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I've seen that one hundreds of times, giant bubble in the face and all. The song borrows the tune of "Three Blind Mice"; apparently, the writers assumed that using an un-copyrighted tune "as is" was OK. (Even in kindergarten, I noticed that the melodies that Sesame Street used to parody popular...

Holy smoke, is that ten-number episode mentioned in any online episode guides? (Most episodes between the mid-70s and early 90s followed the "two letters, one number" rule.) I'd like to see more details, since I missed that one myself; do you remember the storyline or specific clips appearing...

Confusing two Kermit alphabets Kermit did indeed sing an "African Alphabet", with tribal-looking Muppets as background vocalists. That's not the same alphabet clip that uses "B is for Bayou", though: Kermit performs his "Alphabet in the Swamp" alone, speaking the words to a beat-box/synth...

"15" song/cartoon Holy smoke, that's one of my favorite new clips! I've been looking all over for a sound file and/or lyric sheet to that song; would you have either of those, by chance? :cool:

The only foreign languages I know well are Swedish, Norwegian and Danish. To bring this back on topic, though...I was lucky enough to catch a Swedish Sesame rerun on one of my trips. The number of the day happened to be 10, illustrated by the "ringmaster" cartoon (dubbed, of course!) All in...

I agree that the Willie Wimple cartoons were real downers, though they had to be that way for the lesson to sink in. ("Yucch!" is an understatement...) P.S. How about "viscount of vandalism"?

What scared me as a kid? The Count's older clips (especially the ones where he hypnotizes other Muppets) did indeed frighten me; the more dramatic he got, the more I was tempted to scoot out of the living room for a few minutes. More generally, if a character in some sketch fell, got hurt...

Has that been uploaded to YouTube, by any chance? With no VCR or DVD player, the only way I can view the old clips is online. (Sorry if I sound a bit repetitive; I looked at this thread hoping I could find a link.)

Unfortunately, I don't own a VCR or DVD player; I've seen Letters only in bits and pieces online (mostly through YouTube). Besides, the episode I remember seeing as a kid aired when videotapes were rare outside TV studios... :)

Probably because the producers decided that characters drinking coffee in a kids' cartoon set a bad example. Shades of things to come...

Cool list, Soul H... here are my own picks for best and worst Sesame Songs: The Good Stuff 1. Opening Theme Song (uncut, soft-shoe style) 2. Sing 3. Everyone Makes Mistakes 4. ABC-DEF-GHI 5. I Think That It Is Wonderful 6. African Alphabet (I know of at least two songs called by that...

Believe it or not, when I was in kindergarten the teacher botched "ABC-DEF-GHI" by singing the individual letters--completely missing the point of the song, but how do you tell someone that when you're only four? ("Somewhere in the middle, it gets awful 'cue-are' to me"? Come on...)

I seem to recall Mumford trying to alter Maria's wedding dress on an episode close to her marriage: he failed twice, getting the result Maria wanted only when he used someone else's magic words ("Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo"). Does anyone else remember that episode? And if I'm not deluding myself...

I remember the matchstick and rebounding-tree clips, too--but don't recall anything unusual about the tree in the second version. (I must've been nearsighted even in kindergarten!) You're right about the "TIMBER!" shout being a little scary, though...

As soon as I clicked the youtube.com link last night, I went crazy watching most of the Sesame stuff--but stayed away from the ones that scared the pants off me as a kid, of course. (Still wondering if anyone uploaded that classic clip of the four-armed guy counting to 20...:flirt: )

*sigh* Just when an old-school fan of CTW's work runs across another cool program...it's canceled again.

I've seen similar sketches (Muppet-based and cartoon) with other characters, usually intended to teach the concept of "alive". But hearing about an older, scarier one piqued my interest--especially since it probably aired when I was too young to remember much of the show.

As much as I miss a few Muppets that got retired from the show, I'd actually like to see more humans there--and more plotlines which center on problems that real kids/parents have, not on letters or numbers.

A Wikipedia article on Cookie Monster said that he revealed his 'real name' as Sid in a season 34 clip. I assumed that was a nickname, as it is with most real-life Sids...

Hhh...ug...hhhuuuggg... AWWWW! Awwww...I'd love to see that one on YouTube, since I don't own a VCR or DVD player. :flirt: It's the perfect clip for my "Hugging" fanscript idea, too. I'd assume they were generic bears, much like the generic people played by Anything Muppets: neither...