Actually, Sesame Street ALWAYS started their season in November up until 2000. At least as long as I can remember. But I remember Season 31 wasn't ready to start by the time that Season 30 ended, and there was such a big gap between the new shows and the old shows, what they did was, they re-packaged all the episodes with Slimey going to the moon from Season 29, and they aired them as if the whole Saga happened within 3 weeks. But the wierd thing is, okay, you know how the opening theme sequence changed in Season 30? Well, when these episodes aired, they had the Season 30 opening sequence, but it still had the episode number from Season 29! That was WIERD! But also, the really important episodes opened with a "Star Worms" opening with Baby Bear doing the narration.