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Well, if Kermit's had a "life" off-camera (as most fictional characters do between movies), he's probably learned to drive. It's weird that he can handle those gas and brake pedals, though, if bike pedals give him trouble...

The producers and directors know that someone staged the "accidents" Kermit had on his bike...but the audience is supposed to see them as the real thing. Literal-mindedness kills the fun of some movies...:)

The neatniks strike back I'm suspecting that the neatnik who schedules programs for my local PBS station is having fun again: he's alphabetized another string of three shows by Letters of the Day. When all the episodes this year have been reruns from the last three seasons, it seems logical...

I've seen parodies of kids' shows (and parodies of their main characters) on Sesame Street for years, but "Triangleodeon" sounds as if someone is trying to slip in a disguised product placement. (Remember the earliest Elmo's World clips which included his computer? Originally, the machine...

I spend most of my time here in the (classic and new) Sesame Street forums, with Fan Fiction/Fan Art a distant third. If I've got a question that's better suited to another section, I'll ask it there...but that's a pretty rare event, I confess.

I guess Hoots had been popular enough with kids and adults to justify his return this season. Still, Athena helped boost her uncle's "AWWW!" factor; she's one of the few minor characters whom I actually miss. Forgetful Jones, despite his own memory problems, was memorably funny and had a...

The new "Who wants to make a ___?" clips feel fake to me because the kids don't really do anything to make the letter/shape that Maria names. Considering the way Sesame Street is preaching about physical fitness now, I'm surprised the producers haven't filmed new clips that combined the old...

The parody character was named Cyranose de Bergerac (*groan*)...I remember him using his trademark nose as a weapon in that skit. Didn't the queen have trouble finding a rhyme for "rose" in the poem she was writing, or was that another skit with Cyranose in it?

An "H" clip you may have forgotten This one first aired sometime in the early 90s: A group of children pass by a firehouse on a cold day. They peek through the windows and notice fire-fighting items whose names begin with H; as each new item is mentioned, one of the children pronounces its...

That sounds like the "Gregorian Chant" letter series: the "painting" was actually a wallpaper-like abstract pattern from which 3-D letters emerge. Beautiful in theory, though I always thought the letters were hard to see properly... :confused: I've seen clips for other letters in that...

Because apple butter isn't as popular (or familiar to children) as peanut butter; most of the "how things are made" material on Sesame Street teaches about things a child would use, or see others use, in everyday life. If more American families started buying and using apple butter, then Sesame...

Yeah, he was one of several humans joining David in that song (I'm pretty sure the leader was David in that scene).

More on the Swedish number cartoons Those cartoons were not only animated in Sweden, but also intended for a different children's show in that country. In addition to a translated Sesame Street, Swedish TV also aired a "homegrown" program that taught letters and numbers. The title of that...

Check out my reaction to a similar series of clips (giant letters emerging from a swimming pool). Just when kids thought it was safe to go into the water... :grouchy: )

You mean the 70s cartoon about the dog named Happy...white, dorky-looking, and two or three times the size of the boy who owned him? When he got a snack from the boy, Happy gave an exaggerated display of happiness that belongs in commercials, not educational shows. The cartoon ends with the...

"Fat Blue", "Pink Medium", and similar descriptions are pattern names, not character names: would an extra in a human crowd scene claim think of "Angry Subway Passenger" or "Protesting Student #4" as his character's real name? I doubt it!

I agree that some of the jokes in that cartoon are too gruesome to be funny, and others have been told much too often. Still, the cartoonist was making a valid point: The way 90% of the cast has become preachy about exercise and nutrition over the last few seasons, it's only a matter of time...

Have the lyrics been transcribed anywhere online? (Tiny Dancer's archive doesn't have it yet, unfortunately...) Failing that, does anybody here know the plot of the episode in which "Hace Frío" aired?

1. Make Elmo's World into a spin-off show in its own right: that would give pre-kindergarten kids AND nostalgic adults what they like. :) 2. Make the rest of the show less predictable: let other characters teach the Things-of-the-Day sometimes, and let segments appear in a more random...

A giant sesame seed responsible for hiding Sesame Street to outsiders, and allowing otherwise imaginary creatures to become real...what a cool concept! You got a copy of your fanscript anywhere else?