how about a SS compilation TV series?

[minor muppetz]

Here are a few more ideas:

Accepting Others

• But I Like You
• kids won't let Zork play ring toss with them because he's an alien
• Tu Me Gustas (with Luis and Elmo, if that version exists as a segment)
• We All Sing with the Same Voice
• Just the Way You Are
• Grover observes that he has fur while a boy has skin
• Roosevelt Franklin sings "Just Because" (if this song exists as a skit)
• Different, Yet the Same
• Still, We Like Each Other

Self-Acceptance

• Bein' Green (with Lena Horne and Kermit)
• Me
• Bein' a Pig (animated version)
• Proud to be a Cow
• The Frogs in the Glen
• Proud of Me
• Lillian and Pride
• I'm an Aardvark (original version)
• I'm No Aardvark, But I'm Still Proud
• Just Happy to be Me

Animals

• Has Anybody Seen my Dog?
• Hard-Working Dog
• Bert teaches Berniece how to play checkers
• Kermit and Bob talk about frogs
• Pick Your Pet
• That's Not Homer!
• Chip and Dip ask a boy to read a "cat" sign
• Every Kitty Sleeps
• The Nobel Ostrich
• Kermit and Gladys switch roles
• I'm an Aardvark (1980s version)
• Big Bird meets Little Bird
• Sesame Street News: Five Little Pigs

Body parts

• Kermit talks about hair
• What's My Part?: Foot
• Hand Talk
• Bert sneezes his nose off
• Grover attempts to sell Kermit a nose warmer
• Monsterpeice Theater: Twin Beaks
• Let's Make a Face
• Two Heads are Better Than One
• Grover talks about heads
• Professor Hastings and Kermit talk about parts of the body

 

[minor muppetz]

Speaking of Muppet sketches, how about the "11 Cookies/One Egg" sketch with Ernie and Cookie Monster? That would fit the theme for an 11-20 compilation; I have it on YouTube here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM0HCcwJfUk

Other great 11-20 sketches that could be included:

• a girl shows that 11 looks the same if it's upside-down
• Mad Painter #11
• Pinball Number Count #11 and 12
• Monsterpiece Theater: Twelve Angry Men
• Cheer Eleven

 

[ISNorden]

Here are a few more ideas:

Accepting Others

• But I Like You
• kids won't let Zork play ring toss with them because he's an alien
• Tu Me Gustas (with Luis and Elmo, if that version exists as a segment)
• We All Sing with the Same Voice
• Just the Way You Are
• Grover observes that he has fur while a boy has skin
• Roosevelt Franklin sings "Just Because" (if this song exists as a skit)
• Different, Yet the Same
• Still, We Like Each Other

Yes, I've seen "Tu Me Gustas" as a street segment--good news! I'd also suggest the "No Matter What" song for this compilation, even though it's live action.

Self-Acceptance

• Bein' Green (with Lena Horne and Kermit)
• Me
• Bein' a Pig (animated version)
• Proud to be a Cow
• The Frogs in the Glen
• Proud of Me
• Lillian and Pride
• I'm an Aardvark (original version)
• I'm No Aardvark, But I'm Still Proud
• Just Happy to be Me

Good choices; I'd add Kingston Livingston III's "Be Yourself" song, and maybe the "me" cartoon with the girl who insists "I'm still me!" every time a witch transforms her.

Animals

• Has Anybody Seen my Dog?
• Hard-Working Dog
• Bert teaches Bernice how to play checkers
• Kermit and Bob talk about frogs
• Pick Your Pet
• That's Not Homer!
• Chip and Dip ask a boy to read a "cat" sign
• Every Kitty Sleeps
• The Nobel Ostrich
• Kermit and Gladys switch roles
• I'm an Aardvark (1980s version)
• Big Bird meets Little Bird
• Sesame Street News: Five Little Pigs

I might add Kingston Livingston III's song about various animal birthday parties, and either version (David's or Bert/Ernie's) of "I Heard My Dog Bark".

Body Parts

• Kermit talks about hair
• What's My Part?: Foot
• Hand Talk
• Bert sneezes his nose off
• Grover attempts to sell Kermit a nose warmer
• Monsterpiece Theater: Twin Beaks
• Let's Make a Face
• Two Heads are Better Than One
• Grover talks about heads
• Professor Hastings and Kermit talk about parts of the body

I'd add these suggestions: "The Body Dance" (live-action rap); "I Love My Elbows" (sung by Kermit); Kermit's lecture about Herry's anatomy (with the X-ray machine); "One Fine Face" (either Muppet version of the song); "What Arms Can Do" (sung by Olivia to kids in a day-care center).

