minor muppetz
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For the last year I've had some sort of problem downloading from iTunes, but now it seems to be fixed, so I've downloaded some episodes. I've downloaded "Here Comes Cookie Monster" (haven't watched it yet) and "Grover the Waiter at Your Service". The latter is a great episode.
It may not be the best of all time, but there are things to like. It has some of my favorite skecthes that I wished would be released on video for a long time, like "Ernie and the U/V Salesman" and "Grover Serves a Burger". I've been watching these on sesamestreet.org and Sesame Workshop's official YouTueb channel for so long that I've kinda been thrown off by the fact that in the episodes they don't fade to black at the end.
I really enjoyed many of the film and animation inserts. Many of them I don't remember knowing about (despite the fact that Muppet Wiki has had a full guide with pictures for that episode for quite some time). I also like the street scene, despite limited Muppet involvement. Buffy looks different here from what I'm used to. She sort of looks like Lilly Thomlin.
If there's one piece of criticism I have, it's that the building inspectors dialogue is either badly written or badly said (sorry Jerry or whoever the writer is). I don't know if that was intended, but it seems so monotonous. I guess they needed some way to let the viewers know, but it just comes off odd to me.
Also noticed that the Bert and Ernie: Slice of Life sketch is a little longer than on Old School Volume 2. I checked it on the DVD after watching the episode, and in this episode at the very end it cuts to a wide shot where we get to see Ernie eating some of the pie, while on the DVD it fades to black on the close-up of Bert.
It may not be the best of all time, but there are things to like. It has some of my favorite skecthes that I wished would be released on video for a long time, like "Ernie and the U/V Salesman" and "Grover Serves a Burger". I've been watching these on sesamestreet.org and Sesame Workshop's official YouTueb channel for so long that I've kinda been thrown off by the fact that in the episodes they don't fade to black at the end.
I really enjoyed many of the film and animation inserts. Many of them I don't remember knowing about (despite the fact that Muppet Wiki has had a full guide with pictures for that episode for quite some time). I also like the street scene, despite limited Muppet involvement. Buffy looks different here from what I'm used to. She sort of looks like Lilly Thomlin.
If there's one piece of criticism I have, it's that the building inspectors dialogue is either badly written or badly said (sorry Jerry or whoever the writer is). I don't know if that was intended, but it seems so monotonous. I guess they needed some way to let the viewers know, but it just comes off odd to me.
Also noticed that the Bert and Ernie: Slice of Life sketch is a little longer than on Old School Volume 2. I checked it on the DVD after watching the episode, and in this episode at the very end it cuts to a wide shot where we get to see Ernie eating some of the pie, while on the DVD it fades to black on the close-up of Bert.