how about a SS compilation TV series?

[minor muppetz]

How would you feel if there was a half-hour Sesame Street compilations eries, with only old footage from Sesame Street? I would call it "The Best of Sesame Street" (although it would have some rare footage that might not neccessarily be thought of as "best").

This would be the content for the first 26 episodes:

Episode 1:
Rubber Duckie (1970 version)
One Song (Song of One)
Typewriter: A-airplane
Kermit and Joey recite the alphabet
Beat the Time: Grover
A Little Bit at the Beginning
Jim Carrey shows off his happy and sad feet
Kermit's W Lecture part 1
The National Association of W Lovers
Kermit's W Lecture part 2
Monsterpiece Theater: Chariots of Fur

Episode 2:
Wheels on my Feet
Jazz #2
Teeny Little Superguy: crossing the street
Caveman Days: crossing the street
Big Bird holds Bob's hand while crossing the street
Grover the waiter: Hamburger
Sesame Street News: The New Story of the Three Little Pigs
Ten Tiny Turtles
Squeel of Fortune

Episode 3:
Put Down the Duckie (celebrity version)
Number Three Ball Film (powder version)
Three Song (Song of Three)
Jazz #3
Harvey Kneeslapper: do ya know where I wanna B?
The Cookie Bunny
Sesame Street News: Cinderella prepares for the ball
Elmo and Whoopi Goldberg talk about fur, skin, and hair
Nancy the Nanny Goat
Monster in the Mirror (celebrity version)

Episode 4:
Fuzzy and Blue (and orange)
Four (if this doesn't exist as a skit, then Pinball Number Count #4)
Alice Braitwaite Godyshoes talks about near and far
Near and Far with Grover (1970s version)
Sherlock Hemlock helps Ernie figure out what happened to half of his sandwhich
Typewriter: P-pencil
The Nobel Ostrich
Two-Headed Monster: Honk
Frazzle
Me Gotta Be Blue

Episode 5:
Ernie and Bert go to egypt
Five People in my Family
Jazz #9
Kermit, Shola, and Fanny demonstrate "next to"
Up on the Rooftop
Miami Mice: The Count needs to get to the space station
Martians telephone
James Earl Jones recites the alphabet
Sesame Street News: Alice in Wonderland
Roosevelt Franklin's class spells "poision"
Snuffy jumps on Big Bird's trampoline

Episode 6:
Beat the Time: Cookie Monster
Six Snails
Nine Song (Song of Nine)
Mad Painter #3
Harvey Kneeslapper and the joy buzzer
Ernie brings home a surprise
I Love Trash (1970 version)
Sesame Street News: First Day of Kindergarden
Capital I
We Are All Earthlings

Episode 7:
The Subway
The Alligator King
The Anything in the Whole Wide World Prize Game
Pinball Number Count #7
Suzie Kabloozie hates the letter F
The Royal Smart Person invents a tooth brush
We Coulda
Proud of Me
C is for Cookie (1971 version)

Episode 8:
Rappin' Alphabet
King of 8
Sleep
Everybody Sleeps
The Vllian in the Patima Hat
Typewriter: E-ear
Grover attempts to sell Kermit earmuffs
Sherlock Hemlock and the Great Twiddlebug Mystery
Mahna Mahna
Ernie and Cookie Monster: who is who?

Episode 9:
Dance Myself to Sleep
Count up to Nine
Suzie Kabloozie: Feff gives the last skit a 9
Teeny Little Superguy: learning to ride an egg beater
a man uses a q as a hatrack
Everybody Eats
Grover the waiter: Charlie's Birthday
Ernie's disguise kit
Fay Ray: Animal Disguises
Kermit and Gladys switch roles
That Grouchy Face

Episode 10:
The Ballad of Casey McPhee
Kermit and Tracey count to 10
Eleven Cheer
Pinball Number Count #12
Mad Painter #2
Bellhop #2
Don't Know Y
Sinister Sam and the box of crayons
Sesame Street News: The Count counts three little pigs
Herry and John-John count to 20
The Zizzy Zoomers

Episode 11:
There's a Hole in the Bucket
Two-Headed Monster at the shoe store
Sesame Street News: Humpty Dumpty
Beat the Time: Homer Honker
Arnold Rides a Chair
Count it Higher
Do De Rubber Duck
Typewriter: C-cat
Bert teaches Berniece to play checkers

