Favorite Sesame Street sketches

[MikaelaMuppet]

It can be anything. Songs, parodies, Muppet skits, even celebrity guests!

 

[MikaelaMuppet]

My favorite:

 

[MikaelaMuppet]

Please feel free to post your favorite Sesame related stuff as well. It can even be YouTube channels.

 

[crackmaster]

Any cartoon from the 90s seasons. Sally Cruikshank, Ken Brown and Lisa Crafts, Joey Ahlbum, Karen Aqua, artistMike, Jane Aaron, Keith Haring, Will Vinton, Buzzco, John Mohiynan and Mort Todd, Rose Rosely, Klasky-Csupo, John R. Dilworth, Craig Bartlett, Mo Willems, Merril Aldigheri, and more.

Also the Wegman dogs.

 

[YellowYahooey]

Aside from sponsor segments I listed in another thread, here is a list of favorite sketches by category:

Shape segments:

- The cartoon where a woman searches for her purse among a row of different polygons.
- Kermit's rectangle lecture with Cookie Monster.

Word segments (no particular word):

- The "Say the Word" game show.
- The cartoon with a large bird munching a rectangle to form the word BIRD.

Opposites:

- Many of the George the Farmer segments.
- Herbert Birdsfoot's over/under demonstration with Grover.

Phonics:

- The "UN" family song.
- Lefty and the Golden "AN"

Full alphabet:

- Jazzy alphabet with male vocalists shouting each letter.
- Country/Gospel/Mexican alphabet
- Richard Pryor's alphabet

Animal films:

- Fighting animals
- Flamingos
- Mother animals nursing their offspring (which starts with puppies laying on newspapers)

Occupations:

- "What Do People Do All Day?" song, showcasing the many occupations and activities in a big city on a daily basis.
- "Future Careers" film
- Fireman/policewoman cartoon (surprising that's not on YouTube yet!)
- Bank teller film (surprising that's also not on YouTube yet, though I believe the music is the same one heard in the car wash film segment)
- Cake decorator
- A visit to the pediatrician

Counting:

- The Count's bats threaten to go on strike.
- Elephant counts to 20. (Swedish animation)
- Uncle Ned's 20 Pickle Pie
- A bear counting bees in rhyme.

Body parts:

- Christopher Clumsy's feet and what they can do.
- Grover's Health Minute debut, where Kermit wears false teeth.

Segments not fitting the above categories:

- "Ah, for the Joys of the Countryside"
- Ernie and Bert vs. the balloons on their bedposts.
- "Spring Song" film segment
- All of the Fonz's sketches
- Carol Burnett's commentary on Wanda the Witch
- "Everybody Run"
- Batman and Robin catch the Joker jaywalking

 

[crackmaster]

- Batman and Robin catch the Joker jaywalking

YES!! And Superman's sales pitch for the letter S: "It's my favorite!"

 

[crackmaster]

• The "Today's Secret Drawing" sketches
• The D, J, and L commercials
• H for Hello
• I for Impolite
• The Tale of King Minus
• Y for Yawn
• J for the Jack-in-the-Box
• The Man from Alphabet
• "AT" with Bill the Bat and Claire the Cat
• "The Letter F, Faces"
• Any cartoon by Sally Cruikshank
• V in Space
• Lunar Lounge
• Elmo's World: Drawing
• Superman battles a giant ape
• "Up! Down!"
• "Alphabet Jungle"
• The Parade of Numbers sketches

 

[YellowYahooey]

Okay, here is my list of favorite segments for each letter of the alphabet:

A

• The A Story where bored boys are told a story about an ant stealing an archer's apples.
• Ape escapes from an A train, traveling to a birthday party
• A maestro asks "May I have an A, please?" and a gigantic lowercase a falls from above.

B

• B for certain boy and Bosco producing bubbles in a bath
• B for bandit, biscuits, bottles of wine, etc. (with Casey Kasem narrating)
• The Beetles performing "Letter B"

C

• Cousin Monster brings Cookie Monster a plethora of healthy foods that begin with C, when he was expecting cookies.
• C for candle (which blows back at a man)
• Speech balloon skit: C for carrot

D

• D-dart
• "D Duah Duah"
• "Small b, Small d"
• Bob and Maria visit the D museum.

E

• Muppets scream E!
• E for erase
• The E Animal Award

F

• Typewriter skit: F for fly
• F for Fred, foot and Friday (with a Frankenstein-style monster)
• Frances Fairy

G

• Grover and the Growing G
• Word Showcase film - Activities, foods, jobs and animals that start with G (including go-go dancers which was edited out of the HBO Max releases)
• G for Giggle
• Gorilla applies for a job

H

• H for Hello
• H for horseshoe
• Mad scientist builds a walking capital H
• Ernie fixes a TV which displays systematic Hs uttered by Jerry Nelson

I

• I-ink (with an angry bird)
• The capital I is quite a guy
• I for impolite
• "I Stand Up Straight and Tall" sung by Grover

J

• J for Jacket, Jenny and Jeff
• The J Commercial ("Don't jive a judge by jamming a junebug")
• Jughead and his J story

K

• K for Karate (the one with the Pink Panther)
• Version 1 of the Muppet cheerleaders K skit
• K for Key (Speech balloon skit with Casey Kasem's voice)

L

• "If You Lost Your L, Look Around"
• Maria reads "The Legend of Lord Lester"
• Various cast members illustrate L words, ending with lasso

M

• Herbert Birdsfoot's M/W lecture
• M for mouse, mud, mother
• The M Who Came to Dinner

N

• Reporter interviews a lowercase n
• The story of "Nancy the Nanny Goat"
• N is for Number Nine (I like it better as a letter N segment than a number 9 segment)

O

• Lefty sings "Would You Like to Buy an O?"
• Alphabet Chat "O"
• Word Showcase cartoon/film: "I'm the letter O!"

P

• Letter P sunset
• Anything Muppet hillbillies sing "P is My Favorite Letter"
• P is for painting

Q

• "The Question Song"
• Q for Quarter (Casey Kasem voiceover)
• Hypnotic Q Rainbow with three 5-letter words starting with Q

R

• Grover and the rolling, rocking, running and rocketing letter R
• Man explains letter R with radio in hand
• Alphabet Chat "R"
• R car skit

S

• Superman and the letter S
• S for various transportation methods which annoy a man who orders them to stop!
• Six snakes spent Saturday on the sand

T

• Speech balloon T-train
• T for TV (Casey Kasem segment)

U

• The Beetles perform "Thinking of U"
• U for uniform
• Short man explains the uses of the letter U, plus places that start with U
• Ernie & Bert "Happy Birthday to U"

V

• "The Villain in the Panama Hat"
• The Big Letter V limerick
• V for vitamins, vim, vigor, vitality

W

• W for Wilhelmina
• Dragnet parody with Sgt. Thursday and Ben hunting for a wanted W
• "Wanda the Witch"

X

• "X Marks the Spot!" (Sherlock Hemlock song)
• "Cowboy X"
• Xs are displayed over a black sky

Y

• The Yakity-Yakity-Yak
• Old West sketch with Sinister Sam: "I Wanna Know Y!"
• Y for Yak (consonant sound limerick)

Z

• Z for zip, zoom, zig, zag, zany, zoo
• "The Zizzy Zoomers"
• Alien gets stalked by a Z
• Alien arrives to Earth and pilfers a Z off a police officer's uniform and eats it