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Ever wonder how Cookie Monster really feels about the stuff he teaches now? I wrote this fanscript segment about my best guess; if you or your child enjoy the "new" Sesame Street, please don't click the link. (Still, you shouldn't worry too hard: there aren't any dirty words, X-rated scenes...

The "loaf of bread" cartoon is back on the site, thankfully. I've made a few upload requests of my own on YouTube, with mixed results (only three or four turned up later on the Vintage Sesame Street clips group). I'm still trying to complete my collection of Jazzy Spies number clips, but only...

I don't think "Two Noses" is there yet; I still have a wish-list of classic clips that haven't appeared (or reappeared after deletion) on YouTube yet. (The biggest disappointment, though, is supposedly finding a new copy of some clip and finding out that the darn thing won't load onscreen.)

Return of Hoots I'm glad to see Hoots returning as a main character, even if he'll be limited to musical performances; he was a musician from the beginning, after all. Unfortunately, the quality of Sesame Street's new music has gone downhill ever since the original writers died: if "It Feels...

If you've got a Flash Video player to open them, you can always use KeepVid to download most of the Sesame Street clips. (I say "most" because a few of them have given me error messages when I tried to save them.) Good luck!

Ten clips I'd love to see on YouTube Are any of these clips already viewable on YouTube? Failing that, does anyone have copies that could be uploaded? Please let me know... The rest of the "Jazzy Spies" series (I've already seen #2, #6 and #7 there). The destroyed-numeral cartoon about...

"Fat Blue" describes several characters built from that pattern; there are other "Fat Blue" Muppets besides the one who can't get decent service from Grover. I'm on the "Mr. Johnson" side of the debate myself: First, no one ever addresses him as "Fat Blue", although Grover's descriptions...

After I commented on the Fairy Alphabet clip, I got a message from another viewer who had questions about the music: On one hand, Sesame Street has used some public-domain music unchanged, including classical pieces. For example, two episodes have written new lyrics to the "Toreador Chorus"...

Several years ago, I remember the local PBS station airing "Shalom Sesame" in honor of Israel's 40th anniversary as an independent country. (At least that seemed like the reason, judging by stories in the "World" section of the paper.) It felt a bit strange when I saw a giant porcupine...

If I had to judge the rarest segments from my memories of watching as a child, I'd list the following segment types as my personal "Top 10 Favorites I Almost Never Saw". Picking one clip in each category, unfortunately, was too hard for me...*shrug* 10. Prairie Dawn's pageants, especially the...

My favorite Kermit News Flash was the Rumpelstiltskin story: Kermit hid in the baby carriage to eavesdrop on the queen and Rumpelstiltskin, only to be mistaken for/treated as the baby when "Mr. R" got stuck babysitting for the queen. (Her: "He likes a two o'clock feeding..." Kermit: "I like...

Grover and Oscar were my favorites when I was a girl: I must have remembered Oscar's old color, though, when I decided to name my first pet (a goldfish) after him.

Gabi is a decent singer, but not as talented as Olivia (who may be retired, but comparing two female characters is fairer in my opinion). More importantly, she's also likable as a person: Gabi gets along with humans or Muppets, older or younger characters equally well.

Global Grover is one of the best segments added to the show, in my opinion: it teaches about other cultures without resorting to stereotypes or dumbed-down language. (I'd still like to watch Grover go someplace Scandinavian, for once... ;) )

"Journey to Ernie" does teach some skills and concepts important to preschoolers: identifying members of a category, recognizing similarities and differences, and occasionally finding out that something isn't what it seems. However, I find it bitterly ironic that one "Journey to Ernie" clip...

Let's sing a song of--EEEEK! I must be one of the few Gen-X kids who were glad to see those Baker sketches retired. First, the intense special effects at the beginning went a bit too far: how many other kindergartners thought those psychedelic numbers were going to zoom right out of the TV...

Wow, a new one for me! Although I generally dislike sketches which make letters/numbers into characters with minds of their own, this one sounds funny and vivid enough for me to make an exception. (I've never seen it, though; does anybody know when this sketch originally aired?)

My own bonus-track candidates The VERY early "letters vs. numbers" sketch (in which a crowd of Anything Muppets is divided into two teams, one with assorted letters on their sweaters and one with assorted numbers); this could theoretically go on both disks "A, B, C, D, E, F, Cookie Monster"...

I assume you meant to include the letter sketches on "Learning about Letters"...otherwise, the candidates you listed are well-known enough to preserve on DVD, all right. :-)

I would back that change 100%, but Sesame Workshop would need Disney's permission to use Kermit as something more than a "crowd scene Muppet". (The last time I saw him on Sesame Street, it was a Season 35 rerun that included "Do de Rubber Duck".) I'm with you on most of those changes: perhaps...