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Agree with you there Daff... OK, here we go with today's thoughts...
Episode 4115: Luis and María's Honeymoon/H Day.
The episode opens with Luis and María getting ready for their honeymoon picnic at a quiet spot, or so they thought.
Luis: Ah, nothing but the singing of birds.
As if on cue, Big B comes by with Elmo and Zoe, saying that they're getting ready to sing their song for the letter of the day, the letter H. They sing this song about words that start with H, but more to the point, about Ha-ha sort of laughs. The song was quite cleverly set to the tune of one of a catchy operatic piece of music. At least, Part 1 was, Part 2 was just them laughing to the music.
Next spot chosen for the picnic was where the funny happened. María says she's ready for the picnic "honey", and then this AM named H Man popped up. He spoke in superhero fashion, "Howling hootenannies!" This led to them playing the game The Sound of the Letter H. The honeymooners, Big Bird, Elmo and Zoe were shown a picture with four items...
Elmo: That's a hippopotamus.
Zoe: And that's a helicopter.
Big B: That's a ball.
María: And don't forget about the hexagon.
Now here's something that I give points to Sesame... A bit of new education where Luis explained that a hexagon is a shape with six sides. Nice to see/get that little educational nugget in an episode again.
The game was basically a version of One of These Things, concluding with a group of hopping Honkers celebrating the fact that they picked the item that didn't start with the H-sound.
Were there three Honkers? Got their names as Helen, Harold and Hannah, not sure if there were any more.
Third time's the charm? Not quite. Snuffy showed up, hurrying to show up in time for the H-dance. Luis had to explain that he and María wanted to be alone... Little heart-tug with Big B and Snuffy's sad almost puppy-eyed reaction. But Snuffy explained it to Big B and they understood, leaving to dance the hula somewhere else.
María: The hula?
Yes, that was their H-dance for the day.
And here's where I take away points from Sesame... She says that they danced the hula on their honeymoon, in Hawaii.
Sorry, but that's a continuity violation, this one unable of being skirted away like the questionable aging of Miles and Babriela so they'd both graduate from high school at the same time. Luis and María spent their honeymoon in the Adirondack Mountains, starting with Episode 2487, I have that one on VHS. And you know why I remember their honeymoon was in the NY mountain range? Because that's when they finally expanded the Number of the Day to cover the numbers from 13-20 and 0 besides just 1-12.
However... I do give Sesame points for this episode because it's more centered around the letter planned as this particular episode's sponsor... Perhaps more so than Super Grover's Superhero School from Season 35 where they rescued a letter H.
Now then...
Highlights.
1 Classic Animation: The segment where this girl tells us about her trip to Hawaii to get some pineapples and her Hawaiian shirt.
2 Classic Song/Film: "Happi-Happi-Happiness."
3 New sketch about two people named Harold and Helen having a picnic with the letter H, liked it.
4 Animation: Two guys talking about how his hat looks using H-words, one guy commenting it looked huge before being trapped inside the hat. Could be classic SS, not sure.
5 Classic Song: "Banana." This is how you promote the healthy/nutrition angle. But was it edited to be shorter?
6 Cookie Monster gets confronted by Matt Lauer about choosing healthy food over cookies.
OK... This was both good and bad.
Good: We got a new sketch with Cookie Monster. The adlibbing made it funny, and I think David Rudman's starting to learn just "how" to perform Cookie Monster. And where the heck was this sketch to deflate all the blown-up media hype over this story last year?!?
Bad: Matt Lauer kept badgering Cookie, making up the news which led to the funny adlibbing. Also, his line about how it was a bit incredulous to believe Cookie liked both healthy food and cookies, and how the destroyed tables and props would come out of his salary.
Yes, that'll come out of your salary!! Get your facts right! This is why you botched the intro for the float at last year's Macy's T-Day Parade!
7 Ernie's version of "Somebody Play With Me."
8 Global Grover: Hawaii... Ah, so good to hear Frank's Grover again.
9 Elmo's World: Wild Animals, repeat.
10 ATG: Planet Upside-Down.
This was probably one of the best done Trash Gordon segments. Why do I say that? Because they used the old cartoon/movie funhouse trick. Trash Gordon was seen standing right side up on what would be the floor to us... But the planet's dwellers, the Upside-Downians were seen upside-down to us on what would be the ceiling of the set used for the scene, right side up to them on their floor with Trash Gordon being upside-down. This ended when Trash Gordon became upside-down to us the viewers, joining the planet's residents on the ceiling.
Very well done, more points to Sesame for this sketch.
Lowpoints.
1 Already touched on the continuity problem in the street story.
2 Letter of the Day: H, this was the one where Cookie hides the letter cookie in his stomach.
Personally, I would've purrfered to get the one from last year where Prairie Dawn ate the letter H doing her Cookie Monster impurrsonation.
3 Number of the Day: 3.
What has me down is the fact that there weren't any good segments nor that many. The one I have stuck in my head is the one with the voice-over narrator for those Wegmen dog scenes saying "three" over and over until the bit ended.
All in all, a good episode, just let down by the lack of good Number of the Day segments.
