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    Surprise!

    Hello! Don't you know about the song about Surprise from the early days? It was sung by Big Bird, Grover, Mr. Hooper, Bob, Maria and a live baker. I never saw it, but the lyrics/script is never complete. In the beginning, I think Big Bird sings "I have a little song Which it isn't very long"...
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    Sam the Machine's bio

    I checked out on the Sesame Street Encyclopedia site that there is no bio of Sam the Machine, so can you send the bio of him to the Sesame Street Encyclopedia site?
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    Mikealan (Fur)

    I remember seeing "Fur" on the video Monster Hits when I was 4 or 5 years old. Now, please send me the copy of the Sesame Street episode that features "Fur", a SS song sung by a red-maroon monster!
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    Sam the Machine's bio

    Hello. When I checked your Sesame Street Encyclopedia site for Sam the Machine, there was no bio yet, so I will make the bio of him for this site. Here's the bio: Sam is the large cumbersome suit robot who tires to be perfect, but he sometimes makes every mistakes. For example, he draws a...
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    Cookie Monster's voice

    Hello! When I clicked the Letter of the Day spot on the PBS Kids Sesame Street site, Cookie Monster spoke normal like Frank Oz's, but he left and David Rudman performs him! I heard that Cookie sounded normal on the Letter of the Day segments, do you?
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    2 cartoon construction men eating lunch

    Whenever I watched #560, parts of the 1987-88 season from PBS and the Season 30 episode, there was an old cartoon that taught us about the alphabet. Here's how it went: It starts with the big construction man eating lunch, then the little construction man opens his little lunchbox and hears...
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    Water shortage episode question

    Hello! What year and episode number was the water shortage episode from SS, which it is shown on SSU?
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    Were these shown only on Sesame Street Unpaved?

    ...and what about the others I thought of before? -Weaver Bird? -Any Monsterpiece Theater skits (in particular like Chariots of Fur and Me, Claudius)? -any NOO-nee-NOO Typewriter Guy sketches -any letters in sand animations where the music off-screen is the banjo? -Monsters looking at the...
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    Were these shown only on Sesame Street Unpaved?

    t for toes is one of the hardest skits we find on Unpaved. Do you think the others were shown only on Unpaved? -B is for Bubble? -Animated segment: the Fabulous Flea Circus (Letter F)? -Surprise (sung by Big Bird, Grover, Mr. Hooper, Bob, Maria and the Baker)?
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    Whatever happened to Granny Fanny Nesselrode?

    Granny Fanny Nesselrode is the lavender-colored anything muppet that was played by Jim Henson and was shown on Sesame Street in the early 70's. In her cameo appearance in the movie Follow That Bird, she had a tongue and was a rod puppet where she sees Big Bird falling down. Now, she is quite...
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    Whatever happened to Herbert Birdsfoot?

    Herbert Birdsfoot was the lavender-colored anything muppet that wore glasses and was played by Jerry Nelson. He was shown on Sesame Street in the 70's and appeared on SS tracks on old SS records and old SS books from the 70's, but when Sesame Street changed the new format, he disappeared. Why...
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    Were these shown only on Sesame Street Unpaved?

    Hello. When I got Noggin at the very end of 2002, I watched a couple of Unpaveds, some Season 25 episodes and many Season 30 episodes. Okay, we'll discuss any Muppet or cartoon of film clips that are shown only on Unpaved, but it is almost gone and we will miss them. BTW, I remember seeing the...
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    1975 episodes that didn't air on Unpaved

    Well, there's only one Sesame Street episode from 1975 that is shown on Noggin. It was where nobody sees Snuffy yet and features appearances of Roosevelt Franklin and Harvey Kneeslapper. It also is sponsored by the number "2" and features a couple of "2" segments like the classic Henson counting...
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    Why was SSU becoming so unpopular?

    :( Oh, no! I can't believe that nobody watched SSU and the episodes of Season 25, lol! I wish that they would be back on the air when Sesame Street turned 35 years old...
  15. M

    Whatever happened to Lefty the Salesman?

    Lefty was a green-colored salesman muppet who was around in the early '70's. This same muppet also appeared as a partner of the Accomplice Fat Blue who were planning to steal the golden AN and wanting to keep the alphabet secret. Then, in the later seasons, he was about to dissappear. Why did...
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    Why was SSU becoming so unpopular?

    Hello! I know that it's so sad that Sesame Street Unpaved and the Season 25 episodes of Sesame Street are almost gone forever and I'm just wondering about this. Why do YOU think SSU and the Season 25 episodes are becoming unpopular?
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    There once was a hand...

    Hi! I think I remember seeing the old live-action film where the hand who was doing a sort of things on an Unpaved episode #162 and I remember how it went: The scene is plain light-blue and the live hand rises up slowly as the voice off-screen says, "There once was a hand..." Then, it does a...
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    Sesame Street Unpaved Episodes

    I remember three AM's that wait for the bus. The first one is the Fat Blue one, the tall orange lady and a green boy that looks like Farley. I have this clip on tape from the 1987-88 season from PBS.
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    We want our new SS website to be updated!

    Hello. I know that we should work on this new Sesame Street site, but we still need more characters and bios! We need bio's of Oscar, Guy Smiley, Zoe, Rosita, Sherlock Hemlock, etc. And, we need many other SS Muppet characters: The Anything Muppets from the Mystery of the Four Dragons...
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    Any muppets with Sam?

    Wow, Fozzie! None of the Muppet Show characters appear with Sam! Thanks! Do you think Sam appeared with the Sesame Street Muppets?
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