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The earliest episodes showed at least two other cartoon-songs with the key vowel in other parts of a word, not just the beginning: "The train to Spain was late today: an ape pulled the brakes...And made it get awaaaaay!" "O-O-O-O-O-O-O-Oooo.. Grow and go Roll over the road Where the...

A lot of sketches about "walk/don't walk" have probably been retired already because of the new, wordless signals. (I bet that the new generation of Sesame Workshop composers are desperately searching for decent lyrics about a red hand and a white stick figure...*giggles*)

The few times I'm sorry for Elmo Zoe's actually done that in two episodes, one of which aired in a recent season (whether it was 35 or 36, I'm not sure). I saw that and immediately recalled the first episode; when a rehashed plot comes up, I'm sorely tempted to yell at the characters: "Zoe...

Other censored Sesame clips On one hand, I agree that censoring some violence and self-injury on Sesame Street was a good idea: the mallet-whacking in that carrot cartoon has a bit too much copycat potential, and so does Bert's head-banging. (I'm surprised that the show's writers allowed him...

I agree with Xerus' interpretation of that "don't start before I ___ you" line; Olivia killing Ernie (literally or not) makes much less sense than her cuing Ernie to start the drums later.

Considering that people took "I'm gonna kill you" a lot less literally when I was a girl, it wouldn't surprise me if a character occasionally said that in older Sesame Street clips. With children actually killing people these days, I can't blame Sesame Workshop for censoring violence (or...

Does anybody else think those "giant letter in the swimming pool" segments are scary to kids who watch the show these days? The kids in the pool are playing normally, minding their own business until one of them discovers something weird underwater. The letter rises to the surface as the...

21. On a late 90s/early 2000s episode, the Muppet author "Flo Bear" taught about the letter I, listing I-words which included "inkydinkydoo" (what the heck?!?). Near the end of her lecture, Flo pointed out "The letter I is a word all by itself: I am Flo Bear, I am a writer..." Unfortunately...

Someone has uploaded the "Morphing Letters" clip (the one you describe) to YouTube, if you want to check it out. I agree that the man who names the letters in the slow part sounds as if he were stoned. (My comment at YouTube: "This is your alphabet on drugs--any questions?") I'm still...

Those lists make me wish I could afford a DVD drive for this computer. If someone manages to record the jazzy spies and/or painter series, I'd love to have those in my collection. (Right now I have one common Sesame Street clip that my computer can play...I envy you guys sometimes. *drools*)...

I've seen five similar cartoons on recent Sesame Street episodes: a group of primitive-looking animals alternate between dancing and forming a letter/number (which a male offscreen voice names out loud). The background music was a funky saxophone riff, if that jogs anyone else's memory. I...

I was watching "The Blues Brothers" this past weekend, and was surprised to see one actor identified as Frank Oz in the ending credits. Was THE Frank Oz involved in that movie (above and beyond his Muppet-related work)...or was this another actor who shared his name? Inquiring minds, as the...

Definitely. I had another Sesame Street sighting on another show this morning, by the way: on Password Plus, the answer to one puzzle happened to be "Big Bird". The clues "giant", "yellow", and "fowl" confused both pairs of contestants...but the fourth clue, "Sesame", helped one side get the...

I seriously doubt that Miss Piggy will appear on Sesame Street, since she has a bad temper and tends to karate-chop anyone who says something negative about pigs. Her occasional snippets of French might also confuse pre-kindergarten viewers...then again, other Muppets have stranger speech...

I can understand why a shapes segment might get shortened, since Sesame Street is narrowing its focus to pre-kindergarten kids. (How many of them have heard of shapes other than circle/rectangle/triangle/square yet?) I can bet they'd still be wondering about the pig at the end when they grew...

Cecile is not the same as the opera-singing orange, though they do look similar enough to confuse some people. Some differences that people forget or don't notice: 1. The film with the orange was a stop-motion job using real kitchen items for her facial features. Cecile's films were done...

First, a Sesame Street reference I saw on a Quantum Leap rerun the other day: A killer searching for a child finally notices his victim among similarly dressed dolls in an attic, remarking: "One of these things is not like the other--one of these things just doesn't belong." (He didn't sing...

Although most of Grover's choices are indeed positive, I'd judge a few as neutral words myself: "apple" and "xylophone" are standard ABC-book entries to most Americans who grew up watching Sesame Street. "Run" and "vanilla" would be neutral to at least some children (unless running happened to...

Mike: Thank goodness I'm not the only one who remembers that segment with Oscar and Gordon! In fact, I didn't remember which human actor took turns with him until you said so. *offers you a virtual high-five* Oscar's letters looked as though they were painted very clumsily, then left to drip...

I'm pretty sure that Oscar chose Frightful as his F-word, though I've got no proof handy...:confused: