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Sorry to hear your claymation attempts went badly; I've got nothing against that form of animation as such. (It's been part of Sesame Street since the first episode, and some memorable oldies--like the opera-singing orange--were claymation clips, too.) But seeing Sesame Street reshape the...

What do you mean by "girlfriend inserts"? I don't recall any regular characters this season having romantic relationships.

As long as "the Man" doesn't manage to wean Mr. Fuzzy and Blue off cookies altogether, and as long as Cookie isn't shown only in nutrition-related sketches...I say GO FOR IT! It's good to see a classic Muppet in new, non-claymation material again.

It's a shame you don't have a job on Sesame Workshop's curriculum staff; you make a pretty darn good point. On one hand, a pre-schooler who misses his favorite character on a show he sees every day is going to be badly upset. On the other hand, putting that same character into a segment that...

Heck yeah--Spanish is not my foreign language of choice, despite having maybe two dozen words drilled into my memory by Sesame Street. But it would've been awesome to see a lot less of Murray and Abby this past season, and a lot more of the B&EGA sketches that haven't appeared in the US yet! :(:p

The season finale in review The good points: Decent street story; kids need to know that just because they're playing pretend, it doesn't mean fantasy-world solutions help when something goes wrong "for real" in the game. (Taking a break from the nature/environmental theme was good too; I...

Watched the clip--the version I remembered looks most like the one at time marker 1:10 and didn't include any theme music. Someone else on YouTube mentioned Adam-12 having the Mark VII closing logo, though; that show was on in the late 60s/early 70s too, so I probably spotted the logo there.

It was Mark VII Productions: they shot a live film of someone striking the Roman numeral onto metal with a hammer and silversmith's die. The "CLANG....CLANG! CLANG!" must have scared you, along with the arm swinging the hammer down into the shot. (Oddly enough, this logo never frightened me...

I've got two guesses, myself: Oscar was the naked character, so Sonia was just using a word-play trick. (Fur-covered Muppets rarely wear anything else, after all...) If Maria was indeed the naked character, it probably involved a bathtub scene; that's been the only context where Sesame...

I'd like to see endings similar to the way they were before the format change: I miss the years when a character involved in the street story brought up the Things of the Day, or a cast member announced them in voice-over as the others went about their business. Working them into a clever visual...

My top five favorite surprises this season: 1. Kermit's all-too-brief reappearance in "Elmo's World: Frogs". 2. The multi-character reappearance in the Squirmadega race story. 3. Luis' attempt at repairing the washing machine; as I stated in the Hidden Gems thread, it reminded me of that...

Well, one B&E's Great Adventure did briefly touch on pollution; when they ended up at sea, the mermaid criticized them for turning the ocean into a trash dump. That is pretty minor compared to the way they've taught other environmental themes though!

One thing that Jim probably woudn't like, in spite of his creating so many puppet mascots for commercials before: Sesame Street needing to depend on corporate sponsors and spend four minutes of each show crediting them with custom-made ads. If he hadn't died, he probably would've insisted...

I've had a few folks on YouTube ask the same thing, especially when I post Sesame Street ending credits. "Where's the PBS channel bump?" To tell the truth, only one episode in my collection (#2485) has a channel bump after the funding credits; everything else is a Noggin broadcast, which could...

Ironically enough for an old-school Sesame buff, I grew up frightened to death of the so-called tricolor PBS logo. You know the one: the loud trilling Moog notes, the letters appearing one at a time from nowhere... *shudder* When PBS finally changed their network identification bump in the 80s...

I'm seriously hoping that the street story carries the season finale this time, since the rest of each episode has followed a cookie-cutter format so far. If I had to sum up Season 40 in a single word, that word would be "anticlimactic".

Possible second gem in the "Jack Grows His Own Beanstalk" episode: Jack expresses frustration with his inability to find the right item, saying "I'll never get it, never, never!" Don Music-style. Granted, he couldn't bang his head against Leela's lap, but I expected those discordant piano...