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    Sesame Street Muppet Morsels

    More episode 276 morsels: Cookie Monster, Luis, and M In 2002, Cookie Monster began hosting The Letter of the Day on Sesame Street. Prairie Dawn co-hosted the segments, starting in 2004. In 2005, The Letter of the Day became a game show, The Letter of the Day Games. Cookie...
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    Sesame Street Muppet Morsels

    episode 276 opening This episode of Sesame Street was first broadcast on November 8, 1971. Starting this season, the show begins teaching spanish, with the addition of three spanish-speaking characters: Luis, Rafael, and Maria. In the thirty-third season, a regular daily feature...
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    Your Thoughts: New Green and Red Christmas CD

    Does Zoot talk on this album or not? From what's been said here, it sounds like he doesn't sing, but I thought I read that the album credits Dave Goelz as Zoot, and it would be weird to credit him if his voice isn't heard. What songs sound like they would have made the best music videos?
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    who wrote what?

    On most variety shows, all of the writers get credited equally, with no specific credit regarding what segments each writer wrote. Do you ever wonder who wrote what? I often wonder who wrote what sketch on The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, and other shows. There isn't much information out...
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    Sesame Street Muppet Morsels

    Season 2 Classic Cuts King of 8 The King of 8 was created by Jim Henson for Sesame Street. Jerry Nelson was the opening voice-over. Jim Henson performed the King of 8. The guards were voiced by Jim Henson and Jerry Nelson. Jim Henson also worked on a similar stop-motion...
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    Sesame Street Muppet Morsels

    Granny Grouch Before Sesame Street, Bob toured Japan and was a very popular teenage pop idol. Bob McGraph could have continued to be a Japanese singing star, but chose not to. Seems like Bob doesn't think he's fast enought o run to Oscar's can. Oscar first became green for an...
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    Sesame Street Muppet Morsels

    Here are some more morsels for episode 131: Fireman film Some of Sesame Street's writers have included Jeff Moss, Jerry Juhl, and Norman Stiles. Some of Sesame Street's songwriters have included Joe Raposo, Jeff Moss, Christopher Cerf, Thad Mumford, and Sam Pottle. One of Sesame...
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    Sesame Street Muppet Morsels

    Some more season two premier morsels: Arte Johnson explains Q and U Arte Johnson was a regular on Laugh-In. Another regular on that show was Ruth Buzzi, who joined the cast of Sesame Street as Ruthie from 1993-1998. There have been many times when episodes featured skits for letters...
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    Sesame Street Muppet Morsels

    And now here are some fictional morsels for episode 131: Opening This episode of Sesame Street was first broadcast on November 9, 1970. In addition to the Sesame Street theme song, Joe Raposo also wrote the theme for Three's Company. In the previous season, only the numbers 2...
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    Your Thoughts: Sesame Street Old School DVD

    One nitpick about the booklet is that it points out that Jim Henson was the voice of the baker, and that Henson wasn't the actor who played him, but it does not say who the actor playing the baker was.
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    Sesame Street Muppet Morsels

    Well, I finsihed the morsles for the first episode, and I had fun doing it. Now I will write ficitious morsels for the Season One Clasic Cuts, except for the oens that I don't know much to write about (Swinging Gibbon and Alphabet Soup): Bein' Green Bein' Green was written by Joe Raposo...
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    Sesame Street Muppet Morsels

    Here are some more from the first episode: Bob's dollar bill trick Kermit the Frog was created by Jim Henson for his first television series, Sam and Friends, a nightly five-minute show which aired locally in Washington, D.C. from 1955 untill 1961. The first Kermit puppet was made...
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    Sesame Street Muppet Morsels

    More first episode morsels: Gordon and Anything Muppets The Anything People were later renamed Anything Muppets. The first two Anything Muppets in this sketch were performed by Frank Oz -- one on each hand! Many Sesame Street sketches have taken place in front of a plain-colored...
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    Sesame Street Muppet Morsels

    Here are some more morsels for episode 1: Song of 3 This segment is one in a series of counting segments produced by Jim Henson for the first season of Sesame Street. Segments were made for the numbers one through ten. The opening song for this series of sketches was written by Joe...
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    Sesame Street Muppet Morsels

    Episode 1 opening sequence Sesame Street was first broadcast on TV on November 10, 1969. It was broadcast on NET, which stood for National Educational Television. A year later, it was changed to PBS, the Public Broadcast System, because the network feared that people weren't interested...
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    Sesame Street Muppet Morsels

    I am going to write some fictional Muppet Morsels for the episodes of Sesame Street that were included in the "Old School" box set. I also plan to do this for the classic cuts, but am unsure if I'll do this for the pilot pitch. I will list ficticious morsels for each episode at a few...
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    DVD predicitons for 2007

    That would sound great.
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    TMS Season One - alternate order

    Here are my thoughts on a good alternate order: Rita Moreno Joel Grey Jim Nabors Ben Vereen Florence Henderson Harvey Korman Charles Aznavour Mummenshaz Paul Williams Lena Horne Connie Stevens Juliet Prowse Bruce Forsythe Twiggy Ruth Buzzi Candice Bergen Avery...
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    unneccessary muppets

    The first jugband looks more muppet-like, but I like the second one better.
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    Lets Make A List

    I started a similar thread in the Sesame Merchandise folder, which didn't seem to be as popular as I had hoped. Anyway, here is a list of classic early (pre-season 11) clips that I want to see: Song of Nine What's My Part?: Foot Jazz #7 Song of One Lefty tries to sell Ernie a letter...
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