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  1. ISNorden

    Your Thoughts: Sesame Street Season 40

    K is also for Klutz, which is what I feel like after that Spanish mistake...I knew there were some foreign words which kept the initial letter unchanged, but this time I misremembered one. (As for that "three-letter acronymic word", I agree whole-heartedly that it doesn't belong on Sesame...
  2. ISNorden

    Your Thoughts: Sesame Street Season 40

    The street story is one of the best I've seen this season: even the bears' dependence on porridge (which usually annoys me) became the springboard for a science lesson. Alan explains about hibernation; Max Bear adds to the lesson by singing about bears' other unique traits. All in all, a...
  3. ISNorden

    Your Thoughts: Sesame Street Season 40

    Amen; hopefully FrankenZoe will be retired when Sesame Workshop gets enough cash. She looks as ugly as tiny-headed Big Bird did...and as creepy as the evil-eyed debut version of Mr. Snuffleupagus. [snippage] Great minds think alike; I liked Murray and Ovejita's working together as a...
  4. ISNorden

    Your Thoughts: Sesame Street Season 40

    Episode 4188 in review The Good Points: The street story felt like an abridged version of a classic plot: nursery-rhyme characters appearing on the street with problems, which the rest of the cast gradually helps them solve. It's a shame that 80% of the good writing gets crammed into the...
  5. ISNorden

    Monsterpiece Theater - The Dirty Dozen

    And here I was, picturing a "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" remake that ended with some guy scrubbing a filthy number 12. Thanks for the surprise!
  6. ISNorden

    Monsterpiece Theater - "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

    Great "Take That" meta-humor; what old-school fan doesn't miss Monsterpiece Theater being replaced by those preachy Dinner Theater parodies?
  7. ISNorden

    Monsterpiece Theater - B*A*T*H

    Awesome work as usual, Snowthy: having Radar the teddy bear come in and act like his M*A*S*H namesake was a touch of genius. :wisdom:
  8. ISNorden

    Monsterpiece Theater - "Passion of the Crust"

    Bravissimo! If it weren't for the religious groups who take the original movie dead seriously, I could easily see this parody on an older episode of Sesame Street.
  9. ISNorden

    Your Thoughts: Sesame Street Season 40

    Episode 4187 in review The Good Points: The hint of "Follow That Bird" that others have mentioned in the opening scene: like Miss Finch, Mr. Flipman overreacts to Big Bird's minor discomfort and tries to make him behave like other birds. The goodbyes to the cast put a lump in my throat...
  10. ISNorden

    40th Anniversary song parody: help needed

    The other day it occurred to me that someone should spoof the song "40 Blocks from My Home" to do a rough timeline of Sesame Street's development. Here's what I have so far... "40 Years on the Air" by Ingeborg S. Nordén Based on an original performed by Jerry Nelson [Spoken as director's...
  11. ISNorden

    FanFic Library Index

    Could you add my "Elmo's World: Hugging" fanscript to the list? I didn't finish it as well as I could have, but fanscripts that copy the show in a serious tone do deserve a place here...many thanks!
  12. ISNorden

    International skits on Youtube...

    Looking forward to seeing more of Sesamgade on YouTube....thanks for the upload! :)
  13. ISNorden

    Your signature-explain yourselves!

    Mine is pretty self-explanatory: I was born in mid-January of 1969, ten months before Sesame Street went on the air nationally. (Of course, I couldn't have remembered Season 1 when I was less than a year old... :) )
  14. ISNorden

    Season 40 Press Kit!

    I've seen some of the press-release clips on YouTube tonight. The "D for Dance" one was brilliant; the rearranged theme song was pretty good (gotta love Cookie Monster with a mouthful of chalk dust!). But "Mad Men" focused on too many emotions at once--kids will probably learn more about...
  15. ISNorden

    When you were little...

    I saw a lot of live puppet shows growing up, myself--so I figured out that the Muppets were just puppets early on, even though some of them were built to do stuff that normal ones couldn't. (The scenes with Bert and Ernie drinking through straws must've had a bottle inside each Muppet, for...
  16. ISNorden

    What would happen if Sesame Workshop retired Elmo?

    Like many of the older fans, I wouldn't insist on retiring Elmo altogether, just restoring his old status as an equal of the other Muppet characters. The last few seasons of Sesame Street have carved it up into too many one-Muppet showcase segments--something that other countries have resolved...
  17. ISNorden

    What would happen if Sesame Workshop retired Elmo?

    I used to blame Elmo's takeover for ruining Sesame Street years ago; I've even had anti-Elmo rant threads deleted from these forums (and the mods had a good reason to do it!). Since then, I've gained a little more perspective: Elmo himself is not a bad character. Granted, I liked him a lot...
  18. ISNorden

    The Official "I'm looking for/trying to remember a sketch" thread

    That reminds me, I was wondering where they got the scene for the H in that 25th anniversary alphabet montage? Buffy probably wasn't acting on Sesame Street after Elmo's debut, but the lyrics you quoted remind me of that scene. (Oscar was very out-of-character there, holding Elmo and saying...
  19. ISNorden

    The Official "I'm looking for/trying to remember a sketch" thread

    At least two episodes had the Muppet version of Cowboy X in them...one probably followed the plot Mike described, but the other one definitely included a dispute with a Muppet Cowboy O. (Without him, the conflict over letters and the tic-tac-toe compromise wouldn't have made sense!)
  20. ISNorden

    The Official "I'm looking for/trying to remember a sketch" thread

    Muppet Cowboy X--anyone else seen him? Sometime in the late 80s/early 90s, I distinctly recall Cowboy X appearing as a Large Lavender Live Hands puppet, along with a separate Cowboy O Muppet who looked similar except for the letter on his hat. The plot of their episode centered on a dispute...
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