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Thank heaven that Sesame Workshop tries so hard to stay politically neutral: the B-words in that song were innocuous ones like "beard", "bats", "better". (Not to mention some Muppets who appeared with the Chicks; Bert, Big Bird, and Baby Bear all sang that their names began with B too!)

If Elmo had originally been on Sesame Street, I'm betting that his personality would not have changed so drastically. There'd be more street stories like his first reactions to Rocco, his attempts at imitating the Count's thunder with noisy objects, and his struggle to change the letter of the...

Given the (ahem) political controversy that surrounded Dixie Chicks a few years ago, I'm surprised that Sesame Workshop invited them to sing that song about the letter B with some of the core Muppets.

Touché...ain't that the truth! Sesame Street was meant to teach preschoolers about a lot of things, but adult sexuality and love is nowhere near the top of the curriculum. Even when that topic has come up on a serious level, the characters involved have always been human--not animated, not...

Yep, that alegria song is one of my favorite "post-target age" memories of Luis too. Emilio Delgado definitely has a great singing voice and a magnetic personality onscreen.

Most of my Sesame Street dreams as a kid were pretty scary, which is strange for a hardcore fan of the old show. Taunted nonstop by Oscar the Grouch, attacked by giant letters, abducted to get turned into a Muppet...I had one heckuva weird imagination back then!

Bert sang that song only on the album version; on TV, the singer was an Anything Muppet named Maurice (Large Lavender, light brown hair and mustache). Unfortunately I don't know which version was produced first!

Why do you think McDonalds itself has begun promoting "Chicken McNuggets made with white meat...1% lowfat milk...and crisp, ripe Apple Dippers" in their commercials aimed at kids? It's a quick-fix attempt to showcase a few nutritious menu items, so that parents won't think the McDonalds/Sesame...

I saw it once when I was a girl: before the crack monster appeared, the girl in that cartoon imagined a camel (which she rode to meet a hen) in the cracks. The monster-picture disappeared when that part of the cracked plaster fell off the ceiling altogether. None of that scared the girl...

It's true; Cookie Monster mentions it casually in a song about the first time he tried cookies (Season 36, I think). The lyrics rhymed "when me was just a kid" with "me think me name was Sid".

"Brought to you by the letters M.O.M."...as if dads, babysitters, and other adults never cooked for the kids? Cute tagline, but it goes against what Sesame Street teaches about everyone's families being different. (Of course, if every product tie-in were that faithful to canon, the ads would...

I, for one, liked Leela's intro episode best: it had plenty of Muppet supporting cast in the main story, but the real focus was on a human character (pretty rare today) and on the Street as a whole (even rarer). The references appealed to both preschool children (Prairie trying to stop Cookie...

As far as I can tell, all the songs for the Cecille sketches are originals (not parodies of any other). Some novelty songwriters, though, have done original work that copies a popular style without using an existing tune directly. It made sense for "I'm Gonna Get to You" to be a Motown song...

The lettering on a cookie seemed to survive Cookie Monster's teeth and digestive fluids, in one of his non-Prairie "Letter of the Day" segments. He'd eaten one with an X on it, then admitted "Me feel tremendous guilt!" over destroying the thing. When a nurse came in with an X-ray machine, her...

If worst comes to worst, I can contact the reporter in Honolulu who gave me that information and see whether she's learned anything more. Keep your fingers crossed!

Ever since Season 36, number sponsors from 1 to 10 usually get introduced with a partial remake of the Number Song--using CGI colored ribbons to form the numbers and background. I think that's what the article writer meant.

I heard the name change was their decision, to show that their educational work with children went beyond television.

I assume you mean the one with the V getting drawn with draftsman's equipment, then cut from purple construction paper. If you do, then that clip is at least a year old: I've spotted it in some Season 38 shows.

That deserves to be a DVD set in its own right, like the trip weeks...possibly cut down to street scenes and the "Worms in Space" letter/number bits.

That might work with the first two or three seasons, since those DID repeat inserts a lot...but during the later years, I'd say that inserts and street scenes were becoming equally important. Whichever organization these "top 10" discs used--straight-through play or turning the inserts into...