What's your favorite letter segment?

[ssetta]

And don't forget Smokey Robinson's "U Really Got A Hold On Me". Anyone remember that?

 

[Cowboy X]

I'm kinda partial to Lefty trying to sell Ernie an O, Cowboy X, and the one in the old west where Sinister Sam want's to know who bought the last box of crayons, and Y!!!!!!

 

[Splurge]

Personally, I have a special place in my heart for skits that were made in the 1969 season.

-The "A"/('Ey!') bit with Henson's early Muppet monsters, including an unnamed Cookie Monster, Beautiful Day and Green Grover.

-Kermit's lecture on "W" from Show #1. Both parts with Cookie Monster and the Wrestling W each have their own charm.

-Kermit's "B" lecture, similar to the "W" lecture, Pt. I

-Anything involving the cheerleaders with letters "F" & "K".

-Cookie eating Ernie's very own "X": "I always like to eat bacon and X!"

-Ernie teaches "A" for "Apple" until Cookie Monster appears. There's another one for "U" for "Ukulele". I do believe there was also one with "Q" for "Quart".

 

[roadrat15]

How about :
The 'letter on the street interview show' skit?
'G, Grover . . .G,George"
Ernie's TV that only shows the letter H
'La La La La Lemon'
'Oh G . . .That's Why I Love That Letter' song

 

[Drtooth]

I also like Professor Hasting's U lecture, especially this part:

U is undoubtably the start of USA...which all began when the United States...Ummm buummmbb United, that's another U word...heh!

 

[roadrat15]

I've heard that on record . . .was it ever filmed?

 

[Splurge]

I kinda liked the letter stories. You know, when a human cast member, like Bob, would read a story based on a certain letter and it would be acted out by the Anything Muppets. I have memories of one being about the letter Y.

 

[roadrat15]

Yeah. I loved Maria reading the story of the King and the letter L
. . .complete with Loyal Lackey Louie! LOL!

 

[mikealan]

Here are my favorite letter segments I watched and heard from late May 2002 to the summer of 2003!

