Grown ups telling us fairy tales

[Xerus]

What are you favorite Sesame Street written fairy tales that the grown ups like to tell us? Mine are...

Bob telling, The King of Y.

Bob telling, The King and the Fireman.

Maria telling The King's Picnic, (I liked all the potato salad that covered the countryside.)

Maria telling, Ike and the Ilk, (Then changed to Mike and the Milk.)

Maria telling, The King's Nose. (Starring Mumford as the king, along with Ernie, Bert, Kermit, as his subjects, and Cookie Monster as the Princess?)

Maria telling, The King's Problem.

Luis telling, The King Banishes the Letter P. (Featuring a painful porcupine.)

Bob telling, The King of Addition. (About a king who learns about subtraction. And that you don't have to throw things to subtract. Especially royal thrones.)

And it seems like Jim Henson usually voices the blue kings and Frank Oz voices the light purple kings.

 

[The Count]

Well... The 1 that has a special place in my memory banks is...
Gordon reading the story of Numberella.

Hey Xerus, do you remember one about the letter K where the subjects gather all the stuff in the kingdom that starts with K in some sort of palace or royal storehouse? Anyway, contact me regarding the characters from these stories, would like to be as complete as possible.
Already got the King and Y thanks to your expert help, and the King and the Fireman, but I'm missing everything else on your list along with the characters from the two I've mentioned.
Hope to hear from you soon.

 

[Daffyfan4ever]

What are you favorite Sesame Street written fairy tales that the grown ups like to tell us? Mine are...

Bob telling, The King of Y.

Bob telling, The King and the Fireman.

Maria telling The King's Picnic, (I liked all the potato salad that covered the countryside.)

Maria telling, Ike and the Ilk, (Then changed to Mike and the Milk.)

Maria telling, The King's Nose. (Starring Mumford as the king, along with Ernie, Bert, Kermit, as his subjects, and Cookie Monster as the Princess?)

Maria telling, The King's Problem.

Luis telling, The King Banishes the Letter P. (Featuring a painful porcupine.)

Bob telling, The King of Addition. (About a king who learns about subtraction. And that you don't have to throw things to subtract. Especially royal thrones.)

And it seems like Jim Henson usually voices the blue kings and Frank Oz voices the light purple kings.

I remember quite a few of them. Mainly the concept was that Bob would tell a story to the kids, then at the end the king or whoever was in the story would show up and talk to Bob or something like that.

A few of them that I remember were King Kenny the Kind, King Wastepaper and another King who was obsessed with chicken.

Here's another one I remember. Once, either Bob or Gordon was telling the story of Forgetful Jones at bat. Forgetful kept missing because he forgot to swing, then when he finally remembered to swing and hit a home run, he forgot to run.

I also remember Numberella. That was a good one.

 

[MuppetDude]

Here's another one I remember. Once, either Bob or Gordon was telling the story of Forgetful Jones at bat. Forgetful kept missing because he forgot to swing, then when he finally remembered to swing and hit a home run, he forgot to run.

That's "Home Run on the Range". Gordon read it, and during the story, Forgetful forgot that a baseball needs to be hit with something that ends in "at". After he uses his hat and a mat, he finally gets a bat. It can be found in episode #2342.

 

[fuzzygobo]

The boy who cried Monster

Maria also tackled Aesop's Fable of the Boy Who Cried Wolf, except this time the threat was Cookie Monster, who treatened to take the villagers' cookies. After two false alarms, CM does show up, and the boy calls for the other villagers to help him, but to no avail. "I wasn't born yesterday!" says one. So the little boy gets his cookies eaten, whining about what a fool he'd been, and Cookie plants a big kiss on him. "BLECCCCHHHH!!!!"

At the end, Cookie Monster offers Maria a cookie and she accepts, only to have CM play Indian-Giver. "Hey, what me doing!!!" And he grabs it back. The rat!

 

[Dantecat]

Remember this one:Maria telling about the story old king cole with Ernie as old king cole?

 

[The Count]

Hey DanteCat... are you talking about the sketch where Ernie was Old King Cole and he had to add up the servants/fiddlers to get all three in the palace? And then they ended playing "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"? Cause that was a sketch about addition and wasn't read persay by María.
Hope this helps and have a good night.

 

[SesameMike]

Toothpaste genie

Was it an adult, or another Muppet (Herbert Birdsfoot?) who told us the tale of the toothpaste genie.

In the story, Cookie Monster somehow released a genie from a tube of toothpaste, and the genie awarded him three wishes.

• For his first wish he asks for a big truck. A Tonka-sized model appears.
• For his second wish he requests a bigger truck, which appears as well.
• For his third wish he asks for the biggest truck of all. What seemed to be a real-life Ford F-150 pickup truck appears on the set.

CM then asked for a million cookies to fill up the back of the pickup, but the genie calmly informs him that he ran out of wishes. So CM decides to make do with what he's got: he eats the truck.

Whoever was the host, CM went up to him/her with the steering wheel and offered a bite. S/he politely refused.

 

[Xerus]

Was it an adult, or another Muppet (Herbert Birdsfoot?) who told us the tale of the toothpaste genie.

In the story, Cookie Monster somehow released a genie from a tube of toothpaste, and the genie awarded him three wishes.

• For his first wish he asks for a big truck. A Tonka-sized model appears.
• For his second wish he requests a bigger truck, which appears as well.
• For his third wish he asks for the biggest truck of all. What seemed to be a real-life Ford F-150 pickup truck appears on the set.

CM then asked for a million cookies to fill up the back of the pickup, but the genie calmly informs him that he ran out of wishes. So CM decides to make do with what he's got: he eats the truck.

Whoever was the host, CM went up to him/her with the steering wheel and offered a bite. S/he politely refused.

It was Bob who told that story and was visited by Cookie about 4 times.

 

[The Count]

The neat thing is that they used that story for the story of the number 3 in the book, Sesame Street 1-2-3 Storybook. Heh, I got that one here, though the cover's a bit tattered. And I remember the cover's art and some of the pics from the stories. The genie looks like a cousin of Mahna Mahna. These were the same stories in each of the volumes of the Sesame Street Library if you guys have those instead. But the even better thing is that after each story in the numbered storybook, you got a Count's Counting Page for each individual number.