I’m going to eat cookies in your bed, Burt!” Okay, that’s out of context of course. *snicker*
We have the first few years on DVD including the pitches to PBS. Great stuff & required viewing for our youngest kidlet… and us too.
40?!?! I’ve been alive for a little over half as long! Wow, the time flies…or plummets, which explains why it’s always accelerating.
Cookie Monster rocks!!
Haha… one of my nicknames is Cookie, and my girlfriend uses that song for my ringtone when I call her.
I must have been the weirdest little kid ever, because I actually never liked Sesame Street. My brother loved it and used to pretend he was the cookie monster (much to the horror of my grandmother), but he never glared at people cooing over him & talking baby talk either lol
Partly it was an Australian thing. I always found Sesame Street a little confusing, since everybody was American, said “Zee” instead of “Zed”, “trash can” instead of “rubbish bin” and talked about people living in the city, which was a puzzler to me at the time since at the time Brisbane didn’t have *any* apartments in the CBD. Mum had to explain to me that there are places in America where people live in tall buildings right next to office buildings & shops etc. I thought it was the strangest thing ever!
No mention of the yip yip aliens? This list fails.
@Bex Those were my favorite in the whole series. Yip Yip Yip Ahuh Yip Yip OOOH!
Wow. I am the same age as Sesame Street. Sweet jebus I am old. OMG I just checked Wikipedia…
I AM OLDER
Grover sounds like Yoda
Erich, Tom Lehrer did those things for The Electric Company