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I knew the newspaper must have been in - but as others have stated, if you don't have an HD tv, you can't see it (too bad the production staff at SW weren't even thinking about the majority of its viewers who don't have the fanciest-shmanciest latest technology when they did some of these).
And yeah, while Roscoe Orman kept handling the paper in such a way that the viewer couldn't get a decent look at what they were supposed to see, i can't quite put all the fault with him because typically scenes like this are shot multiple times with the best elements of each edited together in the final aired cut so it's always possible that the best takes in terms of seeing the gem weren't the ones that ultimately got used...of course it's also possible that the fault did lie completely with the actor (the prop guys at Sesame have had lots of fun with magazines and newspapers and such for years, so this may not have seemed all that "different" to Roscoe to see something like that in his prop paper - though i'm sure at some point a director would have intervened and said "this is our special Sesame Gem for this episode that we're putting in all episodes this season so you want to make sure the camera can see it at some point" which lends me more to the theory that it just didn't come together the way everyone had hoped in post-production.)
But yeah, at any rate, the Luis/Teeny Superguy gem is my firm favorite so far just in terms of it being so creative, hilarious and also gave Emilio a chance to do one of his fabulous whacked-out expressions to the camera that he's always done so brilliantly well!
And yeah, while Roscoe Orman kept handling the paper in such a way that the viewer couldn't get a decent look at what they were supposed to see, i can't quite put all the fault with him because typically scenes like this are shot multiple times with the best elements of each edited together in the final aired cut so it's always possible that the best takes in terms of seeing the gem weren't the ones that ultimately got used...of course it's also possible that the fault did lie completely with the actor (the prop guys at Sesame have had lots of fun with magazines and newspapers and such for years, so this may not have seemed all that "different" to Roscoe to see something like that in his prop paper - though i'm sure at some point a director would have intervened and said "this is our special Sesame Gem for this episode that we're putting in all episodes this season so you want to make sure the camera can see it at some point" which lends me more to the theory that it just didn't come together the way everyone had hoped in post-production.)
But yeah, at any rate, the Luis/Teeny Superguy gem is my firm favorite so far just in terms of it being so creative, hilarious and also gave Emilio a chance to do one of his fabulous whacked-out expressions to the camera that he's always done so brilliantly well!
(It was some tune Murray played on a trumpet and Don Music playing piano in the background of a scene. 
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