Your Thoughts: Sesame Street Season 38

[Ilikemuppets]

I wouldn't rule it out. The season is not over and the last episodes are in December.

 

[minor muppetz]

Since Joey Mazzarino and David Rudman appear to work togetehr alot, maybe Murray can interract a bit with Baby Bear or Cookie Monster.

 

[Daffyfan4ever]

Yeah. I could see him doing an interview with BB (Baby Bear, not Big Bird) about pooridge or whatever or talking to Cookie Monster about healthy foods. They did seem to listen to us today about celebrities interacting with Muppets for the word of the day. Putting a tap dancing tomato in the celebrity spot is a start.

Anyway, I liked today's street story, but this is another area where I feel they could have got more characters involved. Elmo and Telly could have found more letters in Big Bird's nest area or they could have had Bob with a newspaper. Just my thoughts, on this, but I liked the concept. However, I wouldn't have recommended they used the letters on the package from that delivery guy. Since all the letters were there, that would be considered cheating, plus it seems like he and Amazing Al work for the same company. I'd rather they were given more time and could have found the 'VWXY and Z' on their own.

I'm glad Big Bird showed up in today's ep. I also liked the scene with the Count (Forgive me if these were from previous seasons. But they're new to me. Lol). I like it when Count does other things besides the Number of the Day. It's always funny when he'd rather Count then do what he should do. Though I'd hate to have him help me bag at the grocery store.

Count: 37 items, 38 items, 39 items, 40 items! Ah ah ah ah ah!

 

[The Count]

Actualy... The Nascount sketch was new from this season.
Liked this episode, will post thoughts later.

Rundown to follow.
Episode 4154: The Amazing Alphabet Race.
Cold Opening: Murray Monster asks about "amazing".
Street Story.
Animation: The Letter Circus.
Celebrity: Word on the Street Explanation: Rachael Rae explains "amazing".
Animation: Song: "The Veggie Dance" (Extreme Thumbs Down!)
Muppets: Big Bird at the Farmer's Market at Union Square, New York (from the Big Bird Postcards Across America series).
Healthy Food Song: "Corn".
Letter of the Day: M, with Cookie and Prairie Dawn.
Animation: Song: "M", where we learn how to draw an M and an m with a mermaid and a moose.
Muppets: Law & Order: Special Letters Unit: The Case of the Missing M.
Song: "My Darling Alphabet", it's possible this is the one sung by Gina, Gabi, and María as a parody of The Supremes.
Film: Kids talk about dancing as having fun.
Number of the Day: 4, using the redone jack-in-the-box version of the "Song of (Number)" from last year.
Film: Adding variables to get to 4 with Austin Powers-like voiceover.
Film: Wegmen's Waymarians: Room for 4 in the theator.
Muppets: Nascount.
Film: Kid talks about his dad, the wheelchair racecar driver.
Elmo's World: Fast and Slow, from last year.
Bedtime Story: The Adventures of Trash Gordon: Chapter 453: Planet Spaghetti, with the Massive Menacing Meatball.

 

[Drtooth]

Animation: Song: "The Veggie Dance" (Extreme Thumbs Down!)

UGH! No argument there. it seems like a sad little left over from 2 seasons ago. it's not educational. They just jump around and say vegetable names. It doesn't teach nutritional values or anything. It really has to be retired. it is the worst thing in new SS history, right up there with the thankfully cancelled "Get up and Play" segments.

Other than that it was a pretty good episode. I thought the ending was a little cheap, and this would have been a perfect storyline to interperse with the entire show, like they did twice this season. And it was also way too similar to the What comes next, Sesame Squares, and Healthy Food game plots. though at least they changed things.

That said, The Nascount skit was pretty much the biggest highlight of the show, since it's the only new Count footage this season.
And a new Monkey puppet too....

Plus that Dreamgirls sequence with Gina, Maria, and Gabi... that's a nice little throwback to the olden days, as well as the dowop group headed by Rita Moreno from the Electric Company.

 

[DTWolf]

Amazing Alphabet Race

Overall, I liked this episode. The Nascount bit was especially welcome.

But I was bothered a lot by the way they showed the chicken's progress towards the gong. At the start, the chicken is on the street with Elmo and Al, then the next time you see her she's right in front of the gong (which seems to exist in the same swirly, mystical purple-sky limbo as Letter-of-the-Day segments). Yet Elmo still has ten minutes left to find the letters! How does that work? Did the chicken take a nap? Good grief, chicken! You're a meter away from the dumb gong, what's the hold-up?

During the "let's check in on our chicken" shots, they should've given us more of the chicken advancing along the street before shifting to the purple-background gong universe.

Oh, and since when was there a subway right next to the Fix-It Shop? Did that replace the library they invented for the season premiere?

Still, I'm really happy to see so much of the area surrounding the street in this segment. They showed a lot more than the usual set.

 

[somethingofafan]

Well, you'll notice that in the season premiere, they used a cut rather than a pan to get from the fix-it-shop to the library; the subway is what's physically on the set.

That said, you'd think they wouldn't forget such a detail during the same season.

 

[The Count]

Yeah... The subway entrance's always been there off to the side from the Fix-It-Shop, go to Muppet Wiki and search for it.

This episode I liked in terms of it's street story. It reminded me of two happy Sesame memories I hold: one is the episode where Elmo, Telly, and Merry are searching for different items that each start with every letter of the alphabet. Telly's the one in charge of keeping the list of what's been gotten and moving the search along to the next letter, after everything's been brought to the workbench outside the Fix-It-Shop serving as their search party's base of operations. The second memory is that old film clip where the camera zooms in on each letter in succession after finding the letters on street signs, carved in a tree trunk, or on a park bench.

 

[Daffyfan4ever]

Actualy... The Nascount sketch was new from this season.
Liked this episode, will post thoughts later.

Yeah. I've noticed most of the Count's appearances (with the exception of the episode that introduced Chris) have been repeats, so I'm glad they used him in something new.

What about the one with Big Bird at the farm market? Was that one new as well? I haven't seen it before.

 

[Drtooth]

I forgot the Count was in that episode. We've only had 2 new Count segments this year...

The Big Bird's postcards (If I am not mistaken) are from the late 80's, or at the very latest early 90's...