Top ten segments from each season

[minor muppetz]

I don’t recall if I’ve done this before, but I’d like to list my top ten favorite segments, at least for now, and in no particular order, from each season. And to be honest, I am not sure whether I’ll list every season (I haven’t seen a whole lot from the last few seasons). But we’ll see how far I can go. And I’ll be going by broadcast seasons.

Season 1

1. Kermit’s W lecture (part 1)
2. Ernie and Bert - a piece of cake
3. Wanda the Witch
4. Everyone Likes Ice Cream
5. Ernie and the U/V Salesman
6. Kermit and Cookie Monster - happy/mad/sad
7. Henson #1
8. Jazz #8
9. James Earl Jones - alphabet
10. G for Grover

Season 2
1. Rubber Duckie
2. Grover counts three blocks
3. Prairie Dawn invites monsters
4. Eleven Cheer
5. Grover flies a plane
6. Who took Bert’s cookies?
7. Baby Monster: IS
8. Sherlock Hemlock, Bob, and Cookie Monster - who are you?
9. Mad
10. Grover gets a surprise

Season 3
1. C is for Cookie
2. Kermit and Bob on frogs
3. Ernie and Bert - fish in the cowboy hat
4. I in the Sky
5. Kermit - In/On/Under Quickies
6. J Friends
7. The National Association of W Lovers
8. La, La, La
9. Mad Painter #3
10. Harvey Kneeslapper - alphabet blackout B

I’ll list some more later.

 

[minor muppetz]

season 4:
1. Bert’s bust
2. Herry and John-John count
3. The Count and Cookie Monster co-operate
4. Kermit News: Rapunzel
5. Beat the Time: Cookie Monster
6. Lost boy remembers
7. Kermit and Joey say the alphabet
8. The Song of the Count
9. The Alligator King
10. Kermit News: Cinderella

Season 5:
1. Fat Cat
2. Kermit News: Three Little Pigs (with The Count)
3. Doin’ the Pigeon
4. Johnny Cash - Nasty Dan
5. Lena Horne - Bein’ Green
6. Jazz Alphabet
7. Madrigal Alphabet
8. Super Grover: Telephone
9. Waiter Grover: The Count’s hot dogs
10. Sad

 

[minor muppetz]

Top ten each from seasons 6, 7, and 8.

season 6:
1. Telephone Rock
2. What’s the Name of That Song?
3. I Can’t Help It
4. Typewriter: N-Nose
5. Invisible Ice Cream Cone
6. I’m Square
7. Grover serves a burger
8. City-Country Song
9. Twiddlebugs: stamp
10. Roosevelt Franklin - here and there

Season 7:
1. Kermit and Grover - earmuff salesman
2. She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountains
3. Buffy - Winkin and Blinkin and nod
4. The Addition Game
5. Follow the Leader
6. Grover invents the wheel
7. Kermit News: Pinocchio
8. Surprise
9. Don Music - Drive Your Car
10. Headball: Hardhead Henry Harris

Season 8:
1. Judy Collins - Sully’s Love Song (Yea)
2. A Song from Kermit
3. The Noble Ostrich
4. Gordon bicycling
5. Ernie leads the band
6. What is It?
7. This Frog
8. Proud of Me
9. Life without Bert
10. Admiral Bird

 

[CoolGuy1013]

This is an interesting project. I look forward to seeing what else you have in store for it.

 

[minor muppetz]

My top ten of each season from seasons 9-13:

Season 9:
1. This is My J
2. Grover asks friends why the number two is their favorite number
3. The Ten Commandments of Health
4. Fireworks Alphabet
5. Monsterpiece Theater: Upstairs, Downstairs
6. Bert and Ernie - water sports
7. Madeline Kahn - Sing After Me
8. The Opposite Song
9. Bert’s tooth pageant
10. Kermit, Marlena, and Grover - #12 balloon

Season 10:
1. Bert teaches Bernice checkers
2. Letter Y box of crayons
3. Don Music - How to Get to Yellowstone Park
4. Oscar’s Bill of Gripes
5. Disco Toothbrush
6. Me and My Llama
7. Breakfast Time
8. Eight Beautiful Notes
9. Super Grover: grocery bag
10. Bert and Ernie - should I wake Bert?

