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Someone at your PBS station had a great sense of humor and a knack for talking to kids creatively; the CTW staff should've hired him if they'd had the chance.

The reference to "here in this ring" is probably a holdover from an album track, which wouldn't have had any visuals at all (go figure); a lot of songs from Sesame Street albums got dubbed into "new" Muppet sketches in the mid-70s. Still, I'm pretty sure that CTW had the technology to show...

Mr. Hooper would have opened his store in 1951, since the 25th anniversary celebration takes place in the 1976-77 season premiere (#926). As for where the Two-Headed Monster appears in the game...did he ever appear in a street scene before? If not, I'd want to at least aim for the year/season...

Awwww! Not bad at all for a book adapation; here's hoping your 100% originals turn out that well. :wisdom:

Amen to that! Most of the older seasons (at least, Season 3 and later) taught more than one letter per episode though; why not make the per-season total an even 30, with the four extras dedicated to milestone events on the show? There'd be a chance for all letters and numbers to appear that...

Even if all the legal obstacles were cleared, putting an older season of Sesame Street on DVD would be too expensive for both the Workshop and the average fan: until eight years ago, a whole season was 130 hour-long episodes! The earlier ones also repeated so many of the same clips, that most...

It's a crying shame that Sesame Workshop's got a policy against using outsiders' work...and that getting Kermit back would mean paying Disney a fortune. THIS is the kind of 40th anniversary special I'd go out of my way to watch, one way or another.

My three current favorites-- Grover: he speaks proper English, goes out of his way to help (even when he fails), and loves to hug. Bert: he's a loyal friend despite everything Ernie does to annoy him, he's serious-minded and he's got interests as obscure as my real-life ones. Rosita: she's...

My thoughts exactly, at least when I was a girl watching first-hand: why would CTW want a cartoon to feel scary when the topic wasn't? Presenting a "danger" or "don't walk" sign in that same spooky tone, I could understand. But a letter of the alphabet? ... Come on! More seriously, at...

Speaking of scary letter animations: was anyone else freaked out by a mid-70s animation about a dot that kept getting scared away from the top of a lower-case "i"? Every time the dot got to the top, some weird musical sounds played and a voice shouted the letter's name. (Whoever-it-was...

Does trading an Amazon gift certificates (which I got with some holiday cash) for new episodes count? :-) BooberGorg and I worked a deal out so I could add the Camp Echo Rock storyline to my collection. :excited: Many, many thanks to him if he's reading this!

The fact that Herbert only appeared in "lecture" Muppet sketches (and had other characters demonstrate his visual aids most of the time) also makes me think of him as a teacher. Good point!

I saw Herbert's W/M clip myself as a girl, but the letter still got the better of him after the camera turned the view upside-down: once more, M became W as typical "frustrated character" music ended the sketch.

Bert and Ernie's apartment was originally in the basement of the 123 building, but they eventually moved upstairs (judging by the change of scenery, and by strangers' ability to come in without walking down any stairs). The plumbing must have gotten renovated since then, too; Episode 1 has Bert...

I'd love to see more humans active on Sesame Street, period--in both street scenes and inserts. Yes, the Muppets were always a part of the show; even Bert and Ernie had their place in the test pilot episodes. But what made Sesame Street so memorable and fun to watch, for most of its 30+ years...

That makes two of us, at least...though I admit the song choices were educated guesses on my part ("Elmo's World" uses a rewrite of a fragment from "Elmo's Song" as its theme).

If Abby's segment uses a pre-existing Sesame song for its theme, I'm betting it'll riff on either of these two songs (I don't know the official titles): The one describing her love of words. The one teaching that different kinds of children (in her case, fairies vs. normals) can learn from...

The hole also concealed Ma Bell's formula for phone plastic which survives a monster's stomach, and which protects the receiver well enough to let everything function. :zany: Seriously, though, I think that although the writers and producers had a lot of great subplots (Big Bird's curiosity...

I'm not sure of the official English title, but I remember Simon Soundman singing about "a train going [sound effects]/rain going [sound effects]/and they all remind me of you." (That last phrase recurred throughout the song, as I'm guessing it does in Dutch.)

R.I.P. Mr. Benedict...I wish I had enough of the Number Painter clips to do a decent tribute on YouTube!