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You know how when you're driving into a small town, you often see a "Welcome to Smallsville" sign, and next to it is a board containing symbols and logos of many of the different churches or clubs that may be found in that town? For example, you might see a Freemason symbol indicating a local...

Does anyone remember this sketch? Again, I'm not sure if it was Buddy and Jim or Wally and Ralph. One of the guys appproaches the other, and notices that he is keeping his money on his forehead! (Actually, it's just four coins of different demoninations taped in line to his forehead.) The...

I remember the one with the cuckoo birds. A man is explaining that a cuckoo clock is about to strike 3:00, and the 3 birds approach with a ladder to enter the clock. They do talk in a sort of 3-stooges style. When they actually chime out the hour, each one says "cuckoo" with a distinctive...

The only octopus film I remember began with a male voice announcing "And now, the octopus!". The soundtrack was an organ rendition of "Pomp and Circumstance", the piece traditionally played at graduations. Then of course, there was the Muppet version of "Octopus's Garden" by The Beatles, in...

Right after those words we sung, a short lead-in musical phrase of four notes "ba-dum bum BUM" (I think only on the first run-through) followed by the musical piece. Does anyone remember where those same four lead-in notes appeared several years later, long after the short-lived "One for the...

With respect to the fallen in London, the first S-vehicle was "subway". As he said that, a rapid-transit train whizzed by behind him, I think blowing his hat off. The train was the far left of the vehicles that approached him at the end. I remember that weird buzzy noise the scooter and...

Alphabet Game My favorite has to be the Alphabet Game with Grover and Oscar. Set with Grover standing alongside the ol' trash can, Grover only says nice, happy words, while Oscar mostly sticks to negative ones. I posted the following over 10 years ago on USENET. Here it is again with a few...

I read somewhere else that Mr. Johnson and Simon Soundman look similar... because they are brothers. In the sketch where Simon goes to Charlie's restaurant and orders a <bawk, bawk> (chicken) sandwich, he apparently says under his breath, while Grover is back in the kitchen, something like...

When the Muppets did their rendition of the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine", it sounded to me like Spinney sings the second verse that begins "So we sailed, up to the sun...". Jerry Nelson did the first verse, and it sounds like Frank Oz sang from "And we lived beneath the waves", though his voice...

He did not buy the 8, because Ernie was tapped out by a previous salesman. "I met this man selling nines, you see. So I bought his whole selection." Ernie then holds up a conglomeration (magnetized?) of a whole bunch of number 9's. Ernie explains that they can be useful if you wanna know...

There was a remarkably similar one involving the number 8. An 8 was on a wall when two boy Anything Muppets approach it -- upside-down , coming from the top of the screen -- and notice that the 8 itself is upside-down. Boy 1: "Let's fix it." Boy 2: "I'll help you." They rotate the...

I have a few questions about the "National Association of W Lovers". -- We already know that Bert is the President of the Sesame Street chapter of the NAWL. I'll bet they elected him because he is the most rational of the Muppets, even if he does carry that rationality to a fault...

Ernie was counting a stack of cups and saucers. Bert was all nervous about it because they were fragile. When Ernie is about to count them one time, an edgy B asks E to hurry up with the count. Then, in a what-am-I-saying moment, B changes his mind and tells E to count them "slowly and...

What happened in the delivery guy sketch was, the fella brought out one of the packages and, in an irked tone, asked Herbert to sign the slip. Herbert steadfastly responded: "Not until we make the sound!" with an onomotopoiea rhythm. The delivery guy responded...

Does anyone remember a live sketch, probably taped, from the early 70s that had the subject of "What happens next" or something similar? The setting was reminiscent of the Wally and Ralph skits, as was the background music on piano. The scene had a man doing ordinary things as a voiceover...

Although this is part of the earlier "Everybody Sleeps" film, I give honorable mention to that eerie scene toward the end where a man is sitting in a (rocking?) chair. He is reading (I think), and he suddenly but gradually leans forward, out of his seat, to fall asleep on the floor. How...

More about the "cookie counter" After Cookie Monster demonstrated the cookie counter to Ernie, Ernie opened up the box and counted the cookies contained therein. We couldn't see any cookies at the time (he pointed to them from the top as he counted to 5), but we did see evidence of actual...

It was Cookie Monster's device and he called it a "Cookie Counter". It was this machine that made a repeating "Puk-a-TEE-ga puk-a-TEE-ga" sound. The device had a pointer attached, as well as a square that illuminated whenever the bell rang. I remember that line, and it sounded to me like Ernie...

Wally and Ralph sketches Here's the Wally and Ralph skits I remember: -- Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich, the only direct reprise of a Buddy and Jim that I know of. -- It's raining, and they open several umbrellas but don't know to put it over their heads. One suggests that they take...

Does anyone remember a musical skit about life in the city and the country? The first part showed a female Anything Muppet dressed kind of like Pollyanna, on a farm setting. With a sweet farm-girl voice, she sings a song about living in the country. The last line went: "Oh lady-oh, oh...