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  1. M

    New Sesame Street documentary based on "Street Gang" to premiere in April 2021

    I see that it can be rented on iTunes for 19.99 (I figured it’d be on iTunes but recently started being unsure). As soon as I get an iTunes gift card with enough money I’ll rent it.
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    Muppets Haunted Mansion special coming to Disney+ on Friday October 8, 2021

    I think it's weird that Gonzo is the one challenged as opposed to somebody who might be more likely to be scared, like Kermit or Fozzie or Scooter. I feel Gonzo would thoroughly enjoy it.
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    Little things we've noticed

    Ignoring the Moo Wave name, would How Now Brown and the Moo Wave be required to only sing New Wave music, as opposed to branching out into other music styles (maybe make How Now Brown a solo singer if needed)? How Now Brown looks like he could have done punk music or Billy Idol parodies.
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    Little things we've noticed

    Weren't there still plenty of MTV new wave rock videos, regardless of how many different ways they were? Maybe they could have done some more direct parodies of specific New Wave songs. Even though more direct song parodies were usually done by Muppet parodies of the actual singers (though...
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    Little things we've noticed

    I have recently been wondering if How Now Brown could have easily been replaced by Little Chrissy. Both characters sing rock and roll songs and both were voiced by Christopher Cerf. How Now Brown only did two songs, both from the same year, and both of which ran until the 1990s, so it's not like...
  6. M

    The Official Top 10 Anything...

    Top ten episodes of Bob (Bob Newhart's third sitcom): 1. The Lost Episode 2. Bob and Kaye and Jerry and Patty 3. I'm Getting Remarried in the Morning 4. Mad Dog Returns 5. For Pete's Sake 6. The Phantom of AMCANTRANCOMMCO 7. Better to Have Loved and Flossed 8. The Man Who Killed Mad Dog 9...
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    Questions about anything

    There's a song I recently heard on the radio a few times, although I think I understand enough lyrics, I have trouble finding what the song is via typing in the lyrics. I'm not sure who the singer is, but the lead singer is a woman, and there's a chorus of children. To me it sounds like it...
  8. M

    Sesame Street classic clips on YouTube

    Forgetful was in street scenes just as often as he was in inserts taking place away from the street (though maybe there were less inserts with him out in the old west by the end of his run).
  9. M

    Sesame Street classic clips on YouTube

    Brian Meehl as Alphabet Bates. 1329 Alphabet Bates Makes an O - YouTube While I noticed he seemed to be talking with a French accent in Everybody Makes Mistakes, I wasn't expecting him to also be speaking French on the show. I guess it's good they kept up with the consistency (is there...
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    Little things we've noticed

    And of course, Michael Earl was a main performer from 1979-1981 (he has said that during that time, he, Meehl, and Spinney were the only Muppet performers available on a daily basis), and in the late-1980s and early-1990s Camille Bonora was on quite a bit (though none of her characters really...
  11. M

    Sesame Street classic clips on YouTube

    I am pleasantly surprised that very few segments seem to have been blocked due to being on HBO Max (and I've even seen that some people have uploaded entire episodes, which I have actually resisted watching on YouTube). The Monsterpiece Theater segment The Monsters of Venice has been blocked in...
  12. M

    What song can you not get out of your head?

    The theme song from Nearly Departed, a very short-lived sitcom that I didn't really know about until recently (though I did tape something that had a promo for it). Nearly Departed theme and titles - YouTube
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    Sesame Street classic clips on YouTube

    There have been times when video had been blocked due to having content featured in a documentary or something only to come back later. There was that period when Lions Gate blocked Sesame Street footage that appeared in 20 and Still Counting, and there was a period when segments that were...
  14. M

    The "You know what?" thread

    I've recently learned of a handful of short-lived sitcoms - Jennifer Slept Here, Nearly Departed - where the concept is that somebody died and their spirit continues to live in their old home while a new family lives there, with only one person able to see and hear them. The shows didn't last...
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    The "You know what?" thread

    Hey Arnold recast many of the characters, and I never noticed without it being pointed out (currently I can hear differences better). I knew about Arnold’s first recast before I heard it (the others I think I first knew after the episodes aired), one Hey Arnold website reported it with “why...
  16. M

    Sesame Street Documentary "Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days"

    It was interesting seeing them make the new characters, seeing them put fabric on blocks of foam. I wasn’t expecting it to be that (but I guess I didn’t really think about It). I was thinking that the puppets were entirely made by what was on the outside, that the fabric was naturally that...
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    Little things we've noticed

    In the 1970s, it seems like Jerry performed 90 percent of the recurring characters, then in the 1980s and later, he didn’t get as many new recurring characters on the show, while continuing to do one-shots frequently (and to an extent this seems the case for The Muppets as well, even as many...
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    Sesame Street Documentary "Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days"

    The promos made it seem like it'd be more of a look back at the show in general than it's focus on more important topics that the show has been addressing. Makes me wonder if the network was worried about turning off certain viewers. The second half felt more like I was watching an ABC news...
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    Little things we've noticed

    Recently I've seen a few fans on Facebook point out that Jerry Nelson seemed less available in seasons 14-18 (the time when he was performing on Fraggle Rock), which I didn't think he was that scarce. I guess after Fraggle Rock ended, he was able to be on Sesame Street a lot more.
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