The new SESAME STREET logo

[jeffkjoe]

I don't know if anyone's brought this up, and it's a little late for this poll, but:

Do you like the name change of

CHILDREN'S TELEVISION WORKSHOP to SESAME WORKSHOP?

and the old SS logo of

CTW SESAME STREET to 123 SESAME STREET?

I mean, it doesn't make sense. I've never heard of any Street sign posting a single address.

I think it's lame.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

123 Sesame Street is the address of the brownstone where Oscar lives in front of, and Ernie/Bert, Gordon/Susan, and Maria/Luis live, right?

The street sign being 123 SS is weird.

 

[jeffkjoe]

I agree.

I hate how the current producers for SESAME STREET keep screwing with tradition.

I mean, everything that Jon Stone did for the show, such as:

1) the ad-libs
2) the dirty, aged look of the street
3) the overal real-ness of the show

Is gone. It's too sterile now.

I still feel that 1969 - 1980 is the best era of the show, and it'll never be the same.

 

[ssetta]

That's why I think those stupid people at Noggin should have kept it!

 

[MIKEB97]

Judging from my philosophy, the last great Sesame Street Season was season 21(1989-90).

 

[jeffkjoe]

I agree. 1989-1990.

That was right after the birth of Gabi.


And that was the last time SESAME had anything substantial to talk about.

 

[ssetta]

This is very true. It had always been very similar from the early years up until Season 22. It was Season 23 when they started to fiddle with it, and Season 25 when it really started to go bad. Here's a timeline of all the changes that we didn't like:

Season 23: Whole bunch of new characters added. Rosita, Baby Bear, Goldilocks, Roxy Marie, Joey and Davey Monkey.
Season 24: All theme music changes for the first time.
Season 25: Round the corner section added, Zoe debuts.
Season 27: Letter of the day decreased from 2 to 1. Newly added characters in Season 23 dropped except Rosita and Baby Bear.
Season 30: Debut of Elmo's World, number of shows per season decreased from 130 to 65.
Season 32: Company name changes from CTW to Sesame Workshop, less and less old clips used.
Season 33: New format: Street scene altogether, debut of Journey to Ernie, Cookie's Letter, Count's Number, and hardly any old clips at all, number of shows decreased down to 50.
Season 34: Global Grover, a little more like the old format than it was in Season 33, number of shows decreased to a measly 26.

I predict the next thing that will happen is Elmo's World may become even longer, before it becomes its own show, and the rest of Sesame Street gets cancelled.

 

[mikealan]

Originally posted by ssetta
This is very true. It had always been very similar from the early years up until Season 22. It was Season 23 when they started to fiddle with it, and Season 25 when it really started to go bad. Here's a timeline of all the changes that we didn't like:

Season 23: Whole bunch of new characters added. Rosita, Baby Bear, Goldilocks, Roxy Marie, Joey and Davey Monkey.
Season 24: All theme music changes for the first time.
Season 25: Round the corner section added, Zoe debuts.
Season 27: Letter of the day decreased from 2 to 1. Newly added characters in Season 23 dropped except Rosita and Baby Bear.
Season 30: Debut of Elmo's World, number of shows per season decreased from 130 to 65.
Season 32: Company name changes from CTW to Sesame Workshop, less and less old clips used.
Season 33: New format: Street scene altogether, debut of Journey to Ernie, Cookie's Letter, Count's Number, and hardly any old clips at all, number of shows decreased down to 50.
Season 34: Global Grover, a little more like the old format than it was in Season 33, number of shows decreased to a measly 26.

I predict the next thing that will happen is Elmo's World may become even longer, before it becomes its own show, and the rest of Sesame Street gets cancelled.

I agree with you, ssetta.

Nobody will ever like Sesame Street ever again.

I think Elmo is taking over Sesame Street forever.

 

[Philip Kippel]

Originally posted by mikealan
I agree with you, ssetta.

Nobody will ever like Sesame Street ever again.

I think Elmo is taking over Sesame Street forever.

Hold on a second, there!

Elmo is NOT really taking over the show and Elmo's World is NOT getting its own seperate series--Sesame Workshop confirmed that.

Sesame Workshop doesn't want Elmo to take over the entire show anyway. The Workshop said that as well.

We already discussed all of this in previous threads.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Keep in mind, too, that the funding issue could be a player in the reason for the decrease in episodes shot.

They need to revert back to a better time when the show was popular and see what was working then at the time and how it can be incorporated into today's times and youth. I'm afraid the producers have been watching too much Barney and Teletubbies and not enough old Sesame Street.