Old School Vol. 2 idea thread

[Philip Kippel]

IMO, I think that the next SS Old School set should cover Seasons 6-10 (1974-1975).

They would contain the season premiere episodes of each of those seasons (0666, 0796, 0926, 1056 and 1186), plus these 54 additional sketches as Classic Cuts:

1) Telephone Rock
2) Danger
3) With Every Beat of My Heart
4) Count it Higher
5) The Opposite Song
6) Eight Balls of Fur
7) I Want a Monster to Be My Friend
8) Frazzle
9) Subway
10) Simon Soundman at Charlie's Restaurant
11) Count Up to Nine
12) This Frog
13) Six
14) Sesame Street News Flash: Don Music writes "Mary Had a Bicycle"
15) Sesame Street News Flash: Man in Snowstorm (3-part sketch)
16) Cookie Disco
17) Monster Disco In and Out
18) Two-Headed Monster: DANCE
19) Life in the Country, Life in the City
20) Tap Dancers Subtract
21) Pink Panther K for Karate
22) That's What Reading's All About
23) The Dirtiest Town in the West
24) The 10 Commandments of Health
25) Prairie Dawn's Pageant: Let's Make a Face
26) That Furry Blue Mommy of Mine
27) Beat the Time: Grover
28) Alphabet Chat: R
29) Monsterpiece Theater: Upstairs, Downstairs
30) Somebody Come and Play (Big Bird's version)
31) Different Ways (with Big Bird and Buffy)
32) Sinister Sam Looks for Doc Holiday
33) Super Grover: Fighting Over an Apple
34) Bob and Luis' Train Tunnel
35) Typewriter Guy: C
36) I Am Crying (cartoon)
37) Believe in Yourself
38) Counting the Floors
39) M in Space
40) A World Without Music w/Jose Feliciano
41) Mumford's Surprise Magic Trick
42) Yip-Yip Martians: Grandfather Clock
43) The King Banishes the Letter P
44) The Geefle and the Gonk
45) 1-2-3-4-5 (cartoon)
46) Letter B
47) Two is You and Me
48) Wonder Child w/Helen Reddy
49) Ernie & Bert Play Doctor
50) Season 6 Credit Crawl
51) Season 7 Credit Crawl
52) Season 8 Credit Crawl
53) Season 9 Credit Crawl
54) Season 10 Credit Crawl

Bonus Features:
-New Cast and Crew Interviews
-A Special Sesame Street Christmas
-Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (complete, unedited and unaltered)
-A Walking Tour of Sesame Street (10th Anniversary Special)

 

[TotallySpiesFan]

IMO, I think that the next SS Old School set should cover Seasons 6-10 (1974-1975).

They would contain the season premiere episodes of each of those seasons (0666, 0796, 0926, 1056 and 1186), plus these 54 additional sketches as Classic Cuts:

1) Telephone Rock
2) Danger (cartoon)
3) Letter B
4) Count it Higher
5) The Opposite Song
6) Eight Little Spiders (cartoon)
7) I Want a Monster to Be My Friend
8) Frazzle
9) Subway
10) Simon Soundman at Charlie's Restaurant
11) Count Up to Nine
12) This Frog
13) Six
14) Sesame Street News Flash: Don Music writes "Mary Had a Bicycle"
15) Sesame Street News Flash: Man in Snowstorm (3-part sketch)
16) Cookie Disco
17) Monster Disco In and Out
18) Two-Headed Monster: DANCE
19) Life in the Country, Life in the City
20) Tap Dancers Subtract
21) Pink Panther K for Karate
22) That's What Reading's All About
23) The Dirtiest Town in the West
24) The 10 Commandments of Health
25) Prairie Dawn's Pageant: Let's Make a Face
26) That Furry Blue Mommy of Mine
27) Beat the Time: Grover
28) Alphabet Chat: R
29) Secret Drawing: Fireman
30) Somebody Come and Play (Big Bird's version)
31) Different Ways (with Big Bird and Buffy)
32) Sinister Sam Looks for Doc Holiday
33) Super Grover: Fighting Over an Apple
34) Bob and Luis' Train Tunnel
35) Typewriter Guy: C
36) I Am Crying (cartoon)
37) Believe in Yourself
38) Counting the Floors
39) M in Space
40) A World Without Music w/Jose Feliciano
41) Mumford's Surprise Magic Trick
42) Yip-Yip Martians: Grandfather Clock
43) The King Banishes the Letter P
44) The Geefle and the Gonk
45) 1-2-3-4-5 (cartoon)
46) Pinball Number Count #10
47) Two is You and Me
48) Wonder Child w/Helen Reddy
49) Ernie & Bert Play Doctor
50) Season 6 Credit Crawl
51) Season 7 Credit Crawl
52) Season 8 Credit Crawl
53) Season 9 Credit Crawl
54) Season 10 Credit Crawl

Bonus Features:
-New Cast and Crew Interviews
-A Walking Tour of Sesame Street (10th Anniversary Special)

 

[minor muppetz]

The last two posts look almost identical, as if the same person used two different user names and duplicated most of the same list.

