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Maria not only had her greatest chemistry as Oscar's foil, when Manzano started writing for the show in the 80's, she may have contributed some great Maria&Oscar sketches: Favorite is the one where Oscar wants Maria to try out his new "Grouch restaurant", and keeps serving real gourmet...

Not sure, but think the first-season Kermit segment where he appears to steal Kermit's "cup-py-cakes" could've been the first CM in nameless prototype form as we know him today... Unless anyone up on their Noggin reruns knows any actual earlier appearance.

No question that Boober and TM were clearly designed for Goelz's 100% "gonzo" delivery of an oddball character's line-- But was thinking more along the lines of Jim Henson not wanting to play a permanent role in the series (among other things), but still writing in a few guest-character shots...

Basically, each belong to their own subculture: Oscar is one of the Grouches, which is its own (Sesame-fictional) NYC species-minority just like Monsters and Birds, and as such, enjoys raining on people's parades...That's what Grouches do. :grouchy: (They even have their own National Anthem, as...

Even though World's Oldest looks like a character who was clearly written/envisioned with hopes of occasional ad-lib-ready Oz guest-shots in mind... And had to settle for starting Dave Goelz on his future career of over-the-top faux-Oz replacement.

(Well, not available on DVD, anyway-- The Met museum one seems to be the VHS, and I ain't touchin' it.) Also, one of the all-time great Bert & Ernie sketches, where the two are looking at the painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware, and Bert tells the story of how the Father of...

Yeah, well, ding-dong, you're wrong, smiley-- Have a rotten time, hehehh... :grouchy:

Actually, the MP3 sounds like it was from one of the fairytale proto-specials-- The first-season episode was where he had a musical number with Kaye Ballard(?), and yeah, Nelson did sound a little too much like Snuffy.

Took long enough, but: Big Bird in China (And, just so it isn't a total loss: Yeah, the other one... No "Don't Eat the Pictures" yet, though, darn.)

Toss in "Don't Eat the Pictures" (in which BB and Barkley help the ghost of an Egyptian boy from the museum Tut exhibit), and "Japan" comes in a pretty weenie third (fourth?)-- "Japan" was the last BB special, and frankly, they were starting to get into a "BB discovers local legend" rut...

...Not even the "Happy Days" episode where Fonzie had a crush on the deaf girl, and it was Linda, not Marlee?

And wherever there is a mention of Hunt-era Don Music, there must be a mention of: Don: o/` "'Q, R, S'...er, 'S' ....Oh, I'll never get it right! (headbang!)" Frank Oz AM Golfer: "Uh, excuse me, mind if I play through? I've got a guy waiting for me on the seventeenth....TEEEEEE!!!!!"...

Remember there were two hearing-impaired actresses on TV at the time (this being the same time as Marlee Matlin was getting Oscar nominations)-- And always liked Bove for trying to put a positive Street spin on deaf-community images by having a perceptible sense of humor and being the less...

(This Sesame Street thread is brought to you by the letters S, C, & W.) :)

Three years going, and nobody quoted: S: They don't write the old songs anymore. W: Nope--Nowadays they just write new ones. ---- (And can't remember the context, but:) W: Statler, you are the Old Fool that there is No Fool Like!