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Thanks for setting me straight about the other "pretend tennis" sketch, guys! (Anyone for group cyberhugs? :flirt: )

I have this nagging memory of Harvey Kneeslapper announcing the letter of the day, with a man from the human cast (Bob, I think?) nearby. For once, Harvey was not playing a prank of any kind; instead, he kept sneezing every time he tried to mention the letter. I thought that was hilarious when...

You must have read my mind; even in the newer "What Else?" bits, at least one of Elmo's questions will involve birthday cakes. At least, the Little Red Menace* keeps that obsession to his own part of the show. Ilikemuppets made a good point, too: Muppet characters never celebrate...

If I'd had the right connections to visit the studio with Pat, I would have loved to hear about the Fix-It Shop reappearing, straight from the producer's mouths. I do wonder what Maria and Luis will be fixing now, though; toasters have been so overused in Fix-It Shop material that I used to...

You and I must be on the same wavelength; that's exactly what I meant. (You forgot one topic that was on the very first EW: balls.) On a related note, have you noticed that even the oldest topics have been partially redone? When I first watched Elmo's World, I wondered how many kids thought...

I've watched enough Season 35 and Season 36 episodes to notice a trend: the topic of "Elmo's World" is usually linked to the main story on the street. The one which aired today (Grover teaching a school for would-be superheroes) had cast members rescuing an H from a tree nearby; the "EW"...

I'm reminded of an older sketch which has Big Bird and some celebrity tennis player doing a similar game as they counted to 20 (one number for each imaginary hit). At the end, the celebrity says something like "It's more fun when I use a ball"; an amazed Big Bird replies, "You mean you can play...

I never knew that Ernie and Bert had makeovers; to my average viewer's eyes, both of them still have the same clothes, hair, and faces as they did in the 70's. A puppeteer or designer might notice, of course... P.S. Did 1980's Ernie still type his "alpha-story" on an old, non-electric...

Bert probably couldn't have stayed quiet for long; Ernie would either pester him into speaking (and protested "That doesn't rhyme!" when Bert's words broke the rules), or tried to find another game they could play. After several rejected ideas ("How about an opposites game instead?...No? How...

Yep, Ernie did that...reciting letters emotionally as if they were part of a real story-- "Now comes the sad part--H, I, J, K...[sobs]...L, M, N...[sobs]...O, P..." "Here comes the action part--Q! R! S! T! U! V! W! X! Y..."

In my opinion, Cookie was supposed to talk like a child who'd barely mastered sentences (let alone pronoun forms). The producers probably thought that believable child-speech made Cookie Monster more believable than proper English...and that one such character wouldn't do any harm, as long as...

True enough, although that usually happens only when the object relates to the lesson being taught. Even if Ernie's rhyming game had involved household appliances (instead of spontaneous lines spoken by the players), the lamp probably wouldn't come to life unless other pairs of rhyming objects...

Most of my favorite Ernie & Bert skits include other Muppets along with you-know-who. For instance: 1. Ernie tries to teach his baby niece Ernestine to say "Ernie", but his efforts only make the baby upset (babbling angrily and throwing toys). At the end of the sketch, however, Ernestine...

I have a feeling that "Hey there, lamp! That's a nice shade!" was meant to be one long line which Bert expects his new "partner" to rhyme. Most of the lines Ernie and Bert exchange in the game had a similar rhythm, after all: "I don't want to play a game with rhymes!...Nice going, buddy...

Wow, you learn something new every day; I bet the kid at the grinder wanted to know if he could dismantle and re-create his Powerbouncer a second time. Still, the grinder ending is a bit sad, especially to someone who never saw balls like that as a kid.

The "grinder" version was also a sketch about 3, with the same circus-like music (in triple time, of course!) as the "sundae" version used. You're not the only one who thought that grinding up the ball was weird and sad, though: I felt uneasy whenever that sketch aired. Maybe that's why the...

*shakes her head at the memory of that one* I didn't even get a clue that the "bug wants a Z" sketch was going to be letter-related at all, until the Z was actually shown and mentioned at the end. (Cookie shrugged his gift off with some comment like "all me have left is this crummy letter...

Children on Sesame Street almost always used their real names: as far as I know, the only two exceptions have been the people playing older versions of Miles and Gabi.

Did somebody say "hug"? Did that sketch about the word HUG really exist? :flirt: It sounds like good material for my "Hugging Special" fanscript; could you send me a transcript by PM or e-mail, please? I'd appreciate that very, very much...

Well, a gourmet restaurant in the land of Q is probably going to serve quail (yes, that's a delicacy in French cooking), and some dessert with quinces in it. :)