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    New Muppet CD coming for Christmas

    Could this possibly be that christmas album that was planned for last year (yes, I know The Muppet Christmas Carol Soundtrack was re-released last year and that could have been what Disney meant)?
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    Charachters who have been performed by 3 different people

    That's only two performers. I have read that Jim Martin sometimes performs oscar, but, unlike with Matt Vogel as Big Bird, Caroll Spinney still dubs the voice.
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    Did Grover eventually stop slapping Kermit?

    I wonder... what skits did Grover slap Kermit in? I don't ever recall seeing any sketches where he slapped Kermit. Did he slap Kermit in the skit where Kermit wanted Grover to get in a box? I've seen this sketch in The Sesame Street Book of Puzzles, and that book didn't feature any pictures...
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    later copyrights on songs

    I have noticed that on albums featuring Sesame Street songs from the first season, the songs usually have a 1970 copyright, instead of a 1969 copyright. Does it take awhile for a Sesame Street song to be copyrighted, or are the first season songs that do get 1970 copyrights songs that were first...
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    Old School Sesame coming to DVD October 2006

    And also Ernie and Bert's cameo in the Connie Stevens episode of The Muppet Show.
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    Old School Sesame coming to DVD October 2006

    The Electric Company box set featured a few appearances by the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyotie, who are owned by Warner Bros., which is almost as big a company, if not equally as big, as Disney. Of course, WB might also have different feelings towards licensing it's characters (after all WB did...
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    Charachters who have been performed by 3 different people

    Marylin Sokol also performed her voice once, in the song "I Want a Monster to be my Friend". Another character with three performers: Ernie: Jim Henson (1969-1990), Steve Whitmire (1993-present), and John Tartiglia (Play With Me Sesame, season 2).
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    Charachters who have been performed by 3 different people

    Here's a few more: Cookie Monster: Frank Oz (1969-present), Eric Jacopson (a handful of 2001 sketches), and David Rudman (2001-present) (Caroll Spinney also performed Cookie Monster in a 1969 sketch). Big Bird: Caroll Spinney (1969-present), Matt Vogel (2000-present), and Daniel Seagren (a...
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    Research Help

    Some good videos/ DVDs that are currently available that could be shown to illustrate disabled people on Sesame Street include: Follow That Bird - there are a few scenes with Linda using sign language, though nothing really major. Christmas Eve on Sesame Street - there is a scene where Bob...
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    Jim Hill Article On "dinosaurs"

    That's a neat article. I never knew that Jim Henson had fantasized about doing a Dinosaur sitcom in the 1970s. I always figured that he started imagining it and talking to people about it in the late 1980s.
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    did they eventually stop showing bein' green?

    I read at Wikpedia that in the late 1980s, Sesame Street's researchers discovered that its test audiences failed to realise that Kermit was happy with being green in the song Bein' Green. I'm not sure how true this fact is (I've found the fact at Wikpedia, not Muppet Wiki), but I am wondering if...
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    Fuzzyface on Sesame Street

    Was Grover ever referred to as Fuzzyface in any skits? Was Fuzzyface his original official name? It's interesting that some people say that Grover's personality wasn't developed in the first season, because I know of three first season Grover skits where his personality seems to be similar...
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    Did you ever notice this about Marty's Telly and Snuffy

    I knew that Martin Robinson performed Telly in those productions. I meant that I didn't notice that Martin Robinson used a different voice for Telly in either untill a few years after I learned that somebody else performed Telly (in fact, I first leanred that Martin Robinson performed Telly and...
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    Kermit outdoors and in full form in songs

    Has anybody else noticed that in almost all of the songs that Kermit has sung on Sesame Street, the songs took place outdoors and Kermit was shown in a full-body form (his legs are seen). Full-body shots of Kermit appeared in all three Sesame Street versions of Bein' Green, The Frogs in the...
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    Did you ever notice this about Marty's Telly and Snuffy

    Oh. I've never noticed Martin Robinsons version of the voice changing much. Of course, I don't have as many references for his Snuffy voice in the 1980s as I do from the 1990s, but I think that his Snuffy voice in Follow That Bird sounds like it does now. I think that Snuffy still sounds a bit...
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    Disney Show (I can't remember)

    That Winnie the Pooh show was caled Welcome to Pooh Corner.
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    Did you ever notice this about Marty's Telly and Snuffy

    I've noticed that for the first 2-3 years that Martin Robinson took over as Telly, he imitated Brian Meehles Telly voice before changing it, but I never noticed any change in Martin Robinsons Snuffy voice. All performance of Robinsona s Snuffy that I've heard have sounded the same. The earliest...
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    Thog's voice

    That doesn't mean that he has never been inside the puppet. Many of the characters have been performed by performers who didn't regularly perform them, mainly in crowd scenes, but the guide mainly listed the main performers of each character, or some alternate performers who performed the voice...
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    Old School Sesame coming to DVD October 2006

    I wonder what the disc art will be like. It would be cool for the disc art to have Big Bird on disc one, Ernie and Bert on disc two, and Grover on disc three.
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    Thog's voice

    Jerry Nelson is the only performer who has voiced Thog. Steve Whitmire has been inside the puppet at least twice, and Dave Goelz may have been inside the puppet (I don't know for sure if he has), but Jerry Nelson is the only performer who has ever voiced the character.
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