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Wow, thanks for the refreshed memory--that bank sketch must've aired when I was 3 or 4 years old, barely enough to recall that much detail from Sesame Street. (I do remember the Count talking to the bank teller, and sorting through literally millions of singles as he ran up the total.) Other...

Is this YouTube video the "looking for letters" clip you meant? I did indeed see the reflection of a TV camera (but not the operator's face) around time marker 1:45.

A very late update...how does this sound as an ending for the "topic channel" section? "Coming up next on the Hugging Channel: A Hug's Life, followed by The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly." (A friend of mine offsite suggested the second title when I showed him the fanscript.)

Thanks for the link, Mike; I've posted a PDF version of the Sesame Street clipping online (and given you credit for finding the newspaper) in my fan blog. http://sesamestreetblockparty.blogspot.com/2009/06/hawaii-episodes-in-news.html

Sam appeared in a few other sketches and songs; I even have a dim memory of watching his "wiring day" episode as a girl: he wants to throw a party in honor of the day he was built, and invites other machines to the street. (Two of the guests were a mixer and a washing machine, I'm sure...)...

Alphabet Polka This song aired in two versions: the first had Slimey and a polka band performing it near Oscar's can, the second had the whole cast singing as they danced down the street on a "silly day". I remember most of the lyrics, which went like this: A and B and C and D E and F and...

Norwegian and Dutch are both related closely to English, so the number-words are less likely to lose the right rhythm in translation. The Hebrew dubbing, on the other hand, was a musical train wreck: very few of the number-words fit the rhythm of the "Pinball Count" song. (The Hebrew "Jazz...

I actually saw that street scene when I was a girl; like a lot of kids in those days, I was pretty impressed to see that Muppets could imagine anything into existence. (At least, I reasoned that it must work for monsters even if people couldn't do it!) And it scared the heck out of me to see...

You're right that Sesame Street used to stay (mostly) realistic until a lesson or plot required some fantasy. Nowadays it's the other way round; fantasy rules the street until a lesson about "real vs. imaginary" comes up. (One example I dimly recall: Elmo was pretending to be Jack, from the...

Telly used to be all right, until the writers made two changes: (1) making Baby Bear his best friend instead of Oscar, and (2) over-emphasizing most Muppet characters' favorite things ad nauseam. The cast lost a lot of color when Telly degenerated from an older neurotic figure--think "teenage...

Three old ones, three new ones Excluding one-shot characters--those who appeared only in a single, non-recurring sketch--here's my personal list of the most annoying, unlikeable characters on Sesame Street. (Judging the one-shots doesn't seem fair when there's no little material to go on!)...

I'm betting that almost all these real-life streets were named in honor of the TV show (which doesn't make their existence any less interesting). It'd be cool to learn how many of them have child-related businesses (like a day-care center or a toy shop)...I can just imagine some kid bragging to...

$2500? It's times like this that I regret not buying a few state lottery tickets; if I were rich enough to fly out east and attend that dinner, you bet I'd stick around for some chatting and autograph-seeking.

If reruns count-- On an episode of "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" that I saw this morning, Sabrina and Harvey used a monkey puppet to liven up an oral report on endangered species. A classmate (who spotted Sabrina in the hall later) sarcastically asked: "Can you tell me how to get to Sesame...

My post about your clip is here-- http://sesamestreetblockparty.blogspot.com/2009/04/sesame-street-thriller.html

Straight to the fan blog...great work!

Yipes! That's one for my fan blog; I doubt that I could post my whole opinion here without (a) going off-topic or (b) violating the forum rules in general. This much I can say, though: the idea of Sesame Street being abused that way makes me ill, and someone at the Workshop should indeed...

Remember when "Sesame Street was brought to you by..." ended in a letter or number 99% of the time, never in an actual company name? Product placement is probably the next unavoidable change, all joking aside: back in Season 37, brand-name diapers appeared briefly in one of the "Gina adopts...

I vaguely remember a street scene from the 1970s in which Big Bird was scolded for interrupting a conversation between the adults...and of course, there have been sketches about listening to others and not talking too loudly. So yes, Sesame Street has dealt with social skills and manners...

Good idea, especially the early environmental sketches; people need to see that Sesame Street taught that kind of lesson before it became trendy.