Pinball Stewie, I would like to point out that Eight Balls of Fur is from later than the second five seasons. The "booklet" (if that's what you'd call it) that came with What's the Name of That Song? gives it a 1989 copyright date.

Both lists are great, though.

 

[Philip Kippel]

TotallySpiesFan just copied my list, which vexes me so.

Getting back on topic, since "Eight Balls of Fur" is a 1989 song, I've decided to replace it with another Classic Cut: "Lefty and the Golden AN".

Also, I meant to say "1974-1979" instead of 1974-1975.

 

[D'Snowth]

IMO, I think that the next SS Old School set should cover Seasons 6-10 (1974-1975).

That's what I was thinking, and to me that seems only logical... I mean after all, Volume 1 was covered Seasons 1-5 (1969-1974), so Volume 2 covering the next five seasons just seems to make more sense then them doing something like 1969-1975/76.

 

[Philip Kippel]

I've decided to make a couple of changes with my proposed list of Classic Cuts (the changes are in Bold text):

1) Telephone Rock
2) Danger
3) With Every Beat of My Heart
4) Count it Higher
5) The Opposite Song
6) Lefty and the Golden AN
7) I Want a Monster to Be My Friend
8) Frazzle
9) Subway
10) Simon Soundman at Charlie's Restaurant
11) Count Up to Nine
12) This Frog
13) Six
14) Sesame Street News Flash: Don Music writes "Mary Had a Bicycle"
15) Sesame Street News Flash: Man in Snowstorm (3-part sketch)
16) Cookie Disco
17) Monster Disco In and Out
18) Two-Headed Monster: DANCE
19) Life in the Country, Life in the City
20) Tap Dancers Subtract
21) Pink Panther K for Karate
22) That's What Reading's All About
23) The Dirtiest Town in the West
24) The 10 Commandments of Health
25) Prairie Dawn's Pageant: Let's Make a Face
26) That Furry Blue Mommy of Mine
27) Beat the Time: Grover
28) Alphabet Chat: R
29) Monsterpiece Theater: Upstairs, Downstairs
30) Somebody Come and Play (Big Bird's version)
31) Different Ways (with Big Bird and Buffy)
32) Sinister Sam Looks for Doc Holiday
33) Super Grover: Fighting Over an Apple
34) Bob and Luis' Train Tunnel
35) One Way
36) I Am Crying (cartoon)
37) Believe in Yourself
38) Counting the Floors
39) M in Space
40) A World Without Music w/Jose Feliciano
41) Mumford's Surprise Magic Trick
42) Yip-Yip Martians: Grandfather Clock
43) The King Banishes the Letter P
44) The Geefle and the Gonk
45) 1-2-3-4-5 (cartoon)
46) Letter B
47) Two is You and Me
48) Wonder Child w/Helen Reddy
49) Ernie & Bert Play Doctor
50) Season 6 Credit Crawl
51) Season 7 Credit Crawl
52) Season 8 Credit Crawl
53) Season 9 Credit Crawl
54) Season 10 Credit Crawl

 

[TotallySpiesFan]

Nice ideas, Phillip.

 

[minor muppetz]

It seems like on the first set that the DVD producers didn't want to show too much of the same type of skits for classic cuts. With the exception of the mystery drawing segments, none of the recurring segments that appeared in the episodes on the set were represented in the classic cuts (well, unless you count Kermit's interview with a kid about what sounds animals make as a Sesame Street News Flash segment, but I don't). And note that the classic cuts didn't include more than one of each recurring sketch (unless you count Ernie and Bert's skits as a recurring segment, but I guess that's debatable). I don't know if the second set will include more of the recurring sketches in the classic cuts feature (regardless of what seasons get represented) or if it will be more like on the first one.

I see good and bad things about whether the set focuses on 1969-1974 again or if it focuses on 1974-1979. And the bad things aren't really that bad. I'll make a list of pros for what decade the next set focuses on:

1969-1974 Pros:
*the episodes will probably be more random (though I wouldn't be surprised if some more historically significant episodes are included), and hopefully we would be able to see some episodes that weren't shown on Noggin.
*there are a lot of great early skits that weren't on the first set (but then again, we would still see early segments on a set of 1974-1979 episodes).
*we can still get to see some rare early characters like the monster family, Miguel, and Professor Hastings.
*Maybe we'll see more of Sam the Robot (though he was on the show for one other season)

1974-1979 Pros:
*we would get to see Roscoe Orman as Gordon.
*we would see Olivia, Buffy, and other characters who were added to the cast during this time period.
*If it focuses on this time period, then we'll probably get the premiers for each of those seasons. So we will get to see more of Roosevelt Franklin, Prairie Dawn, The Count, and Herry Monster, and we'll get to see Sully, Chris and the Alphabeats, Rodeo Rosie, and Fred the Wonder Horse.

 

[Philip Kippel]

Another idea:

If there were to be another volume of SS Old School to focus on 1969-1974 (Seasons 1-5), maybe they could mark it as Volume 1 1/2. That way, volume 2 can focus on 1974-1979 (Seasons 6-10).

 

[minor muppetz]

By the way, the song that you had listed as "Life in the Country, Life in the City" is actually titled "City-Country Song".