First Skit?

[Grover]

Can anyone tell me what the first skit on SS, featuring the brick background?

 

[JLG]

I think this was first one, from the first show. It's a two-parter where Kermit is trying to talk about the letter W, and a certain blue monster (who hadn't yet evolved into Cookie Monster) keeps eating parts of it, first turning it into an N, then a V, then an I.

The second part has Kermit with a new W, and no monster in sight. However, this letter W is rather uncooperative, Walking and Wiggling while the frog tries to lecture. When Kermit scolds it, it attacks him and beats him up.


It seems like you can always tell a first season sketch by that gray background. Am I right that it was only that color at very start?

 

[fatblue]

Correct, the pilot episode, and many more skits like that were to follow. Always loved that brick wall! LOL!!

 

[JLG]

I like to imagine where that wall might be. I always figured Sesame Street was close to Central Park, so I placed it somewhere there. (Oh, and in this show, you can have, blue, pink, purple, red, or puke-gray skies )