Help Pick Clips for the 40th Anniversary DVD

[mbmfrog]

It's great that there is an official release date. It's interesting that the season premier, the release of this, and the book are all coming out on november 10.

Wow, the only way it would be better if they actual planned a Television special for the night of Nov. 10th that we don't know about.

 

[Drtooth]

Wow, the only way it would be better if they actual planned a Television special for the night of Nov. 10th that we don't know about.

They're just gonna show the season opener again. I guess it's a budgetary thing. I blame PBS for it, myself. The only prime time specials they want are for pledge month, and they have to be some elderly friendly music program, some Celtic Music program where they don't actually sing any music that's actually Celtic, and a bunch of infomercials for a book that the writers donated for tax credits.

I'm really hoping that this collection isn't 90% already released footage.

 

[minor muppetz]

I'm really hoping that this collection isn't 90% already released footage.

Me, too! I'd rather it be 90 percent (man, how do you make that percent symbol?) material available on sesamestreet.org.

 

[minor muppetz]

Here is a listing of segments that I'd like to see included.

Disc 1: 1969-1989

• Bert and Ernie: Appliance War
• Kermit's Feelings Lecture
• Henson #1
• Chickety Chick
• Poverty X
• The People in Your Neighborhood -- postman and fireman
• Jazz #8
• Bert and Ernie: Sandbox Game
• Everyone Likes Ice Cream
• Susan: Alphabet
• James Earl Jones: Alphabet
• Mahna Mahna
• Buddy and Jim: Ironing Board
• Rubber Duckie
• Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
• N-Nail
• Professor Hastings: Letter Y Lecture
• Henson Clay E
• Sounds Film (CTW Archives mentions lists three different sound films in the first season, with no details, but it does say that the following must follow a sound film)
• Ernie's Magical Sunglasses
• Sing
• Eleven Cheer
• Prairie Dawn Invites 3 Monsters
• Banana in Ernie's Ear, Part 1
• Imagination Rain
• Banana in Ernie's Ear, Part 2
• Bill Cosby: Twins Count to 20
• Banana in Ernie's Ear, Part 3
• Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot: Help
• Larry and Phyllis (one we don't know about)
• Ernie's Missing Cookies
• Roosevelt Franklin Spells His Name
• Grover Demonstrates Surprise
• Mad
• George the Farmer: 5 is always 5
• Cookie Monster and Herbert Birdsfoot: Cookie Puzzle
• Bonanza cast: Adding Horses
• Ernie and the Candy Salesman
• Harvey Kneeslapper: Letter B Joke
• Mumford: Levitation Act
• Candy Man
• Mad Painter #4
• The Sound of the Letter A
• Kermit and Bob Discuss Frogs
• Ernie and Bert: String Reminder
• Three on Lady's Lap
• Wally and Ralph: Peanut Butter
• The National Association of W Lovers
• The Count and Cookie Monster Co-Operate
• Everybody Eats
• Julius and Jasper: Elbows
• The Golden An
• Gymnast: Above
• Herry and John-John: 20
• Nobody with Snuffleupagus
• Grover: The Big Hamburger
• Christopher Clumsy: Hole and Wall
• I'm an Aardvark
• Anything Muppets Draw Shapes
• Count it Higher
• Kermit and Grover: Heavy and Light
• Five Feet High and Rising
• The Geefle and the Gonk
