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I was still keeping tabs on Sesame Street at the tender age of 9 when the calypso theme started. I had a mixed reaction to it--a big part of my personality is that I've ALWAYS had a hard time dealing with change, so this was a rude surpise. Still, I remember thinking the new intro made a lot...

2020, ey? A bunch of producers should get together and time things so that a whole bunch of movies will be released all at once that year containing that song. Just to gloat over the end of this silliness.

That would definitely have given it away. :smirk:

Yeah, the film above is an example of what I meant by the 90s still having obviously dated material. (My name for it is "Sounds Around the House #2") By the 90s, what teenager was listening to records? Plus her hair and clothes were very of the time, and the NYC subway cars by the 90s were no...

I remember the third one you mentioned---the one with a late-night birthday party. (c. 1989?) For years I hadn't been sure what character it was for, only that it was some small female muppet. Years later I was reintroduced to Athena whom I hadn't remembered, and since then I've been pretty...

Where was Nelson during year one? I thought he had already joined the crew.

Long-sideburned Bob outlived the decade, ey? I have a new slogan: "Sesame Street---the only place where the 70s lasted thirty years!" I'm going to have to watch E.T. again. Incidently--I don't remember if it was in this forum, but someone was once speculating on that E.T. scene, when in...

It's just a guess, but I would think that the B/W copy of #179 would have come from a TV station kinescope copy of that episode, although why it would have been created I don't know. Someone in another forum said that some TV stations used to make kinescope copies even that late for their own...

Oh, actually, when I said "titles", I just meant "Sesame Street." Meaning that every episode from #1 to #925 had an animated opening that would present both the show's name and then the episode number, and then from #926 until #3980 there was just an episode number during the theme song, with...

A Count without Jerry will be hard enough to take, but the one I'm really dreading is the day when someone takes over Oscar. Think about it. It's not easy to take a character who's nasty, grouchy and mean, and yet still make him loveable. It takes a special kind of talent to pull that off...

The meanest I think Oscar ever got was in the Christmas special where he hurls a million insults at Big Bird just as a train comes roaring by, and you can't hear anything he actually says, but you know it can't be very nice. ("You are the dumbest...RUMMMMMMMMMBBBBBBBBLLLLLLLEEEEEEE]...bird I...

They did that in Season 30? Wow! That sketch is the same one I saw in 1997, but since that was still the "old show" (pre-'98) I'm doubly surprised it showed up the following year. It's also especially surreal that they did the zooming in on the window thing. I don't remember ever seeing them...

I agree that Ernie and Bert are two guys in their early 20's (disregarding Ernie's remarks about having to finish grade and high school). Oscar is definitely an adult. Grover is a tough one. Being a literalist, I can't settle for the "technically ageless" thing, so I have to assign him...

You're right that they are definitely stricter than they used to be about that. Of course, they also show a lot less individual scenes within one hour nowadays, so there's less room all around. Well into the 90s, they were still showing ancient stuff that was very obviously dated. Some of it...

I was still watching it a lot then (I was 6 to 10 years old). I don't remember feeling like anything was changing except around 1992 (even before the theme music change) I started to notice that the special effects were getting more elaborate than they used to be. Like Elmo imagining he's...

You're right that compared to today, the old show seems like one big improv session--especially during the first 10 years. I'm assuming they watered that element down because they figured kids would learn better if people spoke clearly and more simply, instead of alot of cross-talk and...

"....and told me that when the show premiered, his grandparents had a recording device, and recorded several episodes from the first two seasons for his mother." I thought that part sounded fishy! I don't think such a device existed that early on.

You've come to the right place, indeed, suh. While no one will take money for episodes (totally illegal, anyway), if you have no episodes yourself to trade with, some people might be cool with giving you episodes in exchange for some DVD they've been wanting.

But then, Bert also has a prized bottle cap collection that's even been mounted, Sesame Street Unpaved said his collection consists of 368 bottle caps, and it's like he actually remembers the time he drank whatever it was he drank to get the cap from that bottle. LOL that reminds me of...

The first episode to not have an animated title sequence was #926, the seventh season premiere. In fact, from 1976 to 2002, Sesame Street had no on-screen title at all. :confused: I'm too young to have seen those as a kid. I remember when I went the the Museum of Television and Radio...