Recent content by Dave Thomer

Funny, my daughter likes it just fine . . you'd think she was the one they were making the show for, or something.

I don't suppose anyone knows if Bert's "My favorite number is six" song is on any currently-available video, but hey, worth a shot. Anyone?

I actually just bought a new copy of Monster at the End of This Book from Amazon. It's still in print, in a nice sturdy board-book format. My daughter isn't quite old enough to read it yet, but she likes turning the pages. The one I want to track down at some point is Grover and the...

Hope I didn't come off like a know-it-all there. "Furry Happy Monsters" happens to be where my fondness for R.E.M. intersects with my daughter's and my fondness for Muppet music, so stuff about that song tends to jump out at me. I'm nowhere near enough of an expert to be able to tell the...

At the risk of being too much the optimist . . . I have a 5 year old nephew, a 2 year old niece and a 1 year old daughter. They all like Elmo. The character has an undenaible appeal to the show's actual target audience. I think that's great. I still don't get the whole 'Elmo has taken...

Nice review - how's the booklet? I think that's one of the things that most interest me about the set. Oh - and Furry Happy Monsters should be credited to P. Buck, not P. Duck. Although the notion of Peter Buck as a quacker has a certain appeal. :)

You're right, I can't fogret it - I never saw it in order to remember it in the first place! :) At this stage of the game, immersed in many things Sesame, I wish I had, but honestly I don't think it crossed my consciousness in '89. Oh, and Courage-Bagge, sorry I didn't thank you for your...

Put Down the Duckie? That would be this? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009W0TV/ I don't suppose there's any kind of full track/segment listing anywhere, is there? Thanks!

For what it's worth, on the 'Bert & Ernie's Word Play' DVD, Bert and Prairie both get hit with a couple of pies.

My mom still has the 10th Anniversary LP she bought for us as kids at home. My wife and I have the 25th Anniversary Musical Celebration and Elmopalooza for our daughter. Was anything released to the market for the 15th and 20th anniversaries? Thanks!

Wow. That's a beautiful thing. My expectations were tempered by the initial publicity's focus on the celebrity stuff; I had no idea they'd put so much stuff on it from just the regular cast. And the Aaron Neville "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" might just guarantee the sale on its own - my...