Sesame Street in 1969

[Drtooth]

By the second season Sesame really hit its stride and was running on all cylinders, but even with a few faults and missteps, the first season made some great strides, and nothing to really condemn it.

To be fair, the first season of a TV show is rarely all that put together. Sesame Street is no exception, as the experimental nature of the program was in its earliest stages. It certainly wasn't bad, but there's a lot to the show that got better and better as it went on. I feel the show perfected itself late 70's up through the 80's, but you could see mark improvement as early as the second season. A more rounded Muppet character cast, more time devoted on the street to vignettes rather than teaching segments, and less reliance on repeating the same segments within an episode among other things.

Even the Muppets started to evolve. Other than the better designed green Oscar and Big Bird being an inquisitive little boy instead of a Bullwinkle wanna be, I really think the Ernie and Bert segments got better when Bert's stick in the Mud attitude was exaggerated to Jon Arbuckle levels.

 

[AquaGGR]

I really think the Ernie and Bert segments got better when Bert's stick in the Mud attitude was exaggerated to Jon Arbuckle levels

^ This. Bert's personality quirk of having no personality was genius. It's hilarious how he finds the most boring things in the world to be the most interesting.

 

[Sesame Skates]

I guess I should explain this. In response to the OP question, "What do you think of the first 130 episodes or so?", all I could think was, "I want MORE MORE MORE!"

 

[Drtooth]

I'm pretty sure a good number of those 130 were repeats of themselves. So you wouldn't need to see all of them.