Your Thoughts: The Street We Live On

[Daffyfan4ever]

Yeah, Gordon only had his goatee for the first season. It may have had something to do with the other role Roscoe Orman was playing at the same time, an abusive pimp on All My Children (I'm not kidding). I read that Orman knew one role had to go and since the real bad guys don't last long on soaps anyway, he chose Sesame Street.

I think you made a mistake there. Orman didn't play Gordon on the first season of Sesame Street. I take you were referring to a later season of the show or something like that.

Oh, another thing. I can't find the Sesame Street characters on the website you mentioned. Where do I click to find them?

 

[Censored]

I think you made a mistake there. Orman didn't play Gordon on the first season of Sesame Street. I take you were referring to a later season of the show or something like that.

Oh, another thing. I can't find the Sesame Street characters on the website you mentioned. Where do I click to find them?

Hi, Daffyfan2003. I worded it wrong. I meant that Orman had a goatee on his first season on Sesame Street. He got rid of it right afterwards.


Here are the Sesame Street pages of the website (Some may take a while to download):

http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/ablpph/17thpage.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/ablpph/81stpage.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/ablpph/54thpage.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/ablpph/3rdpage.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/ablpph/58thpage.html


Have a sunny day.

 

[mikebennidict]

Excuse me. Perhaps I should have qualified my statement and said that "some" or "many" parents don't know the difference between educational and entertainment television.

To say no parent is that dumb is over-reaching in some cases. Just because people have children that doesn't automatically increase their common sense quotient. Trust me. I've dealt with people who have pre-schoolers that are brighter then they are. And I've dealt with parents who are very active and encourage their kids to watch shows like SS and other PBS shows.

Jen

well i'm sure they do if they bother to find out and if they don't know, than obviously they don't care. i don't think it's an easy mistake to make.

 

[Spicy Bubbles]

I watched the show with my Mom, and I was, as someone else was, embarassed to watch it with her. Not that I didn't find some parts funny & all that, but it wasn't what I was expecting. It seems to me that a lot of people have problems with the special because the press release preceding it was misleading. Would y'all still have problems with the special if the press release had been more honest or stated more clearly the content & format of the show?

A few more questions, if you can humor me:
- From what I gather, there is no DVD release of the 20th, 25th or 30th Anniversary specials (though there is a 25th Anniversary DVD that is not the actual special). Having not seen any of these, what were they like? You don't have to get that specific, but some general ideas would be helpful.

- Okay, I admit, I am not a big Sesame Street watcher. Yes, when I was a kid, I watched it. Now, not so much. I'm a little out of the loop. So what exactly is "Sesame Street Unpaved"? I know it's a book, my friend has the book, but what are the tv shows?

Thanks for your time, and for helping an under-educated Muppet fan.

 

[Cheebo]

- From what I gather, there is no DVD release of the 20th, 25th or 30th Anniversary specials (though there is a 25th Anniversary DVD that is not the actual special). Having not seen any of these, what were they like? You don't have to get that specific, but some general ideas would be helpful.

The 30th one that was on TV is on DVD but the 25th and 35th dvd and brand new straight to dvd/video special's they are about

25: Telly, Prarie Daw, & Big Bird want to put on a musical show and go around central park(I think CP) getting people for it and it is cut between a ton of sesame songs like Rubber Duckie, DOin' The Pigeon,..etc. The special ends with everyone singing "Sing".

30: The Sesame characters are putting on a big musical special but Elmo locks the host, Jon Stewart in his dressing room on mistake so Elmo becomes the host. Grover drives the human cast members to the special in a limo but gets lost in Roswell. The special Elmo host's is a big musical show that is full of music video's of famous musicans doing remakes of sesame songs like Nearly Missed a Rainbow & I Don't Want To Live on the Moon. The special has a ton of backstage stuff ala The Muppet Show with the Sesame muppets like Ernie & Bert being the directors and bert being tangeled up in film, a lot of the muppets trying to knock down Jon Stewarts door..etc. They get the door down by Slimey sneezing on it. Grover arrives with the human cast members for the closing number which is all the muppet & human cast singing around 1 line of their most famous song.


35th(DVD one on TV): Big Bird, Super Grover, & Elmo go around Central Park trying to find the one song everyone can sing together. It is cut between sesame songs like Sing & Do De Rubber Duck. It ends with all the cast members(but Alan) and Sesame Muppets singing the song "Whats The Name Of That Song?"

 

[Philo and Gunge]

- Okay, I admit, I am not a big Sesame Street watcher. Yes, when I was a kid, I watched it. Now, not so much. I'm a little out of the loop. So what exactly is "Sesame Street Unpaved"? I know it's a book, my friend has the book, but what are the tv shows?

Sesame Street Unpaved was a show on Noggin featuring seleted episodes from the 1969 season through Jim Henson's last season.

 

[Phillip]

The best retrospective TV specials in my opinion are the 20th anniversary shown on NBC and TV Land's/Noggin special on Sesame Street Unpaved from 1999. The TV Land/Noggin special was so good that it shows that the crew is more in touch with what the fans want than it may first appear. A&E's Biography from 2001 is also excellent.

 

[kermiejam]

It was ok i didnt see much of it (i was watching american dreams season finale at the same time) i like the end though

 

[Censored]

Hi, Daffyfan2003. I worded it wrong. I meant that Orman had a goatee on his first season on Sesame Street. He got rid of it right afterwards.


Here are the Sesame Street pages of the website (Some may take a while to download):

http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/ablpph/17thpage.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/ablpph/81stpage.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/ablpph/54thpage.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/ablpph/3rdpage.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/ablpph/58thpage.html


Have a sunny day.

Here are two more:

http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/ablpph/85thpage.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/ablpph/newpage29.html

 

[BoyRaisin2]

I don't know if this was mentioned already but has anybody else realized that, in the retrospective at the end, that the TV on which the clips were being shown was labeled "CTW?" And they only did it up to 1997.