What's your favorite Sesame 1-2-3's?

[Boober_Gorg]

Originally posted by Splurge
With me, it's a tie between Henson's falling chef number films and the psychadelic racecar/spies cartoons with Jefferson Airplane & Grace Slick.

Interesting. I never knew who did that music. That kind of info is also welcomed at the SS Animators thread.

 

[BlueAM]

I love the following:

The First Day of School (the song in which the Count sings about counting the kids in his classroom.)
Count It Higher
The Ten Commandments of Health
Four (Little Jerry and the Monotones)
Forty Blocks From My Home
Honk Around the Clock
The skit where the Count and Ernie get into a fight about answering the telephone because the Count wants to count the rings.
One Banana
I Just Adore Four (I really love the three AM guys who sang backup for Big Bird in that song, especially the one who is the same AM as Guy Smiley because he looks like Peter Sellers in The World of Henry Orient.)
Count Up To Nine
Counting Up to Five (Polly Darton)

BlueAM
"I'm a baaaad boy!"

 

[mikealan]

Here are my favorite number segments I watched from late May 2002 to the summer of 2003:

0-Animated segment: Girl tells boy the truth that there are zero elephants see saw in the zoo
Animated segment: song of zero inside the plate
1-Live-action segment/song: One (sung by Christopher Cerf, I think)
Animated segment: Girl playing with one drum
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a Monsterpiece Theater production
2-The Baker#2-Two chocolate cream pies!
Jazzy Spies#2
Pinball Number Count#2
Two little dolls, but I was interrupted by my mom! I wish I could see the whole segment again...help!
3-The Baker#3-Three birthday cakes!
Counting Cartoon Circus Tamer-3 Flying Felines!
Live-action sketch where the orange ball rides on the roller-coaster with the powder at the end
4-The Baker#4-Four root bear floats!
The Number Painter (Paul Benedict) paints a '4' on the umbrella
Cartoon fiddler: 4 Big Lions
Animated segment: 4-headed man sings about the number 4
Animated segment: 4 Elephants
Animated segment: 4 Dolphins
Pinball Number Count#4 (I enjoyed listening to it on audio MP3!)
5-5's from No. 5 sign flash toward the camera
two live girls count up to five by clapping
Animated segment: 5, with the 5-shaped iceberg
Gimme 5, sung by Gordon, Luis, David & Bob
Five Waltzing Chairs
6-Counting Cartoon Circus Tamer-6 Monkeys
Kermit counts all six twiddle-bugs
Six Soccer Socks
Pinball Number Count#6
The Number Painter (Paul Benedict) decorates a '6' by using cake icing
Six Circus Balls doing tricks
7-The Alligator King & His Seven Sons
Rap#7
Animated segment: 7 Rabbits
Animated segment: 7 Animals in the tree
8-The King of Eight
Penny Candy Man
Eight Balls of Fur, sung by Little Chrissy
Animated segment: 8 Buttons on the monkey's shirt
Animated segment: 8 Frogs
9-Number Nine Martian Cutie
Animated segment: 9 Birds
Animated segment: 9 Penguins
Rap#9
Stamp Numbers#9
10-Ten Tiny Turtles On the Telephone
Pinball Number Count#10
Counting Cartoon Circus Tamer-10 Brown Bears
Stamp Numbers#10
11-Rap#11
Counting Cartoon Circus Tamer-11 Purple Pooches
12-Ladybug Picnic
Twelve Stones in the desert count up to twelve
Bellhop-12 Phone Calls
Swinging Numbers-12
13-Lucky Thirteen
Mask Numbers#13
14-Fourteen Ducklings In the Pot
Mask Numbers#14
Live kids perform a song of 14
Live kids paint a picture with '14'
15-Mother Brown's Farm
Animated segment: number fifteen song (oldie style!)
Mask Numbers#15
Mask creatures on parade-15
Rap#15
16-Yip-Yips & the '16'
Mythical Creature Numbers-16
Mask Numbers#16
16 Television Sets
Live kids paint a picture with '16'
17-Mythical Creature Numbers-17
Mask Numbers#17
Live kids paint a picture with '17'
Mask creatures on parade-17
18-18 in outer space
Live kids paint a picture with '18'
Bellhop-Telephone message to Table 18
Animated segment/song: Eighteen Sandwiches
Mask Numbers#18
Growing Numbers#18
19-Rap#19
Mask Numbers#19
Mythical Creature Numbers-19
Nineteen Pieces of Popcorn
Growing Numbers#19
19 in outer space
20-Mythical Creature Numbers-20
Growing Numbers#20
Bellhop-20 Grapefruits
Mask creatures on parade-20

These are the ones I remember.