 

[ISNorden]

Out of all the sketches I know of for 21 and higher, there are only a few others that I can think of off-hand: an animated sketch that counted 30 (or was it 40?) pig heads, a sketch where an animated cowboy counted two herds of cattle, adding up to 30, Monsterpiece Theater: The 400 Blows, and a sketch where Fat Blue went to a doughnut shop that Grover worked at and had to wait until Grover called the number on his ticket, 40, even though there didn't appear to be anybody else in the store.

OK, how does this list look for "To 21 and Beyond"? I'm trying to balance Muppet vs. cartoon sketches, and to keep the numbers in order...

• Numberella
• Ernie's "12/21" poem
• The Count watches "24"
• Animated cowboy adds up 30 cows (yes, I saw this one; it was 30 all right!)
• Monsterpiece Theater: "The 39 Steps"
• Guy Smiley invites his audience to lunch (no room for him at a table for 39!)
• Mr. Johnson gets ticket #40 at the bakery (thanks for that suggestion!)
• "40 Blocks to School" (as sung by an Anything Muppet boy on a bus)
• Cartoon: man outdoors at night counts 40 stars "and many more!"
• Joe Hundredguy
• Monsterpiece Theater: "The 400 Blows"
• The Count's sleepover (again, that "numbers go on forever" idea...)

 

[minor muppetz]

OK, how does this list look for "To 21 and Beyond"? I'm trying to balance Muppet vs. cartoon sketches, and to keep the numbers in order...

• Numberella
• Ernie's "12/21" poem
• The Count watches "24"
• Animated cowboy adds up 30 cows (yes, I saw this one; it was 30 all right!)
• Monsterpiece Theater: "The 39 Steps"
• Guy Smiley invites his audience to lunch (no room for him at a table for 39!)
• Mr. Johnson gets ticket #40 at the bakery (thanks for that suggestion!)
• "40 Blocks to School" (as sung by an Anything Muppet boy on a bus)
• Cartoon: man outdoors at night counts 40 stars "and many more!"
• Joe Hundredguy
• Monsterpiece Theater: "The 400 Blows"
• The Count's sleepover (again, that "numbers go on forever" idea...)

Since The Count's sleepover is a two-part sketch, I would put part one before "Joe Hundredguy", and part two after "The 400 Blows" (unless you only intended on having part one be shown). I don't know if you are aware of this, and I haven't actually seen the sketch, but "The 400 Blows" ended at 40 blows instead of 400 (as it was "meant" to be part one).

 

[minor muppetz]

Good choices; I'd add Kingston Livingston III's "Be Yourself" song, and maybe the "me" cartoon with the girl who insists "I'm still me!" every time a witch transforms her.

I actually did list it. It's actual title is "Just Happy to be Me".

I'd add these suggestions: "The Body Dance" (live-action rap); "I Love My Elbows" (sung by Kermit); Kermit's lecture about Herry's anatomy (with the X-ray machine); "One Fine Face" (either Muppet version of the song); "What Arms Can Do" (sung by Olivia to kids in a day-care center).

I thought about including the anatomy sketch in the "Health" episode. I also thought about including "One Fine Face", but didn't. I just saw a great sketch today that I should have included (and I actually saw it before making this list). The sketch is "Fixin' My Hair". I don't know why I didn't list it.

 

[PinballStewie]

More suggestions...How do these sound?

For letters:
A - ape on the train
B - "Letter B" by the Beetles
C - "C Is For Cookie" (naturally )
D - "Daddy Dear"
E - the surreal "e" poem
F - "Frances the Fairy"
G - Gorilla (in man suit)
H - The letter H on TV and/or mad scientist inventing capital H
I - the "beep-beep!" letter i song
J - the country-music letter J song
K - Key ("Close the house Leonard!")
L - "Rebel L" by Billy Idle
M - The "M" chorus conductor
N - "The Letter N/NTV" by Nick Normal and the Nickmatics (hosted by Nora Nicks)
O - Orange (where the man drains the orange)
P - "Peter Piper's Pickled Peppers" Kermit News Flash (this is about the letter P, right? if not, then maybe "Peter Piper's P Products", which I can't recall seeing, but I've definitely heard of.)
Q - "that funny lookin' thing" cartoon
R - the one about Robber, Rowboat, and Rake
S - "Sammy the Snake"
T - for Television (where the man's nose gets turned off as though it's a knob )
U - "When I'm Calling 'U'" by Jeanette and Nelson, a Muppet couple
V - "Villain In the Panama Hat" and/or the surreal "V" cartoon with volcano, vegetables? vampire, and villain among others
W - "The National Association of 'W' Lovers" by Bert
X - the surreal "X" cartoon with the Nico-ish music and Salvador Dali-esque background where the kid repeatedly says "X"
Y - "The Yellow Yahoo"
Z - "ZZ Blues" by Over the Top