• Twiddlebugs in the Rain
• The Anything-in-the-Whole-Wide-World Prize Game
• Bein' Green with Lena Horn
• The Addition Game
• Tell a Joke
• The King Banishes the Letter P
• None Some All
• Let's Make a Face
• I'm Square
• Big Bird's Fowards/Backwards Home Movies
• G-Goose and Gander
• Boy from Indiana
• Typewriter: O-Owl
• Pinball Number Count #5
• Super Grover: Gate Exit
• I Want a Monster to Be My friend
• Thelma Thumb
• Kermit and Grover: Earmuff Salesman
• Ernie and the Cookie Bunny
• Count Up to Nine
• Marshall Grover: Front and Back
• Biff and Sully's Chocolate Milk
• Admiral Bird
• Kermit: T-Shirt Shop
• The Cursed Prince
• Bert and Ernie: Brad's Bath
• Grover Echos 1-10
• How to Get to Yellowstone Park
• David Disco Skates
• Billy Jo Jive: Money Mystery
• Fonzie: Same and Different
• One and One Make Two
• Sign Cartoon: Kiss Me
• Proud of Me
• Disco Frog
• Ernie and Jason: AT Words
• Ringmaster #2
• David and Maria Imagine Gordon with Hair
• Born to Add
• Mystery Guest
• Thinking of U
• The Leslie Mostly Show: Mumford
• Geometry of Circles
• Letters Make Words: B (or any other segmnets, if others exist)
• All By Myself
• Me Lost me Cookie
• If I Were
• Wheels on My Feet
• Deena and Pearl: Underwater
• I Can Do It By Myself
• Two-Headed Monster: Same and Different, Part 1
• Cocanut Counting Man
• Two-Headed Monster: Same and Different, Part 2
• I Like to Sing
• Two-Headed Monster: Same and Different, Part 3
• Grover: Singing Telegrams
• That Grouchy Face
• We Coulda
• Sesame Street News: Speaking Stick
• Teeny Little Superguy: Sharing a Swing
• I'm Sad Because I'm Happy
• Monsterpiece Theater: Chariots of Fur
• Home Run on the Range
• Super Grover Fixes Computer
• Google Bugle
• Remembering Mr. Hooper
• I Wish I Had a Friend to Play with Me
• Kermit and Telly: Headwarmer Salesman
• Big Bird Crosses the Street
• Beginning, Middle, End
• Caveman Days: Taking the Kid to School
• Here is Your Life: 2102 Shady Lane
• Kermit's Mystery Box
• Opposite Stuff
• You Say Hola, I Say Hola
• Snuffy Jumps on Trampoline
• U Really Got a Hold of Me
• Sesame Street News: Old MacDonald and the Spaceship
• The Batty Bat
• Two-Headed Monster: Zoo or Playground
• Detective Series: Knot in Snake
• Excuse me Chair
• When Bert's Not Here
• Miami Mice: The Count
• Big Bird and Snuffy: This Little Piggy...
• Squeal of Fortune
• Forgetful Jones Brushes Teeth
• Letter I Candles
• African Alphabet
• Danny Devito: Bus Stop
• Put Down the Duckie
• Rock 'N Roll Readers
• Kermit and Monster Fix-It Team
• Write It Down
• Baby Honker Hatches
• The American Revolution: National Bird
• Monsterpiece Theater: Ali Baba
• Ask Oscar: Do grouches Have Discussions?
• The Birdland Jump
• How I Miss My X
• Alone in the Swamp with You
• The Picnic
• They Can't Take That Away From Me
• The Dentist of Seville
• The Word is No
• Gordon Preaches Rain
• Beat the Time: Elmo
• Leo the Party Monster: Party Line
• Biff and Sully Get Angry
• Bellhop #16
• Number Creatures #20
• Good Morning, Morning
• Fay Ray: Animal Disguises
• Jake the Snake
• Above It All
• Susan Surrandon and The Count: Countign Knocks
• Ernie brings Bert a Surprise
• High 12
• Just the Way You Are

