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Which song is that? I remember two ditties that the duo sang that might fit the bill. One song has a refrain that went: "No matter what your language, no matter what your name The things that you're saying can be, the same!" The rest of the song was "I say ____, that means ____!" e.g...

This is an old thread to be sure. But I have a question about the good granny. What was the sketch, or "show" as it were, that featured Granny Fanny Nesselrode as a problem solver? Complete with title cards, it wasn't exactly a game show, but more like a reality-show/comedy hybrid. The...

There was also "Beat the Time" (based on real-life Beat the Clock), "The Trading Game" (based loosely on Let's Make a Deal), and "The Remembering Game" (kind of based on Concentration). Sometime in the 80's, they did a "Family Food" based on "Family Feud", and ISTR that none other than...

OK guys, it was a joke! Sorry (sigh!) if I offended anyone.

Did anyone ever see the falling baker segment that featured the "Song of 100"? It began like any normal 1-10 song, with the kids counting 1 though 10, then counting backwards at an accelerated pace. But then, when the kids counted the numbers flying by, they didn't stop at 10! Instead the...

In the falling baker film for 8, now available on YouTube, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZjObQW247Q) there appears to be an anachronism. In the film for "eight clocks", if you listen carefully you can hear a rapidly ticking clock, like an old wind-up watch or certain late-60s...

I was looking at the YouTube reviews for the E+B sketch in which Ernie lies about eating the chocolate cake and makes up a story about how a monster framed him up -- then it really happens with a second piece of cake. Someone made a comment about the "Keystone Kops" fanfare that played while...

I have the Yellow Submarine mp3 in English. If someone knows how to synchronize the tracks, well, where should I send it? That was the first time I'd seen the Muppet skit of Yellow Submarine in 35 years flat! I noticed that someone posted (also in German) the "Windy" skit/song as well.

Well whattya know. This one's on the DVD!! It's actually part of the original sales pitch. And so another 3-decade-plus-old mystery goes...

Are you referring to the 55-gallon drums between the door and Big Bird's nest? The ones that are/were painted bright colors and have round holes in them? I always thought that was just a creative playground setup. I'm pretty sure I've seen children playing in them. I think one of the...

On the first episode, Ernie and Bert had a bathtub that was in a common room in the apartment, or at least as the pre-Solomon Grundy sketch seemed to suggest. (Actually, I'm told that it was fairly common for tenements in Greenwich Village to have the bathtub in the kitchen, privacy concerns...

Does anyone remember these promos for Sesame Street? Circa 1975 -- Between shows, a general promo for PBS had some choir-like voices singing, "You belong with us, for we belong to you. Your Public TV stations." Those words were echoed in a black-background animation. Then, to an...

The Royal Smart Person had just invented a lightweight material called "paper" (even though this was when "nothing had been invented" yet) that was a substitute for how mail was normally written until that point: on flat rocks. The mailman was repeatedly dropping the rock mail on the king's...

Also outdated: it's my understanding that France, like the rest of the European Union, now uses Euros instead of Francs as their currency.

Does anyone remember the following story as told by Anything Muppets? "Once upon a time there was a king, who had three beautiful daughters. And they lived happily ever after."

You know that ever-popular B+E skit where Ernie has insomnia, so he counts sheep, fire engines, and finally balloons? Bert has one line that I can't seem to decipher. It's right after he bellows "I want you to count something quiet to fall asleep with." Is the line: "None of those sirens!"...

Here's some sound bites, as best I remember: "He chopped all the trees down as fast as he could, just to show what he could do." "Til just one tree was left to chop, and he said 'Boy man, I'm good'" "But this tree was bigger than all the rest, and Max took careful aim. That tree...

Here's a News Flash I wrote. http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showpost.php?p=232168&postcount=9

Don't know if this counts, but there was the cameo that Oscar made in the movie "The Great Muppet Caper". He was even credited to the (then) CTW. There were also a handful of times that Oscar was mentioned off-street. When E+B's apartment was messy, Bert orders Ernie to clean up or else...

Most of us are familiar with the sketches in which Lefty tries to sell Ernie some items of debatable utility, such as letters, numbers, or air. But does anyone remember the sketches that showed Lefty dealing with his superior officer? The sketches... * took place in a "dark" environment...