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These sign songs were Clark Gesner's specialty. On Sesame Street he kept busy with the 30 dots (I love the one where one dot turns red, and the last dot blows him the raspberry) and other transition spots. No dialogue needed.

Can't say I have. Down here BTL aired on WNET Channel 13 New York. In 2004 I did get to meet Christopher Cerf, Pam Arcerio, and Tim LaGasse (Kathy Mullen and Peter Linz had Avenue Q commitments). They were gearing up for a new season of BTL in Spanish. I've been lucky enough over the years...

Hey @Xerus , do you know what we forgot? A Very Short Book. Usually reserved for the last segment of the show, great spoofs on nursery rhymes, from Season 2 onward. Everybody got a chance to narrate, everybody got a chance to act. My favorite was Cosby as Old King Cole. Old King Cole was a...

Another gem from season 1: Skip, Morgan, and Bill dressed in sweats. Off screen, Rita says "Kick". Skip takes a football and kicks it to the rafters. "Kicked". Morgan does the same. But Cosby fumbles big time. "Missed". Next the guys pick up a spring puller (haven't seen these in years!)...

Aretha sang most of her life. In the mid 60's she made two poppy albums for Columbia that went nowhere. It wasn't until she moved to Atlantic, recorded at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and along came RESPECT (originally done by Otis Redding) and the legend was born. Nowadays any girl singer is called...

Yes, and I thought that was so cool. All the psychedelic clouds, looking like the TEC logo. I wanted to paint my basement like that, but my parents wouldn't hear of it. As time went on, the scenery got more conventional, but Season 1 was pure eye candy.

One other distinctive feature of Season 1 was the use of speech balloons above the cast's heads. Once Skip and Judy were having a romantic dinner in a fancy restaurant. Dressed to the nines, champagne, big night out. Skip: "Would you give me your hand?" Judy: "Yes, if..." Skip: "If what?" Judy...

Your other defense, would be grab a big handful of stuff, and tell her, "I was going to buy all this. But if this is how you feel, I'll take my business somewhere else!" You'd be amazed how fast they'll change their tune if a big spender walks out with nothing. There's a Goodwill by me. I used...

I'll let you know something else, Cullen. During the first season, when Lee had an Afro out to HERE, 3-year-old me thought she was hot! Season 2 she trimmed it down, but the hots were gone. 8( During the first season, Rita had extremely short hair, so she had a number of wigs. One moment she...

Holy crap on a stick! I just remembered how it ended. Lee did seem to change into a witch (I remember her long fingernails, and that gap between her front teeth!) "TEEEEEE HEEEEEE HEEEEEE!!!"

I got the Plague Doctors' album, "Pocket Full of Anthrax". 8)

I would've just told the old biddy, "Well, you were young once too!" 8)

Cullen, I'll share something with you that's been dormant for 47 years. During the first season, Judy and Skip were often paired together. Morgan and Lee were often paired together. Even Bill Cosby and Rita were paired together quite often. So my 3-year-old brain used to think everybody in these...

It took a lot for any TEC skit to freak me out (Sesame Street, with many Muppet skits with Beautiful Day Monster, compensated for that) but one did. Morgan Freeman dressed up as Christopher Columbus deploring the problems facing the world in the 1970's (smog, air pollution, noise pollution...

During the first season, Jim's face was not seen on camera (except for one split second when he punched a time clock). He voiced Lorelei the Chicken and Paul the Gorilla, but his hands got a lot of exposure. Thanks to the magic of chroma-key, where other cast members looked tiny as a giant pair...

Another time, Jim was dressed like a thug, with a toothpick hanging out his mouth, hat on sideways, just begging for trouble. He goes into a butcher shop (Luis is behind the counter), where the special today is chops. After Luis shows him lamb chops, veal chops, and pork chops (they all look...

I also loved the 30 second shorts from the first season of Rita, loaded down with shopping bags, getting various foods from various vendors. Through Noggin, YouTube, and the DVD sets, they covered just about them all. Great Raposo scores, slapstick comedy, and the occasional innuendo. Fruits-...

Really? I could swear he was the Wolfman. Still can't hold a candle to Morgan Freeman's Dracula.

If you want emotional news casting (or despise it), you should click on YouTube "Hindenburg disaster". Herb Morrison's 1937 radio broadcast starts out routine enough. But as the tragedy unfolds and he sees the ship crashing and people getting burned to death (36 died in the fire) emotions get...

Cullen, you just keep me digging up memories. This can get addictive. Back at the restaurant, Bill Cosby is the customer and Rita Moreno is the waitress. She brings out a big plate of meat loaf and Jello (Cosby was a shill for Jello, pudding, and Pudding Pops for decades) which he wolfs down...