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If that 1973 scene between Luis and Big Bird really happened, whoa. That's exactly the kind of thing they would never do in a million years now. They tend to shy away from stronger emotions and conflict. Characters will get annoyed at one another, but rarely do they seem to get outright angry...

Actually, I'm pretty sure that didn't start with Walt Disney, although he did kind of elevate it to a whole other level. I know that before he hit the big time, in other studios' films you'd see "So-And-So Presents" on top. And in the 1930s, when Walt Disney Productions was still a small...

And by the way... YES!!!!! Finally not only do we get to know what Hunt's Elmo sounded like, it clears up the question once and for all of whether Hunt actually performed a character named "Elmo" at all versus a nameless red monster----something I've seen pondered and debated on here in the...

Well, the big way Clash's Elmo voice has evolved is that the voice used to be much quieter in the beginning. Almost whispery, really. I actually miss that. It was a more low-key characterization (and a little easier on the ears, LOL). It's hard to pinpoint when the voice evolved into its...

Really? Now that I find bizarre. Why have people suddenly started caring NOW? If there's one thing that used to characterize pre-2000s Sesame Street, it was what an utter mishmash of time periods it was. IMO the early 1990s were when the show was at its most schizophrenic----there were still...

Just to confirm---Tara was a skinny brunette with short hair (for a girl, I mean---it was a tapered cut that didn't reach past her chin) and glasses. If the Season 33 girl is the one I'm thinking of, she was a long-haired blonde, somewhat pudgy, and didn't have glasses. Is that the one you...

I think you nailed it. You said everything I've always thought, too. I love the innocent, whispery Elmo of 1985 to about 1996. I would add my perception: One thing I think gets overlooked is that Elmo's personality changed partly because his role changed. When he first appeared, Sesame...

I wrote to them in 1999 when I was 17, to ask if there was any way to see episodes from the 1970s. I'd always been curious about what they were like, ever since I found out (at age 6) just how long the thing had been around. I got a reply from a woman who must have been some sort of...

Okay, you got me----it's my comic. :D:o Self-pluggery may not be the most attractive of human traits, but I couldn't resist mentioning the reference here. It is just a wee bit relevant, after all. :) Whatcha think? http://www.drunkduck.com/Anecdote/index.php?p=662010

More Muppet/kid: There are five or six sketches of Ernie and Bert in their apartment with Shola (Shola Lynch, who appeared in "20 Years and Counting" with Kermit and later became the director of the documentary "Chisolm '72). They were all clearly shot the same day. Here's the best one...

DrTooth: Are you talking about Tara, who it seemed was around for a really long stretch in the mid and late 90s? I don't remember thinking that she seemed like a device---in fact it seemed to me that she was given more fleshing-out business than your average Sesame Street kid (it always struck...

Hal Miller is on YouTube. Can't remember how I found him last year, but it was by accident. I started a thread about it here, but apparently not too many people noticed it. http://www.youtube.com/user/lovallp#p/u

From the small number of 70s episodes that have seen the light of day in recent years, it seems that many episodes didn't have a focused plot. There were definitely some that had stories, but they tended to either be thin and unfocused, or only three or four scenes long instead of lasting the...

There's a bunch of Muppet/kid segments on YouTube that were clearly shot on the same day, apparently in 1970 or '71. (It's still the grayish, flat-headed Cookie puppet) They all have the same brick wall and the same orange background, and they're shot from the exact same angle. One has Grover...

There's a sketch on YouTube----I can't remember how to find it now, but I saw not long ago----featuring Elmo being taught by Farley how to use a library computer. (or classroom computer---forget which). Going by Elmo's voice and appearance, not to mention the subject, it seemed to be very...

Personally I've always felt that Bert and Ernie are two guys in their early to mid 20s, with Ernie just being a "big kid" type. You know those. Prairie Dawn is a 7 year old girl, Betty Lou about the same----that much is official, just as Big Bird being 6 (7?) is official. So I see the...

Good question. My feeling is that if Henson had been around all this time, Sesame Street's tone would not have changed as much as it has. Yes, it still would have changed---the audience shift, Elmo's World, the set changes, the de-urbanizing, the updated format, etc.---but I have a difficult...

I love this topic! Big Bird My favorite Bird is the one who seems to have been used in the mid to late 70s (including Christmas Eve), when the feathers on his head were shaped in a somewhat triangular way. In the 80s they rounded the feathers out into a more conventional round shape, and...

I grew up with Elmo too. My memories of life start at age three, which was 1985/86, Elmo's breakout year as a character. So for me he's always been there. I always liked the little guy. But I was just as ticked off as any older fan when Elmo's World elbowed its way in. But mainly it's that at...

My mom and dad always used to love "Batty-Bat". They also have both immortalized a particular street story that must have been from around 1986 (I was three) in which Elmo is going around showing off his brand new sneakers to everybody, saying over and over "Elmo has new shoes!" Something...