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I think my favorites will always be the Time Life books from 1970 that showed actually photos from the first season. They'd add different dialogue in the book. In "The Sesame Street Book Of People and Things", Gordon comes up to Mr. Hooper at his store and says, "Hey, Mr. Hooper, you're one of...

Maybe Grover's fears weren't so unfounded after all. Maybe Elmo was the monster that he was so frightened of meeting because he would give him competition.

Exactly. I've never heard of a child that was suffering from "PTSC" (Post Traumatic Sesame Street Confusion). Once again, I go back to my theory of "armchair therapists" who are so removed from the real world, they analyze everything in a theoretical sense and can no longer distinguish between...

The real question is: Even if children can notice the difference in the old and new muppets, what harm does it do?

They should also change the name from "Sesame Street" to "Sesame" in order to show that they're not just about streets and urban settings anymore.

Hi, Don. Unfortunately, I don't have the answer to this one. I watched Sesame Street in the 80's, but only sporadically (Had I know how much it was going to change in the 90's, I would have religiously watched and taped every episode) and I didn't see her premiere. I thought Grungetta was a...

I remember that one. It was funny. David and Maria really worked well together.

Maybe they'll compromise and call it "McHooper's".

Maybe one day the Amazing Mumford was in the street and said some magic words that he just couldn't undo. Darn that Mumford. ;)

Speaking of Hal Miller, does anyone remember any specific skits with him as Gordon (besides the ones that were shown on Noggin)? The only non-Noggin one that I recall is a skit where he told Oscar that he would not give him anymore trash unless he started speaking nicer to everyone. I never...

Noggin never gave Sesame Street Unpaved a chance. Showing the same handful of episodes over and over again is the surest way to doom any program.

Bert has been my constant favorite throughout the years.

I grew up in those years and I took the changes in stride. I knew that they were actors who could sometimes be replaced and I just accepted that there was a new Gordon when Hal Miller came on the seen. Then, when Roscoe Orman debuted with his mustache, I basically just thought of him as the...

And THAT is my main complaint about the current state of Sesame Street. It's just the Teletubbies and Barney with different characters playing the roles. It's totally lost its identity. It's not all about nostalgia. Parents and grandparents weren't nostalgic about Sesame Street when they...

I knew there had to be some clown connected to these modern shows.

Heck, they'd probably add a 27th letter to the alphabet if it meant including Elmo.

That was a great Count skit. The animated Rocket Guy was much earlier. I believe it started in the first season. The little man would count down to blast off in several skits, only one proving successful. After some of the skits where the rocket failed, Carol Burnette would flash on and say...

There were several different Sesame Street closings throughout the years. At one point in the seventies, they had drawings on a building wall with the characters and credits. Another less known closing sequence, of the early to mid seventies, involved the camera taking us down a road with just...

I saw part of that current Sesame Street episode where Snuffy becomes invisible from a magical ukulele. While Big Bird's song to Snuffy was rather heartwarming, it seems like they threw away a lot of potential humor and story. In the past, something like that would have been caused by The...

Well said.