# 40! 40 Fabulous Years of Sesame Street! Ah-Ah-Ah! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315 "2009-10-27T16:20:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/21 "2009-10-28T17:45:41Z")
To this day I can’t listen to Billie Idol on the radio without thinking [Rebel L](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjbpuK_H2VY). You just _have_ to love the 80’s video effects in that clip. And the purple Billie Idol. And the cops. And the lyrics. Just the whole thing. My all time favorite. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/22 "2009-10-28T17:56:21Z")
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**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/23 "2009-10-28T17:58:09Z")
[I wanna soak up the sun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuHDC9mW2XQ&feature=PlayList&p=48297483F3F6C1CA&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=23) [Grover and the blue bald guy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GOGNE0nWHk) Well any sketch with Grover and the blue bald guy is a classic. They recently had one where Grover remodels the man’s house, complete with Extreme Home Makeover jokes. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/24 "2009-10-28T19:08:18Z")
[A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jdP7HUPbVs) ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/25 "2009-10-28T19:13:07Z")
Haha! I forgot about the ladybug’s picnic! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8vUTm64h0&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8vUTm64h0&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/26 "2009-10-28T19:14:56Z")
> [@chique](#): > > [A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jdP7HUPbVs) I STILL quote that one when my mother sends me to the supermarket on an errand while I’m visiting. And shout “I remembered! I remembered!” when I get home. There was another one, a little girl with a balloon. “I wonder what would happen if I POPPED this balloon?” My hometown had a big blue watertower that you could see from a lot of different vistas, and when I was a kid I always used to say, “I wonder what would happen…” when it came into view as my mother was driving me somewhere. Ooh! Just remembered “Alligator King”! Unfortunately, I can’t access YouTube from work…I’ll try to provide links when I get home later. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/27 "2009-10-28T19:20:39Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > Cookie Monster isn’t a letter of the alphabet! The little girl’s “I love you…” gets me every time. Best Sesame Street sketch ever. -Olentzero, who proudly shares a [birthday](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Cookie_Monster) with that same non-letter of the alphabet (How _do_ they determine those, anyway?!) and who will beat Sesame Street across the 40-year mark by eight days. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/28 "2009-10-28T19:53:41Z")
I seem to remember Oscar singing a song called “O is for Oscar,” the same tune as C is for Cookie. Something like “O is for Oscar, that’s all you need to know…” etc. Did that really happen or did I imagine that? ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/29 "2009-10-28T19:56:58Z")
[The Alligator King](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVDUYJo3CjU&feature=channel) and his seven sons. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/30 "2009-10-28T20:04:34Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > [One of these things is not like the other](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZIvgQ9ik48) I still sing this song when there is one thing that sticks out in a crowd. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/31 "2009-10-28T21:09:28Z")
> [@Olentzero](#): > > The little girl’s “I love you…” gets me every time. Best Sesame Street sketch ever. According to a biography I read about Jim Henson, Kermit angrily walking away from the little girl was improved by Henson on the spot, as was the little girl’s “I love you.” Amazing how that humorously-cute moment just came out. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/32 "2009-10-29T00:39:44Z")
I remember being 4, going on 5, and watching the first episode of Sesame Street. I also seem to recall that, before it premiered on NET, they had a sneak preview on one of the commercial networks (maybe NBC?). ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/33 "2009-10-29T00:41:31Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I remember being 4, going on 5, and watching the first episode of Sesame Street. I also seem to recall that, before it premiered on NET, they had a sneak preview on one of the commercial networks (maybe NBC?). [_This Way To Sesame Street_](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/This_Way_to_Sesame_Street)- aired on NBC two days before the NET premiere. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/34 "2009-10-29T01:30:33Z")
Beet beet, sugar beet beet, [**sugar beet**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZR6qg33yI0), sugar beet beet. It takes a lot of little nuts to make a jar of [**peanut butter**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snHTca2jRTw). We all live in a [**capital I**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK2VOdRAbW8), in the middle of the desert, in the centre of the sky. Followed by: In an old and far off place, there was a **lowercase n**. ---
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/35 "2009-10-29T03:15:56Z")
Of course, if it wasn’t for Jim Henson, there wouldn’t be any Sesame Street. Thank you, sir. \ Only if you want a good cry, check out the following: [Big Bird sings “Being Green”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrZyMptC2eQ) [Frank Oz on Jim Henson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuP6A9-1gyA) Grab a box of tissues… ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/36 "2009-10-29T03:24:07Z")
Shoot, **GuanoLad** , you beat me to the lowercase n! I always always always always wanted to meet Jim Henson. I still do. But I feel like I know him, what with growing up with his work. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/37 "2009-10-29T04:01:41Z")
[The saddest thing ever, especially when I was seven.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZTvDZHRFrU) There is nothing more memorable than that if you were alive to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/38 "2009-10-29T05:30:45Z")
> [@pythonzzz](#): > > Only if you want a good cry, check out the following: And this too: [A Boy And His Frog](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufMdo9AyMng&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/39 "2009-10-29T05:41:28Z")
> [@chique](#): > > Haha! I forgot about the ladybug’s picnic! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8vUTm64h0&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8vUTm64h0&feature=related) This is my all-time favorite Sesame Song and no one I know has ever heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315/40 "2009-10-29T05:58:31Z")
> [@pythonzzz](#): > > Only if you want a good cry, check out the following: > > [Big Bird sings “Being Green”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrZyMptC2eQ) Damnit, **Python**. I was holding it just fine through the song, but then Big Bird ends it with "thank you, Kermit’. You made a grown ass man weep. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-40-fabulous-years-of-sesame-street-ah-ah-ah/515315.md?page=3)