Does ANYONE have this Cookie Monster skit?

[AlexG]

I've searched high and low, but I can't find this anywhere. The one in question is the 1969 sketch:

Cookie Monster uses Ernie's telephone (4-part sketch).

I would like to have this. English is preferred, of course, but I'll take other languages if that's just plain all there is. I don't know what I have of value to trade, but talk to me and we'll work something out. Please, does anyone have this, know where I can find it online, on VHS or DVD, or ANYTHING? Please! Help me!

 

[SesameMike]

I haven't seen that one in decades. I wasn't aware it was 4 parts.

What happens in this one, is Cookie Monster asks to use Ernie's phone "to call my mommy". Although Ernie was awaiting a call from Bert, CM makes a very long and detailed call. One break in the skit took place while CM was describing jumping rope, recounting every single jump on the phone. He began "1,2..." then they broke for "commercial". When they returned, CM was saying "one thousand <something>, four thousand <something>" (The numbers were taken to four significant figures.) When CM finally hung up, Ernie described it as "the longest phone call in history." CM responded by eating the phone. Then the phone rang in CM's belly. Ernie, in an unusual defensive move, held CM's mouth wide open and spoke to Bert on the phone.

 

[Dantecat]

SesameMike,If ending music is on there,How did it go

 

[SesameMike]

It's been 35 years, and I tend to remember closing music if it's unusual, such as the one-of-a-kind phrase we hear as Ernie and Bert BOTH faint after Beautiful Day Monster steals the cookies while dressed as Ernie.

But as for the CM-eating-telephone skit, I think the closing music was one of those 3- or 4-note jobs, possibly with a resounding "boom" at the end.

But you know, descriptions like "da-da, dum. Booom" don't really cut it. Perhaps we should check out the forums on this new website www.musipedia.org . I haven't researched it yet, but they apparently have a java applet that will convert to midi any tune that you hum into your microphone.

 

[AlexG]

Yes, I know how the skit goes, but does anyone actually have it? I desperately want to see it, not just read about it.

 

[fuzzygobo]

I hope that something better comes along

I'd like to see that skit too. But til then, I can make do with one of my Sesame Street books. Time/Life put out a series of hardcover books in 1970,
each devoted to a different concept: Letters, Numbers, Shapes, People in Your Neighborhood, etc. etc. etc. I'm not sure which book has it, but it does have a few pages dedicated to this skit, with still photographs and dialogue underneath. There's one picture of Cookie talking on the phone to his Mommy, and the look on his face is absolutely priceless!


these books are found occassionally on ebay (I lucked out and got mine at a church Thrift Shop) if you ever see them, grab them before someone else does!