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My nominee for the funniest Bert and Ernie sketch, which I could still quote verbatim in grade school: Ernie takes several unusual items with him into the bathroom, explaining that he might need them in case something goes wrong during his bath. Bert doesn't believe him--until every problem...

That "yes" did sound like a dangerous maniac; I can easily imagine some kindergarten kid getting nightmares from the cartoon. Then again, kids were used to some pretty creepy stuff on TV back in the 70s!

You have a valid point there, but then Baby Bear's chair and bed are also important parts of the original story: why didn't the Sesame Street writers also give him an obsession with furniture (especially with others using/breaking it)?

Sad, but true: Almost all Sesame Street Muppets (even the ones in starring roles) are being reduced to a gimmick or a favorite thing. When was the last time you saw Telly without a triangle in the script, Baby Bear without porridge, or Rosita without a "Latina stereotype" shtick? All three...

Oooops...it's been so long since the premiere that I forgot. Boy, do I feel dumb! :o

Darn it, I missed #4169 today...ironically, because I'd given up hope of seeing anything new for the rest of the month. Sounds like a decent episode, though; it's a good thing there are two PBS stations in Madison, and that one usually repeats the previous day's Sesame Street. I'll add my own...

Some of the Trash Gordon segments were funny in a way; but when he took over ALL sponsor announcements for a season or two, Sesame Street became that much more predictable. I miss Gordon announcing the end of the show as himself, the way he and other characters did in the beginning. Now that...

Agreed; I may have seen the episodes with Matt Robinson when I was one or two years old, but that's pretty young to remember a stranger's face (let alone his acting). When I finally saw "Hair Gordon" in recordings from the earliest seasons, I thought he looked just as strange as some of the...

Speaking of caps, have you seen the "thinking caps" episode (late 80s/early 90s)? One of the Muppet characters (I forget who) had been sold an "alphabet thinking cap"; it made random things and people appear based on whichever letter the wearer had in mind. The letter of the day happened to be...

One early 90s episode that I thought was funny, even though it starred my least favorite character: Elmo was upset that the letter of the day was O, and interrupted several letter segments throughout the show trying to change it to E. Eventually, he compromised with the disembodied announcer...

My cable provider (Charter) provides episode synopses for each show that airs, including Sesame Street--and identifies both new episodes and reruns. In a way, that's good (in case I want to catch an episode with a favorite clip again)...but some days, I get frustrated looking for the "New:"...

I'm glad to see more of the Season 1 veterans back on Sesame Street (especially Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie). Giving Big Bird a specialty, though, doesn't fit the way he's been used all these years: even after the format change, he's remained a Renaissance bird who'll teach about any kid-friendly...

Unfortunately, I've forgotten the way that episode ended; does anyone out there have it on tape? (I'm not looking for my own copy, just hoping you might know!)

It did happen; I distinctly remember the cast going to great lengths to make sure the Count recovered. They blindfolded him so he couldn't see anything countable, put earmuffs on him so he couldn't count any sounds, put mittens on him so he couldn't count his fingers...Before he found out that...

I guess that's why Harvey Kneeslapper never used W in his "slap a letter on the unsuspecting victim" pranks. Then again, a whole episode of Sesame Street dealt with the Count having the "counting flu": if it's the same episode I remember watching, even imagining numbers made the Count feel...

The infamous "A-B-C-D-E-F-Cookie Monster!" sketch still makes me giggle just thinking about it. So does an old clip I doubt anyone else remembers: Harvey Kneeslapper is supposed to announce that the letter of the day is W, but he keeps sneezing when he tries to name it. He tells Gordon that...

I could even see the Muppets trying to do a whole episode of the show as a "home video" from scratch; this would work best as a show with multiple street scenes, but then there's the problem of kids missing Elmo's World...*shrug*

PRAIRIE: Abby...This is a play about [fill in the blank], we don't need any pumpkins! ABBY: Oops...sorry! [ABBY calls her mother on her wand, gets a reversal spell, and lets the show go on]

Not that I've seen; the YouTube Sesame fans in Scandinavia haven't posted local versions yet, and the one Sesame Street broadcast I saw over in Sweden borrowed clips mostly from the 1980s.

Hmmm, so far I've seen this one in English, Spanish (no clip, just memories) and Hebrew (thanks to you). I wonder if any other versions are floating around out there? P.S. to the moderators: I think this topic should get "sticky" status, just like the other links-to-clips threads. It...