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  1. M

    Your Thoughts: New Green and Red Christmas CD

    I didn't see it at my local Sam Goody, but haven't checked anywhere else.
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    Old School Sesame coming to DVD October 2006

    If there are indeed nine segments from each season, and future sets continue to focus on the same years, then I wonder if the sets will continue to have bonus skits grouped by season or perhaps a theme. Some good ideas could be the alphabet (there are 26 letters, there could be three groupings...
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    Thoughts on Convincing John

    I wonder if Convincing John was always meant to appear in multiple episodes, or if he was originally intended to just appear once and became so popular that he was brought back a few times. Or if maybe a writer came up with more ways to use him. I noticed that Convincign John's first two...
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    Why are FR songs so short?

    Many of the songs on The Muppet Show and Sesame Street were short as well. Though in this case it's usually shorter than two or three minutes. In the booklet for The Muppet Show 25th anniversary album, it was said that Jim Henson didn't want The Muppet Show to have very many musical that lasted...
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    Old School Sesame coming to DVD October 2006

    Actually, that wasn't Farley. It was a green guy with black hair (Farley had orange hair) and wore an outfit identical to Sherlock Hemlock's outfit (only he didn't wear a hat). I think it was purposely decided to have a one-shot character so that Ernie and Cookie Monster would wonder who he was...
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    Old School Sesame coming to DVD October 2006

    I would like to make a wish list along with what is known. Of course, a wishlist might be pointless considering that the set is out and we will know what's included soon, but here goes something. And some of the years are guesses. 1 Season- Rubber Duckie (Maybe) I Love Trash Being Green...
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    Bob Johnson?

    I asked about this on the talk page, but nobody responded to that question.
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    Rubber Duckie: first year of broadcast

    I am wondering, is the version of Rubber Duckie where Ernie takes a bath in front of a blue background from the first season or the second season? I know there was an earlier version from one of the test pilots, but I've been wondering about the version that's more commonly seen. I remember...
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    Old School Sesame coming to DVD October 2006

    I've been thinking... it was said that each episode is accompanied by a selection of skits from each season. If there are 45 skits and five episodes, it would make sense for each year to have nine segments included, to make them all even. I don't know if I am right or not, but that's what I...
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    Frackle and Fraggles

    Well, the Frackles were still used after Fraggle Rock began. They could be seen in The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years (and Traveling Matt is also there, so that's one fraggle and some frackles at the same location), The Jim Henson Hour, The Muppet Christmas Carol, and Mopatops Shop. Then...
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    characters who have appeared in full-body shots

    Slimey has been seen in full-body form, too. Obviously. Actually, it seems like almost every small Muppet has been in a full-body shot.
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    Lack of charachters in the early 1980's

    It seems a bit ironic that Bert would often appear on the street without Ernie during the early years, as there aren't really too many sketches with just Bert but there are a lot of sketches with just Ernie.
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    Old School Sesame coming to DVD October 2006

    I saw it mentioned in the press release that confirmed that it was five episodes from the first five years and mentioned what bonus skits are included. That was mentioned among the bonus clips. I guess it was a mistake.
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    Lack of charachters in the early 1980's

    I have read a post here from Michael Earl Davis, who performed during the late-1970s/ early 1980s, where he said that at one point he, Brian Meuhl, and Caroll Spinney were the only performers who were on the show full-time, while the other main performers were performing on The Muppet Show (I...
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    Vanishing Cream Beaker: The Story

    Chapter 14 Kermit and Miss Piggy were still in costume at the meeting. "So, uh, you are probably wondering why we are here", said Kermit. "Not really", said one of the employees, "We know that you are here to let us know how our company can be a bigger, better company." "Really?"...
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    Old School Sesame coming to DVD October 2006

    I have been looking at the sketch lists for the episodes included, and thinking about the bonus skits that are known, and by my count, the set has at least 19 skits that have already been released on video and/ or DVD: 1. Wanda the Witch 2. Doll House 3. Beat the Time with Cookie Monster...
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    Vanishing Cream Beaker: The Story

    Chapter 13 Meanwhile, Bunsen and Clifford were stil under the table. The table was in the kitchen, but there were cooks everywhere. "This is not very hip", said Clifford, "I am feeling square." "Why won't these people just go away so that we can escape without getting caught?", wondered...
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    The Great Sesame Street Debate

    The official site didn't have a page for Little Muppet Monsters, though. One thing that I noticed is that the site had a page for Elmo in Grouchland (which Jim Henson Pictures produced) but not Follow That Bird (I don't know if Henson ever had any ownership of that movie). Sesame Street: 20 and...
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    Old School Sesame coming to DVD October 2006

    I think it's pretty much been confirmed that Kermit will be included on the set. Hopefully none of his skits have been cut from any of the episodes included. But the official site shows a clip montage that includes a Kermit scene, and the official press release mentions that the set has Kermit...
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    Old School Sesame coming to DVD October 2006

    I had an idea. I am not sure how good or bad this would be. But maybe, after the set is released and we know what all of the included sketches are, we could make a list of the top 45 skits from the first five seasons (and maybe also the last five seasons of the 1970s) that we want on volume two...
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