 

[rjschex]

1. "Jazz" series
2. Pinball
3. Circus Trainer
4. Baker
5. Mad Painter
6. 4-Armed Hindu
7. "Cast of Charactors" [sic]--misspelling at end
--1: deflated
--2: yanked into ground
--3: falls backwards into water
--4: slides when ground is tilted
--5: popped with pin
--6: grabbed away with hook
--7: shatters
--8: carried away by eagle
--9: overinflated until it bursts
-10: bowled over
-11: banged together and shattered
-12: pushed away by bulldozer
-13: closed up in backhoe
-14: pounded by mallet
-15: squooshed by foot
-16: crushed by falling tree
-17: devoured by Cookie Monster (in his voice!)
-18: under a falling safe
-19: dynamited
-20: shatters after leaf falls upon it

8. A forgotten(?) live action sketch: cards dealt one at a time; backs are normal playing-card design; faces have a fluorescent background (different color for each number) with large black number

9. Series of animated musical numbers: (2-6 featured a fiddler; Alligator King; Penny Candy Man; Martian Beauty; Ten Telephoning Turtles; Eleven Morning; Ladybug Picnic)

HONORABLE MENTION (not from Sesame Street):

--a series of animated number sketches on the mid-to-late 70's "Spanglish" series Villa Alegre. The ending went as follows:

A single line appeared as the number one.
The line split into two horizontal lines; a "2" appeared inside.
The "2" became a straight line, merging with the horizontal lines to form an equilateral triangle; a "3" then appeared inside.
And so on, as follows:
-4: square
-5: regular pentagon
-6: regular hexagon
-7: regular heptagon
-8: regular octagon
-9: figure shaped like an upside-down "Y", formed by three squares touching at corners
-10: figure formed by two elongated hexagons merged along one of the long sides
---the 10-sided figure then closes like a book, and opens to reveal a white rectangle with the numbers 1-10 inside, in different colors

 

[Splurge]

Gems, all of those.

I'd like to add another: an animation teaching 1-20 using birds. I'm pretty sure it was by the Hubleys. Pretty jazz music in the background and male singing vocal. Sometimes I put this in the same category as the song "Little Birdie" in the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special.

 

[Hays]

One I barely remember from when I was a kid

I think it was in the style of "Alligator King", the song was 1,2,3, 1,2,3, 1,2,3, (tee hee hee hee) had something to do with pigs and a lady...

 

[rjschex]

Gems, all of those.

I'd like to add another: an animation teaching 1-20 using birds. I'm pretty sure it was by the Hubleys. Pretty jazz music in the background and male singing vocal. Sometimes I put this in the same category as the song "Little Birdie" in the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special.

Something you probably didn't know about that series:

The designs of the numerals were taken from the "Jazz" series, as well as from "The Sesame Street Book of Numbers". In the Jazz series, after the spies fade out into a yellow background, and the numbers start growing, we see the digits for a second in the "birdie" style, just before they get thick enough to overlap.

 

[Drtooth]

LOL! I saw the #2 Jazzy count an hour ago on some web site Mikeallan listed... I forget the name...

anyway, The really were on something with those skits. Especially the part with the 2 George Washington busts....

I dunno... I've always liked the Jazzy much better than Pinball Number count. Even before the trauma thing mentioned several posts back. I wish somehow thay'd show one of these next season, but I doubt it.

I basically love all the Donnie Bud (?) fiddler skits with the animals (the 2 step, 4 big lions, etc.)

And any skit with the Count counts, right?

 

[The Count]

As far as the Donnie Bud (The Fiddler) series of animated songs, you're forgetting about the Amazing 3 Song.
Any sketch with the Count counts? Well, that depends, so long as its a sketch where the Count reaches a determinate number, whichever that number may be. For example, the sketch with the Count as an elevator operator with Reporter Kermit counts cause he got all the way up and down from 1 to 10 and back down again. But the sketch where he's counting the different things you can do with your hands as his favorite part of the body wouldn't neccessarily count.

Oh, and what's this Sesame Street Book of Numbers I just heard of? I have the Sesame Street 1-2-3 Storybook, but not the supposed Book of Numbers. Any info on this publication would be most appreciated.
Hope this helps and have a good day.

 

[Drtooth]

Unrelated, but I've found a Sesame Street alphabet Storybook (I'm guessing that's the title) that not only features Kermit, but even Miss Piggy as a brief cameo...