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A few points of interest Well, in Central Park you can go to the Children's Zoo where you can find the letter Z, and choose from about a half-million Con Edison manhole covers for the letter C. The carousel is still there where Big Bird took a ride. The bridge where David and Maria tried to...

another big, bigger biggest skit Not to give away my age, but you had to be around in the early years to see this one, from Season 1. Ernie decides to go rock hunting. He comes across a big rock, taps it with a hammer, and puts it in a bag. Then he finds a bigger rock, taps it, and stashes...

big bigger biggest Then there's the muppet skit with three monsters- Richard Hunt is the orange one (BIG!) Jerry Nelson is green (BIGGER!!) and Frank Oz as the cute little pink guy who grows to mammoth proportions and shouts in his Cookie Monster voice loud enough to blow out your tv speakers...

David gets duped This was back in the mid-70's. David was trying to impress Maria by learning Spanish. He wanted to invite her to Hooper's for a soda "Te invito a tomar una soda" and had it written down on paper and tried to memorize it. When he meets Maria, he loses the paper and forgets his...

Happy Birthday Frank! Here's to six more decades as one of the most outstanding performers ever. You've been able to bring out the best in Jim and brought Muppetry to dazzling new heights. I'll always love your hysterical female characters- Miss Piggy, Little Miss Muffett, and Sally from the...

two early ones In the E & B skit where Bert takes a nap and Ernie wakes him up ("Pokepokepokepokepoke") In the last scene, after being woken up, Ernie says "It's time for your nap!" Bert falls back down on the pillow. Ernie reaches for the blanket to cover Bert up. You can see Ernie's arm...

This is a V Here's the gist of it. Two cartoon men standing on the top points of a V. Man 1: This is a V! Man 2: A tree? 1: No, a V! It's a letter of the alphabet. Not too many words start with this letter. 2: I'm not surprised! 1: Well who are you...

I'm gonna paint a 10! Mokeystar and I have already mentioned at great length how scary Beautiful Day was and his bellowing out the letter "B" with his scary eyes and sharp teeth, but even he couldn't hold a candle to "Nobody", the puppet Jim used in the clip to count to 10. The Scanimate...

Almost from day one, whenever Ernie or Bert try to go to bed, one of them is going to be deprived of sleep. One of my favorites was probably the first. Bert (in his pj's) tries to take a nap. Ernie comes in and describes why Bert is probably asleep. He's lying down, his eyes are closed, etc...

hey you Hey Mokeyshinystar! let's see, how 'bout somewhere neutral and halfway between, like St. Louis? Or let's go out to Hawaii and hang with Buffie St. Marie. Or we could go up to the North Pole where Bert was gonna go study fish! The options are endless (I only wish my bank account was)...

8 miles high and falling fast Well, if you were around in 1969, the psychedelic influence penetrated everything. The cartoons from the early years definitely flew the psychedledic flag high, with their vibrant colors, dizzying perpectives, angles zooming in and out. Some of it was uncomfortable...

meeting Susan I was fortunate enough to meet Susan ('scuse me, Dr. Loretta Long) at a booksigning over Thanksgiving weekend 1998. She has written a couple of children's books, and was very happy over the effects Sesame Street had on our generation. By now in her sixties, she still looked...

Ernie and the glass If memory serves me well, first Ernie threw a ball over the wall, and we hear it bounce. Then he throws the glass over. "It's got a chip in it, so it's no good anymore". We hear it shatter. Very thoughtfully he mentions he's gonna clean it up afterwards, and he doesn't want...

a few missing letters small k stands for kiss x stands for xylophone, too z zoom zoom zig zag ZAP! Just ask Mokeystar. She'll tell ya! Great to see you're here. Peace! :smirk:

Land of 6 and others Jim was definitely busy during that time with his stop-motion camera. Also from that period was the "12" clip in the desert, with the pebbles rolling and counting to 12. I took some filmmaking courses in college, and I know stop-motion photography takes an EXTREMELY long...

Heeey, Xerus Baybeeeeee!!!!! Hey there! This is turning into the Yesterdayland reunion, and I couldn't be more pleased. You might remember me from YL as Kaye68, and it's great to have another home to share all the wonderful memories Sesame has bestowed on us. Now all we need is the elusive...

let him eat cake There's one early B & E skit I'm very sentimental over. We see Ernie polishing off a piece of chocolate cake that Bert was saving for dessert. Bert comes in and sees Ernie ate the cake, since he has a plate of crumbs in front of him, and he's holding a fork and napkin. Ernie is...

falling pies and such Hey Mokeystar and everyone else. Anybody who can help fill in the gap and satisfy my curiosity would be most obliged. Here are what the baker drops at the end of the clips: 1. Wedding cake (yes, they DID make a clip for the number 1, but only shown maybe once every...