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    Early (pre-Kevin Clash) Elmo appearances (Brian Muehl and Richard Hunt)

    Thinking more about how Elmo had a name and personality in street scenes during those early years but was treated more like a generic monster in inserts, it seems like the same could be said about Maurice Monster. There's a handful of episodes where a Maurice Monster is involved in the plot...
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    Classic Sesame Street clips on YouTube

    Not only am I happy, but I am happy that they uploaded a Miami Mice segment period, when Sesame Workshop previously hasn't officially uploaded any of them online before or put any on DVD (it's unfortunate Miami Mice was mentioned in press releases for the Best of Sesame Street Spoofs! DVDs when...
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    Sesame Workshop/Shout! Factory Deal

    Yeah, those were presented in fullframe instead of widescreen (it is interesting that they continue to release the fullframe versions). If they're hesitant about releasing things where some is presented in widescreen and some in fullframe, it'd be great if they could at least put more fullframe...
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    Sesame Street Season 50 News and Rumors

    After learning so many first appearances via Muppet Wiki's "trusted sources", I wondered if the years would be that valuable, but there are a few where I didn't know the date. That Miami Mice was listed with 1986 (I know the one with Kermit was taped during the 1985-1986 season, not sure if they...
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    Have you met any celebrities?

    Famous or famous-ish people I have met: Bill Byrge, who played Bobby in the Ernest movies, actually came to my class when I was in the fifth grade. I had actually seen most of the movies he was in but didn't really remember his character (during that meeting, I was mistakenly under the...
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    The "You know what?" thread

    Disney often puts out various "through the years" things showing the many different forms of Mickey Mouse. But often, when the original Mickey Mouse is shown, he's depicted as wearing the steamboat worker hat from Steamboat Willie, even though that was only in one short and the original...
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    The Official Top 10 Anything...

    Top ten scenes/lines from Space Jam: 10. Bugs thinking he's easily tricked the Nerdlucks only to get a big surprise. 9. Spit shine! 8. Michael Jordan being sent down the golf hole, Stan points his camera at Bill Murray who tells him "don't point that camera at me!" 7. Swackhammer deciding to...
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    The "You know what?" thread

    He has said that Twitter ended up being a lot more time consuming that he expected, and I believe he said that he couldn't respond to everyone. I have asked him a few questions on Twitter. He hasn't responded to any that I posted, but has replied to/liked a few of my comments to tweets sent...
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    Little things we've noticed

    Thinking a bit about the Bert and Ernie sketches that were produced in season 21, it's fitting that one of Frank Oz's last performances as Bert alongside Ernie is one where Bert is genre-savvy enough to be aware that as soon as he wants to play the game that Ernie will be ready to end, while...
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    Classic Sesame Street clips on YouTube

    If you're referring to the episodes being donated to the American Archives of Public Broadcasting (and I might have gotten the thing wrong - the thing with locations in Boston and Washington, DC), they're not being remastered, just digitized (I thought all episodes were digitized long ago - at...
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    Classic Sesame Street clips on YouTube

    Didn't realize those are just clip montages. I knew the timeline one was, and the celebrity spoof segments, the others I either hadn't watched or just skipped around a bit to see what's included (without realizing they're not full clips).
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    Classic Sesame Street clips on YouTube

    Lately Sesame Street has been doing montages/collections to celebrate the 50th anniversary. Sesame Workshop has released a number of these kinds of "collections" online before, but I wonder how likely Sesame Workshop would be to include clips in these kinds of collections the the company hasn't...
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    Sesame Workshop/Shout! Factory Deal

    The next release is Awesome Alphabet Collection on May 7. Muppet Wiki doesn't have any info on content yet, but the cover features Elmo and Abby Cadabby. I really hope this one has a wide range of alphabet-related segments from the shows 50-year-history, but the last several alphabet-themed...
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    American Archive of Public Broadcasting to preserve nearly 4,500 Sesame Street episodes

    Hmm, any idea if that wiki considers anything "lost" if the only way to see it is at Paley Center for Media or another museum that screens content to the public (maybe even content that this archive already has)? The Jim Henson Legacy sometimes includes clips from Out to Lunch at screenings, I...
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    Favorite moments from any season

    I'll try a season-by-season listing, trying to limit it to five or less a season: Season 1 - Henson #9, Jazz #8, Ernie and Bert: Cake, Kermit's W Lecture, Before and After. Season 2 - Prairie Dawn invites monsters, Grover counts three blocks, Mad, Rubber Duckie, Number Three Ball Film. Season 3...
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    American Archive of Public Broadcasting to preserve nearly 4,500 Sesame Street episodes

    I wonder if the first 381 episodes digitized will be the first 381 episodes broadcast or if they'll be randomly selected. I feel sending in the episodes in order would make it easier to keep track of what has and hasn't been sent, but on the other hand, that article mentions some episodes like...
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    Little things we've noticed

    In addition to all those season 21 segments I listed that Jim Henson did, Muppet Wiki does list Ernie and Bert going to the movies to see "The Picnic" with a season 21 EKA, but looking at a wiki page from after its earliest known appearance, the wiki just lists it as an eka, not first, so it...
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    American Archive of Public Broadcasting to preserve nearly 4,500 Sesame Street episodes

    I thought Sesame Workshop already digitally converted every episode in the past and would really only need to make new digital copies or whatever to send to the museums. I thought it was odd that the article mentioned that the old tape and audio is wearing out and needs to be...
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    Little things we've noticed

    In the past year, as I've learned of more segments Jim Henson did during his final season, it seems like Sesame Workshop has released very few of his final segments on home video or online. Segments Jim Henson performed in that premiered during season 21: Kermit News: Old MacDonald's Health...
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