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Does anyone remember the following nickelodeon-type films? Each was narrated by a female voice-over. In the first film, we see some woman in a jungle, gradually sinking in quicksand. She's just about up to her neck when she spots a vine overhead. Using a handgun (!), she shoots the vine...

Does anyone remember a sketch which had a snake charmer drawing up a serpent that looked remarkably similar to the number 12? I'm pretty sure that it was Maria, dressed in (Asian) Indian garb, and playing a lengthy tune on a flute. First a "1", slowly but surely rose out of the basket and...

Does anyone remember a 2-part film of a kid "building" a condo or apartment house? The main focus on the film was on a miniature of a construction site where a model structure was built using stop-motion photography. An unseen man and a boy narrated. Occasionally they would cut in footage...

A number of sites on the web list common "mondegreens" or misheard lyrics from popular songs. Some famous examples are "There's a bathroom on the right" (bad moon on the rise) or "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" (kiss the sky) How many Sesame Street sketches did you mis-hear when you first...

How many of the skits that primarily starred Ernie and the Cookie Monster were non-confrontational? That is, CM was pretty much an ally, not an adversary, of Ernie, and/or didn't get anything off Ernie that Ernie didn't want CM to have. I can only think of two: -- Dee, dee-dee... CM...

Does anyone remember a dark 2-color animation where a squeaky ball appears to try to get up/past a mountain of some sort? IMHO, this has got to be the most abstract and mysterious animation on the show. The general pattern was that the ball rolls up slowly from the right with an intermittent...

Does anyone remember these multipart street sequences: From Season 1 or 2: It's nighttime, and for some reason Big Bird promises to wake Susan at 8:00 a.m. BB has, alongside his nest, a unique alarm clock that chimes the hour with "ding" strikes. However, Big Bird wakes Susan at least...

Does anyone remember a Muppet known as the "mudman" from the 1970s? He sounded a little like Biff except with less of a New York edge. The mudman used to appear periodically in street scenes. His primary purpose was to make regular deliveries of mud to Oscar. He actually delivered the...

Most of us are familiar with the classic "People in your Neighborhood" song skits. But most of those are from 30 years ago. How about some new songs? Like: "A systems analyst is a person in your neighborhood" "A real-estate developer is a person in your neighborhood" "An market...

Two nature films from the early years: 1) It begins with several filmed scenes of nature as a woman with a Judy Collins-like voice sings a song that begins with "Look around, look around." At the beginning there are a few lines to the song added such as "...time goes by". There was a...

A bunch of Anything Muppets (plus a monster or two?) were in some outdoors setting and were trying to determine a criteria with which to choose up teams. We hear some random chatter, one voice suggests the folks with the longer hair go on one team. Finally, one person pipes up (Jim Henson?)...

Does anyone remember a Muppet sketch in which two twin boy Anything Muppets enter a store? They ask the storekeeper for something, but because they divide their speech by alternate words, and even by alternate syllables, the shopkeeper can't figure out what they want. A typical greeting by...

Contrary to popular belief, Mr. Snuffleuppagas was never physically "invisible" to the adults. Rather, the grownup cast always managed to just miss seeing him, much to Big Bird's frustration. Can't remember where I heard this, but it's been said that one of the reasons for introducing Snuffy...

Animated sketch with the letter U. A man is standing near a large letter U, and says it's for small/short words, big/long words like University (somehow sounded like he struggled to say that). Then he jumps into the center of the U and says its for "in-between words" such as "Ukelele" (did...

About 7 years ago, on the Usenet newsgroup alt.tv.sesame-street (which has been hampered these last few years by a low signal-to-noise ratio) I posted a short frequently-asked questions list, since so many people were asking the same questions. I have pasted it below...

What would you consider a "signature" song for each of the Muppets? And for that matter, any non-human character. I would base the signature song on two criteria: (1) the extent the song describes or fits the Muppet's personality, and (2) the song's popularity. Here is my list: Ernie --...

I have a few questions about the "National Association of W Lovers". -- We already know that Bert is the President of the Sesame Street chapter of the NAWL. I'll bet they elected him because he is the most rational of the Muppets, even if he does carry that rationality to a fault...

Does anyone remember a live sketch, probably taped, from the early 70s that had the subject of "What happens next" or something similar? The setting was reminiscent of the Wally and Ralph skits, as was the background music on piano. The scene had a man doing ordinary things as a voiceover...

Does anyone remember a musical skit about life in the city and the country? The first part showed a female Anything Muppet dressed kind of like Pollyanna, on a farm setting. With a sweet farm-girl voice, she sings a song about living in the country. The last line went: "Oh lady-oh, oh...

Does anyone remember a sketch where a boy Muppet (Farley?) fashions a blank Anything Muppet to be the girl of his dreams? And the girl promptly rejects him? Not taking kindly to receiving the cold shoulder, the boy starts taking away her head and facial features one at a time, or in pairs as...