Grown ups telling us fairy tales

[Mickey Moose]

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.

This also appeared on one of the Sesame Street albums(I forget which one) where Herb was the narrator, and Oscar played the genie. And the 3 wishes were for a plate, a box and then the truck. And it was all done in rhyme.

 

[Daffyfan4ever]

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.

I see. Thanks for the info.

 

[MuppetDude]

The Genie of the Toothpaste is the exact same genie of Aladdin's. He'd also appear in 2002 with a human version of Aladdin (played by David Alan Grier. Count, this is for you. This Aladdin was African-American with a green turbin, white puffy-sleeved shirt, blue vest, green pants, and pointy golden-colored shoes.)

 

[Ziffel]

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!

Yeah as soon as I saw this thread this is the one that came to mind for me as my favorite. I liked the sets they did for the village and building scenery. The music was pretty neat too that occurred after each time the boy muppet yells, "Help! Monster!" It was a pretty fun skit and a cute idea for the consequence of "crying monster" too many times was that he lost his cookies. I also got a kick of that ending where Cookie Monster hastily takes back the cookie he offered to Maria. One thing I don't recall fuzzygobo, is Cookie Monster kissing the boy muppet. My recollection is that when the villagers refused to come running to help, Cookie Monster says, "Well, look like you and me kid. And you know what, me eat cookies! Ahm num num!"
And the boy shouts, "Help the monster's eating all my cookies. Oh why did I ever make believe the monster was coming? Now no one believes the monster is really here. Ohhh. Ohhh." And then I thought it swithces to the final scene with Maria.
I also would like to ask a question about another story I remember just a little bit about. It had a mother muppet with two boy muppets, one named quiet and one named loud. She had a problem vexing her - one of her sons spoke too loud it got on her nerves and the other spoke so quiet she had a hard time making out what he was saying. Someone came to the rescue but rectified the problem by simply switching their roles. Now quiet spoke too loud and vice versa. And then I think at the end the mother wanted it back the way it was. But her nerves still took a beating when loud talked. What I definitely don't remember is who told this story? Was this also narrated by a SS adult?

 

[mikebennidict]

yes Bob did that one.

 

[Fuzzy and Blue]

the only one I'm really familiar with is Maria telling "The King's Problem." She looks so young when you see her onscreen introducing it! I know that the "Bedtime Stories and Songs" video (the only audio evidence of SS that I still have) was released in 1986 and is probably out of print by now, but it looks like Maria had done that way before the video was released.

~Dana~

 

[Xerus]

Yeah as soon as I saw this thread this is the one that came to mind for me as my favorite. I liked the sets they did for the village and building scenery. The music was pretty neat too that occurred after each time the boy muppet yells, "Help! Monster!" It was a pretty fun skit and a cute idea for the consequence of "crying monster" too many times was that he lost his cookies. I also got a kick of that ending where Cookie Monster hastily takes back the cookie he offered to Maria. One thing I don't recall fuzzygobo, is Cookie Monster kissing the boy muppet. My recollection is that when the villagers refused to come running to help, Cookie Monster says, "Well, look like you and me kid. And you know what, me eat cookies! Ahm num num!"
And the boy shouts, "Help the monster's eating all my cookies. Oh why did I ever make believe the monster was coming? Now no one believes the monster is really here. Ohhh. Ohhh." And then I thought it swithces to the final scene with Maria.
I also would like to ask a question about another story I remember just a little bit about. It had a mother muppet with two boy muppets, one named quiet and one named loud. She had a problem vexing her - one of her sons spoke too loud it got on her nerves and the other spoke so quiet she had a hard time making out what he was saying. Someone came to the rescue but rectified the problem by simply switching their roles. Now quiet spoke too loud and vice versa. And then I think at the end the mother wanted it back the way it was. But her nerves still took a beating when loud talked. What I definitely don't remember is who told this story? Was this also narrated by a SS adult?

That story you mentioned was called Quiet and Loud. Which were the boys' names. Bob told the story and Mumford was the magician who swtiched their roles. And it ended with Loud now whispering and Quiet shouting, "COMING MOM!" The mom shouts, "Don't do that!" and Bob whispers. "The end."

 

[Ziffel]

Ah yes the Amazing Mumford. I knew someone intervened to change quiet and loud but forgot who that was. Now it comes back to me.