Old School DVD set ideas

[minor muppetz]

I wonder if it would be good to make a few different numbers boxed sets, in volumes. Each set would include segments for all numbers up to 20 (and beyond). For the first few sets it might be best to leave out Jazz #2, Two Song (Song of Two), Pinball Number Count #2, Dollhouse, and other skits that are featured a lot on the Old School sets. Of course, I just realised that if volume 3 continues the pattern of season premiers, then two episodes on that set won't be sponsored by two.

This would make for two good number boxed sets:

Disc 1: up to 10

• Number of the Day: 0
• a zero feels bad about being a zero
• Ernie and Cookie Monster count 0 cookies
• One Song (Song of One)
• Monsterpiece Theater: One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest
• How Many Birds Can Fit on a Wire?
• One and One Make Two
• Mad Painter #2
• Bellhop #2
• Kermit draws a 2
• Jazz #3
• Harvey Kneeslapper: sticky 3
• Ernie draws items that there are four of
• Four Song (Song of Four)
• Kermit counts four eggs
• Harvey Kneeslapper's joy buzzer prank
• Five People in My Family
• Six Snails
• Suzie Kabloozie: judge #6
• Snow White counts dwarfs
• Jazz #7
• Mad Painter #7
• The Count counts seven flowers
• Number of the Day: 8 (baker film opening remake version)
• Lefty attempts to sell Ernie an 8
• Jazz #8
• Ernie's sandbox game
• Eight Balls fo Fur
• Candy Man
• Nine Song (Song of Nine)
• Mad Painter #9
• Count Up to Nine
• Jazz #9
• Pinball Number Count #9
• Grover the waiter: picture menu
• The Ten Commandments of Health
• Ten Song (Song of Ten) (ten indians version)
• Mad Painter #10

Disc 2: 11-19

• a girl shows that 11 is the same upside-down as it is right-side-up
• It's a Lovely Eleven Morning
• Mad Painter #11
• Monsterpiece Theater: 12 Angry Men
• Ladybug Picnic
• Clown Honking #12
• Number of the Day: 13 (season 36 version)
• Lucky Thirteen
• Suzie Kabloozie: judge #13
• Number Creatures #13
• 14 Carrot Love
• Just Take a Look At Sixteen
• Rap Song #17
• Bellhop #18
• Snuffy jumps on Big Bird's trampoline

disc 3: 20 and beyond

• Number of the Day: 20 (original version)
• Cookie Monster and the napkin
• Grover and Herbert Birdfsfoot count to 20
• Herry and John John count to 20
• the numbers 1-20 get destroyed
• Kermit and Joey count to 20
• Numberella
• 30 pig faces
• Monsterpiece Theater: The 400 Blows
• Joe Hundred Guy

And this would be volume 2:

Disc 1: up to 10

• Harvey Kneeslapper: do ya want one?
• one duck
• Two Heads Are Better Than One
• The Count meets Maden Two
• Monsterpiece Theater: The Postman Always Rings Twice
• Pinball Number Count #3
• I Just Adore Four
• Funny Farm
• Beat the Time: Grover
• Five Purple Konkers
• Kermit and Brian count to 5
• Number of the Day: Six Feet Under
• Six Soccer Socks
• Six
• Six Song (Song of Six)
• Suzie Kabloozie: judge #6
• Mad Painter #6
• Jazz #6
• Queen of Six
• The Alligator King
• Seven Days
• Pinball Number Count #8
• Bellhop #8
• Ernie's 9 collecton
• Ten Tiny Turtles on the Telephone
• Ernie, the world's greatest counter of numbers
• Bellhop #10
• Jazz #10

Disc 2: 11-19

• Eleven Cheer
• Pinball Number Count #11
• Rap Song #11
• Twelve Rocks
• Number Creatures #13
• Clown Honking #14
• Rubber Stamps #15

Disc 3: 20 and Beyond

• Beat the Time: The Count
• Bill Cosby twins count to 20
• The Cats of Bonanza Counts to 20
• counting to 20 with four-armed guru
• 24
• Monsterpeice Theater: The 39 Stairs
• 40 Blocks From My Home

 

[ISNorden]

A multi-volume approach (with all volumes divided into subgroups) probably would do more justice to the hundreds of letter and number segments that have appeared on Sesame Street. As far as number segments go, though--

• The "Harvey Kneeslapper" suggestion you gave was ambiguous; his prank for #3 is "Three sticks here!", and for #4 the joke is based on the man asking "What's a sticky for?" Did you mean to include both?
• Did you mean "Just Take a Look at Fifteen" on the first disc for #11-19? That would leave a gap between 15-17; I'd suggest either the "Number 16 Blues" cartoon or the "16 Samba" Muppet sketch there; maybe the two could appear in separate volumes.
• For "20 and Beyond" I'd make two additions. First, both of the sketches that specifically taught 21 should be there (it's the highest number to sponsor Sesame Street in the US, after all): one volume might have Ernie's "12 and 21", and the other might have "Numberella". Second, "The Count's Sleepover" two-parter should appear before/after the next-to-last track on one of those discs; it teaches that numbers go on forever.

