The Sales Pieces

[zns]

Many of you probably remember that before Sesame Street went on the air, Jim Henson made two sales pieces that were made to promote the show. The first one featured a bunch of Muppets at a conference table, including Grump, Scoop, and the early version of Grover. The other one was with Kermit and Rowlf sitting in a classroom with a blackboard in the backround discussing how the show was going to be shaped and what it was based around. I was just wondering if anybody knew where I might be able to download this pieces at off the internet.

 

[Barry Lee]

Many of you probably remember that before Sesame Street went on the air, Jim Henson made two sales pieces that were made to promote the show. The first one featured a bunch of Muppets at a conference table, including Grump, Scoop, and the early version of Grover. The other one was with Kermit and Rowlf sitting in a classroom with a blackboard in the backround discussing how the show was going to be shaped and what it was based around. I was just wondering if anybody knew where I might be able to download this pieces at off the internet.

No, there is nothing on the internet. Actually those peices are linked together. It's the pitch tape basically and after we see the guys trying to figure out a name Rowlf tells them to give up and the guys throw paper balls at them which links to the Rowlf and Kermit one.

 

[Kimp the Shrimp]

it was on the A&E BIOGRAPHY

 

[zns]

it was on the A&E BIOGRAPHY

Yeah, I have that special on tape. The way they were showing it was as if it were two diferent sales pieces. They really fooled me on that one.

 

[Rosewood]

Same here......

Yeah, I have that special on tape. The way they were showing it was as if it were two diferent sales pieces. They really fooled me on that one.

Yeah, after watching the A&E Biography, I thought they were seperate pieces, as well. I did find it quite interesting that it would end up being Rowlf that came up with the "Sesame Street" name, but yet he never got a permenant role on the show.

 

[CBPuppets]

To Come to think of it The Spook from The Wizard of Id Pilot was in the Sales Pitch as Well. Is there a transcript to theses sales peices? If there is I would be Greatful. One more thing Who performed the characters in those pitches?

 

[CBPuppets]

To Come to think of it The Spook from The Wizard of Id Pilot was in the Sales Pitch as Well. Is there a transcript to theses sales peices? If there is I would be Greatful. One more thing Who performed the characters in those pitches?

 

[minor muppetz]

The 1999 special Sesame Street Unpaved also featured clips from the sales piece.

By the way, regarding performers, Jim Henson performed Grump (Frank Oz would eventually perform him), and Frank Oz performed the blue guy who suggested titles like "The two and two are five show", "The Two and Two Ain't Five Show", and "Hey, Stupid!" I don't know what other performers were in the sales piece (I'll guess Jerry Juhl, Jane Henson, Robert Payne, and Caroly Wilcox, but I don't know for sure).

Has anybody here ever seen the full sales piece?

 

[CBPuppets]

Wasn't the Blue Guy Scoop, and about the Early Grover are you talking about Fuzzyface? and by the way was Kermit fully a frog at this point?

 

[minor muppetz]

Wasn't the Blue Guy Scoop, and about the Early Grover are you talking about Fuzzyface? and by the way was Kermit fully a frog at this point?

I think Kermit was a frog by then. He had his collar in that sales piece, and he was referred to as a frog as early as The Muppets On Puppets, in which he still wore his orange sweater and didn't have a collar.