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anyone remember the cartoon with fisherman jones that ends with "but you can't sail to nebraska, 'cause the ocean don't go there!" i thought i saw it recently, maybe i'm just using the wrong search terms...

you're probably right on the origins of the evolving characters. it's not like characters need to change or have street stories chronicling major life events for the show to be compelling. the only reason we're even conscious of the changes is that it's been on the air for so darned long and we...

thinking about gina's character--she has changed and grown as much as maria has, but she doesn't get as much credit for this. maybe b/c alison doesn't do as many interviews as sonia does, or maybe her character and the street stories about her will be more iconic for parents when the kids who...

here's a very cool instrumental version of Sing on clawhammer banjo.

just sent you the fur jam one and wet paint.

...or the alternative device, making that character the surrogate mother for someone else. they did that in law & order criminal intent and star trek deep space 9. good for sonia manzano for avoiding this by writing pregnancy into her character. and i don't think anyone's mentioned the jane...

my favorite muppet quote is....uhh..uhhh... :sing: uh oh, zoot skipped the groove again!

monster lullaby on the way, count.

well you would know better than i do. but that seems like disappointment in a newer set of german voice actors, or because the writers aren't as good. like american disappointment at our own newer bert & ernie sketches. it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with having german puppets or...

yeah, but we're talking about beloved characters integrated into the show for decades. german children for twenty years had dubs of bert & ernie integrated into the sesamstrasse coproduction so most thought they were originally german characters. japanese children for thirty years knew and...

i don't know about grover in rechov sumsum or abby in mexico. but appearances in germany and japan aren't a change in policy--quite the opposite really. going back to the 70s, germany showed the american version dubbed before it started its own co-production, and continued to use dubbed...

i don't know if this is from a segment or anything, but in the picture on the title page of chapter 3 of louise gikow's book, the whole cast is wearing the same clothes as they wear in What's the Name of That Song.

well, if you were trying to write a book about a complicated organization that has a thousand people in it, how would you make it coherent? by skipping over people not critical to the overarching story. (but then you get the same anecdotes from the same people, which is good for a general...

naveen? really? i guess he played the uke, so that makes him cooler than other disney princes. but he looked better as a frog (just like a certain beast looked better before he returned to his wimpy human form.) now tiana's dad, on the other hand. smokin'. AND he had a nice voice AND he could cook.

very cool. thanks for the link JLG. there's a link from there to his website: http://www.haroldmilleractorwestbethnyc.us/ while we don't know much about him or his stint on Sesame Street, i think it's because there were three Gordons and it would break up a narrative to try to do justice to...

wow! that WAS fast! thanks! :super:

hey oscarfan, would you send me these two? do you still have my e-mail? thanks!

yes, because the inserts were played throughout our childhoods, and the street stories aired only a few times ever. but as you point out later, it's not that grownups want clips they remember, it's that they want as much good sesame street content as they can get to have their own children...

if my screen name doesn't already give away my bias, i agree with those wanting street scene based dvds. and it actually fits with what sesame street is doing now: first they created elmo's world as a 15 minute programming block that they could use in world-wide tv markets that have such...

funny how that works, isn't it? two people independently come up with the same idea for a book, and out come two TOTALLY different books. it seems like much of the criticism of street gang from fans is more just how everyone else would have written a history of sesame street differently. am i...