Disc 2: 1989-2009

• Monster in the Mirror
• Elmo's Song
• Whoopi Goldberg and Hoots: Pride
• Monsterpeice Theater: Twin Beaks
• Sesame Street News: They Live in Different Places
• Don't Throw That Trash on the Ground
• Guy Smiley's Audiences Lunch
• Forgetful Jones and Daniella: Yes
• Boy Brushes Teeth and Leaves water Running
• Two-Headed Monster: Juice Carton
• Grover: Taxi Driver
• Prairie Dawn's Recylcing Pageant
• Sneak Peek Previews: Siskel and Ebert
• Bo Knows
• Mysterious Theater: The Case of the Missing Cat
• I Gotta Be Clean
• The Trash Can
• This Song is for the Birds
• The Adventures of Prairie Dawn: Komquash
• Fay Ray: Headphones
• Lillian and Pride
• I Can Sing When You Sing
• Numberella
• Gordona nd Linda: Surprise
• Super Grover and Super Elmo
• Mountain of Love
• Simon Soundman: Call
• Gonna Rock You to Sleep
• The New Here is Your Life: Glass of Milk
• Jim Carrey's Feet
• Grover: Rival Waiter
• Elephant Elevador Operador
• The World Wide World of the World
• Just Happy to be Me
• Don't Touch Me
• Ernie Catches Fish
• Zork in California
• Zoe Releases a Genie
• When Oscar Met Slimey
• Big Bird's Sun Poem
• Bubble on my Snuffle
• Rebecca Lobo and the Letter O
• Fiesta/ Siesta
• Sesame Street Open
• Girl of the World
• Grover the Photographer
• Monsterpiece Theater: ABCD Blue
• You Tickle Me
• Worms in Space: 17
• Ernie's Show and Tell: Rubber Duckies
• Suzie Kabloozie: In My Head
• Monsters in Day Care: Clean-Up
• C is for Cookie
• Share with Elmo and Zoe
• Sing with the Dixie Chicks
• Hero Guy
• Bert and Ernie: Animal Patterns
• Everybody be Yo'Self
• Musical Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood
• Number of the Day: 14
• Letter of the Day: Q
• Spanish Word of the Day: Si and No
• Ray Ramona and Grover: Frusterated
• Bert Chooses a Pigeon Hat
• Global Grover: Alaska
• Global Thingy: Race
• Journey to Ernie: Beach
• Animals in my Room
• Don't Know Y
• Six Feet Under
• Joe Hundread Guy
• Letter of the day Games: W
• Oscar: Bein' Green
• Murray and Kid exercise
• Because We're Friends
• Grover: 8 Trick
• Abby Makes Elmo a Doll
• Annie Get Your Gumbo
• Meal or No Meal
• Feist: 1234
• Murray Has a Little Lamb: Karate School
• Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures: Outer Space
• Upcoming Season 40 Sketches

An official list of contents was announced today, and by my count only 18 of what I put in that wishlist will make it into the set (unless the chapter stops don't include everything, or if maybe there are easter eggs...).

 

[minor muppetz]

It's kind of interesting... For most of the choices that didn't win, we still got something on this set that was pretty much similar. Pinball #12 didn't win, but we still got a Pinball segment. The Alligator King and Martian Beauty didn't win, but we still got a Budd Luckey cartoon (though only one). King of 8 and Henson Ball didn't win, but we still got two Henson films (though I'd be shocked if we didn't get any baker films). We didn't get the original What's the Name of That Song? but we still got a version of the song. We didn't get Carribian Amphibean, but we did get a Kermit song from the late-1980s that had been released on The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street, but never on any full-english-language north american DVD.

It's only a little hard to determine what Big Bird and Elmo segments are there in place of I Just Adore Four and Elmo's Debut (aka Happy Tapping). I guess Elmo's Song is there in place of Elmo's Debut (pretty much everything else starring Elmo pairs him with a celebrity). And I can't think of what Big Bird segments could be a good substitute... There's no solo Big Bird songs, and no Big Bird clips from the 1970s.

And most interestingly, the remembering string sketch is only a bonus feature, "Fan Favorite". I wonder if all the main program clips were already planned... If that's the case, we could have gotten two Pinball segments, or two versions of What's te Name of That Song? And in fact we do have another season two Bert and Ernie segment on the set.

And I wonder if the voting was unfair competition. After all, one commercially unreleased segment vs. several that had been released commercially... If all the nominated clips were previously unreleased, I wonder if this one would have won. Or if the nominations were half-released sketch and half-unreleased.