Season 11:
1. Disco Frog
2. Born to Add
3. Geometry of Circles
4. Simon Soundman - weather around the world
5. My Pollywog Ways
6. Suzanne Farrell - at the barre
7. We’re All Monsters
8. One Potato
9. Waiter Grover: special of the day
10. Waiter Grover: first, next, and last

Season 12:
1. Kermit and Grover - nose warmer salesman
2. Butterfly pageant
3. Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco
4. Two-Headed Monster: RUN
5. The Leslie Mostly Show: The Count
6. Mystery Guest
7. When The Countess Counts
8. Wheels on My Feet
9. Father and son discuss seat belts
10. Itzhak Perlman and Oscar perform a concert

Season 13:
1. Fuzzy and Blue
2. Bert and Ernie - guess what I’m thinking
3. Forgetful Jones - What’s the Name of That Song?
4. Diana Ross - Believe in Yourself
5. Kermit News: first day of school
6. Rainy Day Song
7. Proud to Be a Cow
8. Dance Myself to Sleep
9. This is Your Story: Forgetful Jones
10. Honk Around the Clock

 

[minor muppetz]

And top ten each from seasons 14 and 15:

Season 14:
1. Monsterpiece Theater: Chariots of Fur
2. We Coulda
3. James Taylor - That Grouchy Face
4. But I Like You
5. Kermit News: Alice in Wonderland
6. Monsterpiece Theater: The Sound of Music
7. I Wish I Had a Friend to Play with Me
8. James Taylor - Up on the Roof
9. Honker Duckie Dinger Jambouree
10. We All Sing with the Same Voice

Season 15:
1. ABCs of the Swamp
2. Trash Outta Heaven
3. Grover’s Health Minutes: Teeth
4. DUCKIE
5. Teeny Little Super Guy: Baseball
6. Two-Headed Monster: highest flattery (the wiki page gives that title for the three-part sketch with the cardboard cut-out, so I guess that’s the title in scripts)
7. Barkley finds Snuffy
8. Kermit News: Hoppity Hop
9. The Count’s elevator
10. Grover and Erik - fur and skin

Huh, there’s quite a few more from these seasons (as well as seasons 9-13) that I wanted to include but didn’t have room for. I guess those seasons have a lot of great segments (or I REALLY like a lot of segments that are not that great).

 

[minor muppetz]

Favorites from seasons 17 and 18.

Season 16:
1. Wet Paint
2. N-TV
3. What’s inside Herry Monster?
4. Smokey Robinson - I Really Got a Hold on Me
5. Carly Simon - Be with Me
6. Teeny Little Super Guy: Danger
7. Kids Just Love to Brush
8. Kermit and Grover - hair piece salesman
9. Kermit News: Old MacDonald
10. Loretta Lynn - Count On Me

Season 17:
1. Rebel L
2. Imagine That
3. Kermit and Elmo - happy and sad
4. Patti LeBelle - Oh, How I Miss My X
5. Danny DeVito - bus stop
6. Frog Kickin’
7. Kermit Meets Miami Mice
8. Daddy Helps with the Dishes
9. Snuffy takes off
10. Ernie Meets Miami Mice

 

[minor muppetz]

And now top ten from the remaining seasons that began in the 1980s:

Season 18:
1. Do De Rubber Duck
2. Squeal of Fortune
3. Spring is Here
4. Write It Down (vaudeville)
5. Kermit and Cookie Monster - mystery box
6. Sing Your Synonyms
7. Detective series: the clue
8. The American Revolution: National Bird
9. Monsterpiece Theater: The 39 Stairs
10. The Count meets the Miami Mice

Season 19:
1. Bert’s Blanket
2. Bring That Thing
3. Ookyook Song
4. Mom and Me
5. Up and Down Opera
6. Ernie pretends Bert did not leave
7. Monsterpiece Theater: Gone with the Wind
8. Opposite Stuff
9. Waiter Grover: just following orders
10. Madeline Kahn - M... Madeline.

