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I was born in '66, so I started at watching from the show's start at age 3 and quit at late 10 or early 11. The social stigma of watching SS was starting to catch up with me by then, sad to say. As with many of us, I "rediscovered" the show in later years, but by then it just wasn't the same.

Thanks for your nice message, Astro. The reason I remember so many of these sketches is because I watched the show quite religiously between 1970 and 1977. Most episodes I actually caught twice on the day they aired, since most PBS stations in the areas where I lived had a morning show...

In additions to the ones linked, there were two street scenes suggesting a Maria -David relationship. Both involved Oscar. In one scene Oscar was telling Maria "but what's all this 'David! David! David!'"? Maria tried to explain to Oscar that it sounded like he was jealous. (I wonder if...

To answer a few older posts here. Although David was the primary employee of Hooper's store (and later owner), there was a series of shows in about 1976 where David was studying to be a lawyer. He was studying at a table placed outside of the store, after Mr. Hooper sent all the kids to go...

That's right. The witch said the spell would only be broken if Oscar does something nice. Understandably this was quite difficult for Oscar, good deeds being against his nature. But the nose disappeared with a Mumford-style puff of smoke when Oscar spoke a kind phrase to Susan. After that...

Ernie and Bert are at home discussing the concept of "tall". First Ernie stands up straight and boasts that he is tall. Bert stands alongside and reminds us that he is taller. For tallest, into the apartment walks none other than Big Bird! Bert is like "whaaa?" and protests as BB knocks over...

Actually, there was a 1 for the falling baker sketch. Among the films, a little boy pulls up his shirt enough to reveal his navel: one belly button A man opens a life-size door with a question mark on it to the "moo" of a live head of cattle: one cow The baker himself trods the stairs...

Here's a sketch I found a little unsettling. In an outdoor setting with a weird-looking high-rise building in the background, some little girl Muppet was talking to Bob. Somehow she kept asking him for letters. One by one she asked for the letters D A N G E, then R. She progressively...

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...

I remember him as Alphabet Bates. I don't recall seeing him, himself; just member of the human cast looking up in the sky as we saw is aeronautical calligraphy. Don't recall seeing him beyond about 1973, though.

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: --...

I think a similar, if not the same, a-capella clip was used in a film about bridges. The film showed a number of drawbridges opening and closing, including a span that looked like the movable roadway retracted under the fixed road.

There was one animation where a little girl is holding a balloon, and a pin. She wonders what would happen if she popped the balloon. We saw a potential sequence of events, one at a time, then again with another consequence added. (I forget exactly what, though I think they involved a younger...

Where did the skit take place when Ernie sang to Cookie Monster "If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake" while doing just that? On one hand, the kitchen sounds likely since an oven was needed to do the actual baking, not to mention easy access to the ingredients and utensils. OTOH...

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...

I think there was a goof in this one. When the girl narrator says that a dirty auto goes to a car wash, the video shows a car in motion with the wipers on and the windshield washing fluid in use. There was no car wash to be seen in the picture. Perhaps the voiceover soundtrack was recorded...

After Mumford left the stage, with the transparent cookie jar in the "empty" mode, Cookie Monster was determined to make it "full" again, presumably so he could empty it himself. So he waves the magic wand himself. But while the magic words were "A la peanut butter sandwiches", CM couldn't...

The Sesame Street 2 record addresses that contradiction, sort of. Oscar entered Mr. Hooper's store, and asked for a strawberry sundae with pickles and sardines on top, the "favorite dessert of every grouch in the world". In response to Hooper's disgusted reaction, Oscar sang a song about...

Another dated item on that Seattle bus film: at one point the bus makes a right turn on a busy main road, and there's one single 4-way traffic signal suspended by span-wire over the center of the intersection. The US Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices now mandates a minimum of two signal...

Was this the one in which two families meet at the beach? One family was named Bebe and the other (I think) Bosco or Barker. The "heads" of each family hadn't met since second grade. The cartoon consisted mostly of greetings by family members whose first names all begin with B "Hi Bobby...