Recent content by wiley207

I noticed that the Sesame Street News "London Fog" segment seems to have been one of the more popular Kermit news reports, given it was rerun a LOT until 1993. It debuted in episode 2360, only five episodes into Season 19, and it aired four more times that season (including in episode 2404 when...

And in this vlog featuring me as private toon detective Sam Valentino, I bring up this Sesame Street ordeal at one point...

Well, for one, the Boomerang streaming app shut down at the end of September, and very few people get the TV channel. But then there's MeTV Toons, which can be accessed via many antenna TV markets or via the FrndlyTV and Philo services.

It appears Max may be trying to rebrand their image. Now it looks like David Zaslav is destined to make 2025 a bad year for cartoon fans. They purged from Max "Ed, Edd 'n Eddy", "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy", the original "Teen Titans", many classic "Looney Tunes" cartoons, "The...

If PBS weren't in such rough shape right now, I could see all the new episodes going back to being first-run there. But then they'd need another streaming service, preferably one outside of PBS Kids Video.

Darn, I missed the "Sesame Street" float! It apparently came on much earlier than Phillip predicted. I know I've been having bad luck this year, but even so...

CBS is not broadcasting the parade this year, so I won't be watching on NBC until it's close to when the Sesame Street float will be presented. It's too bad, because CBS provided better parade coverage for the most part, compared to NBC now treating the musical performances and the Radio City...

What would be nice is for any dialogue Kermit may have in the Muppets Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, if it's only a few lines, they may be able to get by with using archived audio of Jim Henson's Kermit! Like when they did in that "Bandanana" ad from 2005 (only a year after Disney bought those...

Right. It's definitely a bad news/good news scenario. "The bad news is, MuppetVision 3D is closing down. The good news is, Rock 'n' Roller-Coaster is being re-themed to the Muppets!"

Well, the rumors are sadly true. At Walt Disney World Resort's Disney's Hollywood Studios park, the MuppetVision 3D attraction is going to be closed as part of building a new Monsters Inc.-themed land... but the Muppets are still going to have an attraction at the park! The "Rock 'n' Roller...

(imitating Foghorn Leghorn) "That's an error, son."

I'm partly not surprised this is happening. A lot of "Sesame Street" TV specials and several of the picture books work in a similar way. (There were some "Sesame Street" books that took on such a "magazine" format, like "Big Bird's Busy Book" from 1975, or "The Sesame Street Library/The Sesame...

Indeed. I only found this upload from last year today: This is a cute segment; it kind of reminds me of the 1969 Pink Panther cartoon "Think Before You Pink", the whole thing about someone dealing with an unruly pedestrian crossing signal. The difference is that the signal in the Pink Panther...

That was originally a BBC sound effect! Gateway Records reissued some of those sounds, including on their album you named. "Sesame Street" used quite a few sounds from the BBC library in the 1980s and 1990s. Another one that really stood out to me was in the "Mysterious Theater" installment...

I think this may be ALL the Monsterpiece Theater segments! A pretty impressive collection. It even includes that "American Monster Classics" segment from Season 38. (I wonder if someone at SesameWorkshop was looking at the Muppet Wiki as a guide?!) What's interesting are some of the prints...