A-animated Acorn sketch
Soul A, sung by a cartoon dancer
The Sound of the Letter A, by Big Bird
B-Kermit's 'B' Lecture, similar to 'W' Lecture Pt. 1
Animated segment: A boy named Jack who visited the Land of B
Animated segment: B is for bicycle, bear, bump, branch, bee (1969)
Harvey Kneeslapper-'Do you know where I wanna be?'
Animated segment: B is for basket, bandit, ball and various other things on the wall
Animated segment: A brown boy having a bath with his baby bear named Bosco
Animated segment: B-banana, short that ends with a ballerina inside a banana!
Alphaquest-B
C-C Is For Cookie, as sung by Cookie Monster (duh!)
C Is For Cookie (Opera version)
C-canary, an animated segment with the little man in the cage and the over-sized canary!
Harvey Kneeslapper-'Do you wanna see?'
Animated segment: C-cowboy
D-Daddy Dear, a surreal classic animation/song
Disco D
Animated segment: Little construction workers are going to build the 'd' store after they made the huge lowercase letter 'd' in metal
Animated segment/song: Small B for boy and Small D for dog
The Limerick-D, dog
E-The Letter of the Day Pagent with Guy Smiley and the letter E
E...E...See me...eating a peach, a surreal classic animated segment with the princess, a seal, an eagle and the scary Land of Steam
School tools form capital E and small e
F-'F' Cheerleader Anything Muppets cheer for the letter F (1969)
The Typewriter Guy: F, fly
Alphaquest-F
Alphaboy-F
G-Animated segment: G-gorilla
Grover & the Growing G
Animated segment: G is the first letter in the word...in the word...in the word...giggle!
Live-Action segment: G (from the late 90's)
The Typewriter Guy: G, glue
Live-Action segment: the G song about capital G and small g
H-the Ha Ha Ha song
Animated segment: "An H is the first letter in the word...(telephone ringing) hello!" (possibly from 1970)
Animated segment: H-hair, with the short bald-headed man
Live-Action segment: H-hat
Soul H, sung by a cartoon dancer
I-We all live in a capital I...in the middle of the desert...in the center of the sky (haven't seen it awhile, but heard it on audio MP3)
The King & I, a Monsterpiece Theater production
Letters In Sand-I
Sheep create capital I and small i
J-Animated segment/song: The J family jamboree!
Animated segment: J for jacket
Newsflash with Kermit: Alphabet Mine
This Is My J, sung by Biff
The Typewriter Guy: J, jump
Letters In Sand-J
Animated segment: J-jam with little girl shouting, "Strawberry, my favorite kind!"
Big Bird, Barkley and live kid: J-jump
K-Animated segment: Small k kisses
Animated segment: K-key ("Close the house, Leonard!")
Live-Action segment: K-karate
Herbert Birdsfoot's Silly K Poem
School tools form capital K and small k, with the same music of 'E' version
Worms In Space-K
L-La La La Lemon, sung by Ernie & Bert
Animated segment: L-laugh
Animated segment: L-loud
Animated segment: L-large, L-little
Animated segment/song: If You've Lost Your L, you'll find it
Animated segment: the story/song of the letter L (from 1998-99)
Live-Action segment: L (from the late '90's)
Live-Action segment: Man in 'L' costume in beach
M-The Typewriter Guy: M, magic
Ya Gotta Have M, sung by a female purple Anything Muppet singer
Monsters In Day Care: Monsters sing about the letter M
Animated segment: Mighty M, the M-shaped man
Animated segment: M-M-M Marvelous Martha!
Alphaquest-M
Animated segment: The rude-behaviored letter M comes to dinner, and ate everything in sight! ("Next time I'll invite a J...or a polite Q...but not another M!")
Animated segment: M is for milk ('Do you know what comes from the cow and begins with M?' Cow:Mooooooooo! I get it, milk!), from the early '70's
Animated segment: The M Chorus, with conductor conducting the high M notes, then the middle M notes, then the low M notes, until they became a big M as the conductor happily says, "My music!"
Animated segment: "The letter M...a mask"
N-Lowercase N, standing on a hill (haven't seen it awhile, but heard it on audio MP3)
The Noodle Story, performed by Big Bird & Oscar
Nancy the Nanny Goat
Alphaboy-N
O-Would You Like to Buy an O, performed by Ernie and Lefty
"O...open...O, off...owl....O!...ocean...O" (probably from the mid-90's)
The Olympic athletic lady spins to string to form the letter O
That's the Letter O, sung by Rosie O'Donnell, Prairie Dawn, Mary Monster and Telly Monster
Letters In Sand-O
P-Newsflash with Kermit: Peter Piper's Pickled Peppers
Alphaquest-P
My Favorite Letter, performed by the cowboy Anything Muppets
Q-The Question Song, performed by Grover and the little girl Anything Muppet
Herry and John-John discuss about the letter Q
R-Animated segment: the 'r' car, a groovy animation from the 70's
Animated segment: the 'R' Wizard
The Typewriter Guy: R, rope
The Limerick- R, rhinoceros
"R...robot...R...rabbit...read...r, r, r,...rocket...R" (probably from the mid-90's)
S-Sammy the Snake, the claymation from the first season
Animated segment: S-snake, with the snake playing jazz with the flute!
The Limerick- S, snail
Alphaquest-S
Letters In Sand-S
S, You're the Best
Live-action segment: S, square
T-Luis' voice that announces capital T and small t with violin music in background
Kids form the capital T
Live-action segment: T Is For Turning (from 2000)
Twirling Letters-the 'T' song
Animated segment: T-Taxi puzzle
Animated segment: t-tiger, teapot, television, taxi (nice animation)
Live-action segment: T, triangle
U-The Typewriter Guy: U, umbrella
Letters In Sand-U
Zoe explains about the letter U to Oscar
Animated segment: the U-N-I-T-E train
Animated segment: The 'U' Class
My Friend U
Animated segment: the 'U' greets the 'P' without understanding (from 1998-99)
The Yip-Yips and the letter U
Animated segment: Little boy buys the 'U' first, then the 'P' for the word 'up'!
V-Live-action segment: V (probably from the late 90's or 2000, i think)
Animated segment: Letter V zooming into outer space ('v...v...v....V!!!!!')
Animated segment: V-violin, with the man breaking the violin!
Animated segment: Letter V standing on a tree, then lands in the sea and then was blown away and lands on the man's knee! Ouch!
Live-action segment: Swinging Letters-The 'V' Song
Animated segment: "The letter V...(sounding just the v sound) v...v...v...v...v...VOL-CANOOOOOO!!!!!!!! The letter V."
Animated segment: V Is For Vitamins ("You forgot to take your vitamins!")
A Very, Very, Very Special Letter, sung by Big Bird
W-Wanda the Witch
Animated segment: "A good day everyone. I am a worm. Worm begins with this letter, W."
Animated segment: W for water, wave, wind, wet (from possibly 1998-99)
Two cop Anything Muppets chasing the letter W on the run!
Kermit's 'W' Lecture Pt. 1, with Cookie Monster
Kermit's 'W' Lecture Pt. 2, with W struggling with the poor ol' Kermit!
X-Animated segment: Brand X!
Animated segment: Cowboy X!
Animated segment: the training circus x's!
Animated segment: X-xray
Animated segment: White man talks about the letter X
X Marks the Spot, performed by Detective Sherlock Hemlock
Harvey Kneeslapper-'X Marks the Spot'
Bert, Ernie and Shala demonstrate about the letter X
Animated segment: X, with x's on the black background, with dreamful flute music in the background
How I Miss My X, sung by Patti Labelle
Y-Letters In Sand-Y
Animated segment: The Yawning Y
Worms In Space-Y
Live-action segment: Y (possibly from 1998-99 or 2000, whichever I propose)
Animated segment: Mary telling the story, "Why Oh Y?"
Z-Animated segment: Z-zipper
Computer animation: the 'Z' room with a buncha words that start with Z!
The Zig-Zag Dance, sung by the Anything Muppets


That's all of the letter segments I know were my favorites.

 

[erracht]

The D song - Definitely. The one with the weird
pics of dandelions and daisies with faces that we've
discussed before.