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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...

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?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I can infer from what I read on Wikipedia that thirteen of the following Mr. Men and Little Miss books were not written or illustrated by Roger Hargreaves but written by Viviane Cohen and Evelyne Lallemand and illustrated by Colette David: Mr. Brave, Mr. Grumble, Mr. Perfect, Mr. Cheerful...

I remember seeing a Sesame Street book that opens with a 2 page spread with a picture of Elmo helping his mother make cookies and Elmo's mother is using a rolling pin to roll out the dough. I don't know the title of the book, but from what the art looked like, I bet the book was from the late...

I know that in 2017 The Soynut Butter Company had to recall all varieties of its I.M. Healthy Soynut Butter, all varieties of its I.M. Healthy Granola because of E. coli in the facility where the product was produced. This led to many lawsuits that caused them to have to pay victims millions of...

Does anybody know why in a storybook version of Disney's Pinocchio (the oversize Disney Classic Series) the Coachman who runs Pleasure Island is referred to as Barker?

In 2002, my PBS affiliate (WGBH Boston, Channel 2) aired this Between the Lions ad with Cleo and a man in a 2 costume (that Cleo calls "2 Guy" at the main desk in the library singing "Just the two of us...". It has not been uploaded to YouTube. Does anybody remember this ad? Better yet, can...

When I was little in the late 80s-early 90s I remember seeing something on TV giving ideas about how to eat from food groups. It went like this: "a _____ from the milk group, and an apple from the fruit group." A picture of an apple was onscreen followed by the screen saying "Fruit Group"...

When Cookie Monster's Best Bites was first released on VHS, copies originally came with a cookie recipe on a card. Can somebody please type the cookie recipe here or upload the recipe card (legibly, please) to the Internet? I want to make the recipe.