Episode 12:
One Fine Face
Wanda the Witch
Carol Burnett says that "Wanda the Witch is weird"
Monsterpeice Theater: Guys and Dolls
I'm a Real Cowboy
Roosevelt Franklin teaches his class traffic safety
Batman crosses the street
The Word is "No"

Episode 13:
Don Music writes Yellowstone Park
Grover the taxi driver
Roosevelt Franklin Counts
Mad
Cecille: I Wanna Be Me
Bein' Green with Kermit and Lena Horne
A Cookie is a Sometimes Food
Write it Down
Two-Headed Monster: Mom
The Twiddlebugs hang a stamp

Episode 14:
The Twiddlebugs prepare a family portrait
The Ladybug Picnic
Queen of Six
I'm an Aardvark
My Pollywog Ways
Super Grover: Telephone Booth
Monsterpiece Theater: Hamlet
Mystery Guest
Things That I Remember

Episode 15:
Super Grover: two boys fight over an apple
Jasper and Julius: Apple
With Every Beat of my Heart
Elmo's Song
Kermit and Grover demonstrate heavy and light
Heavy and Light
Together, We'll Make Music
G-giggle
Al's Alphabet Garage

Episode 16:
On My Pond
Twiddlebugs plan a trip to the zoo
Furry Happy Monsters
You're Alive
Kermit and Grover talk about light and dark
Mumford's cookie trick
Forgetful Jones and Buster brush each others teeth (remake)
Super Grover and Super Elmo
Speech Balloon: S-snake
Ev'rybody Be Yo'Self

Episode 17:
Mysterious Theater: The Case of the Missing Cat
Speech Balloon: M-mail
Milk
Kermit talks about empty and full
How Do You Do?
Mad Painter #11
Pinball Number Count #3
Ernie and Bert: H on TV

Episode 18:
J Friends
Bad Bart wants to give somebody what he deserves
Marshall Grover rides Fred backwards
Cowboy X
Proud to be a Cow
Typewriter: T-train
Alphaquest: S
Would You Like to Buy an O?
U Really Got a Hold on Me

Episode 19:
The Batty Bat
a boy leaves the water running while brushing his teeth
If I Were
never invite an M to dinner
K-kiss
La, La, La
Herry and John-John talk about Q
The "D" Commercial
Lefty attempts to sell Ernie a U
Mary had a bicycle

Episode 20:
Extreme Makeover: Home Addition
Bellhop #20
Lefty attempts to sell Ernie an invisible ice cream cone
Starfish
Monsterpiece Theater: The 39 Stairs
Air with Guy Smiley
Up and Down with Ernie and Placedo Flamingo
High 12
Eight Song (Song of Eight)
What Do I Do When I'm Alone?

Episode 21:
Doin' the Pigeon
If I Was a Cloud in the Sky
Windy
I've got a zoo in me!
That's About the Size of it
Cookie Monster: FOOD
I Wonder About the World Above Up There
Grover and John-John count backwards from 10

Episode 22:
I Can Sing When You Sing
Lefty attempts to sell Ernie air
You Tickle Me
Simon Soundman teaches Bert how to make tuba sounds
Monsterpiece Theater: ABCD Blue
The Chicken or the Egg
Harvey Kneeslapper: do ya want one?
Bert tells John-John that he lost his paperclips
The Royal Smart Person invents paper

Episode 23:
Kermit draws a K
What's My Part?: Foot
Ernie and Bert divide jellybeans
I Just Adore Four
Kermit and Joey count to 20
Bellhop #8
Cookie Monster at the library
Grover and the butterfly

Episode 24:
Oscar's Junk Band
Ernie puts the radio knob on Bert
Sign Man: Coffee
Soul H
Sesame Street News: The Pied Piper
Rap Song #17
24
Grover the waiter: South America

Episode 25:
Ernie makes loud noises at the movies
Fur
Kermit and Elmo talk about happy and sad
Say the Word
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
I Love my Elbows
Jasper and Julius: I've Lost my Elbows
Ernie paints a picture of Bert

Episode 26:
Some of Us are Here
Telephone Rock
Candy Man
Super Grover: Computer
The Birdland Jump
D-U-C-K-I-E
Cookie Monster at the carnival
Mumford's subtraction trick
King Minus
She'll Be Comming Around the Mountain

What do you think?