 

[minor muppetz]

[*]The "Harvey Kneeslapper" suggestion you gave was ambiguous; his prank for #3 is "Three sticks here!", and for #4 the joke is based on the man asking "What's a sticky for?" Did you mean to include both?

I meant "Three sticks".

And I also meant "Take a Look at Fifteen".

 

[minor muppetz]

Here's another great idea:

Sesame Street People, Animals, Places, and Things

Disc 1: People

• The People in Your Neighborhood (featuring a postman and fireman)
• which is Ernie, and which is Cookie Monster?
• My Name (with Maya Angelou)
• Me
• Sesame Street News: The Wicked Witch's Magic Mirror
• Grover the waiter: grandmother's birthday
• The People in Your Neighborhood (with Ben Stiller)
• Ernie meets Bert's brother Bart
• Sesame Street News: waiting for the woodsman
• What's My Job?
• I'm a Real Cowboy
• a lost boy doens't recognize his uncle in police officer clothing
• Ernie and Bert search for Dr. Livingstone
• The People in Your Neighborhood (featuring a grocer and a doctor)

Disc 2: Animals

• Has Anybody Seen My Dog?
• Let's Lay an Egg
• Kermit and Bob talk about frogs
• Bert teaches Berniece how to play checkers
• Grover and the butterfly
• Chip and Dip ask a boy if he can guess what word is on a sign that reads "CAT"
• Monsterpiece Theater: Dances with Wolves
• Fay Ray in animal disguises
• Kermit and Gladys switch roles
• Being a Pig (animated version)
• I'm an Aardvark
• Pigeons on Parade
• Tadpole
• This Song is for the Birds
• Simon Soundman meets Old MacDonald
• Sesame Street Sports: The Tortose and the Hare
• Harry the Horse
• Speech Balloon: B-bug
• a gorillia applies for a job
• Sesame Street News: favorite animals

Disc 3: Places

• Global Grover: Alaska
• The World Wide World of the World
• City-Country Song
• Grover the waiter: Russian Resturaunt
• Ernie and Bert go to an egyptian pyrimid
• I Go to School
• Sesame Street News: London Fog
• Miami Mice: Ernie's Rubber Duckie at the cerrado repair shop
• Grover the waiter: south america
• I Don't Want to Live on the Moon
• Global Grover: France

Disc 4: Things

• Kermit's mystery box
• Lefty attempts to sell Ernie an empty box
• a woman wants to buy a furry blue coat
• D-U-C-K-I-E
• Martians observe a grandfather clock
• Kermit's rectangle lecture
• It's a Circle
• Twiddlebugs use a paperclip for many different things
• Bert shows Ernie his bottlecap collection
• Kermit and Forgetful Jones talk about a telephone
• Maria and Cookie Monster play a cookie game on a computer
• Super Grover: broken bag of groceries
• Ernie finds a ball

 

[ISNorden]

That set of theme discs (People, Animals, Places, and Things) would be a pretty good collector's choice; fans need to see all the major learning concepts on the show to got a good picture of the way it was.

 

[ploobis]

Here are some cool ideas for some Old School best of DVD's.

1. The Best Of Bert & Ernie Old School

2. The Best Of Cookie Monster Old School

3. The Best Of Grover Old School

4. The Best Of Sesame Street News with Kermit Old School

5. The Best Of The Sesame Street Muppets Old School 1969-1979 (with the following sketches)

Kermit Lectures Sketches

Little Jerry & The Monotones "MAD"

Mahna Mahna (1969 Sesame Street version)

Guy Smiley Game Show sketches

Frazzle (the song)

Lefty The Salesman sketches

"Some & None" by Bip Bippadotta

"Everybody's Song" by Bip Bippadotta and The Androoze Sisters

Sammy The Snake

"In & Out" Monster Disco

Little Jerry & The Monotones "Proud"

Simon Soundman sketches

Roosevelt Franklin sketches

"High, Middle Low" The Anything Muppets

And many many more!

"What do ya think?"

