Your Thoughts: Sesame Street Season 37

[Daffyfan4ever]

But the thing that bugged me... Are they trying to replace Snuffy? Not sure.

I know what you mean. Instead of adding all these new characters, they should focus more on bringing the old ones back such as Forgetful Jones, Sherlock Hemlock, etc. And, yes, I hope they don't lose Snuffy. It took about 15 years for people to acknowledge his existence and now it's looking like he may be replaced. I hope we're wrong about this.

 

[The Count]

Well... I'm not against the addition of new characters... Just got a weird sort of vibe from the whole way they handled Herb's introduction.

BTW: You should've heard my angry rant when I found out that 4089 from Season 36 got repeated today instead of a new episode.

 

[Barry Lee]

They are showing new eps every week so the episodes could last longer.

 

[ISNorden]

I was terribly disappointed to see a rerun of "American Fruit Stand" today; the minute that delivery girl arrived at Hooper's, I changed the channel. (This is the wrong thread for ranting about a Season 36 episode, though, so I'm posting my biggest problem with it in a new topic.)

 

[Daffyfan4ever]

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[Big Bird Fan]

BTW: You should've heard my angry rant when I found out that 4089 from Season 36 got repeated today instead of a new episode.

The only new episodes this week are on Tuesday and Thursday.

 

[Big Bird Fan]

I get the feeling that "What's the Game Today?" is this season's alternative (at least part-time) to the old "Journey to Ernie". Although most of the games encourage kids to exercise as they watch, they're still fairly dumbed down...ugh.

I'd still take this over JtE any day. I don't like how dumbed down Big Bird is in that segment.

 

[DTF]

I agree about the intro of Herb - but is he supposed to be a recurring character? I don't think they'd necessarily replace Snuffy with him just because they have similar entrances.

However, it's disappointing that Herb didn't appear to Snuffy. That could have been handled in a couple comedic ways - irony (Goordon and Snuffy both doubting Herb existed till the end), Snuffy telling Herb he knew how it feels, Herb thinking Snuffy is "his friend the woolly mammoth," etc..

That's the problem with really short street segments, though.

 

[DTF]

On Gabi and Miles' graduation and "Peanuts"

The classic "Peanuts" from this past Sunday which ran in my paper, if you all saw it, too, should have clued you in to why the graduation is possible.

"Peanuts" - which I'm as crazy about as most of you are SS, did the same thing with Charlie Brown's little sister. The classic Sunday strip was from the 1960s, and CB can't pitch b/c he has to push his then baby sister. (Lucy says something like, "It's the age-old story," a reference to how men often can't just go play all the time because of family responsibility. Boy, I miss Schulz being alive and doing new strips.)

Suddenly, Charles Schulz aged Saly while keeping CB and his friends in lower elementary. She was 5 years younger and had a crush on Linus the way toddlers just cling to someone they like, then over the next few years, suddenly it becomes a schoolgirl crush like a 1st grader might have. They'd probably end up marrying with Sally even being invited to the Senior Prom by Linus while just a sophomore. (Or a junior.) As happens in one of my fanfics on fanfiction.net.

So, I don't see retroactive aging as a bad thing if it was done early. To me, it's like there are two timelines. And, that's almost necessary for some things that run long enough. Even M*A*S*H had 2 timeline! (Yep, Col. Blake served till 1952, then about season 7 or 8 they decided to say there was a second one where Potter, B.J., and even Winchester came before the end of 1950. You have to do that when you try to fit 11 seasons into a 3-year war.)

 

[minor muppetz]

I missed the street story and saw the rest of the episode, and I thought that it was a new episode (in fact, I don't think the Spanish Word of the Day was included. Was this edited from the episode, or did I just miss it?). I saw at least three classic skits in the episode (Name That Food, Do De Rubber Duck, and Everybody Eats), and thought it was cool. I did think it was weird that the number of the day was four again like it was a few days ago, and noticed that there was a skit with Elmo and a kid that was on the show a few episodes ago.

It is interesting that almost every skit had to do with food (especially healthy food). It is interesting that, with a food-themed episode, it had Do De Rubber Duck instead of one of the skits involving Ernie and Bert "sharing" food (or Ernie holding a banana in his ear, or Ernie using a banana as a phone)or one of Ernie and Cookie Monster's team-ups, or the skit where Ernie bought an ice cream cone, and the Elmo's World skit was the one about singing instead of eating.