 

[SSLFan]

Nice ideas!

 

[minor muppetz]

This would be a good second season:

Episode 27:
Ernie has Bert wait outside the apartment
Jazz Alphabet
Rhyme Out
The Count and Cookie Monster count and eat cookies
Grover delivers singing telegrams to Fat Blue
Just the Way You Are
The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jambouree

Episode 28:
The First Day of School
Surprise
Monsterpiece Theater: Cyranose DeBergano
Grover and Oscar's alphabet
Hard Workin' Dog
Beat the Time: The Count
Barn in the USA
Pride

Episode 29:
ABC-DEF-GHI (1980s version)
a man learns that it's best not to pick flowers
A Flower Grows
Grover talks about the letter G
The Song of the Count
Born to Add
Jellyman Kelly
Grover trains Elmo to deliver singing telegrams
Rubber Duckie with Little Richard
This Frog

Episode 30:
a woman with a tall hat sits in front of Ernie at the movies
Two Song (Song of Two)
Sesame Street News: Rupunzel
Listen to the Bells
Alphaquest: B
Grover the singing and dancing waiter
Being a Pig (film version)
Bayou Alphabet
Nasty Dan

Episode 31:
The Count hires Ernie to answer his telephone
Alphabet Jungle
Cookie Monster takes Ernie's cupcakes
Sharing
Lillian, Big Sister
Pinball Number Count #12
Kermit tries to pick up his "Kermit the Frog" t-shirt

Episode 32:
Herry and John-John talk about up and down
What's My Letter?
Typewriter: H-hands
D animals, jobs, and activities
Capital I
Roosevelt Franklin talks to his class about excercising
Monsterpiece Theater: The Sound of Music
Two Heads are Better Than One

Episode 33:
Carribean Amphibean
Ernie loses Bert at the beach
Coconut Counting Man
I is Gonna Soak Up the Sun
The People in Your Neighborhood (original version)
Kermit directs Forgetful Jones in Oklahoma
Mmmmonster Meal
Scratch My Back

Episode 34:
Ernie presents the letter A
Super Grover: bags of groceries
1-20 cartoon with four-armed man
Floating Face counts to 10
Ernie presents the letter Q
Herry and a kid talk about how they are alike and different
Sesame Street News: Peter Piper's family
Ernie presents the letter U

Episode 35:
Monsterpiece Theater: The King and I
In Your Imagination
Small People
Believe in Yourself with N*SYNC
Kermit counts twiddlebugs
Beat the Time: Elmo
Jazz #8
Ernie's sandbox game

Episode 36:
Do Op Hop
If Moon was Cookie
Somebody Come and Play with Suzie Kabloozie
I Wish I Had a Friend to Play with Me
Clap, Clap, Clap
Air with Bip Bipodotta
Sesame Street News: Cookie Red Riding Hood

Episode 37:
Grover the Waiter: Simon Soundman orders a chicken sandwhich
Teeny Little Superguy: pet spoon
The Count counts flowers
Miami Mice: Kermit interviews the mice
I Can Sing When You Sing
Ten Song (Song of Ten) (ten indians version)
I've Gotta Be Clean

Episode 38:
Whistle Whistle Little Bird
Little Bird's imagination game
Roosevelt Franklin's Alphabet
Monkeys Under my Bed
what if people celebrated valentines day with chickens instead of hearts?
Sesame Street Sports: The Tortose and the Hair
Headball
Bein' Green (Oscar's version)

Episode 39:
Two Princes
Every Kitty Sleeps
Two-headed Monster: go to zoo or playground?
Worms in Space: 17
Monsterpiece Theater: The Taming of the Shoe
Bein' a Pig (animated version)
Imagine That

Episode 40:
Happiness Begins at 40
Circles
Wide Open Spaces
Grover thinks that he is about to surprise Ernie
Everyone Likes ice Cream
Hola Means Hello
"Here, fishy fishy fishy!"
Guy Smiley takes his audience out to lunch

