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Unlikely. Being a cartoonist and being an animator are not the same thing, though of course the two can overlap. Most likely some crew was hired from a small ndependent studio, of which there were many in New York and L.A. at the time (they were the source of much of Sesame Street, after all)

I don't know about Richard Hunt's first main SS character, but I just wanted to say that, as an '80s kid, until I recently saw some '70s episodes for the first time, I had no idea some of the characters had been around as long as they have. Gladys, in her familiar form, has been around at least...

You got four PBS stations? Man! Where did you live?

For my part, I do notice the cynicism a little bit in shows like Fairly Odd Parents. I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I love kids shows that are a bit sly and edgy. But other times the show has a rather bleak "nothing is scared" attitude. It does bother me a bit because I wonder what...

Yo, not to be contrary, but there's a common perception around here that's got me baffled. Here, and on tons of Gen X and Gen Y nostalgia websites, and on YouTube, and all over the place, 20somethings and 30somethings are always griping about how children's shows "these days" are so "antiseptic"...

Heh. Try telling that to the IT guy at the newspaper I worked at last year. That man never slept, because his pager was constantly beckoning him out from his bed and back into the blasted office where he'd always have to fix some crisis or another at the wee hours of the night. The guy had...

I have that (in #2504 from 1988), but unfortunately I don't have the gear for uploading VHS clips. But it's on my list of things to buy once I get some solid financial ground under my feet (I'm a-workin' on it....), so until then, at least you know I'm the guy out there who has it! Of course...

Frustrating thing is, there are a couple of episodes from the fourth and fifth seasons that are floating around in trading circles, but none of them are the ones you mentioned. (406, 514, 536, 573) Right era, but wrong episodes. Those are the only ones that have been let out of the deep dark...

info on Hard-Workin' Dog ...or "Hard-Workin' Dawg", if you prefer. ;) I'm sure we all know this one. (I think it's still alive, but slightly edited to get rid of a reference to French Poodles [?]) Someone on YouTube sez the filmmaker was his uncle, Fred Wardenburg. It was shot in...

Any old segment explaining "TELEPHONE" would never used be used now, I'm sure. There must have been dozens of those, be they cartoons (remember that cat chasing the phone as if it was a mouse? ["Telephone?"] Hubley studios I think), or the Two-Headed Monster putting the two halves of the word...

Interesting discussion---some people like some kinds of segments, some don't... Me, I'm an all-around kind of guy. I pretty much like everything. In fact, one of my favorite things about it, from my adult perspective, is the fact that it's an utter mishmash. (As a kid I just took that aspect...

I would try writing to Sesame Workshop itself. I've heard that they actually do produce little "mix tape" DVDs of various segments for people who request them (at $5 a skit, so it ain't super-cheap), so there might be some archivist there who can help you out. You never know. (By the way, if...

The best era was from the conception of the show to the point where all the integral people either passed on (Jim, Joe, Richard), or just left. Then they pretty much struggled for 3 years and tried to change things around to compensate. At the time they may have felt like they were struggling...

One of the first things that jumped out at me when I first saw 1970s episodes was that characters like Grover and Bert were actually on the Street. The Museum of Television and Radio has #1141 from 1978, prominently featuring both of them interacting with Big Bird. So at least that late, Frank...

Wait. Hold it. Back up. No Elmo's World? You can't be serious. What, is it 1997 again?

I LOVED this as a kid. One thing I hate about it now though, is the Street set they built specially for the film. I find it very ugly. My problem isn't that they had to make the set more realistic for movie purposes (it would have looked absurd if they'd tried to show that semi-abstract TV...

I found that ancient old book at my mom's school library years ago. The girl in the illustrations looks more like an early Betty Lou than Prarie Dawn. By the way, does anyone know when either of those two became named characters on the show, as opposed to just generic AM little girls?

Did he ever appear with Ernie apart from "Rubber Duck" and that old "Julie on Sesame Street" special? Probably not--it would be a little awkward. (Even when I was three, I noticed they had basically the same voice, though as an adult I now recognize that the inflection is a bit different)...

You know, Herbert may appear to be a straight man, but if you actually watch him closely, he comes across to me more like a cheerfully friendly sadist. :D He doesn't bat an eye when his lectures cause somebody excruciating pain ("Over and Under" with Grover), or keep somebody waiting for ages...

Typical. The second I posted the above, the 1995 version popped back into my head. I know what you're talking about now. :D I remember puzzling over just what that was, and whether it was some long-neglected piece of the original music that was always skipped before. But apparantly, like...