Season 20:

1. The Word is No
2. I Love My Elbows
3. Monsterpiece Theater: The Taming of the Shoe
4. Detective series: the heavyset hippo
5. Mysterious Theater: The Case of the Missing Cat
6. Kermit and Oscar - stop that bus stop!
7. Billy Joel and Marlee Marlin - Just the Way You Are
8. Monsterpiece Theater: Guys and Dolls
9. Cave person Days: inventing the mirror
10. Drink of Water

Season 21:
1. Monster in the Mirror
2. Don’t Throw That Trash on the Ground
3. Air
4. I Wonder About the World Above Up There
5. Water conservation
6. Day Ray: animal costumes
7. Best Friends Blues
8. Elmo’s Song
9. Monsterpiece Theater: The Old Man and the C
10. Shapes in My Room

Now we’re at a point where it will be harder for me to know off-hand what all came in each season, segments that I know debuted in the 1990s but I tend to keep forgetting which season. I’ll have to be doing more wiki referencing.

 

[minor muppetz]

Top ten of the seasons from 22-24:

Season 22:
1. Super Grover and Super Elmo
2. Good Morning, Morning
3. Arnold rides a chair
4. Lambaba
5. Heavy and Light
6. Monsterpiece Theater: Twin Beaks
7. This Song is for the Birds
8. Important
9. Cecile: I Wanna Be Me
10. Monsterpiece Theater: Twelve Angry Men

Season 23:
1. Grover’s taxi
2. I Can Sing
3. Once is Not Enough
4. Monsterpiece Theater: Much Ado About Nothing
5. En Vogue - Adventure
6. Barn in the USA
7. Grover delivers Speedy Pizza
8. Rick Moranis - Stick Out Your Hand and Say Hello
9. Waiter Grover - CH sounds
10. Super Grover: saving energy

Season 24:
1. In Your Imagination
2. Super Grover and Super Annette
3. Take a Rest
4. Simon Soundman - pig in a China shop
5. Wet or Drt
6. Monsterpiece Theater: Monsters with Dirty Faces
7. Jim Carrey - happy and sad feet
8. Waiter Grover: finally a new waiter!
9. Tito Puente - El Timbalo
10. Monsterpiece Theater: Inside/Outside Story

 

[minor muppetz]

Top ten segments from season 25:
1. Just Happy to be Me
2. Monsterpiece Theater: Little House on Prairie
3. Roxie Marie’s number collections
4. Grover - please take a number, sir!
5. A New Way to Walk
6. Ernie catches all the fish
7. Little Miss Count-Along
8. Gingerbread Man
9. Monsterpiece Theater: Dances with Wolves
10. First and last Cookie

Top ten from season 26:
1. Felines
2. I’m Sad Because I’m Happy
3. Overhead Alphabet
4. Biff and Roxy Marie - South America
5. Monsterpiece Theater: Anyone’s Nose
6. Elmo and Slimey - A-Apple
7. A Cat Had a Birthday
8. Suzie Kabloozie and the letter F
9. My Name is Zoe
10. Tune for Two

Top ten from season 27:
1. Elmo and friends show “next to”
2. Grover’s frame shop
3. Suzie Kabloozie: cat tricks
4. Fay family - Old King Cole
5. Ernie’s drum experiment
6. Monsterpiece Theater: ABCD Blue
7. Fairy Tales Today: Rapunzel
8. Spin Doctors - Two Princes
9. A Song for Two will Make Us One
10. Tune for Two