Episode 41:
Sesame Street News: London Fog
What's My Part?: Nose
Everything's Comming Up Noses
Grover attempts to sell Kermit a nose warmer
The Count counts honks
The Food We Eat
The Addition Game

Episode 42:
Bert's Bust
Swamp Mushy Mud
This is my J
Mad Painter #10
F is for fly and frog
Bert's Blanket
The Monster Repair Team comes to Kermit's house

Episode 43:
Kermit and Bob talk about frogs
Here is Your Life: Oak Tree
Breakfast Time
Kermit x-rays Herry
Suzie Kabloozie in space
Kermit's imagination game
The Geefle and the Gonk
a piano player recites the alphabet in a construction workers lunch box

Episode 44:
a dolphin shows Elmo what love is
The Count stays over at Ernie and Bert's apartment part 1
Typewriter: y-yo-yo
I Can Do It By Myself
The Count stays over at Ernie and Bert's apartment part 2
Exit
Madrigal Alphabet

Episode 45:
Lulu's Back in Town
Hold Out Your Hand and Say Hello
Tadpole
I Want a Monster to be my Friend
Grover the waiter: The Count orders hot dogs
This Song is for the Birds

Episode 46:
Gospel Alphabet
Sesame Street News: Cinderella at the ball
Wegmens Dogs make peanut butter
Ernie loves his boat
They can't Take That Away from Me
Disco D
Ernie, Bert, and Big Bird demonstrate tall, taller, and tallest

Episode 47:
Monsterpiece Theater: Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind
The World Wide World of the World
The Cat Had a Birthday
What a Gift
Ernie is thirsty during bedtime

Episode 48:
Snuffy and Judy Collins sing the alphabet
Kermit talks about between
Between
Daddy Dear
Ernie tells Oscar that he's lost his rubber duckie part 1
a U knocks on a P's door
Ernie tells Oscar that he's lost his ruber duckie part 2

Episode 49:
Honk Around the Clock
Hey Food
Grover the waiter: competition
B.B. King
Ernie proclaims himself owner of a ball
Elmo's Alphabet Rap
Cookie Monster's first cookie

Episode 50:
Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco
Yellow Submarine
Kermit and Grover talk about long and short
One and One Make Two
Speech Balloon: G-gorillia
Dancing Shoes

 

[minor muppetz]

For the opening, it would be a clip montage played over audio of the original audio recording of the theme song, as heard during the first season. It would start with clips and end with a title card. The title card would be a blue background with "The Best" writen in green lettering, "of" being in the part of the Sesame Street sign that has "CTW"/"123", and Sesame Street would obviously be written in the sign (and the sign would be an illustration). The first verse of the theme would be played.

And the clips that lead up to the title card would be....

*Big Bird rollerskating ("Wheels on my Feet")
*Ernie in the bath tub ("Rubber Duckie")
*The Count spinning the wheel ("Squeal of Fortune")
*Cookie Monster driving a train through the "Beat the Time" set ("Beat the Time": Cookie Monster)
*Wanda the Witch drawing a W ("Wanda the Witch")
*Teeny Little Superguy dancing ("Teeny Little Superguy" opening sequence)
*numbers in the pinball machine being shown ("Pinball Number Count")
*sheep taking Bert's bed ("Dance Myself to Sleep")
*Grover, Herry, Cookie, and Frazzle dancing ("Fuzzy and Blue")
*Harvey Kneeslapper slapping a B on his victim
*The Typewriter typing an A
*Jim Henson juggling three balls ("Three Song (Song of Three)")
*Grover and Herry preparing for their race ("Monsterpiece Theater: Chariots of Fur")
*Big Bird jumping on his trampoline
*the cast of "You Tickle Me"

And the ending credits would be white letters on a black background with the nighttime version of the theme playing.

 

[ISNorden]

If Sesame Workshop and the Disney Company gave permission (darn them for buying Kermit!), then sure I'd watch a show like that. I'd prefer each show to center on a theme, like "Muppets at work"; then again, that's just me.


P.S. You do have a good eye for video work, judging by the opening montage!

 

[minor muppetz]

If Sesame Workshop and the Disney Company gave permission (darn them for buying Kermit!), then sure I'd watch a show like that. I'd prefer each show to center on a theme, like "Muppets at work"; then again, that's just me.

