Christmas Music
Our 25th annual Christmas Music Merrython is underway on Muppet Central Radio. Listen to the best Muppet Christmas music of all-time through December 25.
Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
Let us know your thoughts on the Sesame Street appearance at the annual Macy's Parade.
Sesame Street debuts on Netflix
Sesame Street Season 56 has premiered on Netflix and PBS. Let us know your thoughts on the anticipated season.
Back to the Rock Season 2
Fraggle Rock Back to the Rock Season 2 has premiered on AppleTV+. Watch the anticipated new season and let us know your thoughts.
Sam and Friends Book Read our review of the long-awaited book, "Sam and Friends - The Story of Jim Henson's First Television Show" by Muppet Historian Craig Shemin.
Jim Henson Idea Man
Remember the life. Honor the legacy. Inspire your soul. The new Jim Henson documentary "Idea Man" is now streaming exclusively on Disney+.
Bear arrives on Disney+ The beloved series has been off the air for the past 15 years. Now all four seasons are finally available for a whole new generation.
Frames and dialogue from this cartoon were also reproduced in The Sesame Street Book of People and Things from 1970. Here's one of them:
(Sorry for the polka-dot effects; my scanner sometimes does that at low resolutions.)
Thanks for the clips! It's nice being able to see the classic Barkley credits sequence I remember for the first time in 13 years.
Another clip I recognize from watching Sesame Street back in the day is the live-action segment on how cheese is made. I remember the vats and presses, as well as...
Bert...particularly when he wants to fall asleep and Ernie keeps him awake by progressively counting sheep, fire engines, and bursting balloons.
Slimey the Worm...simply because he had to live with Oscar the Grouch!
Fat Blue...he never got the food he wanted, no matter how hard he tried...
I find reading about others' Sesame Street-related dreams to be both fascinating and occasionally hilarious.
Just a couple days ago, I had a dream in which Jim Henson (very much alive and well :cry: ) came to the door of our house for a small social gathering holding the Guy Smiley puppet...
What I do find strange is that 3-2-1 Contact magazine apparently debuted in advance of the television show. Here's a picture of the first issue from November 1979, from a completed eBay auction...
I don't know off-hand (and as far as I know the logo uses custom lettering), but one of these tools might come in handy when identifying this or other "unknown" fonts:
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
http://www.identifont.com/identify.html
"You scored as Bert.
Your (sic) bert!! You live with Ernie and Ernie is constantly bugging you."
Somehow this does not surprise me; I see eye to eye with Bert on a lot of things. I had a few annoying roommates in college who made Ernie look like a saint in comparison. :(
Not only...
In the early '90s, I watched the TV show Newton's Apple regularly on PBS. Ordinarily, there was a brief interlude in the middle of the show where an address to write to was shown on screen. In 1993 or 1994, however, they began to announce that in addition to conventional mail, "Now, you can...
Danger Mouse
Count Duckula
Duck Tales
The Adventures of the Little Koala
Pee-Wee's Playhouse
You Can't Do That on Television
Garfield and Friends
Inspector Gadget
3-2-1 Contact
Fraggle Rock
Reading Rainbow
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Muppet Babies
Sesame Street
Square One TV
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