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Jim Henson Idea Man
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"Do you like to read?"
"Sure"
"Do you like Kipling?"
"I don't know. I never Kippled!"
"That man is annoying me!"
"He's not even looking at you!"
"That's what's annoying me!"
And those with the loud-mouthed blue girl.
They just had another Sesame skit on MADtv. It revolved around Big Bird (and later, Gordon) getting evicted out of Sesame Street and in some suburban neighborhood.
Here on this page you can see videos of a puppet workshop seminar Jim conducted in France:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?p=r&user=puppetrynews&page=2
Japanese Sesame Street
The website for SS in Japan has some program summaries with descriptions of Muppet skits (mainly, E/B, Grover and Oscar). I copied and pasted into Babelfish and here's what I got (and maybe someone can ID these skits as well):
Ernie and Bert:
*When baht steps on the...
If you think that's strange, the Japanese Sesame Street has an ORANGE Grover. But with a different personality. His name is Groly:
http://www.sesame-street.jp/Show/TV/Program/142/Images/thb.jpg
Low and behold, some more goodies...
The Jim Henson Hour Pitch tape
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bjh9xHlvTY
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI_DE5pOMmY
Inner-Tube TV (Pilot):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8vwUX8IwbY
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson (Parts 1...
The entire book is up on the Tough Pigs blog...
http://toughpigs.com/2008/02/together-again.html
I'm sure this was written and published around 71. Grover and Herry are in it, and they didn't appear on the show until the second season, and Oscar's green there, so...yeah.
Here's an episode of Sesamstrasse from the early 70s...which was actually our Sesame Street dubbed into German at that time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-sJKRPuaiM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPOikFFYGE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmG1mW6yyBQ
I remember seeing the Trading Game sketch on Open Sesame while staying in Singapore several years ago (around 2003). But it was dubbed in Malay, and the TV had pretty poor reception.
I would love to see both of these clips wind up on YouTube (I imagine someone like huggic211[?] will upload...
If anyone has these episodes...
179
573
810-815 (the New Mexico episodes)
1041
1056
1091
1186
...can you upload them to Gigasize and send the links to them to me through PM?
Here's the link to the program:
http://www.gigasize.com
Muppet Wiki says she first appeared in episode 950, but I'm sure it could have been a little earlier than that. Also, there was an episode where she was given an official "welcome" to Sesame Street by Oscar. Anyone remember those?
Does anybody remember which Sesame Street episodes from the early 1990s contain these details from the street stories?
*Maria is reading a book about a tightrope walker with words on the left and the picture on the right(the screen only shows the picture)
*The book, "The Very Hungry...
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