how about a SS compilation TV series?

[minor muppetz]

Signs should include some of these:

• Little Jerry's "Danger" song
• Little Chrissy's "Exit" song
• Luis looks for the exit in a bricked-up room
• How Now Brown's songs about "Danger" and "Wet Paint"
• Street scene starring one character (I forget which) going crazy with "Wet Paint" signs
• Roosevelt Franklin teaches the word "Poison"
• One or more of the "mixed-up sign" cartoons
• Super Grover sketch with his taking the "bus stop" sign
• A Muppet band sings about "One Way"
• Cartoon: cars walk across the street on their hind wheels, after the pedestrian light changes
• "Telephone Rock" with the original opening, where Jerry points out the sign on the phone booth
• Live-action shorts of some common signs (STOP, SCHOOL, etc.)
• Miami Mice: Ernie misunderstands the CERRADO sign

Another good skit for that episode would be the sketch where Lefty tried to sell Ernie a stop sign.

 

[mikebennidict]

Why would we need another compilation series when they're already have best of SS stuff out there for the public?

Seems rather pointless.

 

[minor muppetz]

Some more themes:

Food

• Everybody Eats
• a cat tries to get it's can of cat food open while it's owner talks on the phone
• Ernie and Bert share pizza and grape juice
• Everyone Likes Ice Cream
• Grover the waiter: spaghetti
• Healthy Food (2005 version)
• Ernie lies about a monster eating Bert's cake
• Grover the waiter: russian resturaunt
• The Breakfast Club
• alphabet soup cartoon
• Cookie Monster's song about his first cookie

Imagination and Pretending

• Imagine That
• Scramalot
• Little Bird's imagination game
• The Cookie Bunny
• Arnold Rides a Chair
• Prairie Dawn directs Grover in "Singing in the Rain"
• Kermit directs Forgetful Jones in "through the door"
• Imagination
• Prairie Dawn's love pageant

All-Stars

• What's the Name of That Song? (1974 version)
• Do De Rubber Duck
• Monsterpiece Theater: ABCD Blue
• Squeal of Fortune
• Ernie and Bert build a snowman
• Wheels on my Feet
• Headball

Dancing

• Dancing Shoes
• Dance Myself to Sleep
• Cookie Disco
• Do Op Hop
• Doin' the Pigeon
• The Batty Bat
• Do the Jelly
• Rappin' Alphabet

Guest Stars

• Jim Carrey's happy and sad feet
• Sing After Me
• James Earl Jones counts to 10
• the cast of Bonanza count to 20
• I Don't Want to Live on the Moon (with Ernie and Aaron Neville)
• That Grouchy Face
• The Alphabet Song with Lena Horne
• Superman talks about the letter D
• Believe in Yourself (with Diana Ross and Big Bird)
• The People in Your Neighborhood (with Ben Stiller)
• Oh, What a Beautiful Morning

 

[minor muppetz]

I made a listing of clips to use back when I had this idea for unthemed episodes, but now that I've been making lists for "themed" episodes, maybe it would be good for the opening to be the same, but then there could be title sequences featuring montages relating to the episodes theme. Maybe the "From 1 to 10" episode could just show the baker film opening, leading to a title card. The various letter-themed episodes could show images of the featured letters.

 

[minor muppetz]

This would make a good episode about families:

• Grover the waiter: a grandmother's birthday
• Five People in my Family
• We're Doin' the Family Thing
• Ernie describes the similarities and differences between him and Ernestine
• Lillian, Big Sister
• Mommy and Me
• Cookie Monster tries to get Cousin Monster to say she likes cookies
• Sesame Street News: They Live in Different Places, But They Both Love Me
• The Twiddlebugs prepare a family portrait
• ways a family can appear (I don't know how to describe this, and I haven't actually seen it, but I think it involves a family posing in different ways, and Caroll Spinney performs the mother)
• Ernie meets Bert's brother Bart

 

[minor muppetz]

Letter and Number Recognition

• Harvey Kneeslapper: "do ya want one?"
• Mystery Drawing: M
• Harvey Kneeslapper: "Do ya got an A on ya?"
• How I Miss My X
• Mad Painter #6
• The Count meets Maden Two
• Kermit draws a K
• Harvey Kneeslapper: "a sticky four"
• Pinball Number Count #10

 

[Drtooth]

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.

Sigh...unfortunately there are, but they're current episodes, anyway, so there's not even any nostalgia there....

And why didn't Hit at least try Fraggle Rock on the network? It was supposed to be a joint venture between three companies, and it basically seems like it's just PBS and Hit's baby, with some episodes of current SS thrown in...

 

[TotallySpiesFan]

Hopefully they should create PBS Kids Classics, which would include seasons 17-21 and 24 of "Sesame Street", "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", "3-2-1 Contact", "Square One TV", "Ghostwriter", "Lamb Chop's Play Along", "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego", and whatever.

 

[minor muppetz]

Here are some ideas for "best of character" episodes.

Ernie

• Rubber Duckie (1969 version)
• Ernie and Bert go to egypt
• Lefty attempts to sell Ernie a stop sign
• Ernie hides his cookies inside a safe
• Ernie tells Bert that he's thirsty
• Ernie tells Bert about his trip to the zoo
• Monkeys Under my Bed

Bert

• Doin' the Pigeon
• Bert shows Ernie his bottlecap colection
• Stick Out Your Hand and Say Hello
• Bert's Blanket
• Ernie has Bert stay outsid ethe apartment
• Ernie makes a clay sculpture of Bert
• Bert imagines himself as an ice skater

Grover

• Proud of Me
• Grover the elevador operador: Front and Back
• Grover the waiter: poetic memory
• Monster in the Mirror
• Super Grover: computer
• Kermit and Grover demonstrate heavy and light

Herry Monster

• I Can't Help It
• A Song for Two is a Song for One
• The Life of a Butterfly
• Monsterpiece Theater: Guys and Dolls
• Herry and John-John count to 20
• Kermit x-rays Herry

Cookie Monster

• C is for Cookie (1998 version)
• The Cookie Bunny
• Monsterpiece Theater: Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves
• Breakfast Time
• Cookie Monster eats the Count's apples
• The Ballad of Casey McPhee
• A Cookie is a Sometiems Food

The Count

• The Count coutns Ernie and Bert's blocks
• Beat the Time: The Count
• Grover the Waiter: The Count orders hot dogs
• The Song of the Count
• The Count's bats go on strike
• The Count meets Maden Two
• The Count and Cookie Monster coutn and eat cookies
• The Batty Bat

Kermit the Frog

• Kermit's B sounds lecture
• Kermit and Grover demonstrate long and sort with ladders
• Grover attempts to sell Kermit a nose warmer
• Sesame Street News: Magic Mirror
• A Song from Kermit
• Kermit and Joey recite the alphabet
• Kermit and Elmo demonstrate loud and quiet
• This Frog

 

[ISNorden]

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).

You've got a point; I'd drop "The 400 Blows" and show both halves of the sleepover sketch. After all, it's the second half that includes Ernie counting to ridiculously high numbers as he walks around half-asleep... Part 1 would be best before "Joe Hundredguy" and Part 2 after; putting that "and so on, and so on, and so on" counting at the end of the episode would really drive the lesson home!