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I'd love someone to upload that "Bosco's bath" clip to YouTube; with no DVD player, no VCR and no money for either one, the only way I can watch the classic clips IS on the net.

The other words in that cartoon (illustrated by the jacket's actions): "jump", "jerk", "jiggle", and "juggle" (balls appear from one empty sleeve and get tossed to the other). At that point, the suspicious narrator asks "Is this a joke?" (with that word appearing, of course); Jenny and Jeff...

P.S. After Googling for "Jeff Hale", "alphabet", and "Sesame Street" I learned that he was responsible for some other classic cartoons on the show: the "Pinball Count" series and the "Consonant Poem" series are both Hale's work. (If that's true, I'm impressed that he can draw in such...

From my research on the Net, I learned that the animator's name is Jeff Hale. I'm unsure whether the music was composed just for that cartoon; I know classical music pretty well, but have never heard (or read about) that melody existing in any other context. (On the other hand, one fan told me...

Part one was dull compared to most of Kermit's lectures: almost any low number would have inspired the same reaction from the crowd of Anything Muppets. The variations on "That's all?" were OK at first, but kept getting stranger as the sketch went along...*shrug* Appropriately enough, part...

Your remarks about his counting the cash remind me of a multi-part sketch from an early 70s episode: the Count goes to his bank, asking the teller to withdraw his entire balance in singles and let the Count check the amount himself. Of course, our favorite purple vampire turns out to be a...

I'm with Mike on that reference: even with my memory for Sesame Street sketches, I don't recall anything that included characters stepping on J's. For that matter, I remember only two sketches in which a character claimed ownership of a J-- "This Is My J", a Sinatra parody sung by a...

First you tell the stage to sit... Other Gladys/Kermit sketches may exist, but I recall only one on Sesame Street: Kermit hires the cow as a stage manager for his variety show. (BTW, the title of my reply comes from Gladys' lines before Kermit explained the job to her.) Among other things...

I recall one such lecture sketch in which Grover slapped the "visual aid" instead of Kermit: "Hey, S babyyyyyyyy!" (The letter was NOT a Muppet character in that sketch, but the typical styrofoam consonant; what inspired Grover to slap it, I'll never know.)

Oscar's lyrics did mention one grouch-friendly aspect of taking "regular" baths: "make that bathtub ring". (I've never actually seen anyone leaving a ring around the tub, but it must happen sometimes...)

You both have points! On the one hand, Mike is right about the premise behind some letter/number segments being bizarre by real-world standards. Lots of Muppets carry lesson material around the way that fancy-car driver carries Grey Poupon in the ad ("But of course!") Because Sesame Street's...

You hit the nail on the head: the content of kids' TV shows isn't as big a problem as the amount of time kids spend watching them. I also agree that changing Sesame Street won't do much good when most of the overweight, exercise-phobic children are older than the target audience for that show...

That episode was pretty good as new ones go, mostly for the reasons you mentioned. (Your remark about Sesame Street being a bad place for "alone time" hit the nail on the head.) As far as continuity goes, one of the new writers must have had vague memories of the Hawaiian episodes and conflated...

*nods emphatically* If I knew enough about the elephant cartoon to answer Cartman's question, I would have answered it long ago. Repeating the question dozens of times won't give anyone the information; it only makes people upset.

I've seen Swedish "Open Sesame" episodes once on a hotel-room TV: not Svenska Sesam with its different characters and setting, but a collection of dubbed American material (mostly from the 80s/early 90s). Hearing some of the Joe Raposo lyrics in Swedish--yes, I understand them that way!--was...

I know that Sesame Street is trying to push healthy food and exercise a lot these days, but putting Cookie Monster on a can of veggies is going waaaay too far: that's about as illogical as Oscar the Grouch's picture appearing on soap. :crazy:

In no particular order, here are my top ten Sesame Street songs (a mixture of classics and recent numbers). Starred titles may not be the official one for that particular song, although I use the "real" titles whenever I remember them. The Sesame Street theme song (preferably arranged old...

Not quite... Actually, Oscar's bad-review trademark was five "Phooeys". I do remember both Rockette sketches, but unfortunately can't locate them myself.

Darn, you were lucky to see him: Bob McGrath had appeared in my former hometown about 20 years ago, although I missed the opportunity to meet him then. (I almost blurted out "Holy cow, that Bob...you mean that's his real name?" after seeing his promo poster at the mall; he's still one of my...

I miss Ruth Buzzi (especially as the owner of that "Finders Keepers" shop) myself...I'm too young to remember "Laugh-In", but she made her Sesame Street character likable and memorable.