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    Sesame Street Season 50 News and Rumors

    Joe Hennes of Toughpigs recently got to do a favorite moments segment (though it looks to me like it can only be viewed on Facebook at the moment):
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    Dreams about Muppets...

    Last night I dreamt that I went to a local restaurant and Steve Whitmire happened to be working there as a security guard. I had met him at a con last year and he actually remembered me and my name immediately (I wasn't the one who approached him). He said that he needed a "day job" in addition...
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    50th Anniversary DVD announced

    Here's another wishlist of mine for this. Stuff in bold has already been confirmed via either the press releases or trailers (and may not exactly be something I would have put on the wishlist otherwise). This list will include a few non-insert street scenes. Seasons 1-10: Sesame Street begins...
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    Unearthing previously "lost" Sesame Street episodes

    Kevin Clash mentioned that Professor D. Rabbit's shtick was so unfunny that he doesn't remember it (and I think I've also read that he was more of a writers character than a performers character). I don't really know what his main character trait is. I've looked at the characters page on the...
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    "Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration" special to air November 9 on HBO and November 17 on PBS

    Looking at the Amazon page for the DVD, I see that the run time is 75 minutes. I wonder if that includes bonus features (I think most Sesame DVDs include the time from bonus features with its run time) or if the special will actually be that long. Somehow, with all the confirmed celebrities and...
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    Sesame Workshop/Shout! Factory Deal

    It's been announced that the upcoming 50th anniversary special will come to DVD on December 3.
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    50th Anniversary DVD announced

    Looks like too many repeats from the Old School sets and 40 Years of Sunny Days, Joe Hennes said that there won't be a lot of repeats from those sets. It probably won't have the original ABC_DEF-GHI. A trailer for this set shows that the late-1980s version will be included. A trailer for...
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    Unearthing previously "lost" Sesame Street episodes

    I like how for Big Bird's little brother, they just photographed him a little lower at the neckline. In fact I've noticed while he appears to be in a shirt he's got some feathers showing where the sleeve should be. They clearly just put a shirt collar over his neck, a separate sleeve over his...
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    Unearthing previously "lost" Sesame Street episodes

    That's an interesting dragon. I'm surprised they didn't, as far as I currently know, use him again or recycle the puppet. Looks like a full-body character, though none of the pictures show him having a lower half. Then again, I've always thought of Magellon from Eureeka's Castle as being...
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    You Ever Notice...and What's the Deal...

    In one episode of That '70s Show, Jackie gets Kelso a leather jacket, but everyone - or at least Hyde, Fez, and Laurie - teases him about being Fonzie. But what's up with that? Fonzie was popular in the late-1970s, why tease somebody for dressing up like him? And why should Kelso be embarrassed...
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    Unearthing previously "lost" Sesame Street episodes

    I'm more willing to bet that either Tom Hanks was scheduled to make an appearance but canceled, or they taped material with Hanks that ended up not airing (failing with test audiences) and it wasn't in any of the final aired version scripts (though I do know that one of the scripts included a...
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    Unearthing previously "lost" Sesame Street episodes

    I wonder if that was really on the show or if it's more of a funny anecdote that Caroll Spinney says in interviews, maybe as Big Bird. I first heard of such an instance in Sesame Street Unpaved when Big Bird was quoted as saying, paraphrased, "one time I walked in and said, 'hello, Mr...
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    Early (pre-Kevin Clash) Elmo appearances (Brian Muehl and Richard Hunt)

    One thing that would be interesting to note would be the first time Elmo referred to himself in the first person. I guess it was when he started speaking in full sentences as opposed to repeating the same words over and over. And now I realize that in his Follow That Bird cameo, which was...
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    Where are all these classic Sesame Street episodes coming from?

    I like the responses that Scott and Shane have been giving to fans on the wiki and Toughpigs forum (and maybe here, but I can't remember for sure right now) in regards to how they've gotten certain rarities. Like when Toughpigs posted screenshots from Out to Lunch around the same time that...
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    Unearthing previously "lost" Sesame Street episodes

    Glad to finally see a Baby Monster performed by Caroll Spinney. When it comes to the "monster family", I wondered if maybe he just meant segments with random AM monsters, with "Monster Family" being more of a term like "The Word Family Song". It seems the second season does have a few segments...
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    Episode info from trusted sources

    It was a typo. I meant to say it was episode 2391. https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_2391
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    Little things we've noticed

    Interesting thing I just recently noticed about Kermit's three part plan in The Muppets Take Manhattan: the two parts we see in action both end in failure while Kermit seems to give up before getting to the third part which we never hear of, but of the two failures we see, Kermit is unaware of...
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    50th Anniversary DVD announced

    We'll likely get a lot of segments they've released everywhere else (though hopefully the amount of unreleased-on-physical-media/rare segments included will greatly outnumber that). It is about a month before it's released (technically it's less than a month). For the past week (which will...
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    Unearthing previously "lost" Sesame Street episodes

    Deena's debut appearance: https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_1403 Which reveals that in season 11 (at least her first appearance), a very different puppet was used. This does solve a mystery that the wiki had years ago. An image of Deena from this episode had surfaced long ago, in...
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    Unearthing previously "lost" Sesame Street episodes

    I recall you mentioning that he had a lot of dialogue in the script, and I've wondered if that might have had anything to do with them changing it (though looking at the description, I don't think we would have really lost much if they cut his lines, maybe just how Oscar decides to ask him to...
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