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That one didn't so much scare me, as make me feel sorry for Little Chrissy; the irony of his problem didn't occur to me until I was in grade school. As that girl in the wilted-plant cartoon said, "How could I be so duuuumb?" :o

A few examples from my childhood: Mom liked to imitate the way I sang "ABC-DEF-GHI"; I must have really mangled Big Bird's pronunciation back then, because Mom's version ended with "ka-super-fizz". :o Dad used to sing the "Number Song" intro whenever he fiddled with a calculator. He'd press...

Right--the rock suddenly grew a (CGI?) face and suggested counting the balls, to make sure there were really 2000 of them. (Ironically, the delivery guy had said the rocks couldn't speak and count themselves!)

Two more good points: With the focus on math skills this season, it's great to see counting that goes beyond 20; that happened often in the last decades before "Elmo's World", but almost stopped when the audience got younger. Guess the Workshop changed their mind about toddlers...

I did notice that Max was only able to cover three kinds of basic arithmetic (addition, subtraction, and division) -- and that he left nervously when the audience asked for a fourth trick. The adults must've known that it'd take Mumford's (or Abby Cadabby's) kind of magic to multiply...

*nods* As long as people own something that's cheaper to repair than to replace, there's a good reason for the Fix-It Shop to keep existing on Sesame Street.

There was a library next to the Fix-It Shop (or was that Hooper's)? in the Season 38 premiere, but I have a feeling it was a one-shot location.

Awww...*offers you a big hug* Sorry if this brought back any painful feelings! :concern:

Tell me about it...To use my own Sesame-related example: In the late 80s/early 90s, I saw an episode with a very loose "Wheel of Fortune" parody called "Sight Word". The game took place on the street, with one contestant (Maria) and a Muppet host named Matt Playback. Since Matt was a one-shot...

Hmmm. Your station must have either gotten a "bootleg" copy (as you suggested) or been one of the test-audience stations; judging by the odd scheduling, either reason could be true. I did a Google search for "Sesame Street" (exact phrase) plus ""Snuffleupagus", "divorce", and "episode"; even...

You (or a younger kid in the family) must have been part of CTW's test audience, since all the online sources I've seen say that the divorce episode failed with test groups and never aired nationally. (Even Wikipedia's article on the subject--not Muppet Wiki, but Wikipedia--makes that claim; if...

Agreed: that's got to be the worst episode of the season so far. The mathematical "magic tricks" looked as if Max weren't even trying; the Murray segment was too similar to the other sports-school trip, and the "dancing" cartoon...well, the sooner it gets retired, the better. Here's hoping...

The big difference, though, is that children usually can't predict when someone they know is going to die (unless a family member is terminally ill and the doctor has told them so). Divorces happen more predictably, though, after a long period of trying to work out serious conflict--and the...

True, that; the last time Cookie has definitely eaten a non-food item, it was usually one of those styrofoam letters from the sketches with Prairie Dawn. (Yes, those are three years old, but he also tried to catch/eat the sponsors in that episode with Leela and her camera!)

Good suggestion about the map--and good point about the laundromat, too. Episodes from earlier seasons showed a laundromat somewhere on the Street, although it wasn't at such a prominent location. Maybe the Fix-It Shop (in the same vein) moved to a cheaper, out-of-the-way part of town; still...

For some reason, Elmo's Circle Song is just a blank black rectangle on my PC (even though the other clips in that list played all right). I'm guessing that Sesame Workshop is still getting glitches out of the site...*shrug*

Personally, I'm glad the episode about Snuffy's parents getting a divorce didn't air. CTW portrayed the opposite situation--characters falling in love, then marrying--over a more realistic time span. No episode plots, however, had even hinted at past conflicts in Snuffy's family...so it's not...