What's your favorite letter segment?

[The Count]

All right, we have a thread where we can post our favorite recitations of the alphabet and our favorite number-related songs and sketches from Sesame. But how's about your picks for favorite letter-related sketches or songs?

Here's a few of mine:
"Letter B" by the Beetles
"C is for Cookie" by Cookie Monster
"Dee, Dee, Dee" by Ernie and Cookie Monster
Daddy D
Letter of the Day Pageant with Guy Smiley and E
"Oh G", "Two G Sounds", and the Growing G
The letters H, O, and R being pulled up the side of a tall building, though they were only two letters short from wining a game of Horse.
"I Stand up Proud and Tall" by Grover
"We All Live in a Capital I"
"J Friends"
The Pink Panther karate chopping a block of cement to form a K
"La, La, La" by Bert and Ernie
"M Monster Meal" by Cookie and Herry Monster
The Story of Nancy the Nanny Goat
"Would You Like to Buy an O?" by Ernie and Lefty
The Q Questions song

"The Sound of the Letter S" by Sammy the Snake, the striped snake.
The Snakes Sunday holiday
The sketch where six S-named vehicles appear one by one, and then all together side by side until they blurr away.
Happy Birthday to U, with "U Really Got a Hold on Me" a close second
The National Gathering of Fellow W Lovers, led by Bert
The episode dedicated to an X-muppet, including Sherlock's appearance on What's My Line game show. Also "X Marks the Spot" by Sherlock Hemlock and "How I Miss my X" by Patty LaBelle.

The Zizzy Zoomers, "ZZ Blues" by Over The Top, and the Zig-Zag-Zig song.
Here's one I forgot" The Story of The King and the K.

So, what are your choices? Have a great week.
The Killer of Threads, the Count.

 

[Daffyfan4ever]

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Bert's "W" song is probably the best!

 

[Natalie]

Yeah this is a good post, but I'll have to think about it...hmm

 

[ssetta]

"D Du-ah Du-ah" aka "Be My D" by Dee Dee O'Day and The Dewdrops
This Is My "J" by Biff
"Rebel L" with Billy Idle
"The Letter N" by Nick Normal and Nickmatics
"My Favorite Letter--P" Anything Muppets
"The R Machine" with Bert and Ernie
"Thinking Of U" by The Beetles

 

[TravellingMatt]

Hmmm, a lot of my favorites were already mentioned.

Here are some of the ones that weren't:

The skit where inhabitants of the Street introduce themselves in alphabetical order. (A--Alterrian, B--Bob, C--Cookie, D--David...etc.)

The Question Song with Grover and a little girl.

"Name That Letter" with Guy Smiley and Prairie Dawn.

Professor Hastings' lecture on the letter U. ("Up, Professor!") By the way, did anyone else notice how Prof. Hastings sounded a lot like Sam the Eagle?

The word family song ("You take a J sound "J" and an E-T "ET", you put 'em both together and they spell JET"). There were several versions of this, but the ones I've seen are a spot with two Anything Muppets and another with Bob.

Bert and Ernie's "Happy Birthday to U" skit. ("Happy birthday to U, happy birthday to U, happy birthday dear letter, happy birthday to U! Make a wish!" "I wish I wasn't here...")

Kermit's lecture on the letter "W", in which the "W" comes to life and attacks poor Kermit.

"The Tale of Tom Tattertall Tuttletutt" (who sounded a lot like Rowlf).

Sammy the Snake's song (one of Jerry Nelson's more underrated performances...sounds like a young Floyd Pepper).

 

[The Count]

Hey ssetta: One of your picks was "The Letter N" song by Nick Normal and the Nickmatics. Do you remember the name of the female muppet, NTV's host, who presented the video? If so, please tell me what her name was. Thanks for your help.

The Count.

 

[Drtooth]

Other than any Muppet segments (Reble L, Letter B, R Machine, National Association for W Lovers, etc.) my favorites are the following

Jughead (of Archie) talking about "J"


Pink PAnther demonstraiting K for Karate.

The one with the animated woman recieving an "O" from he mail, and it wrecks her whole house, and the only Dialogue in the episode is "Ohhh!"

 

[ssetta]

The video presenter's name was Nora, I believe.

 

[roadrat15]

I got a couple:

"the V in the sea" skit
" Small v . . .vaavoom!"
Harvey Kneeslapper's immortal "There's an I on your hat"
Superman's pitch for the letter S : "It's my favourite."
"Capital I"

How's those for starters?

 

[manoftheSTREET]

Nora's full name...

Nora Nicks, the VJ for NTV.

To me, she seemed modeled on one of MTV's first VJs, an N name herself, Nina Blackwood.

Fave alphabet sketch: Melissa Etheridge's spoof of her "Like The Way I Do" entitled (I believe) "Like The Way U Does".

Sincerely,

John "manoftheSTREET" Kilduff