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Thanks, Xerus. Great to hear someone remembers the actual skit. I remembered the skit "Pick Your Pet" and a skit where Guy Smiley was called "Sonny Friendly", but I did not remember that they were the same skit. Beautiful Day Monster and an experimental name for Guy Smiley are all signs of...

There was definitely at least one early skit where Guy Smiley was introduced as "Sonny Friendly", but I don't know if this is the one.

I do remember reading something about Cookie Monster getting his name from a game show skit where he chose a cookie over prizes, but memory tells me that it was Beautiful Day Monster, not Cookie Monster. It is easy to get skits with those two monsters confused since they were used...

I remember that skit too, although not in detail. I seem to recall that, after winning, Beautiful Day turned down a bunch of elaborate prizes for a cookie.

LOL :)

The Electric Company was a very good show. Oscar The Grouch and Grover each made a guest appearance on there once. EC didn't have many puppets of their own, but they did have the puppet "Maurice", a vicious plant that lived in Perdo's flower shop. There was also a lisping chicken puppet whose...

His name had something to do with some non-Sesame Street skit where he tried to ruin a girl's beautiful day or something. The original Sesame skits with him were from season one, but they definitely reused his skits for a few seasons before retiring him completely. Today, he'd probably be...

It was about a strange land with unusual creatures. The story presented the Geefle who had long arms to reach the nectarines, but could not bend them to reach his mouth (a rather tragic figure) and the Gonk who's arms could reach his mouth, but were not long enough to reach the nectarines...

To get back to the topic at hand, (as some members seem to be VERY anxious for us to do), it should be noted that the blank backdrop and wall was in fact used several times after 1970. In the 80's, Ernie and Elmo did a musical skit about parts of the face in such a setting. And as late as the...

Not much happened actually. I stumbled upon part of this episode while flipping channels and I thought that they really threw away the chance for good humor on this one. Bob just picks up the magic ukulele, plays it, disappears and reappears, without even realizing what took place. A big...

I wonder why they never got more lines or bigger roles on the show.

If Sesame Street would get its own identity back and stop trying to copy off of other trendy shows, it would once again stand out among the others.

Has anyone seen the new Cookie Monster toy that you shake to make him say something? The strange thing about it is that he looks more like a Twiddlebug than Cookie Monster. It's something about the way it's designed. They have one with Elmo too, but he does not look as much like a Twiddlebug...

"Same Voice is one of my favorite real life Sesame films. The version on the "Sing Along", where the gang is on the roof with the piano, is slightly different. The final scene where the boy and girl are reading under a tree is replaced with the gang finishing the final verse on the roof.

It's possible, but eBay would probably be a better bet for finding it. I got mine at a local thrift store.

Sadly, they'd probably say that this skit was too "dated" to show now because most people have "call waiting." :(

Yes, I have that book too! :) It's great and is one of several sold at the time. They would take pictures from early skits and add slightly different dialogue to it in order to fit the context of the book. I also remember that classic skit. The "swallow the phone gag" (it would...

I think in 1969-1970, they had a better concept that "less could be more". Some of the finest skits were done on those simple backdrops and it resembled the format of old fashioned puppet shows. These days, everyone thinks elaborate backgrounds and special effects make something good. It's...

Then there was the one where David unwittingly hurt Sam The Robot's feelings by saying, "I hate all things that are mechanical" when the appliances in Hooper's store malfunctioned. Sam comes back dressed like a tree so he wouldn't be mechanical anymore and David would like him.

But, actually, on the skit I saw, David wasn't really on a farm. He was in the street, singing about life on his grandmother's farm to a group of children.