Your Thoughts: Sesame Street Old School DVD

[Erine81981]

That would be funny to see a montage of fanits or falls. I just now love the chin up Grover skit. That is now my favorite skit so far from the Old School DVD. It's just funny to hear all those sound effects of Grover falling and then to show what happed. I never gotten enough of characters fainting or falling. Funny stuff.

 

[paulyw]

I have the video and it sure brings back memories!

 

[minor muppetz]

I wonder how the order for the classic cuts were chosen. I guess randomly. There are several skits that I would have put in first and skits that I would have put in last. It doesn't really matter much, because I usually watch the classic cuts one at a time (depending on which ones I want to watch at the time), but if I was in charge of the order, I would have made it like this:

Season 1:
Rubber Duckie
ABC-DEF-GHI
Bein' Green
James Earl Jones counts to 10
I Love Trash
Batman crosses the street
I've Got Two
The Alphabet with Lou Rawls
Big Bird meets Little Bird
Jackie Robinson recites the alphabet
Alphabet Soup
Swinging Gibbon

Season 2:
King of 8
Over, Under, Around, and Through
Being a Pig
S-Superman
Count to 20 with Listen My Brother
Mystery Drawing: Astronaut

Season 3:
C is for Cookie
Ladybug Picnic
Mumford's Magic Trick
I in the Sky
Alligator King
Mad Painter
Martians Telephone
Martian Beauty
Would You Like to Buy an O?
I Am Somebody
Take a Breath
J Friends
Harvey Kneeslapper
A Special Day with Ernie and Bert
P-My Favorite Letter

Season 4:
Sesame Street News: Rupunzel
Bert's Bust
The Song of the Count
Bread, Milk, and Butter
Lost Paperclips
First and Last with Beetle Bailey
Witches Cooperate

Season 5:
Super Grover: Telephone Booth
The Monsters Three Wishes
Twiddlebugs go to the zoo
A Flower Grows
Madrigal Alphabet
Nasty Dan
At the Movies with Ernie and Bert
Jazz Alphabet
Hamburger Bun Factory

 

[minor muppetz]

Since the first set had ten or more bonus sketches for seasons 1, 3, and 5, but only around 6 or 7 sketches or seasons 2 and 4, I think that maybe the next set should have more bonus sketches for seasosn 2 and 4, and less for seasosn 1, 3, and 5 (I'd prefer for the number of bonus sketches to be closer to even, though).

Here is a good possible line-up (with season guesses as well as seasons that I know for sure the sketches came from):

Season 1:
The People in Your Neighborhood (original version)
Near and Far with the original Grover
Jazz #8
Ernie's sandbox game
alphabet in the street
H-hole

Season 2:
The Geefle and the Gonk
Mad
Eleven Cheer
I'm an Aardvark
Grover plans to surprise Ernie
Queen of Six
Herbert Birdsfoot has Cookie Monster figure out how to get a cookie from a device that blocks the cookie
Ernie and Bert demonstrate "wet" and "dry"
Little Bird's imagination game
Admiral (Big) Bird
Harvey Kneeslapper: "Do you know where I wanna B?"
Twiddlebug Mystery

Season 3:
The Ballad of Casey McPhee
Kermit and Bob talk about frogs
Candy Man
The Nobel Ostrich
Mad Painter #7
The National Association of W Lovers

Season 4:
The Count and Cookie Monster co-operate
Everybody Eats
The Royal Smart Person invents a tooth brush
Herry and John-John count to 20
Beat the Time with Grover
Grover the Waiter: Simon Soundman
Ernie and Bert meet Tough Eddie
Me and Julio own by the Schoolyard
Cookie Monster at the carnival

Season 5:
Newsflash: Yankee Doodle Dandy
The King Banishes the Letter P
Starfish
We Coulda
Count it Higher
Ernie and Cookie Monster: which is which?

 

[anytimepally]

Ernie and Cookie Monster: which is which?

That is a skit I would LOVE to see on the next set! Cookie Monster is so funny.. "what you think these.. walnuts?"

 

[D'Snowth]

I finally got my copy the other day and I simply can NOT stop watching it! Sesame Street was SOOOOOO different back then, it's incredible... and everybody looks so young, Gordon has hair, Luis has a long hippy hair-cut, the Muppets looked so primitive, and I love Mr. Hooper, and I have a better idea of what the character of David was like, and I was right, he seems so cool! And also there are A LOT of skits and sketches that I didn't realize were THAT old, like the cartoon about the bear and the exit sign, or Super Grover trying to help the little lost girl, or even Doin' the Pigeon, and many many more!

I loved this set, it's now my favorite DVD out of all that are in my library (even more than my M*A*S*H DVDs)!

Can't wait to see what Volume 2 might be like!

 

[Ilikemuppets]

Gatta get it one of these days! it kind of makes you relise that we get more old school stuff then we had previously though. I had no Idea some of this stuff was as old as it is either.

 

[minor muppetz]

Can't wait to see what Volume 2 might be like!

I can't wait to hear an official confirmation for a volume 2.

 

[ISNorden]

I can't wait to hear an official confirmation for a volume 2.

I'm praying as hard as I can that there will be a Volume 2; it'd be cruel for Sesame Workshop to raise people's hopes and then leave them terribly disappointed. (How many of us have favorite classic clips that aired after 1974? Most of us, I bet!)

 

[ISNorden]

P.S. Yes, I finally got the DVD player running, months after a friend gave me one (plus the Old School discs!) for the holidays. My TV is so old that finding a decent adapter took a loooong time; still, watching the oldies was worth that wait.