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Thanks for fixing the link, Nanto; I hadn't seen the Baby Ray or "bone in the doghouse" skits since they were on PBS way back when!

Buffy is Native American; Leela is Indian as in "from India". (I'm not trying to be politically correct here, but it does get confusing when the same name is used for two unrelated ethnic groups.)

YouTube gave me an error message "You do not own this playlist". Wish I could see some of those clips though; I thought Roosevelt Franklin was cool too...

"Leela" isn't exactly a common name in the United States (any more than "Kermit" or "Elmo" has been for years). So the first fictional character that comes to mind will be very different for preschoolers vs. adults who hear that name.

I sense the beginning of a generation gap next season: people my age associate the name "Leela" with the main female character on a very different TV show. It feels strange knowing that kids in day-care centers will grow up hearing that name and imagining a live-action immigrant woman in a...

Holy smoke, I can imagine how my kindergarten-age self would have reacted to that final close-up--by scuttling out of the living room or asking Mom to change the channel. :eek: I'd still be interested in seeing it now, though; that old Telly may have looked as evil as Snuffy did in his debut...

Good point about the Season One stuff getting repeated for years. The other reason the Old School material tends to repeat, though, is that sponsors on Sesame Street used to follow a cyclical pattern: letters appeared in a specific (rearranged) order, and numbers (though they followed the...

I'm a teddy-bear collector who looooves those TV ads; the thought of cuddling with something that cute and soft makes my eyes go misty. :flirt: Ironically enough, though, the Snuggles bear I got from a friend looked cute--but was too scratchy to hug. (Plushies for grouches, anyone? :crazy: )

As the song says, "count me in"! The original Telly is a bit of TV history that I missed, just as some younger fans never saw Oscar in any color but green; that description made me curious. I can understand why an educational show wouldn't want to cast a couch-potato character in a positive...

Exactly why I said I couldn't see it happening; at least the last big change I remember on the set (the Mail-It Shop) made practical sense, even though Maria and Luis had been fixing toasters since their debut. But Sesame Street hardly ever gets any traffic unless it's part of a safety...

They'll probably have to re-introduce the daycare center and/or draft some character into babysitting Marco, then; if a vet clinic is no place for a kid his age, a car shop seems even less safe. (Besides, I thought the "Adventures of Gina" alternatives to Trash Gordon were cute. It'd be a lot...

I didn't mind "Around the Corner" the first time, and wouldn't mind seeing the street re-expanded. But when Gina's vet office is scheduled to disappear, I worry that the Workshop is going to write Gina herself off the show (somehow, I can't see her as an auto mechanic). Hopefully, the Workshop...

I too remember that scene playing after "King Minus" when I watched the show as a girl; two other details stand out in my head: Cookie Monster declared "Me King Cookie!" when the imagination sequence began, and snapped out of it only after some cast member (who'd supposedly turned to cookies)...

Hmmm. The only letter segments I can think of that usually had two cast members in them, were the ones where they tried to build a giant version of the letter together (like a 3-D puzzle with only a few parts). If those are the right ones, I still wonder why CTW labeled them "Crossover" though!

If only I could get hold of the other Swedish album...but I don't know who might have that! *sigh*

*nods* The official title is "If I Were"; that song truly expresses Jim Henson's idea of a loyal friend. :)

My computer played only the sound, not the picture, when I went to that link. :( Is there any way I can see your copy without getting a premium membership? (I'm willing to trade a few episode files of my own; send me a private message if you're interested, please!)

"To Tell a Face" had a baby as a contestant, so it's hard to imagine the kid getting prizes. The other two seemed like rip-offs...asking the contestants to identify a sound or count to 40, with no reward except feeling good. In the last two cases, it would've been better to do the games with...

What the...? The only cars I've ever seen driving down Sesame Street are a grouch cab and the Sloppy Jalopy, so why would Gina's vet office get replaced by an auto-repair shop? After having her adopt Marco last season, are they writing Gina off the show or something?

Two more in-joke names with the same source: The Amazing Mumford was named for a Thad Mumford who worked with CTW. So was "Dr. Thad" of "Dr. Thad and the Medications" (credited in a home-video release of "The Ten Commandments of Health").