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    The Official "I'm looking for/trying to remember a sketch" thread

    I'm pretty sure this was part of a street scene (not an independent segment); still, those lists help me narrow down episodes. (No W clips -- not the one.) Thank you!
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    The Official "I'm looking for/trying to remember a sketch" thread

    All I need to do is check Seasons 3-5 (the most likely range) for episodes featuring W; how many of those were there?
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    The Official "I'm looking for/trying to remember a sketch" thread

    I've probably posted about this memory before, but can't find my original message; please forgive me for repeating myself if I did! This aired during the early 70s (I hadn't aged out of the target audience yet; I apparently thought this was hilarious enough to repeat until I drove Mom crazy. I...
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    Looking for the episode number...

    Now that the mystery of the self-decapitating doll is solved, can someone please help me number another episode? I'm unsure of when it aired (probably the late 80s/early 90s) and recall only the main plot: when Maria gets a headache, the Count tries to help by suggesting various remedies. At...
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    Looking for the episode number...

    Thank you! I'm so ashamed of myself for remembering major details wrongly. Betty Lou had two unrelated "doll episodes" (one that had her teaching sponsors with the doll, one that didn't) and she played that roughly with the thing? Wow, no wonder I thought that was a Zoe story; all that jumping...
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    The Official "I'm looking for/trying to remember a sketch" thread

    Actually, a Bob Arbogast cartoon about the letter T included the "turtles with brains" reciting those math/geography facts. So yes, Robert, you were correct when you brought up that odd Sesame Street memory.
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    Looking for the episode number...

    Originally posted in a Sesame Street fan group on Facebook; I figured that more people here might be able to track this episode down. It was definitely pre-Elmo's World (full hour, two letters/one number, Zoe as main character, no memory of any shows-within-a-show). ======== There was another...
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    International skits on Youtube...

    Odd-but-relevant questions about what happened to a certain letter song in Sweden: I heard that "Two G Sounds" was adapted for the Swedish co-production of Sesame Street (because Swedish, like English, also pronounces G differently depending on the next sound in a syllable). To any Nordic...
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    Sponsored Letter Pairs never seen on classic "Sesame Street"?

    From Seasons 3-8 at least, CTW had a scrambled-alphabet pattern that cycled predictably through the season (which is why so many premieres in the Old School sets included the letter D as one Thing of the Day). When episodes focused on two letters, the general rules went like this: Check the...
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    SST 50th anniversary fan fic: Julia Learns the Past

    Great frame story (I especially love the way you recap the show's history in reverse chronological order, and try your hardest to include every recurring character). Even the geography of the set felt like a character in its own right. My only serious complaint is that you crammed in so many...
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    Sesame Street Old School Outlines

    Ummm, no such film was actually made; the series stopped at #11. Has anybody done a fan outline/fan-script for Mad Painter #12 as a hypothetical? (The character would need to escape from whatever institution committed him in the 11 film, and probably get arrested by a police officer who...
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    A "Street We Live On" Fanfiction

    It's a shame the rewrite never continued...I'd probably include a few more humans' debuts (Maria and Luis, Linda, Olivia, Buffy -- #1037, the episode with Big Bird feeling jealous of Cody, could show a not-so-happy event being resolved. "Sometimes you got mad with everybody, Big Bird...but your...
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    What sketches scared you as a kid?

    That animation with the fish was about "all/some/none"; the creepy shark saying "ONE" frightened "all" the others away at the end (he literally hadn't been there until then).
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    Sesame Street Letter/Number Guide: Season 2

    I'm guessing that the curriculum advisors thought counting to 1 felt silly and pointless; if only one of something exists, the number is fairly obvious (ask any kindergartner who has trouble sharing a toy or a snack!). If I'd been an adult on the curriculum committee back then, I would have...
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    Sesame Street Letter/Number Guide: Season 2

    Yes indeed, the sponsor announcement and CTW sign for Episode 1092 accidentally repeated the ones intended for #1091. The actual sponsors for #1092 are M/N/3; how the producers never caught such a huge mistake, I'll never know.
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