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I don't remember Sleeping Beauty on the street, but Prince Charming showed up once. He met with Oscar, and another time Maria showed him how to blow his nose...among other things.

Both clips show signs of Jim's handiwork. He had a background in graphic arts which definitely came in handy. He also had a keen sense of color, and he always strove to find different color schemes that would show up good on telelvision. Groovy!

Back in 2000, FAO Schwarz in New York had a Sesame Street display for selling plush dolls and such. Even though it wasn't that extensive, they did have a spot with Oscar's garbage can and our green friend would be peeking just under the lid, and then spring out and yell "SCRAM!!!" then the lid...

Oh, say it isn't so! What a shame. If he died on Monday, that would be too much of a coincidence. I just received the Fraggle DVD set from a friend of mine, and went right to the bonus disc with the new interviews of Jerry and company. Besides his writing, he was also a gifted puppeteer as...

Monsterpiece Theatre actually goes back to about 1977 or so, and the first installment was "Upstairs, Downstairs" with Grover going up and down the stairs until he collapses from exhaustion.

With the amount of traffic in Times Square, there would be no way they could close it off for very long. Actually, judging from the opening shot, where Paul walks down a street and turns on a side street, he could be down around Greenwich Village where the streets are much narrower, and most of...

Green Oscar According to Carroll Spinney's book, Oscar was originally purple!! When Sesame Street premiered, Jim decided to dye him orange. Green Oscar actually made his debut on the Flip Wilson show shortly before Season 2 was to begin, so grown-ups watching prime-time tv saw him first. The...

Between Poor Kermit suffered a lot during the first season, with various monsters interrupting his demonstrations. But noone did a more thorough job of trashing the place than Beautiful Day when Kermit talked about "that far-out, groovy, nifty, keen, really fun word, BETWEEN!" Kermit...

Actually, Jim Henson was the Geeful. He seemed to take great delight in pelting the Gonk with the nectarines :)

But throwing the dough in the air helps spread the crust out, so it will bake evenly. Plus in a number of New York's pizza parlors, where you can walk down the street and watch them making pizza in the front window, it's almost expected of the bakers to toss it in the air and make a little show...

They may have been together in the Kermit/Muppet News Flash clip of Humpty Dumpty, where all the king's horses and all the king's men were needed to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Look close! :)

Believe it or not, that's Carroll Spinney singing! And yes, koala bears are cute.

Hey Rosewood! We meet again! (Thanks for your lovely note). I also remember when they go backwards from 10 to 1. If you listen carefully you can hear their little speeded-up voices as the dolls climb back into their bigger counterparts. One gets in upside down "Wrong way, dummy!", another...

It would be nice if (and this is a big if) a character that's been around for a while ever does leave, like Bob, Susan, Gordon, Maria, or Luis, to give them a proper send-off like they did with Mr. Hooper. Maria (Sonia Manzano) once stated in an interview working on Sesame Street (both as a...

Herry Every book I've ever seen has it spelled Herry. Rhymes with Jerry (Nelson).

the first chapter of the three little pigs The first SSN skit I remember featuring the pigs went like this. Kermit was standing in front of the pig's straw house. Along comes Mr. Pig (voiced by Frank Oz) who is proud of how strong his straw house is, that not even the Big Bad Wolf can knock it...

I was sorry to see Matt Robinson replaced by Hal Miller, but he didn't do a bad job as Gordon. When Roscoe Orman came along, his personality was a little closer to Matt's, and apart from his bald head he looked more like Matt too. But it's all for the best. Changing actors to keep characters...

Mr. Hooper was everybody's Grandpa, and Will Lee must have really enjoyed his role very much. Will Lee the actor was blackballed during the 1950's, accused of being a Communist Sympathizer, and had people like Senator Joseph McCarthy pointing fingers at him and claiming he was a "subversive...

Dear Rosewood I love sharing memories from days gone by. I'm the same age as you, and we're lucky to be old enough to remember when skits like these were brand new! And I can't remember what I had for breakfast, but I can remember miniscule details from a clip I haven't seen since Carter was in...

I was born in 1968 so I've been there since Day One (even though I hardly remember much as a one-year-old, except we had a black-and-white tv, so I didn't get to see Sesame Street in glorious Technicolor until 1971). After my prime years 1969-77, I still tune in to this day, but nothing will...