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It must have appeared only on an album, since I never heard it on any episodes that aired back then (and I watched a lot of Sesame Street in the 90's, wondering and worrying about the format change).

Awwww, Marty...this story makes me feel all warm and cuddly inside. Great job in general, and congratulations on the happy ending after all those plot twists! *HUG* *HUG* *HUG* :flirt:

Categories #9-12: my worst-ever candidates 9. Worst general counting/math sketch: a mid-1990's animation in which a shrill offscreen voice counted 40 dots. That "Thirty-nine...*hyperventilate* ... thirty-niiiiiine...*hyperventilate*...thirty-NIIIIINE..." near the end must have scared the...

That was the song-sketch with Linda Ronstadt and a couple of Muppets; she had discussed charros (her native equivalent of cowboys) with the other characters, and invited them to join in a mariachi-style song about charros. The lyrics were mostly English with only a few bits of Spanish thrown...

Here are my nominees for the worst "classic" Sesame Street bits in twelve categories. (By "classic", I mean the show as most adult fans remember it nowadays: from Seasons 1-28, before the format changed radically.) 1. Worst street plot: The Count's scavenger hunt for 40 body parts. (Thank...

My top 5 favorites (betcha can't watch just one!) 5. MMM Monster Meal (the song-sketch performed with Herry) 4. Gingerbread Man (who knew Cookie Monster hugs cookies sometimes?) 3. Cookie Monster's sleepover (and nightmare) at Ernie's apartment; has any fan out there transcribed it yet?) 2...

I do remember that sketch: the magnetic letters appeared to move by themselves while the opening song played. The way that sketch was written, I thought it might become part of a series with different letters--the "letters make words" approach works a lot better than just showing a B for three...

I doubt that any other fan remembers Uncle Wally appearing somewhere else, sesameguy. Although I'm pretty vocal about Sesame Street needing more humans in the cast nowadays, characters as forgettable as Wally (human or Muppet) would waste the producers' time and money.

This sketch has got to be one of the strangest I've seen: Uncle Wally asks a Muppet character (possibly Big Bird, though I may be wrong) to hold a letter "L" while Wally sings. The Muppet takes the letter, and Wally begins a song about himself...no mention of "L" or any other letter, as his...

I've seen only three "game show" letter segments so far (for the letters P, W, and Y). Other than the letter and the specific items Cookie fetches to win, the game is fairly predictable: 1. Cookie Monster hears a voice-over announce the game show, the rules and the prize ("lots of cookies")...

Ironically, Bert was the one who suggested balloons as a quiet alternative to fire engines or the "boring" sheep. Guess he didn't count on Ernie's imagining the loudest balloon he could...:p

Bravo! What Sesame Street needs is more human characters who act as lifelike as PBS' standards allow on a children's show. Muppets will always have a legitimate place on the show, but flesh-and-blood people handle some serious topics more readily than puppets could. (Maria's marriage and...

I remember the episode with Telly, but not the Count-kateer one. (Poor guy--Bob isn't even popular with real-life kids, let alone "recurring fan club" material on the show!) Now that I know that Disney's buying rights to some of the Muppets didn't extend to owning Sesame Street--my fault!--I'm...

"The Sound of the Letter A" was indeed performed on a 1970s episode of Sesame Street (though I don't remember the season or episode number). Likewise, I remember seeing "What's My Letter?" as recently as the late 80s; Don Music was one of the contestants on that game show, so it must have been...

I'm guessing that the various "-kateer" clubs appeared on Sesame Street after Disney bought the rights to the show. The name, the club costumes which include special hats...both are inspired by the "Mouseketeer" cast members on the defunct "Mickey Mouse Club" TV show.

Amen to that, SCC: whenever I see a typical episode nowadays, I wish that Noggin hadn't pulled the older ones from their schedule. I swear that if I ever win the state lottery, I'll contribute a few million to starting a "retro kidvid" cable channel: uncut broadcasts of old CTW programs, no...

Might want to check some episode guides to see when the singing orange first aired--and whether Noggin ever showed those reruns recently enough for another fan to tape.

I meant: Now that the street signals for pedestrians use pictures instead of words, the Sesame Street writers will have to come up with new material if they want to teach about those signals.

That would support the "covering up seams" theory; maybe Jim Henson (or someone on his staff) couldn't sew Kermit's head and neck together properly. (Somehow, I imagine a box in CTW's old studios with the label "Mangled Muppets"...:zany: )

I'm positive that the "C Drives Me Crazy" parody appeared on the show, but I've never seen or heard one that used the same tune for the letter E. "C drives me crazy/like no one around/C drives me crazy/and I can't calm myself down..." Do those lyrics ring a bell?