Sesame Street Stays Up Late

Someone recently uploaded the full special on YouTube:

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I hadn't seen this in a long while and I really enjoy it. Using the international characters along side the domestic ones is such a brilliant move. I don't know why they haven't done that more often (I wonder if they'll do anything else with those Panwapa guys).

I'd never even heard of this! Too cool! Thanks, Oscarfan!

I wish I got the DVD when I had the chance, but ehhh.... I was going to watch it on YT anyway. Such an underrated special. It's great to see American and international characters co-mingling...

though I feel disappointed by the fact they didn't get any Plaza Sesamo characters in Mexico and just made up a Mexican Elmo.

And I love the name Elmonosuke.. even though transliteration would make it Erumonosuke.

I think they must have written and filmed this before the 1993 edition of PS came out.

Woah, memory flood. Watching that special is one of the earliest Muppet-related memories I have (I've still got the video my mom recorded around here somewhere) and it's still my favorite out of all the SST specials I've seen.

My favorite parts were always the international segments from Germany and Norway and the song at the end, which I can still remember the words to, even though it's been years since I've watched it.

I would always insist on watching it on New Years Eve, even when nobody else wanted to. One year, I even tried to sync it so that midnight on Sesame Street would
coincide with actual midnight (it didn't work right).

Well in 1993, Rechov Sumsum was long gone and it had been over two years since the end of Shalom Sesame, but I digress. (besides, from what I've seen, it doesn't seem like the Plaza Sesamo puppeteers know very much English)

That said, I loved this special as a boy as well. And I've got to say, for a street in New York at the very end of December, Sesame Street has some darn great weather. You barely see anyone in winter gear.

Well, it would appear that Tita and the Norwegian characters had dubbed voices, so I don't think it's all a matter of English.

I wonder if it was an availability issue. It looked like this was before PS's relaunch. I mean, Abelardo could have made an appearance, sure, but that grouch character was on the way out, right? Plus, had they another grouch, it would be too similar to the Israel segment.

Whatever the reason, at least we still have Moishe Oofnki. He's one of my favorite international characters.

Man am I happy somone uploaded this.

I finally get the chance to see this, and the guy closed his account completely.

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Thanks. Just got around to seeing it. it is SUCH a shame they don't do prime time Sesame Street specials anymore. *&^%$ PBS and their Wayne Dyer self help pledge month crap. People would actually WATCH this. And viewers would happily pledge if something of quality was on for a change. No more of that inorganic, not PBS quality junk they use to get senior citizens to give them their social security checks/potential portion of their money left in their will.

If there's anything this could be comparable to, it would be Elmo's World Happy Holidays... but it essentially takes the same holiday and shows the different ways it could be celebrated all over the world, rather than 3 different ones and their US customs. Plus, you get to see some great international characters we rarely get to see. I LOVE the Moishe Oofnik segment. Too bad they call him Oofnik... that's like calling Porky "Pig."

I like this special. We watch the DVD every year for New Years. I love the whole story line with Telly... and while Elmo is present its nice that its not about him as the main focus.

LOVED this! My fave Sesame special ever next to Dont Eat The Pictures and Big Bird Goes To China.

I wish they'd do more of the really cool special types again(like Dont Eat The Pictures and the China/Japan one)