 

[ISNorden]

Those sound great; however, I'd call the miscellaneous Muppet collection "Muppets: Best of the Rest Old School", and focus on Muppet characters who appeared in only a few sketches (Little Bird, Roosevelt Franklin, and so forth).

 

[minor muppetz]

One good idea for a set would be an "All Stars" collection. Each set would be three-disc sets, with disc one being amixed assortment of segments with main characters (Big Bird, Oscar, Snuffy, Ernie, Bert, Cookie Monster, Grover, Herry, Elmo, Prairie Dawn, Kermit, Zoe, The Count, Telly, Rosita, and Abby Cadabby), while the other discs would be devoted to more minor characters, perhaps being "complete" collections of segments with certain characters (assuming that they do have less than enough segments to fill a disc. I don't think all of Guy Smiley's segments can fit on one disc, and unless Sesame Workshop can one day get clearances on Dialing for Prizes Movie, I doubt we'll ever get a truly "complete" Guy Smiley colection).

I wil list three examples of my idea:

Volume 1
Disc 1: All Stars

• Ernie has Bert stay outside the apartment
• Monsterpeice Theater: ABCD Blue
• Sesame Street News: The Count counts three little pigs
• Two Princes
• I Like to Sing
• Ernie tells Bert about his day at the zoo
• Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot count three blocks
• Jim Carrey demonstrates happy and sad feet
• Admiral Bird
• Ernie and Bert watch "Sneek Peek Previews"
• My Pollywog Ways
• You Tickle Me
• Grover and Oscar's alphabet
• The Cookie Bunny
• I'm Square
• Herry and John-John count to 20
• Sesame Street News: waiting in line
• Super Grover and Super Elmo
• which is Ernie, and which is Cookie Monster?
• Beat the Time: The Count
• Prairie Dawn's love pageant
• Grover the waiter: hamburger
• Kermit, Shola, and Fanny: next to
• Things That I Remember
• Me Gotta Be Blue
• Miami Mice: The Count needs to go to the space station
• Ev'rybody Be Yo'Self

Disc 2: The Complete Roosevelt Franklin
Disc 3: The Complete Sherlock Hemlock and Amazing Mumford

Volume 2
Disc 1: All-Stars

• Fuzzy and Blue
• Ernie replaces Bert's cowboy hat with a pot
• Squeal of Fortune
• Believe in Yourself
• Super Grover: gate
• Because We're Friends
• Kermit and Elmo: quiet and loud
• Let's Make a Face
• The American Revolution: picking an animal
• Grover the Waiter: The Count counts hot dogs
• It's Alive
• Monsterpiece Theater: Waiting for Elmo
• Do De Rubber Duck
• Grover the taxi driver
• Best Friends Blues
• Kermit's B lecture
• Big Bird holds a grown-ups hand before crossing the street
• Sleep!
• Cookie Monster and Prairie Dawn: The First and Last Cookie
• Kermit and Grover: earmuffs
• I Think That it is Wonderful

Disc 2: The Complete Herbert Birdsfoot and Lefty the Salesman
Disc 3: The Complete Don Music and Two-Headed Monster

Volume 3
Disc 1: All-Stars

• Cookie Monster and The Count: eating and counting cookies
• Grover: near and far
• Bert shows Ernie his bottlecap colection
• The Foods We Eat
• A Cookie is a Sometimes Food
• Ernie and Bert: what ice cream looks like
• Sesame Street News: The Princess and the Cookie
• Super Grover: computer
• Beat the Time: Elmo
• Kermit gets Cookie and Herry to share a bicycle
• One and One Make Two
• The Count and Ingrid count to 20 in spanish
• Monsterpiece Theater: Munch Ado About Nothing
• Ernie and Bert: cookies in bed
• Rhyme Out
• Grover Spreads Herry's Alphabet Secret
• This Frog

Disc 2: The Complete Professor Hastings and Gladys the Cow
Disc 3: The Complete Harvey Kneeslapper and Little Bird

 

[jeffkjoe]

Sesame Street Old School Volume 3: (1979-1984)

Get ready for:

Mr. Hooper's death
an appearance from R2-D2 and C-3PO
Mister Rogers' visit
The first appearance of Barkley and the kids playing hide and seek over the end credits


Maybe the first appearance of Elmo?

 

[minor muppetz]

Sesame Workshop recently put episodes of The Electric Company for sale at iTunes. Maybe this would be a good idea for Sesame Street. I'm not saying to cancel plans for future Old School sets, but maybe release 10-15 episodes on iTunes, maybe one per season, in addition to having volume 3 be the season 11-15 premiers. That way, we'll move on with the next premiers, and can still get some more episodes from the first ten seasons.