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How many times were there when Sesame Street used a different piece of music to close the show? I know of only two times. One show was when someone was apparently moving into the second-floor apartment near Hooper's store; indeed the whole thing began with Mr. Hooper pointing to the top...

The Yahoo! group "SESAME_STREET" has started a database of Ernie and Bert skits. Currently there are 21 listed, including "Fish in the cowboy hat", "Bert's brother Bart", and that ever-popular Egyptian pyramid sketch. The Yahoo! group may be found at...

Ever notice that a device used in some of the older films was to have two different soundtracks, one played after the other? There was usually a second or two of silence between them. -- Ostriches. A musical piece accompanied the views of the animals. Then the ostriches started running...

While the title of this post could be a rallying cry for de-junking one's life a la "Clean Sweep", it's actually a song from a film about the garbage man. The film, which had a soundtrack of music and someone singing, began by showing a usual curbside garbage pickup: emptying cans, followed...

A film of two boys who find some money and decide how to spend it. Here are the parts I remember as best as a 3-decades-old memory can assemble. Note: In my description, I will ID the boys as B(black) and W(white), as one boy was African-American and the other Caucasian. This is only because...

It's not often that I remember skits I saw exactly once. But here's one that somehow managed to stand out in my mind: Susan is sitting on the 123 stoop with a hardback book. She says: "I like reading books." Camera cuts to Gordon sitting in a recliner chair with a newspaper. "I like...

Anyone remember this skit from the first or maybe second season? Ernie decides to prepare himself a snack of milk and cookies. Although I don't remember the exact sequence of events, basically Ernie was preparing the goods in the usual living room spot while frequently walking off-camera, to...

Does anyone remember these song routines from circa 1970? Both routines featured some Anything Muppets singing something, then cutting to another scene to illustrate their point. In "Silly Song Time", a bunch of hippie-like AMs walked in front of a large sign with said words. One of them...

In the first one or two seasons of Sesame Street there was this Laurel and Hardy-like sketch with two actors named Buddy and Jim. On Unpaved we got to watch two of these skits: an attempt to hang a picture (very first episode!) and where they made a "triple-decker" peanut butter and jelly...

While these skits didn't exactly scare me, as discussed in another thread, I always felt a bit perturbed at sketches that featured wanton destruction of property, especially when it was to the dismay of the owner. It seems like there was a lot of that in the early days. Some examples: --...

Most Ernie and Bert skits take place in the contemporary apartment living room, easily recognizable by the picture of them on the wall. The sleeping/night time skits take place in their bedroom (with twin beds and that familiar "E" and "B" customization on the headboards), and a handful of...

Some Muppet skits can no longer be aired, at least on the newer episodes of Sesame Street, simply because a condition has changed on the show. For example, here are two Ernie and Bert routines that are no longer run because they make mention of the late great Mr. Hooper. (Wording is not exact...

Remember those animated sketches that had no apparent meaning? 1. A series of white circles appearing from left to right on a dark background, then appearing for the next row below until the whole screen was filled. With each dot's appearance was a snare drum beat with a fife-like note, the...

Does anyone remember a skit in which Grover was learning subtraction, with someone who I think was a professor muppet? He used tomatoes in counting. The professor asked Grover how many tomatoes were on the wall; Grover counted three. Then the professor took one of the tomatoes and threw it...

In the first few years of Sesame Street, they used to have muppet skits with regular popular songs. These songs were not modified to teach something, e.g., "Hey Food" for "Hey Jude", but had the actual lyrics minus a modification or two. Four of these skits were based on songs by the...