(notice that I tried to pick ones that were more than just "letter recognition" segments, with the "X"-ception of the "X" segment since that doesn't really stand for much of anything)

For numbers 1 to 12 (since that's the way it was since about 1970):
1 - "Would Ya Like '1'?" - Harvey Kneeslapper
2 - "2 Little Dolls"
3 - the # 3 superball
4 - "I Just Adore 4" by Big Bird
5 - "Freddy the 5" and/or the one where the Count counts 5 rings on the telephone
6 - "6 Soccer Socks"
7 - "Alligator King"
8 - "The King of 8" and/or Bellhop # 8 (I know it's newer than the other ones I've picked so far, but I LOVE it!)
9 - # 9 Special - Grover the Waiter
10 - "A Count of 10"
11 - The 11 Squares Song
12 - "Ladybug Picnic" and/or the one with 12 rocks in the desert (I'd SO prefer the desert rocks one, but then again I like the "surrealist" skits on Sesame St.)

for 13 - 20:

13 - 13 Hamburgers
14 - "Sing A Song of 14" and/or "14 Carrot Love"
15 - "Just Take A Look At 15"
16 - Bellhop # 16
17 - Rap # 17
18 - Bellhop # 18
19 - the weird Sally Cruikshank-ish creatures
20 - the other weird creature series (starting with # 1 holding an umbrella up) and/or Rubber Stamps

for 21 and beyond:
21 - ummm...can't say I have a suggestion here considering I've merely heard of these and not actually seen 'em
30 - maybe the one with 30 cows since I found out recently that it was on a tape I saw as a little kid
39 - "The 39 Stairs" and/or Guy Smiley's table for 39
40 - "40 Dots"! (if not, then 40 Lemmings)

as for other themes, I've got some...

"Classic Rock" (DIRECT parodies of rock songs and/or bands from the '60s, '70s, and '80s):
"Born to Add" by Bruce Stringbean
"Count It Higher" by Chrissy and the Alphabeats (it kinda sounds like "Twist and Shout" by the Beatles)
"ZZ Blues" by Over the Top
"Rebel L" by Billy Idle
"Barn In the USA" by Bruce Stringbean
"Letter B" by the Beetles
"Hey Food" by the Beetles (featuring Cookie Monster)
"It's Hip to Be A Square" by the 4 Sides
"I Cry" (or is it "How I Can Cry"?) by Rocky


"New Wave" (with the exception of the last one, these wouldn't fit under "Classic Rock" since they're not direct parodies of bands OR songs):
"Wet Paint" by How Now Brown Cow and the Moo Wave
"Danger's No Stranger" by How Now Brown Cow and the Moo Wave
"The Letter N" by Nick Normal and the Nickmatics
"Above It All"
"Beginning, Middle, and End"

"Scared?":
"A Count of 10"
Red-hot "I" beam
Singing orange
(I'd love to think of more for this category, but I'm kinda stuck )

 

[TotallySpiesFan]

"Scared?":
"A Count of 10"
Red-hot "I" beam
Singing orange
(I'd love to think of more for this category, but I'm kinda stuck )

How about:

Kermit, the milk, and the monsters
Beautiful Day Monster doing a B sound
Cookie Monster eating Kermit's W
Big V eating Kermit's radio
Fred the Dragon inside Kermit's box
Ernie going rock hunting and seeing Fred the Dragon
Ernie giving Bert a #4 quiz
Herry crashing down Farley's door and scaring him
Grover's G starting to grow
A cartoon about adding and subtracting ladybugs and lizards
A cartoon with a girl finding a wall crack monster
A cartoon with an apple tree on an ogre's head
A counting elevator

 

[Drtooth]

This would have been a great idea, had SW actually did something with Sprout and not just make it a rerun network. I really wish SW had enough money to go into something like this without other companies' help. I mean, who the shell wants to watch Barney at midnight?

 

[minor muppetz]

This would have been a great idea, had SW actually did something with Sprout and not just make it a rerun network. I really wish SW had enough money to go into something like this without other companies' help. I mean, who the shell wants to watch Barney at midnight?

I think that this also would have been a great idea for a Noggin series. Maybe have it focus on sketches not shown on Sesame Street Unpaved or 123 Sesame Street. As for watchign Barney at midnight, I wonder if there are adult fans of Barney, who were fans when the show began and want to watch the early episodes. Are there adults who like Barney just as much as how we like Mupets and Sesame Street? Otherwise, Sprout should just show 1969-1990 Sesame Street and The Electric Company during those hours.