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The neighbor's name was Harold 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10; he taught music (not arithmetic. as the guy chatting with the mailman assumed at first). When the sketch first aired, that remark was a segue into an abstract musical animation about counting to ten.

It's times like these I'm grateful for video-conversion software: iTunes doesn't play Podcasts reliably on my old PC, but it sounds as if downloading those Season 1 Episodes (and converting them to a friendlier format, in my case) is worth a few dollars. Way to go, Sesame Workshop--I plan to at...

Darn right! Remember when the Workshop actually listened to kids talking about their own problems, instead of taking special interest groups' advice on heavy-handed curriculum initiatives? The bullying episode sounds like the kind of thing Sesame Street used to show when the writers...

Pretty accurate critique; here's the Norwegian dub of Pinball Count #10 for the sake of comparison.

Yeah, the pipe-organ number announcements lost appeal pretty fast; I'm not surprised that even the Count's performer got bored with them during the shoots. (Whoever performed the organ pipes even made a few mistakes; ever notice that two pipes sing the wrong note for their number in clip #8...

When I was a girl in the 70s, having a close family friend who used ASL at work made Linda feel like more than "that deaf lady" when I watched Sesame Street. Still, as the saying goes, your mileage may vary: if the majority isn't learning anything from a new character, then s/he doesn't belong...

My favorite international dubs so far: 10. "My Friend", in which Plaza Sésamo turns the original Spanish-for-Anglos premise upside-down--and keeps the lyrics singable. 9. The Count's "Number of the Day" Waltz (those sketches with the Countess shouting STOP!!! when he hits the right number)...

I dimly recall one of Kermit's letter lectures, in which Grover slapped the letter from behind instead of Kermit ("Hey, S babyyyyyyy!"). Does that ring any bells?

Now, if only some fan in Sweden had that first album of dubbed songs from Svenska Sesam; Cookie Monster sings about the letter K in that version. (Wonder if he ever did the Swedish translation on TV as well?) :insatiable:

One little problem with adapting "ABC-DEF-GHI" and other US alphabet songs to Plaza Sésamo: the last time I checked, the Spanish alphabet didn't drop Ñ when the 1990s reform passed. It'd throw the rhythm off, true--but you'd think the writers would find a solution that kept the alphabet...

That'd be the one, all right...with no English tags on the clip and no way to type Hebrew on this keyboard, it was pretty hard for me to find (I discovered it by chance before). Thanks for helping out!

UPDATE: An Israeli user "dayingale" has re-uploaded the Hebrew dub of "It Sure Is Hot!" The new link is here: http://youtu.be/Q1ksUY9EOVo Many thanks to him for putting back one of my favorite foreign clips; I'm still amazed at how well they reworked the song and kept the Latin beat from...

Old letter O sketch--may have requested before, but I'm not sure! (Mainly because I can't search as far back in the new forums as I could in the old ones... :search:) The sketch I had in mind showed three characters on the Street, each with a circular object that they compared to the letter...

Old street scenes wanted: Bert searches for a special bottle cap I've got vague memories of an episode from the 1970s, with street scenes about Bert trying to find a "Watermelon Whip" bottle cap. He described it as red, with a green circle around the edge and the letter W in the middle. Two...

Even in the older forums, the only "editable" post in a thread was the last one (no matter who made it). Yes, that's frustrating--but true!

Linda and Olivia left Sesame Street because the actresses who played them got better-paying roles acting on prime-time shows. (In Alaina Reed's case, I think some clause in her contract for 227 forbid acting on other shows at the same time.) David left the show because his performer (Northern...

David didn't get a death episode because he didn't die along with Northern Calloway; the actor left the show while he was still alive, so having the character just leave town made sense at the time. If I recall correctly, Calloway even planned to return to Sesame Street if his health improved...

A lot of the Sesame Street Muppets were retired when their performers either died (e.g., Richard Hunt) or stopped working regularly on the show (e.g., Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson). The original Muppeteers gave those characters both a voice and a defining personality--something that takes a long...

Oooh, sounds like this is worth saving up money for--any hints about which spoofs made the cut?

"40 Years on the Air" by Ingeborg S. Nordén Based on an original performed by Jerry Nelson [Spoken as director's slate claps:] "Lights, camera, action!" [Sung from here on:] One year, two years, three The moms watch along on TV Four, five, six A new Gordon joins in the mix Seven, eight, nine...