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As of an hour ago, Sesame Street is 39 years old. Now if only I could find the perfect clip to post on YouTube in honor of the occasion; it's a shame this computer can't read DVDs. or I'd add some Old School openers from my new disc set.

American Sesame Street looks more abstract than it did in the 80s and 80s; the letters and numbers scattered around the neighborhood, the bright primary colors, and the cutout geometric shapes near Big Bird's nest make the set feel more like a day-care center than a street. I wonder if all the...

The "Yip Yip Martians" seems to be the only name I've ever heard for them as a duo; the individual aliens never had official names.

Even a business that sells fast food can support causes entirely unrelated to food: McDonalds already funds a charity for terminally ill children (who are unlikely to be able to eat their products). So why is it necessarily dishonest for them to say they support music and the arts, too...

I remember those too; the kids' full first names were Heathcliff and Sheila. Besides the ones you've mentioned, there was another cartoon in the series (it explained how light bulbs work).

The "Music" and "Birthdays" episodes of EW both used "Happy Birthday"; if Sesame Workshop is consistent about the music-rights problem, they'll simply refuse to release those two on home video.

Not everyone who wants to support public TV through an individual donation, is financially able to do so: for what it's worth, I live in a nursing home and literally get a dollar a day in spending money from the state. Considering that some "optional" care in this facility costs money, I'm...

Apparently so; at one time, letter sponsors used to follow a cyclical pattern on the show, so why wouldn't the numbers follow one too?

I do wonder what made CTW cut "Dialing for Prizes"; was the black-and-white film footage in the middle copyrghted to someone who wouldn't allow its use on home video? That's the only explanation consistent with other edits to the DVD set....

Those sound great; however, I'd call the miscellaneous Muppet collection "Muppets: Best of the Rest Old School", and focus on Muppet characters who appeared in only a few sketches (Little Bird, Roosevelt Franklin, and so forth).

The copyright to "Happy Birthday" expires 14 years from now; let's hope the owners don't renew, so any re-release of that DVD can leave the birthday scene intact. :-) As for the review...it makes me glad that my folks advance-ordered Old School Volume 2 for me; I'll be checking the mail over...

Looking for the album version of the Bert/Ernie skit with Ernie pretending to be a doctor...with the extra lines like Ernie saying Bert's temperature was about 100 degrees. Anyone out there have it as a sound file? I'd appreciate it a lot...thank you!

Amen. Any mother with a kid who's tried to bounce a birthday cake or feed a toy train his snack probably has to deal with developmental problems that are worse for the kid than anything he sees on Sesame Street; but it still bothers me that Elmo's World talks down to kids. If those fifteen...

That set of theme discs (People, Animals, Places, and Things) would be a pretty good collector's choice; fans need to see all the major learning concepts on the show to got a good picture of the way it was.

Before Sesame Street started having celebrity singers parody their own work, they usually had their music department compose a new theme tune that sounded similar enough for viewers to get the reference. "Chariots of Fur" and "Miami Mice" both had that similar-but-original theme music, so they...

A multi-volume approach (with all volumes divided into subgroups) probably would do more justice to the hundreds of letter and number segments that have appeared on Sesame Street. As far as number segments go, though-- The "Harvey Kneeslapper" suggestion you gave was ambiguous; his prank for...

*shrugs* Still, each of us can post only what they have; I've been forced to turn down requests from close friends on YouTube simply because I didn't have a clip (or the episode it was in).

I see the letter/number disk sets as four-disk packages, organized similarly to your three-disk ones plus another with a full episode that fits the theme. For Letters, the organization might look like this-- Disk 1: An hour of A-H sketches, plus 20 minutes of whole-alphabet bonus tracks up to...

Good ideas; I could easily see Big Bird's "Number 4 Show" on the disk that covered #2-4, or the "B-Word Treasure Hunt" episode on the disk for A-D. As for old-school episodes that had a plot based on the whole alphabet...you'd have to go with some of the late 80s/early 90s material to do that...

The "I-beam" and "Nobody" sketches were creepy by accident; CTW probably didn't intend for those to scare kids. But "40 Dots" was creepy on purpose...so in a way, I'd say it ranks higher on the scariness scale.