Repeated Episodes Muppet Wiki Page

[D'Snowth]

I just stumbled onto this page on Muppet Wiki, cataloging SS episodes that were repeated two seasons later over the years:

Sesame Street episodes with recycled plots

On Sesame Street, in order to produce 130 shows a season, sometimes the street scenes from an episode that aired two seasons before would be recycled and combined with a different set of inserts to create a new episode. This list consists of known episodes that contain recycled street scenes...

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The title and description of this page call these episodes "recycled plots," but I feel like this should be looked into. "Recycled plots" would imply that the street story itself is a rehash of a story that has already been done before, and I know we could definitely list examples of that . . . case in point: both Seasons 33 and 34 had plots involving a chicken mistaking Rocco for an egg and trying to hatch it, or the fact that the hurricane arc of Season 32 is not the first time a hurricane hit the street.

I think, perhaps, a more suitable and clearer term to use for the page's title and description would be "Sesame Street Episodes With Repeated (Street) Stories." Just a thought.

 

[minor muppetz]

I have often thought the same thing, though I never brought it up.