Will post next time there's a new episode... Maybe Monday?
Episode 4115: Luis and María's Honeymoon/H Day.
The episode opens with Luis and María getting ready for their honeymoon picnic at a quiet spot, or so they thought.
Luis: Ah, nothing but the singing of birds.
As if on cue, Big B comes by with Elmo and Zoe, saying that they're getting ready to sing their song for the letter of the day, the letter H. They sing this song about words that start with H, but more to the point, about Ha-ha sort of laughs. The song was quite cleverly set to the tune of one of a catchy operatic piece of music. At least, Part 1 was, Part 2 was just them laughing to the music.
Next spot chosen for the picnic was where the funny happened. María says she's ready for the picnic "honey", and then this AM named H Man popped up. He spoke in superhero fashion, "Howling hootenannies!" This led to them playing the game The Sound of the Letter H. The honeymooners, Big Bird, Elmo and Zoe were shown a picture with four items...
Elmo: That's a hippopotamus.
Zoe: And that's a helicopter.
Big B: That's a ball.
María: And don't forget about the hexagon.
Now here's something that I give points to Sesame... A bit of new education where Luis explained that a hexagon is a shape with six sides. Nice to see/get that little educational nugget in an episode again.
The game was basically a version of One of These Things, concluding with a group of hopping Honkers celebrating the fact that they picked the item that didn't start with the H-sound.
Were there three Honkers? Got their names as Helen, Harold and Hannah, not sure if there were any more.
Third time's the charm? Not quite. Snuffy showed up, hurrying to show up in time for the H-dance. Luis had to explain that he and María wanted to be alone... Little heart-tug with Big B and Snuffy's sad almost puppy-eyed reaction. But Snuffy explained it to Big B and they understood, leaving to dance the hula somewhere else.
María: The hula?
Yes, that was their H-dance for the day.
And here's where I take away points from Sesame... She says that they danced the hula on their honeymoon, in Hawaii.
Sorry, but that's a continuity violation, this one unable of being skirted away like the questionable aging of Miles and Babriela so they'd both graduate from high school at the same time. Luis and María spent their honeymoon in the Adirondack Mountains, starting with Episode 2487, I have that one on VHS. And you know why I remember their honeymoon was in the NY mountain range? Because that's when they finally expanded the Number of the Day to cover the numbers from 13-20 and 0 besides just 1-12.
However... I do give Sesame points for this episode because it's more centered around the letter planned as this particular episode's sponsor... Perhaps more so than Super Grover's Superhero School from Season 35 where they rescued a letter H.
Now then...
Highlights.
1 Classic Animation: The segment where this girl tells us about her trip to Hawaii to get some pineapples and her Hawaiian shirt.
2 Classic Song/Film: "Happi-Happi-Happiness."
3 New sketch about two people named Harold and Helen having a picnic with the letter H, liked it.
4 Animation: Two guys talking about how his hat looks using H-words, one guy commenting it looked huge before being trapped inside the hat. Could be classic SS, not sure.
5 Classic Song: "Banana." This is how you promote the healthy/nutrition angle. But was it edited to be shorter?
6 Cookie Monster gets confronted by Matt Lauer about choosing healthy food over cookies.
OK... This was both good and bad.
Good: We got a new sketch with Cookie Monster. The adlibbing made it funny, and I think David Rudman's starting to learn just "how" to perform Cookie Monster. And where the heck was this sketch to deflate all the blown-up media hype over this story last year?!?
Bad: Matt Lauer kept badgering Cookie, making up the news which led to the funny adlibbing. Also, his line about how it was a bit incredulous to believe Cookie liked both healthy food and cookies, and how the destroyed tables and props would come out of his salary.
Yes, that'll come out of your salary!! Get your facts right! This is why you botched the intro for the float at last year's Macy's T-Day Parade!
7 Ernie's version of "Somebody Play With Me."
8 Global Grover: Hawaii... Ah, so good to hear Frank's Grover again.
9 Elmo's World: Wild Animals, repeat.
10 ATG: Planet Upside-Down.
This was probably one of the best done Trash Gordon segments. Why do I say that? Because they used the old cartoon/movie funhouse trick. Trash Gordon was seen standing right side up on what would be the floor to us... But the planet's dwellers, the Upside-Downians were seen upside-down to us on what would be the ceiling of the set used for the scene, right side up to them on their floor with Trash Gordon being upside-down. This ended when Trash Gordon became upside-down to us the viewers, joining the planet's residents on the ceiling.
Very well done, more points to Sesame for this sketch.
Lowpoints.
1 Already touched on the continuity problem in the street story.
2 Letter of the Day: H, this was the one where Cookie hides the letter cookie in his stomach.
Personally, I would've purrfered to get the one from last year where Prairie Dawn ate the letter H doing her Cookie Monster impurrsonation.
3 Number of the Day: 3.
What has me down is the fact that there weren't any good segments nor that many. The one I have stuck in my head is the one with the voice-over narrator for those Wegmen dog scenes saying "three" over and over until the bit ended.
All in all, a good episode, just let down by the lack of good Number of the Day segments.
Will post next time there's a new episode... Maybe Monday?
