Your Thoughts: Sesame Street Season 43

[Drtooth]

That article does make sense and all, but then of course there are those who prefer to use film cameras, mostly artistic photographers. There are a lot of old Sesame Street skits that thrive on technology that was top of the line and common those days that just would come off completely awkward now. Even with hipster parents who use the old technologies ironically. I doubt we'd ever see Telephone Rock ever again, unless the thing was heavily altered. There are barely any pay phones anymore, let alone booths (where is Superman going to change now?) I'm nothing, if not realistic. We rarely see something as far back as the 90's, and never anything further than that (which I am totally okay with).

I'm glad that ETM is shorter, freeing up some more time for the show. But somehow, I think there's something wrong in the compilation department. I think when they were laying employees off, they got rid of some of the staff that wades through footage. The show segments that fill up extra time you can tell are last minute.

 

[Oscarfan]

Re-watching the Basket episode, I really want to say they threw in the Jamie Foxx bit because of his recent recognition from Django Unchained.

 

[antsamthompson9]

Captain Elmo has to beat a giant octopus at a game of ping-pong. Is that Bill using a Clueless Morgan voice?

Tyler Bunch told me that was John Tartagila.

 

[Drtooth]

Re-watching the Basket episode, I really want to say they threw in the Jamie Foxx bit because of his recent recognition from Django Unchained.

I'm sure they probably put that one together before hand, but it would be cool if they did.

 

[antsamthompson9]

The new Murray tune-ins on today's episode were pretty cool. Oscarfan, here's all the old Muppet bits until you get the episode file: AFFS Fairy Dust Bunnies, SG 2.O Pretty Good Wall of China, Murray plays Sounds of the Street with a dog, helicopter, and tiger with allergies, Are You Smarter Than an Egg Layer, and ETM Detective. I hope you get the files for this episode and Finish the Splat and Best House of the Year soon. Those episodes don't have guides on Muppet Wiki yet.

 

[Drtooth]

I really don't bother with these repackaged reruns disguised as new episodes... I REALLY hope next season they have the budget to avoid them.

Was their anything worth mentioning in this episode? I just switched it on around the time ETM came on. I did miss the opening if the Detective one first time around. Didn't get to see that he still has Dorothy, even though she's unmentioned.

 

[Oscarfan]

I haven't seen it, but there was this new segment:

http://www.sesamestreet.org/play#media/video_7e2267b0-d2f2-4531-81e1-eccb30346fc9

Another one of those great paper animations from Italy

 

[Daffyfan4ever]

Actually, I was going to ask the same thing. I'm not finding them on sesamestreet.org or on pbs.kids. I'm probably going to miss a lot of episodes with this internship I'm doing, even the ones that are on in the evening because I don't know how early I'll be home. I don't want to buy them on iTunes, because that can get quite costly, so if anyone has any info on this please enlighten us.

 

[Drtooth]

Okay... so when did they change the fact that today's episode was supposed to be the new one, and that won't be shown until the end of the month? Secondly, I read the synopses for the next consecutive episodes and they're all the bloody same! More trial and error engineering. The same episodes over and over with a slightly different plot.

It's official. I hate the Engineering focus as much as the health focus and the nature focus. The season opened strong with a lice of life/character development episode. There were some fun little gag related episodes... but it all devolved into episodes about how they have to make something and they're all shown all together, thus killing whatever variety they already have.

I hardly consider myself an old school fan who finds nothing but fault in current episodes, but there's one thing that I feel the show severely lacks. The fruit salad approach where everything is taken into consideration and dealt with evenhandedly instead of this bludgeoning kids over the head with one specific goal brought to SW's attention due to failings in the US education system. Especially since half the audience is going to be lost on it. The nature guessing games and anvilicious health food shilling were a real turn off, and these constant engineering through trial and error episodes are just as bad no matter what funny characters they cast in there. The fact that the Three little Pigs building a house episode came directly after the exact same thing, but with Little Red Riding Hood and baskets (especially considering who they both have to be reinforced from) just proves my point. It's not an out of ideas scenario... it's a scenario where the writers are goaded to use the same plot to overwork a specific theme.

 

[Oscarfan]

Next season apparently has a new focus (Hispanic Heritage), so hopefully there will be some more unique storylines.