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What was really cool about this is that it almost perfectly mirrors the Band's own performance of the song with the Staple Singers in the 1978 rockumentary movie The Last Waltz. Same camera angles, lighting, etc. Compare here:

It's not always "irreligious people", though. There's actually an ongoing controversy in a town near where I live over a public Nativity scene...and the kicker is that the complaint was brought by a local church. (It's one of those Fundamentalist Baptist sects that considers Christmas an...

Yep, that logo would provide the same kind of Pavlovian response in a youngster as the classic CBS Special Presentation logo that always aired prior to a Charlie Brown special.

This one's sort of O/T, since it doesn't involve any Muppets, but... A favorite of my mother and myself, way back when, was a skit involving Bob and - I think - David as waiters who keep running into each other because one of them keeps using the wrong door: "In on the left, that's the...

Yesterday, Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, the baseball pitcher who became a national sensation as a starter for the Detroit Tigers in 1976, died yesterday in an accident. What does that have to do with Sesame Street? Well, Fidrych was nicknamed "The Bird" because his curly blonde hair reminded...

I recall one that took place at Hooper's store. For some reason, Ernie is manning the soda fountain, and Bert comes in and orders a plain glass of water. Ernie tries to sell him on a chocolate soda instead, but Bert refuses...so Ernie brings out the water, then asks him if he wouldn't like...

August 9, according to Amazon.com (who are already taking pre-orders for the set). http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009ULBGS/qid%3D1117830693/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/002-5442718-5516065

I heard a version by Sarah McLachlan on the radio the other day. A very pleasant surprise! :)

"The Muppet Show" Season 1 DVD? Saw the following blurb at UltimateDisney.com...anybody know more about this? May 20, 2005 Great news, if it's true...

I recall another sketch in which Bert moves out, leaving Ernie alone in the apartment. Ernie starts hearing scary noises (loud thumps, chains, etc.) and freaking out, when Bert returns to his great relief.

Wasn't there an episode (in the '70s) where somebody--Maria, I believe--had to go inside Oscar's trash can for some reason or another? You see her climb in, then hear a series of sound effects while Oscar describes her progress to the viewers (and of course, Oscar's can--like Snoopy's...

If it really was 39 steps that Grover had to climb, then that's a marvelous "inside" joke. The 39 Steps is the title of a well-known old Alfred Hitchcock movie. :D

The problem with having Snuffy "come out" to the grown-ups is that the show no longer dealt with the issue that inspired the character in the first place: many young children do, in fact, have imaginary friends.

I remember one animated bit, based on the letter "p", in which a lady is on a picnic, and an army of ants comes and makes off with her food items one by one: plumbs, pot roast, peach pie... At the very end the aunts pick *her* up and carry her off, as she says with a worried expression on her...

Does anyone remember an old "Sesame" skit where one of the Muppets has a closet that's piled high with odds and ends, like Fibber McGee's, and another Muppet keeps opening the door and getting buried under an avalanche of junk? For some reason I want to say the guy with the closet was Harvey...