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It’s Ernie’s turn to go to the store to get a newspaper. He doesn’t want to go, so he makes up a bunch of things he needs for improbable danger he may encounter when going out. Finally, Ernie says he needs bubble gum in case he encounters a polar bear. He will give the polar bear a stick of...

Happy Birthday, Jim!!! :);):D:flirt::wisdom::p:zany::cluck::excited::laugh::crazy: :jim:

The final nails in the coffin of a once great children's show: http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/sesame-street-axes-one-two-three-favorite-human-characters/ar-BBuZkDS?ocid=DELLDHP

http://www.toughpigs.com/myweekxmasanother03.htm

Remember the old Western Muppet skit where Cookie Monster was "The Great Cookie Thief"? The whole joke was that the cowboys had trouble recognizing Cookie Monster on the wanted poster and were fooled when he drew a mustache on the poster. BUT, did you ever notice that the poster actually did...

Recently, I saw a documentary about the making of the ORIGINAL King Kong movie. It was interesting to hear about how the "giant" King Kong actually consisted of three puppets ranging from 18 to 24 inches. They made him move by stop motion animation in the same way as in the Rankin and Bass...

While I'm on the subject of unknown facts about Christmas, I though I'd include the misunderstanding about "Xmas". Contrary to popular belief, the Xmas spelling is not a modern PC way of making the holiday secular, sacrilegious, or disrespectful in any way to its true meaning. The use of Xmas...

The thread about the muppet Father and Son skit reminded me of another old muppet skit with similar looking (if not the same) muppets. A little boy is lost and looking for a policeman. The policeman he finds is his "Uncle Louie". He doesn't believe it's his uncle because of the uniform, so he...

I stumbled upon an old thread about Punch and Judy on MC and found it very interesting. Since it was from 2003, I thought it would be better to start a new one than reply to it. There was a lot of talk about how violent the Punch and Judy plays usually are, but it's also significant to note...

You know, as stated before, "Year Without A Santa Claus" is one of my all time favorite Christmas specials. Yet, there are some parts of it that always seemed odd to me: Santa is worried that no one believes in him, yet his existence seems to be common knowledge in the news that reports he's...

Most people are familiar with the regularly featured Christmas specials, many by Rankin and Bass, such as "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" and "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer." However, some may not know that there was an earlier cartoon version of "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" for theatrical...

What are some of the most obscure muppets on Sesame Street that you recall? I would say some very obscure ones were the monster's in the skit with Grover and Herry's alphabet secret. I never saw those characters in anything else. That muppet in a paper bag seemed like a variation of Oscar...

Most people tend to remember Roosevelt Franklin in his classroom with the supporting cast of kids like Hard Headed Henry Harry, etc. Yet, we tend to forget that originally Roosevelt had a whole different format and supporting cast. Roosevelt would come out on the blank wall stage with his...

I was kind of surprised to find that there was actually information about Roosevelt Franklin on the Sesame Workshop website. I tend to think that modern Sesame Street wants to keep those characters completely invisible and forgotten. It's on their Newsletter archive and explains about that he...

On the first season Muppet Show DVD, the pop up Muppet Morsels count how many karate chops Miss Piggy gives in season one. They say it was 22, but it was actually 23. For some reason, they failed to count a karate chop she gave Fozzie during an opening theme song of one show.

I haven't seen the Dudley Moore episode, so I really can't comment in the comparison thread, but I thought the Kaye Ballard one was really entertaining and I love the special ending with no band (Apparently, they must have worked it out because they were in every future episode playing the same...

Okay, another post about Fozzie. In the Ethel Merman episode, he tried to negotiate for more money. Kermit gave him ten times his regular salary, but it's then revealed that Fozzie makes nothing. So, was he a volunteer worker? Come to think of it, I remember seeing a panel in the 80's for a...