I don't think it would be a problem. Kermit has appeared in recent Sesame Street DVds (including Old School Vol. 1), and Sesame Workshop does have permission to include Kermit skits in new episodes (even though Do De Rubber Duck is the only sketch with Kermit that's shown in new episodes of the american Sesame Street).

 

[minor muppetz]

If such a series was made but each episode revolved around a particular theme, then this is what I'd include:

1. From 1 to 10
One Song (Song of One)
Two Heads are Better Than One
Jazz #3
I Just Adore Four
Funny Farm
Six
The Alligator King
King of 8
Count up to Nine
Kermit and Tracy count to 10

2. The Hit Songs
Rubber Duckie (1969 version)
C is for Cookie (1971 version)
ABC-DEF-GHI (1972 version)
Count it Higher
Somebody Come and Play (original version)
The People in Your Neighborhood (original version)
Bein' Green (1976 version)
The Ladybug Picnic
Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco
Elmo's Song

3. Storytime
The King Banishes the Letter P
Sesame Street News: The Count counts the three little pigs
The Magic Apple
The Cursed Prince
Monsterpiece Theater: Little House on Prairie
Ernie writes an alphabet story
The King and the Fireman

4. Bathtime
I Like to Sing
Rubber Duckie (Little Richard version)
Grover's bath lecture
Solomon Grundy
Splish Splash
Do De Rubber Duck
Bubble on my Snuffle
Ernie helps Bert prepare for Brad's bath

5. Bedtime
Sleep
Grover is afraid of the dark
Bert's Blanket
The Count's sheep go on strike
Ernie observes a blackout
Everybody Sleeps
Dance Myself to Sleep
Lambaba
Operatic Lulaby
Ernie counts shep, fire engines, and balloons

6. Fun and Games
One of These Things (original version)
Ernie's rhyming game
Name That Sound
Kermit's imagination game
Ernie's Q game
Somebody Come and Play
I Wish I Had a Friend to Play with Me
What's My Part?: Nose
Sesame Street News: inventing new games

7. From A to H
Soul A
Harvey Kneeslapper: "do ya know where I wanna B?"
C is for cap
Dee, Dee, Dee
Typewriter: E-ear
F is for fly and frog
Grover talks about the letter G
a scientist invents a capital letter H

8. From I to P
Monsterpiece Theater: The King and I
Speech Balloon: J-jam
cheerleaders cheer about K
La, La, La
Marvelous Martha
The Letter N
Would You Like to Buy an O?
Sesame Street News: Peter Piper's family

9. From Q to Z
the arrival of Queen Quaigmire
Harvey Kneeslaper and the mailman
Alphaquest: S
T is for television
Lefty attempts to sell Ernie a U
The Villian in the Patima Hat
Wanda the Witch
Mystery Guest
Typewriter: Yo-yo
The Zizzy Zoomers

10. The Environment
I Love Trash (1971 version)
On My Pond
The Garden Song
Oscar's Junk Band
Willie Wimple: Land Pollution
Put it in the Trash Can
What a Gift
Down Below the Street
Once is Not Enough
Don't Throw That Trash on the Ground
Bye Bye Garbage
We Are All Earthlings

11. Television
Squeal of Fortune
The Monster Who Ate the Television
Miami Mice: The Count needs to get to the space station
Sesame Street News: The Six Dolar Man
Ernie, Bert, and Herry want to sit in the TV chair
Mystery Theater: circle search
24
The Add'ems Family
Beat the Time: Elmo

12. Parodies
What's my Part?: Foot
Monsterpeice Theater: The Taming of the Shoe
Miami Mice: Ernie can't get his Rubber Duckie back from the repair shop
Tellys Lunch
Furry Happy Monsters
Monsterpiece Theater: Twin Beaks
Barn in the USA

13. The Alphabet
Bayou Alphabet
James Earl Jones recites the alphabet
Grover the waiter: alphabet soup
alphabet soup
Kermit and Joey recite thealphabet
Lefty recites the alphabet to his boss
Elmo's Alphabet Rap

14. Rock and Roll
You're Alive
Mad
123 Sesame Street
Windy
Hey Food
D-U-C-K-I-E
Monster in the Mirror
Born to Add
The Word is No

