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A number of sites on the web list common "mondegreens" or misheard lyrics from popular songs. Some famous examples are "There's a bathroom on the right" (bad moon on the rise) or "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" (kiss the sky) How many Sesame Street sketches did you mis-hear when you first...

How many of the skits that primarily starred Ernie and the Cookie Monster were non-confrontational? That is, CM was pretty much an ally, not an adversary, of Ernie, and/or didn't get anything off Ernie that Ernie didn't want CM to have. I can only think of two: -- Dee, dee-dee... CM...

Here's an old and fairly obscure shape segment. Some kids were doing the voice over as an unseen-kid's hand was placing (magnetic?) shapes down on a plain background. First the kid put some triangles down vertically as the kids went "triangle... triangle..." with each one. Then he put two...

Does anyone remember a dark 2-color animation where a squeaky ball appears to try to get up/past a mountain of some sort? IMHO, this has got to be the most abstract and mysterious animation on the show. The general pattern was that the ball rolls up slowly from the right with an intermittent...

In one early episode that was shown on Noggin, near the beginning of the episode the camera points to the 1-2-3 doorstep as Susan emerges. A boom microphone (or something resembling one) can be seen pulling up over Susan's head. In that filmed sequence from the (one of the?) first episodes...

Bob and the circle salesman Who remembers an old sketch with the Shape Salesman from Saskatchewan? In a plain behind-the-wall segment, an Anything Muppet was a representative from a shape company who tried to sell Bob a circle. (Note that this was NOT Lefty the Salesman; this guy was a lot...

Don't forget that Bert has an Aunt Matilda. She was mentioned at least twice (Bert gift-wrapped a hat for her, but Ernie opened it; Bert thought Ernie decorated the apartment for her b-day, but the special visitor was really "you", the viewer) but we never saw her. I wonder what she looked...

Wasn't Bad Bart also the one who threw the surprise birthday party for the saloon's female visitor? I know that the one with the "itchy trigger finger" was not Bad Bart, but Sinister Sam (based on the Fat Blue Muppet base). Hey, that makes two characters named Bart! The other being Bert's twin...

Does anyone remember these multipart street sequences: From Season 1 or 2: It's nighttime, and for some reason Big Bird promises to wake Susan at 8:00 a.m. BB has, alongside his nest, a unique alarm clock that chimes the hour with "ding" strikes. However, Big Bird wakes Susan at least...

The King Minus skit had a narrator that spoke rather fast, to a soundtrack that sounded like it might have been harpsichord. However, I distinctly remember someone onscreen who did the subtraction with his fingers (i.e., "two take-away one is one") while looking at the camera. Phrases I...

Wow, I finally saw the "First and Last" skit with proto-Grover. First time in over 3 decades. And in this sketch, at last we learned that Beautiful Day Monster's real name is "Fred". Listen when p-Grover switches places to be second-to-last in line. Not once but twice he boasts "Fred's...

Was this the thread you were referring to, MuppetDude? Minor Muppetz: of those TV specials you were referring to, there was this one prime-time special in about 1974 that featured some of the Muppet characters. One such scene had Kermit trying to convince Grover to ride on a motorcyle and...

The skit began with Lester introducing himself and explaining why he was wearing several visible bandages (including the usually cartoon-unique criss-cross of Band-aids -- ever see that in real life?) However, he was a glutton for punishment because he was about to engage in the exact same...

That Mumford street series was from about 1975.

Actually, I seem to recall that when Farley finally found his toybox in his pocket, Farley happily walked off, after which the man threw all the other boxes out the window in frustration. He did still have the smallest ones in his hands at the end , though. I'm pretty sure there was some...

I remember one such scene. Actually, it was a series of street scenes. Somehow, The Amazing Mumford felt like he was losing his magic touch. He was all upset, and lamented to the adults "I feel like every last trick in my repertoire has said 'au revoir'" Of course, the adults explain that...

When the kid said it was a baseball player who spilled the milk, I envisioned a ballplayer carelessly whacking the glass over with a baseball bat. But the way I remember it, the incoming baseball knocked the glass over just before landing in the player's mitt. And if I lived THAT close to...

Mad tea party I was actually upset by the scenes of wanton destruction of property in some of the early episodes (see my earlier post here) and I was a little shaken by the cats ransacking the doll house. But the girls were just giggling, so I figured it couldn't have been that bad. Look...

A few more details about the Amazing Mumford skit with Grover and Herry. The phrase Mumford used was that he would "yank the pillar out from under the platform". Grover said that "What happens next" is that "cute little Grover" would fall down. Mumford says things like "trust me" and "this...

Does anyone remember a Muppet known as the "mudman" from the 1970s? He sounded a little like Biff except with less of a New York edge. The mudman used to appear periodically in street scenes. His primary purpose was to make regular deliveries of mud to Oscar. He actually delivered the...