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I just reposted "Pizzeria Dos"; thank goodness I have a logo-free copy on my machine. As for the rest, I'll keep looking with you! *crosses her fingers*

If any "normal" episode of Sesame Street should've had the whole alphabet as a sponsor, #131 makes the top of my list. Not counting Bill Cosby's alphabet, there were eight clips that taught specific letters; only two of those (a song and a street scene) focused on the same letter. (Both Noggin...

Always glad to help out a fellow fan when I'm able...I bet the "four balloons" guy got pulled up by wires or a harness off-camera (I doubt that blue-screen tricks existed in 1969 film studios).

I don't see Bellhop #8 on my subscription page; either it's private or not tagged with "Sesame Street" among the keywords. Hmmm...

I agree with both points: the Baker sketches work so well because they show real people counting real things, and use written numerals to make the lesson clearer. Whoever thought of that format knew how preschoolers learn; it's a shame that the endings bothered parents so badly! The Pinball...

P.S. Yes, I finally got the DVD player running, months after a friend gave me one (plus the Old School discs!) for the holidays. My TV is so old that finding a decent adapter took a loooong time; still, watching the oldies was worth that wait. :)

I'm praying as hard as I can that there will be a Volume 2; it'd be cruel for Sesame Workshop to raise people's hopes and then leave them terribly disappointed. (How many of us have favorite classic clips that aired after 1974? Most of us, I bet!)

Oh my goodness, jakester...I saw that skit with the "de-faced" girlfriend Muppet too, but I didn't remember the ending. Thank goodness, at least, that you confirmed its existence (and its scariness for more than one pre-schooler).

Wow. cool fanfic so far! It'll be harder to find suitable song references, though, if this story runs past twelve chapters. Good luck!

I was older when I saw those clips, but I can certainly see how those two would scare some kids' pants off. Especially the first..."Mama, I wanna quit swimming lessons; what if some giant letter comes and gets everybody in the pool?" :zany:

I dislike the ads cutting into Sesame Street's air time as much as any adult viewer does, and I too find it hypocritical that McDonald's (even with the nutritious choices on their menu--how many people order those?) has become one of the show's biggest corporate sponsors. But I haven't seen any...

No name, just mentioned that I'd seen the message posted on this board and wanted confirmation from the guys who ought to know. I apologize if I upset you... :o

Just to make sure I don't get caught in a hoax, I passed ssetta's message on to Sesame Workshop with the following introduction. Hope to hear from them ASAP...

*nods* I probably wasn't the only kid confused by non-sponsor sketches turning up in the oldest episodes; it sounds as if the editor must've had the Season 1 format in mind when he worked on #131. I can see how a sketch about counting to 10 could've been confusing too, since the oldest episodes...

I'm praying that this news is not a joke either--or worse yet, a scam started by some guy who bought the domain hoping to lure fans to an unrelated site. (If this is a scam, the buyer ought to get his pants sued off by Sesame Workshop.) I'll be checking out the site when June rolls around, to...

I saw the Baker #1 sketch exactly once in my lifetime, appropriately enough. I wondered why they'd showed the "1" clip by mistake, though, when the number of the day turned out to be 2! :confused: Before the Internet went civilian, I had only a fuzzy memory of the things it counted (just "one...

The "Jazz" number clips were my favorite number clips as a kid; if I had anything of value, I'd sell it for a copy of the earliest episode to show each one. (In my collection of net-friendly Noggin recordings, I've managed to get hold of episodes with #2-6, but not #7-10 yet; it's easy enough...

I recall part of a street-scene conversation from a 90s episode, with a kid trying to count to 0 but never getting there...until an adult told the kid he needed to count backwards. That's probably the best way to teach 0, starting with "something" and working down to "nothing" (just like poor...

You've got a point; still, there's a difference between learning that you couldn't count without 1, and stopping a count at 1. If the #1 sketches had taken the former approach, they wouldn't have seemed so weird to me as a kid. No hard feelings, I hope?

*nods* Bert's also a member of at least two clubs with mostly adult members, judging by two sketches: the local bowling league drops in to borrow his ball in the "bathroom power failure" sketch, and the National Association of "W" Lovers gives him the floor before they sing the club song...