15. The Old West
Sinister Sam searches for Doc Holiday
How Many Birds Will Fit on a Wire
I'm a Real Cowboy
The Dirtiest Town in the West
Nasty Dan
Marshall Grover confuses forward with backwards
Cowboy X
Forgetful Jones gives Buster a bath
The Great Cookie Thief

16. Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes
Sesame Street News: Cinderella at the ball
Ernie plays Old King Cole
Hey Diddle Diddle animation
Snow White counts dwarfs
Ernie auditions merry men
Sesame Street News: Hickory Dickory Dock

17. Health
The Heart of a Frog
Healthy Food (1987 version)
Professor Hastings and kermit teach the importance of excercise
Captain Breakfast
Sesame Street News: Cookie Red Riding Hood
Healthy Storybook Moments: Little red Riding Hood
Monsterpeice Theater: Chariots of Fur
Roosevelt Franklin teaches his class to excercise
Cookie is a Sometimes Food

18. School
Roosevelt Franklin teaches his class traffic safety
Sesame Street News: The First Day of School in History
Cookie Monster can't read the school sign
Cheerleaders cheer about the number 4
Spanish Word of the Day: Esqualia
Cookie Monster shows the "school" sign to a kid
The First Day of School

19. Team Work
The Geefle and the Gonk
Buddy and Jim move an ironing board
Ernie and Bert paint a picture
Two Princes
Larry and Phyllis: mailing letters
Willy let's Mr. Macintosh use his knife, and Mr. Macintosh let's Willy use his scale
Co-Operation
Grover the waiter: competition

20. The Best of the Number 20
Kermit and Joey count to 20
1-20 cartoon with four-armed man
Herry and John-John count to 20
The Count counts honks
Cookie Monster and the napkin
number creatures 20
rubber stamps 20
Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot count to 20
Beat the Time: The Count

21. At Work
Sit Right Down and Plan
We Coulda
Grover the waiter: hamburger
The People in Your Neighborhood (with Ben Stiller)
The Count works as an elevador operador
Grover the Elevador Operador: only five people can fit
Elephant Elevador Operador
Telly attempts to sell Kermit a head warmer
Grover the taxi driver
a gorillia applies for a job
Grover traisn Elmo to deliver singing telegrams

22. Diversity
Different, Yet the Same
Cerrado
Spanish Word of the Day: Si and No
Abierro
Grover the singing and dancing waiter
Cookie Monster: Amour
Ernie and Bert go to egypt
Global Grover: France
Sesame Street News: London Fog
Roosevelt Franklin teahces his class about famous black people
The World Wide World of the World

23. Monsters
We're All Monsters
Monsterpeice Theater: Monsters with Dirty Faces
You Tickle Me
Two-Headed Monster: Mom
Kermit talks about big and little
Mmmonster Meal
I Want a Monster to Be My Friend
Grover is scarred of other monsters at the bus stop
Kermit talks about big, bigger, and biggest
Telly's Lunch

24. Opposites
Kermit and Grover demosntrate "up" and "down"
Ernie and Placedo Flamingo sing "Up and Down"
Heavy and Light
Ernie and Grover's opposites song
Some of Us Are Here
Alice Braitewaite Goodyshoes: Shorter and Longer
Near and Far (late 1970s version)
the first and last cookie

 

[Ilikemuppets]

Yeah! would like to see more Kermit sketches.

 

[ISNorden]

The themed episode choices sound great; if enough clips existed, though, I'd add "To 21 and Beyond" to the number compilations. These would be my candidates for inclusion in the episode:

• Ernie's "12 and 21" poem
• Numberella
• The Count watches "24"
• Monsterpiece Theater: The 39 Steps
• Monsterpiece Theater: Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves
• Guy Smiley takes his audience to lunch
• Cartoon: a man outdoors counts 40 stars "...and many more!"
• Cartoon: Lemmings 1-40
• Song: 40 Blocks to School
• Joe Hundredguy
• The Count sleeps over at Bert and Ernie's (to reinforce the idea that numbers go on forever, and ever, and ever...)

Since your compilation shows use ten clips each, which of the above would you drop from the list? Which might you use that I didn't mention, considering the theme (numbers 21 and higher)?

 

[D'Snowth]

Nice ideas, I'd like to see something like this!