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Thoughtful comment there, Bill; at the risk of taking the Muppets too seriously, discrimination would also explain why Roosevelt clowned around in class. Kids like that are usually struggling to prove they aren't inferior, after all. I'd also imagine that his school was named after a relative...

I only half-understood Cookie's joking response when I first watched that segment as a girl; believe it or not, I didn't know what "wreck" meant.

Most Sesame Street veterans on this forum remember the end-of-show announcement "Sesame Street was brought to you today by..."; the writers are still using that phrase even though the show has changed its format drastically. (Those letter/number spots no longer feel like network TV commercials...

Sesame Street was intended to teach both academic lessons (letters, numbers, shapes, rhyming...) and social lessons (family, sharing, emotions...) from Day One. As long as the show makes room for both, Sesame Workshop is doing the right thing.

Mike--at least Gina is adopting the kid, not pregnant with it. (I've never seen her in love with a steady boyfriend, let alone a husband...so Gina seems more like a would-be Supermom than a tramp IMO.)

Back in the days before season 29-30, the typical episode had two letter sponsors; "brought to you by the letters ___ and ___, and by the number ___" would have preceded the "production of the Children's Television Workshop" announcement. Some of the earliest episodes even covered three letters...

If anyone has copied that clip into a format my PC can read (.wmv is best, but I can also handle .avi files)...I'd appreciate that very much. I'm willing to trade a few comedy clips from my own machine for that one; unfortunately, the only Sesame-related one I have is fairly common. P.S...

Does anyone know whether 'woobie' on YouTube ran into legal trouble for uploading any of his vintage clips? I was sorely disappointed when most of my playlist had been "removed by user" (according to an onsite message).

Actually, Numberella's sketch was the ONLY specific-number clip in that episode; the number of the day was indeed 21, for the first time in Sesame Street history. Only one other episode has declared 21 the number of the day, so you're almost right. :) The situation now reminds me of the...

D'Snowth: Originally, the show's writers taught numbers only as high as ten; they didn't raise the limit to 20 until a few seasons later. Even then, only numbers in the 2-12 range could be numbers of the day. (Higher and lower numbers gained that status in the early 80s; the "long count"...

You're right; old cartoons with that kind of content (just a letter/number being named as it appears) don't need new music and voices dubbed in. The animation itself is "dated" enough, if that's Sesame Workshop's concern. Besides, the original melody behind that cartoon sounded like a good fit...

I don't remember all of the Cookie vs. Prairie Dawn letter clips, although the role-reversal gag in their H clip was one of the few funny moments on a recent show. Cookie Monster had chosen to fill up on cookies before teaching the letter, then promised not to eat it. Prairie, of course...

Does anybody else have a clearer memory of this 70s segment? Several cast members are comparing circular objects to the letter O, after which each object is ruined in some way. I forget who the human characters were, but Oscar was one of the Muppets appearing in this sketch. A donut which...

Does anyone else remember this cartoon from the 70s? A small man grunts "Unnnh!" repeatedly, pushing an enormous capital letter N along as oppressively slow synthesizer music plays in the background. The melody ends as the N drops away with a crash. Finally, the man who had moved the letter...

22 was never a number of the day, but two episodes from the late 90s had the number 21 as a sponsor. One included the Numberella sketch that Mike mentioned; the other used a sketch with Ernie and a 21 (or was that a 12? ;) ) whose digits kept switching places. Ernie finally recites a poem...

I think the "same character does same segments" formula has been run into the ground ever since the Workshop realized their audience was getting younger. Children that age may need some order and regularity, but they also enjoy surprises: part of my enjoying Sesame Street as a girl included...

Believe it or not, I recall one early 90s episode (regular, not a holiday or anniversary special) which aired no clips about a specific letter or number until the last 15-20 minutes. After being kept in suspense for so long, I wondered whether the writers were going for another "brought to you...

His "mission to two Muppet boys" is the only appearance I remember; the Big Bird scene must have been in an episode I never caught. Captain Vegetable still went a bit too far, in my opinion: I can understand his condemning candy as unhealthful, but spaghetti?!? For Pete's sake, most people...

*sigh* That's probably why the producers dropped the number-painter clips; grafitti has become such a problem in the inner cities that cops will suspect any young person carrying art supplies. It's sad that anyone blamed Sesame Street for vandalism, though. After all, the number painter...

In all the years I've seen Sesame Street, nobody ever wrote an official number-painter sketch for #12. I say "official" because I have dim memories of fanscript additions for #1 and #12...on another Sesame Street forum which no longer exists, unfortunately. Maybe some of you have read those...