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JLG
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I've been wondering this a while--throughout the not-quite 40 years they've been on the air, just how many individual segments have built up in that backlog of theirs? I'm talking about everything---live action films, animated, Muppet skits, miscellany--the whole nine yards.
I'm not sure quite how to think about the question---I'm wondering if the number would be more than we'd think, or less than we'd think. Perhaps we'd be surprised by how few there actually are? (Kind of like how when you take a major character from a movie and add up the minutes he's actually on screen--sometimes you're surprised by how little it actually is)
Trying to count up everything on YouTube to get some beginning of an idea is too hard, and not everything is there, anyway.
Every episode in the older format days (until around 2002) had about 40 individual "things" in it. We all know that many of them were repeated like crazy, but we also know that with some we'd have to wait quite a while to catch it again. 130 hours a year, 40 "things" per hour, with light-to-moderate-to-heavy repeats; hard to know how to approach thinking about this.
BTW, when I say individual segments, I'm not counting the Street scenes, except for ones that were made to be inserts (or scenes that were originally parts of stories but later used as inserts, like the time R2-D2 fell in love with a fire hydrant).
It's worth noting that in that old 1969 promo special, Rowlf the Dog speaks offhandedly of the "hundreds of little films" that have been prepared. Since the first season is still largely out of reach, it's hard to say if that's just hyperbole or if there literally were hundreds of things already at the helm.
There's also a technicality---how do you count series of films, like Jazzy Spies or Pinball Numbers? Do you lump every installment together and count them as one, or count them individually?
Well, that's my rambling. If anyone has any insight into this qvestchink, I'll be listenin'.
I'm not sure quite how to think about the question---I'm wondering if the number would be more than we'd think, or less than we'd think. Perhaps we'd be surprised by how few there actually are? (Kind of like how when you take a major character from a movie and add up the minutes he's actually on screen--sometimes you're surprised by how little it actually is)
Trying to count up everything on YouTube to get some beginning of an idea is too hard, and not everything is there, anyway.
Every episode in the older format days (until around 2002) had about 40 individual "things" in it. We all know that many of them were repeated like crazy, but we also know that with some we'd have to wait quite a while to catch it again. 130 hours a year, 40 "things" per hour, with light-to-moderate-to-heavy repeats; hard to know how to approach thinking about this.
BTW, when I say individual segments, I'm not counting the Street scenes, except for ones that were made to be inserts (or scenes that were originally parts of stories but later used as inserts, like the time R2-D2 fell in love with a fire hydrant).
It's worth noting that in that old 1969 promo special, Rowlf the Dog speaks offhandedly of the "hundreds of little films" that have been prepared. Since the first season is still largely out of reach, it's hard to say if that's just hyperbole or if there literally were hundreds of things already at the helm.
There's also a technicality---how do you count series of films, like Jazzy Spies or Pinball Numbers? Do you lump every installment together and count them as one, or count them individually?
Well, that's my rambling. If anyone has any insight into this qvestchink, I'll be listenin'.
