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    Who here thinks the book "Just Joking" would have made a nice Sesame Street/Between the Lions crossover?

    A Sesame Street book from before Between the Lions came out "Just Joking" is about Zoe who wanted to be a lion for Halloween, but couldn't wait, so put her lion costume on early and went to the park where she pretended to be a lion but nothing her friends were doing is suitable for a lion. But...
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    Why is Julia's mother called Miss Elena as a teacher when she's married?

    In some YouTube videos of material where Elmo, Rosita, Abby and Wes have Julia's mother as a teacher, Julia's mother is called Miss Elena, and the description of the video refers to her as Miss Elena. Why do they call Elena Miss when she's married? For your explanation, the...
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    Don't Forget the Oatmeal audio edition

    I have read on Muppet Wikia that one edition of Don't Forget the Oatmeal (with Bert and Ernie) originally came with a read-along record and later cassette. However, no copies appear anywhere on the secondary market on the Internet. I don't want to own one, but do any still exist? More...
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    These Sesame Street books from the 70s need to be reissued

    The following Sesame Street books from Random House (now owned by Penguin Random House) need to be reissued: The Sesame Street ABC Storybook The Sesame Street 123 Storybook The Sesame Street Storybook Bert and Ernie in The Perils of Penelope The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook Gordon of Sesame...
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    Why did the Dragon Tales episode "Goodbye Little Caterpoozle" differ from other kiddie show episodes about the death of a pet?

    The Dragon Tales episode "Goodbye Little Caterpoozle" differed from older kiddie show episodes about the death of a pet in that the story goes that Cassie's Caterpoozle (which is supposed to be a caterpillar) had gone into the pupa stage and Cassie incorrectly thinks the caterpoozle is dead...
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    Sesame Street tray puzzles of re-written nursery rhyme

    Who here remembers those Sesame Street tray puzzles from Western Publishing Company (the company who made Golden Books back in those days) that showed Sesame Street characters portraying a re-written version of a nursery rhyme?
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    Beautiful Day Monster and his resemblance to Sam the Eagle

    I just found out that Beautiful Day Monster existed. Has anybody here noticed that Beautiful Day Monster bears a striking resemblance to Sam the Eagle? Are they the same puppet?
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    Would 90s Sesame Street have ever done an episode like this? Why or why not?

    In the days of Sesame Street's original format of a main story interrupted by various short segments (the mid 90s) I had a dream that there was an episode in which an orange monster has been locked in a cage, and when the show went back to the main story, the monster was pleading to be let out...
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    Anybody know what TV show this was from?

    When I was little in the early 90s I remember seeing on TV a man showing a pad of illustrated pictures of words that begin with every letter of the alphabet. I know there was "D is for Door" for D and "K is for K-mart" for K. Who can tell me what TV show this was from?
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    Lending Tree commercial with Lenny from the Jim Henson Company

    Here's a Lending Tree commercial in which the mascot for Lending Tree, Lenny, was built by Jim Henson Creature Shop: 1. Why does Lenny take a whiff after listening to what the lender says in the commercial? 2. When Lenny says"I smell BS" does he mean that he smells the feces of a male cow...
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    Why does Disney still allow Sesame Workshop to use the term "Muppet"?

    We know that the rights to the term "Muppet" were included in the sale of the Muppet characters from the Jim Henson Company to Disney in 2004. Three years earlier, the rights to the Sesame Street characters which had previously been co-owned by both Sesame Workshop (in those days it was called...
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    2001 People in Your Neighborhood See n Say

    Muppet Wikia says that in 2001 Mattel produced a See n Say of People in Your Neighborhood. One of the pictures to point the arrow at and pull the lever was Prairie Dawn as a judge. Does anybody know what the See n Say would say if one aimed the arrow at the aforementioned picture and pulled...
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    If they reboot Between the Lions what are your thoughts of a game similar to Wheel of Fortune with Theo as host and Cleo as letter turner?

    I talked about this in a previous thread and feel it is best for its own thread, so since I know that Cleo and Theo from Between the Lions made a comeback in 2021 for the 2021 ED Games Expo (as puppets, mind you, apparently the Theo puppet was rebuilt). Like I have said before, since Between...
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    In the pre-Internet days, why was it only books that had order forms for the rest of the series, board games, toys and everything else never did that?

    Before the Internet, books used to have an order form that one could mail in with check or money order or credit card for other titles in the series on the last page of every single copy of every single title in the series. I have only seen this in books, why did board game companies never...
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    The Voyage of the Mimi Thread (Actually about the sailing vessel MIMI)

    Does anybody here who remembers the TV series The Voyage of the Mimi and its sequel series The Second Voyage of the Mimi remember any souvenirs of the sailing vessel MIMI? The actual sailing vessel used to go up and down the East Coast from New England to the Gulf of Mexico where it would act...
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    Why is the Richard Scarry's Best Videos Ever series out of print?

    In the late 80s and early 90s there was a video series called "Richard Scarry's Best Videos Ever" which consisted of: Richard Scarry's Best ABC Video Ever Richard Scarry's Best Counting Video Ever Richard Scarry's Best Learning Songs Video Ever Richard Scarry's Best Silly Stories and Songs Video...
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    Why hasn't this direct-to-video Clifford's Fun With... series been released on DVD or iTunes?

    Before the first Clifford the Big Red Dog PBS TV series there was a six-volume direct-to-video TV series produced in 1988 by Scholastic in cooperation with Nelvana that was also called the Scholastic Learning Library and distributed on VHS by Family Home Entertainment. The series consisted of...
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    Joe Raposo's song "Takes a lot of little nuts to make a jar of peanut butter"

    You all know that if Joe Raposo's song "It takes a lot of little nuts to make a jar of peanut butter" were to be re-aired, Sesame Workshop would have to re-tape it and slightly edit the lyrics so as to teach that peanut butter isn't the only seed butter available, there is also almond butter...
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    Anybody remember Kidsongs with Billy and Ruby Biggle?

    I have been watching episodes of this show. Who else remembers it? By the way, since it was a co-production of Warner Brothers and was around in the days when the Warner Brothers Studio Stores were in business, how come the Warner Brothers Studio Stores never carried merchandise of Billy and...
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    Sesame Street Theme Song Rewritten with General Mills mascots

    How does anybody like this version of the Sesame Street theme song? I used General Mills cereal mascots. SONNY's day, sweeping the fake away On my way to where the BUZZ is dark Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Cereal Park? Come and pick, we are all free of TRIX LUCKY days come there...
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