Little things we've noticed

[D'Snowth]

I'm 100% certain the red flower is Fran; is the yellow Louise?

 

[LittleJerry92]

I believe so, yes.

 

[D'Snowth]

The left-handed performance is an indication.

 

[minor muppetz]

It seems like the Don Music news segments tend to be treated differently from other Sesame Street News segments, as they don't have the News Flash title card (some have said that some episodes tacked it on - anybody know of any actual episodes to do that?), and Sesame Workshop tends to avoid the "Kermit News" heading on those segments, judging by how they're listed in Old School: Vol. 2 and various online uploads (though I see that the official YouTube uploads currently do have "|Kermit News" listed at the end, which wasn't always there).

Normally, I wouldn't expect two News segments to be in one episode, but there are a few that feature two - often with one being a Suzanne Farrell appearance or a Dr. Nobel Price interview, but as far as I know, never a Don Music sketch and another news segment in the same episode. So maybe Dr. Nobel Price and Suzanne Farrell are considered different cases.

But those ones do open with the News Flash title card (well, the one with Warren Wolf doesn't). Of course those two don't have much out there where fans can read how they're "titled", but 40 Years of Sunny Days lists a Dr. Nobel Price segment with the "Kermit News" header (while the Warren Wolf one is just titled on DVD "Dr. Nobel Price's Talky Stick", I wonder if that's how the scripts title it, wouldn't make sense to list it as "Kermit News"). But I think the scripts do put "Kermit News" within the title (I'm sure I've seen a wiki guide that listed "Kermit News: Hopping with Suzanne Farrell" before we really knew which Suzanne Farrell sketch it was).

 

[minor muppetz]

Muppet Wiki has a sandbox page for uncredited performers, most of them being ones who were uncredited on Sesame Street. Which makes me wonder: If by chance a performer only did one street scene, especially one that didn't air on a Friday show with credits, would being uncredited me much of a big deal? The show seemed to use the same credits throughout the seasons, never crediting guest stars and such, usually only crediting certain things for sake of copyright acknowledgement.

Looking at all those uncredited performers, it's amazing to see how seldom Fran Brill seemed to perform all those years she was uncredited. Now that the wiki has more firsts and nearly all the scripts, we can now know more in terms of first appearances. And Street Gang does say that Brill only did a few weeks back then (which I think was the case with most of the main performers), but seeing that Prairie Dawn only appeared in a few segments each season and that Bril's additional performances each season were few (and there's likely some right handing and non-speaking roles we don't know about), I guess it's no wonder they didn't credit her for so long (and maybe no wonder Little Bird didn't appear often). Though a lot of her performances would have been repeated a lot, I'd like to think that would count for something.

And actually, remember above when I said it seems the credits would always be the same throughout the season? It mentions Fran Brill started to be credited again in season 21, but she's also not credited in the early credits episodes of the season. I guess that's one case where they changed the credits before the season ended.

Surprised to see that Steve Whitmire wasn't credited for so long. I knew he wasn't credited in season 25, but I would have thought he'd be credited by season 29. He was first credited in season 30. Also interesting that Matt Vogel and Eric Jacobson weren't credited in their first known seasons. I was expecting Dave Goelz to have been credited in season 24 and Brian Meehl in season 25 but they weren't, either.

On another note, I used to think that all Sneak Peek Previews segments consisted of existing film/animation segments, but now I'm seeing that that was more common at first and eventually the films Oscar and Telly watch would be Muppet segments existing exclusively in Sneek Peek Previews (kind of like Monsterpiece Theater or Mysterious Theater).

Sesame Workshop sometimes lists Teeny Little Super Guy as being from season 14, but the first one actually premiered in season 15, and looking at the wiki, all of the known segments debuted by the end of season 16. There was a press release/article for season 15 that mentioned the character, but it looks like only the first two segments aired in season 15 (odd that they would announce a new recurring segment if not much aired that season). And actually, the one listed as being from season 14 in Old School Volume 3 first aired in season 15, and the one listed as having debuted in season 15 in 40 Years of Sunny Days first aired in season 16. The wiki page says there were 13 segments while the guide only lists about 8, hopefully soon we'll see soon if any additional segments aired (we have five remaining seasons where that's possible). I have wondered if any went unaired or if the source just guessed/picked a random number.

 

[D'Snowth]

Upon repeat viewings, there's two particular things I've noticed about the 80s video:

1. You can clearly see a long area of matted fur on the front of the face of the recycled Narf puppet where his long green nose used to be.
2. The kitchen sketched in Cookie's "Bake Cookies" parody of "Take On Me" is the same used he baked cookies in for that Siri commercial.

 

[LittleJerry92]

It took me awhile to notice the “Sabasibisaba!” at the end of “Good Morning Starshine” was Bob ad-lib singing that, but Caroll was lip-syncing the purple AM hippie to his voice.

On another note - I noticed the green and purple AMs in that song don’t even have voices at all - the latter is only heard speaking in the end with Caroll’s voice (“Oh, my!”).

 

[minor muppetz]

Recently, the Sesame Street page at Muppet Wiki had it's "notable episodes" section taken down, after somebody had posted about it in the forum and it was decided it was a bit redundant to have that there on the wiki at this point (when there's the milestones page and such). Somebody mentioned that, aside from Julia's introduction, there hadn't seemed to be any real historic episodes since around the wiki was started.

But I'm thinking there have been (but that's subjective). Episodes like Gina adopting Marco, Rudy's introduction (which I believe was publicized enough to make it more notable than the average introduction episode), The Count's noble prize, the Good Birds Club, maybe the season 40 premier, and maybe the episode where the media constantly accuses Cookie Monster of giving up cookies.

And maybe some older, long-unseen episodes might be notable enough, like Ernie's bathroom sing-along.

Of course I'm not trying to get "notable episodes" back to the page, just thinking of episodes I think of as notable that could have been there.

 

[D'Snowth]

Kermit starts lip syncing before the line "You're gonna love this frog" is actually played, so there's about a syllable and a half of Kermit singing nothing.

Also, whoever is performing the lavender AM (I think some sources cite Richard, but I could be mistaken) seems to be having trouble at "No not through slush or fog."

 

[LittleJerry92]

I noticed the fat blue muppet effs up a bit on the line “No-thing-can-STOP....”