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And now morsels for the rest of episode 276: Tom and Kids A variety of people have helped out at Hooper's Store, including Tom, David, Gina, Carlo, and Gabbi. David took over ownership of Hooper's Store after Mr. Hooper died. Mr. Handford later took over ownership from David, and...

Again with the episode 276 morsels: The Great Cookie Thief This sketch was later adapted into a book, Wanted: The Great Cookie Thief. Cookie Monster has also had the alternate identity of Allistar Cookie in the Monsterpiece Theater segments. The green cowboy in this sketch was...

Here is a thread to post your ideas for Old School Vol. 2. I will make a few differnet ideas, to see what would be best or worst. Here is my idea (most episode numbers are selected at random): Volume 2: 1969-1976 Disc 1: episodes 2 and 285 Alphabet Classic Cuts: The Sound of...

More morsels for episode 276: Grover the Waiter This is the first sketch with Grover as a waiter. Grover has had many jobs over the years, including elevador operador, door-to-door salesman, singing telegram deliverer, mailman, flight attendant, and taxi driver. Grover's usual...

Since Chris Langham was hired because the producers wanted to have a crazy british writer, I wonder if Chris Langham wrote most of the craziest, most bizarre stuff from the later years, like Pigs in Space: dissolvatron, trudge trudge streaka streaka, Danny Boy, the cluck-itis backstage plot, the...

I guess this thread isn't as popular as I thought it would be. Did I go too far in suggesting that people list their top 40 most wanted skits for the next set, in two seperate lists (top 40 from the first five years, top 40 from the second five years)?

More episode 276 morsels: Cookie Monster, Luis, and M In 2002, Cookie Monster began hosting The Letter of the Day on Sesame Street. Prairie Dawn co-hosted the segments, starting in 2004. In 2005, The Letter of the Day became a game show, The Letter of the Day Games. Cookie...

episode 276 opening This episode of Sesame Street was first broadcast on November 8, 1971. Starting this season, the show begins teaching spanish, with the addition of three spanish-speaking characters: Luis, Rafael, and Maria. In the thirty-third season, a regular daily feature...

Does Zoot talk on this album or not? From what's been said here, it sounds like he doesn't sing, but I thought I read that the album credits Dave Goelz as Zoot, and it would be weird to credit him if his voice isn't heard. What songs sound like they would have made the best music videos?

On most variety shows, all of the writers get credited equally, with no specific credit regarding what segments each writer wrote. Do you ever wonder who wrote what? I often wonder who wrote what sketch on The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, and other shows. There isn't much information out...

Season 2 Classic Cuts King of 8 The King of 8 was created by Jim Henson for Sesame Street. Jerry Nelson was the opening voice-over. Jim Henson performed the King of 8. The guards were voiced by Jim Henson and Jerry Nelson. Jim Henson also worked on a similar stop-motion...

Granny Grouch Before Sesame Street, Bob toured Japan and was a very popular teenage pop idol. Bob McGraph could have continued to be a Japanese singing star, but chose not to. Seems like Bob doesn't think he's fast enought o run to Oscar's can. Oscar first became green for an...

Here are some more morsels for episode 131: Fireman film Some of Sesame Street's writers have included Jeff Moss, Jerry Juhl, and Norman Stiles. Some of Sesame Street's songwriters have included Joe Raposo, Jeff Moss, Christopher Cerf, Thad Mumford, and Sam Pottle. One of Sesame...

Some more season two premier morsels: Arte Johnson explains Q and U Arte Johnson was a regular on Laugh-In. Another regular on that show was Ruth Buzzi, who joined the cast of Sesame Street as Ruthie from 1993-1998. There have been many times when episodes featured skits for letters...

And now here are some fictional morsels for episode 131: Opening This episode of Sesame Street was first broadcast on November 9, 1970. In addition to the Sesame Street theme song, Joe Raposo also wrote the theme for Three's Company. In the previous season, only the numbers 2...

One nitpick about the booklet is that it points out that Jim Henson was the voice of the baker, and that Henson wasn't the actor who played him, but it does not say who the actor playing the baker was.

Well, I finsihed the morsles for the first episode, and I had fun doing it. Now I will write ficitious morsels for the Season One Clasic Cuts, except for the oens that I don't know much to write about (Swinging Gibbon and Alphabet Soup): Bein' Green Bein' Green was written by Joe Raposo...

Here are some more from the first episode: Bob's dollar bill trick Kermit the Frog was created by Jim Henson for his first television series, Sam and Friends, a nightly five-minute show which aired locally in Washington, D.C. from 1955 untill 1961. The first Kermit puppet was made...

More first episode morsels: Gordon and Anything Muppets The Anything People were later renamed Anything Muppets. The first two Anything Muppets in this sketch were performed by Frank Oz -- one on each hand! Many Sesame Street sketches have taken place in front of a plain-colored...