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I actually heard this one a lot on my Sesame Street II vinyl record before seeing it on the show only once or twice. It had Farley (or whoever the boy muppet was) and Grover behind the wall, singing. A crude, small puppet of the mistaken animal (pig, lamb, cat, etc..) approached from one side...

10 push-ups That same guy, or at least a fella with a similar demeanor, had a segment in which he did 10 push-ups. They were done on the floor in a plain or nondescript room. The numbers 1-10 appeared above him as he counted. Just before the last push-up, he said something like "And now look...

Was this man just standing there with his hands behind his back as he recited the alphabet? There was a similar one with an African-American fella (Bill Cosby?) in split screen so there were two of them. I think they alternately said letters of the alphabet, with the letter superimposed over...

Also, on the way to that office building/airport, they came dangerously close to getting entangled in some telephone wires. While I'm sure that the real helicopter that did the filming was a safe distance away, it still looked kind of precarious.

Is this the one in which Bert and Maria are pretending to fly a helicopter? In this case, Bert's quote was "What a stupid place to put trees, don't they know people are flying here?" Maria: "Oh Bert, that was a close one." Bert had a book on how to fly. At one point Bert dropped the book...

Was this the one where Cookie Monster took the magic wand from the fairy godmother, so he could cast a spell of his own? CM: Can I do one too? FG: Uhh, no. CM proceeded to wave the wand, turning the FG into a monster-like female creature. While she was crying or almost-crying because of...

The skit began with a child crying that he was lost. He spots a policeman, and remembers that he was told to see a police officer if one is in trouble. Bits of the dialog went something like this: Charlie: Hey Mr. Policeman... Policeman: Why Charlie! Say Charlie, what are you doing here...

Lefty holds up a highway STOP sign and tries to sell it to Ernie, claiming it has 1001 uses. His sales pitch went something like this: L: What do you say if someone starts tickling you (tickles Ernie) E: Kee-hee-hee, I'm not ticklish, kee-hee-hee L: No good. Instead you read the sign. E...

The fiddler on the numbers Remember those number animations with that fiddler, the one who looks like he does calls for a square-dance quartet? I've never seen a list of them. 1 -- don't remember; may not have been one 2 -- It's called the 2-step. "You dance 1-2 on the tips of your...

Jughead from Archie Comics does a sketch about the letter J. There was a large J beside him as words appeared with the letter leading. Approximate quote: "Jughead was in a jam-eating contest, but he couldn't open the jar. So, I told the judge, who asked me to see the janitor, and he told me...

The trick that Herry used to swindle the chair from them was to tell E+B that there was a live dinosaur in their bedroom, having escaped from the museum. They both went to check it out; of course there really were no extinct reptiles among the beds bearing the E and the B. Bert's first trick...

From an old message board Who was the number painter? He was a man in a white painter's jacket and hat who appeared on a scene with a single goal: to paint a number. Some facts: -- The painter was played by Paul Benedict, who played Mr. Bentley on "The Jeffersons". -- The only...

The narrator made a point of saying that one cuts the piece of cake in half, while the other gets first choice. I, too, liked the music soundtrack to that one. IIRC, it's dominant instrument was some kind of "tingly" sound like a triangle.

There was one E+B sketch in which Ernie was uncharacteristically malevolent, at least in words. It was when Ernie was about to show Bert his ice cube collection. Ernie found these beautiful ice cubes, but they were freezing cold. So, Ernie took the ice cubes, put them in a box, and put the...

scary animations Does anyone remember these animations? The only part of this animation anyone seems to remember is the end. It involves a captain on a sinking ship yelling "Land, ho!". Then he calmly adds "Oh never mind". We then see the ship sinking from afar, after which a large bubble...

The Yahoo! group "SESAME_STREET" has started a database of Ernie and Bert skits. Currently there are 21 listed, including "Fish in the cowboy hat", "Bert's brother Bart", and that ever-popular Egyptian pyramid sketch. The Yahoo! group may be found at...

Harvey stacks up a closet so full of toys and games that the next person who opens it will have everything fall on him. One anything Muppet comes by and opens the door, and the stuff just sits there neatly stacked. A second AM comes by but finds the door to be stuck. A third AM uses the door...

There was also a record from about 1970 titled "Rubber Duckie" on the label "Rocking Horse Records". It features the title track along with the Sesame Street theme done by the "Rocking Horse Chorus and Orchestra". It has a few other songs such as "Ozzie the Ostrich", "A My Name is Alice"...

Alphabet Kid - is a cowboy who can write the alphabet faster than anyone else. He writes it on a large sheet of paper, with the help of an old-west piano soundtrack and speeding up the film. At the end he was called the "Fastest crayon in the west" Bad Bart - In the saloon, they are looking...

Ever notice that a device used in some of the older films was to have two different soundtracks, one played after the other? There was usually a second or two of silence between them. -- Ostriches. A musical piece accompanied the views of the animals. Then the ostriches started running...