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Drtooth: I agree with most of what you said. You have a history of pinpointing these things more directly than the rest of us, I've come to notice. They've always been guided by research, but now they're starting to take on the same burdens, ironically, that public schools have dumped in their...

My regret isn't so much that the old stuff is gone (although I do wish that we could be sharing those things en masse with today's children the way six or seven generations of viewers all shared similar memories with each other for so long). It's that the new stuff that's taken its place just...

They pretty much don't. Starting with the 40th season, they basically closed the book on their history and started with a clean slate, forever changing the very meaning of the words "Sesame Street," which up to that point had always been defined by a mixed grab bag of old and new.

Like I've said on another thread, I see Bert and Ernie as two guys in their early to mid 20s, and Ernie is just a "big kid" type. You know those. Grover may be "four" according to the show's curricular goals, but I see him, Herry and Cookie Monster as being about eight. A little older than...

The only problem with that article is that it took the "head to Queens" thing too literally. Anyone familiar with the knows that there have always been a million hints that the street is somewhere in Manhattan.

There doesn't seem to be a consensus on whether "Curly-Haired White Girl," as I called her, is Lisa Henson, but is it officially known that "Tubby Blond Boy" is in fact John Henson?

Dunno about "snobby," per se, but she seemed just as nonplussed as Brian Henson was after only getting "Three peas?!"

Hi. As I'm sure most of us have noticed, Jim Henson's "Baker" counting series from the first year has a lot of recurring characters who pop up from film to film. Purely for my own amusement, I attempted to actually track each of these characters and see which of them appeared most often. It...

I'm genuinely dumbfounded by something. When did this business start of calling ALL mustaches "porn 'staches?" I've always loved this film. Once can only speculate whether the boy did "grow up to be a policeman."

That was great! Thanks for posting this! (Also nice to see Oz smiling. In every interview I've ever seen he's usually so strait-laced and brooding.:))

Really? I've been to a LOT of SS vids on YouTube and I didn't feel like the troll percentage was particularly high there. Sure, there's always some, but compared to most parts of YouTube, I've always found that people generally act civilized towards SS. (I'm being generous in my use of...

The original C Is For Cookie was still turning up occasionally well into the late 90s. I remember coming across it from time to time and being surprised it was still around. (Even in those long ago, pre-Noggin, pre-YouTube, pre-Muppet Wiki days, I was able to deduce that the segment was very...

Another interesting ponderable: Are Grouches a subspecies of monster, or are they simply monsters who belong to a distinct cultural group? Or are they separate from monsters altogether? Personally I prefer the middle answer----they're a cultural group. And a very proud one.

That's a good way of looking at it.:) I've actually given some thought to the real-life implications of a world where Grouches are real, and it's a bit troubling. For instance, you KNOW they'd face constant discrimination. I mean....would you want a Grouch family living next door to you? And if...

Yeah, dang it. Now I can't get that silly "Lead Police" song out of my head. It's also interesting to note that they chose to credit Bruce Cayard for the "Wash Your Hands" insert. Is that the only instance where one of the freelance animators (or filmmakers of any kind) received screen credit?

I just stumbled on this when I was looking for Irvine clips on YouTube. I had never heard of it before. Until the ending, you could almost mistake it for repurposed footage from the actual show, instead of a specially produced video. Ironic that Oscar would be so concerned about lead...

That is to say, what was the original purpose of prominently displaying them on screen the way they always have? I've been curious about that. As far as I know, the only television shows that do this are the older CTW shows up through Square One TV, and also one outlier--- Mister Rogers'...

I'm not really a fanfic type, but one of these days just for fun, I'd like to write a story of how Ernie, needing some additional income, ran a newspaper ad for a roommate, and Bert was the first guy who showed up to see the apartment. (I'd set it in 1965 or something, by the way.:))

As far as I know, Betty Lou was one of those characters who for some reason was shown far more in storybooks and other merchandise than she ever was in the show itself. She seemed mostly to be confined to appearances in inserts here and there, and even then usually as a minor character in a...

I wondered the same thing about those city backdrops, since many of them are clearly the work of the same person. (My only quibble is that the "down the street" view that used to be past Big Bird's nest was a little bit off in terms of how the perspective lined up with the set. Regardless, the...