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Bus driver film? Was this the one with the little girl and boy and the wagon? A little boy is pulling a red wagon, which is his "bus", complete with a farebox made from an cardboard milk carton. He offers a lift to a little girl, with a fare of 25 cents. The girl scoffs at his "bus"...

Some Muppet skits can no longer be aired, at least on the newer episodes of Sesame Street, simply because a condition has changed on the show. For example, here are two Ernie and Bert routines that are no longer run because they make mention of the late great Mr. Hooper. (Wording is not exact...

Fat Blue and Simon Soundman Were Fat Blue and Simon Soundman brothers? In addition to looking remarkably similar, I heard that this was mentioned once on the show. In that one sketch where Soundman was at Grover's restaurant, he says under his breath at one point something like. "Boy, my...

Yep, I was in kindergarten when Snuffy first appeared, and I was a sophomore in college when he was finally revealed to the adults. Watching the revealing episode on a communal TV at the university, a fellow student took one look at the show I was watching, and said "Uhh, we have to talk." And...

I remember one Sesame Street sketch in which Beautiful Day Monster is identified as "Fred". There was this hippie Muppet who had an agenda for a lineup of monsters to start marching, then keep reversing directions. To do this he had 5 monsters calmly in line behind him. IIRC, Beautiful Day...

It's my understanding that the girl was not supposed to say "Cookie Monster" when that sketch was being taped. Yet they ad-libbed through it, and it's since become one of the most fondly remembered pieces. I know of one other Sesame Street sketch in which a mistake was supposedly made, and...

Any skit that includes a rotary phone. I'm thinking of one in which Ernie was awaiting an important phone call from Bert, but Cookie Monster wheedles the telephone out of Ernie to "call his mommy". CM makes what Ernie termed the longest phone call in history. For example, CM recounted to his...

Dreams I had about Sesame Street: A gameshow segment begins, and the usual Guy Smiley Muppet introduces himself as "Joe Boe". Note that he introduced himself, rather than the usual announcer. Same voice as Guy Smiley. Was there ever really such a character? The only other Sesame Street...

News Flash! (Screen shows "News Flash" graphic with lightning and stars. Music and Morse Code combination is heard.) ANNOUNCER: And now we bring you Kermit the Frog with a breaking news bulletin. (Screen fades to Kermit in a room with a large TV screen and a bunch of assorted Muppets...

A metal box that made a repeating electromechanical sound, with a pointer attached by a wire. A white square lit up with a soft 'ding' sound when the pointer was aimed at a cookie supply, generating one flash per cookie. Amazingly enough, it could even accurately count cookies in one's tummy...

Beatles songs Beatles songs from the earlier years: "Help!" -- In an apartment setting, a boy/young man muppet on the telephone exclaims "Help, I need somebody" after he is turned down for a date. As if in response, a monster enters the room and chases him round the place as he sings the...

While I can't recall the exact season, most likely it was 1975-76.

This reply is from a post made about six months ago. Ernie was congratulating himself for baking a batch of chocolate cupcakes. He had seven "genuine homemade cuppycakes". Ernie decides to snap a photo of them, but when he goes to get his (huge) camera, Cookie Monster (or was it that other...

Remember those animated sketches that had no apparent meaning? 1. A series of white circles appearing from left to right on a dark background, then appearing for the next row below until the whole screen was filled. With each dot's appearance was a snare drum beat with a fife-like note, the...

Does anyone remember a skit in which Grover was learning subtraction, with someone who I think was a professor muppet? He used tomatoes in counting. The professor asked Grover how many tomatoes were on the wall; Grover counted three. Then the professor took one of the tomatoes and threw it...

Cookie Monster expression Exactly once, Cookie Monster had a similar facial expression. In a street scene shown throughout the episode, CM had an identity crisis. He didn't know what he was. At one point he thought he was a grouch; Oscar made it clear that he was too nice to be one. CM...

In the first few years of Sesame Street, they used to have muppet skits with regular popular songs. These songs were not modified to teach something, e.g., "Hey Food" for "Hey Jude", but had the actual lyrics minus a modification or two. Four of these skits were based on songs by the...

Exit song There was one exit song that featured an anything-Muppet singing in a nightclub, complete with Muppet backup singers. "I say exit" (backup: "exit") "That's the way way way way out" All throughout the song, the other (Muppet) guests at the nightclub appear to heed the singers...

Superman animation One animation about the letter "S" featured Superman. "S is not just for Superman" (flies off. Words appear above him, some with leading S flashing) "Words like SOAR. And SKY" (flies over ocean) "And SEA. And SHIP" (storm clouds approach) "And STORM" (ship...