# Children of the 70s . . . what do you remember from Sesame Street? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 6, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498 "2003-03-06T15:07:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/61 "2003-03-06T23:33:50Z")
“Banamana”?? Do you mean “Mah na Mah na”? [(track 2)](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000008IQE/qid=1046993693/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-5647503-2100832?v=glance&s=music) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/62 "2003-03-06T23:48:57Z")
\*Some mornings I wake up I feel so good and new I find my socks myself I put my shoes on too The feet are right! The feet are right! Is it not wonderful that the feet are right? I, Grover, am big and tall and very smart and kind of cute and wonderful I think that there is nothing I cannot do You can get the feet right, too And then I go to eat the cereal is not there I see it on a shelf I climb up on a chair I get it down I do not spill! is it not wonderful that I do not spill? I, Grover, am big and tall and very smart and kind of cute and wonderful I think that there is nothing I cannot do You can learn to not spill too I go outside and play I bounce a ball and then I catch it right away and bounce the ball again…\* Anyone remember Cowboy X? ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/63 "2003-03-06T23:51:34Z")
The counting to 12 song with the shiney rolling marble that got to roll through all of the cool stuff is by far my strongest Sesame Street memory. When I was a kid there was an artist in the area who made [kinetic sculptures](http://koolkinetics.com/kinetic_stuff/index.htm) and I would drag my parents to the galleries and shops that sold his/her work because they were just like the Sesame Street marble song and I loved them so. I also loved to play MouseTrap and pinball because they reminded me of the Sesame Street marble song. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/64 "2003-03-07T00:05:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\*Roosevelt Franklin’s anti-war song made a strong impression on me, \*\* Do you remember how it went or some lyrics? It isn’t ringing a bell… What was the performance troupe that was on sometimes? Momenchance or something is how it was pronounced, I think. They were on the Muppets sometimes… they did the weirdest things… like those toilet paper rolls on their heads and stuff… if someone can get me the correct spelling and/or a link to a site about them I’d be thrilled. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/65 "2003-03-07T00:37:43Z")
Nobody mentioned “Who are the people in your neighborhood”? ---
**Author:** ![Contrabass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Contrabass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrabass)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/66 "2003-03-07T03:09:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Obsidian Flutterby \* > \*\*I don’t remember the Spanish segments (I’m a child of the 80’s) but I loved Sesame Street. I still do. > \*\* I’m an 80s child as well (born in 77), but I remember the Spanish language segments. I think I remember them teaching Hot and Cold… > [@](#): > > \*\* > Anyone else remember the movie where BigBird and Snuffleupagus got lost in a museum? (I think it was the Smithsonian) Everyone got locked in because they were looking for them, while BB and S were helping a lost Egyptian boy find his way to the scales to see if his soul weighed up right so he could go to be with his family? I forget all the Egyptian stuff right now but I kinda liked that movie. They showed it on Family Channel years ago. \*\* Wow. Talk about digging up long forgotten memories… I do remember this. I recall being slightly freaked out by it… all the Egypt/death stuff. It was sort of borderline for me at the time. I was scared of the Egyptian theme, but sufficiently intrigued by what would happen in the end that I watched it anyway… Anyway, just thought I’d confirm your memory. 🙂 Does anyone have Sesame Street records? I have one where Big Bird discovers the Orchestra. The concuctor can’t find the members of his symphony orchestra, so he asks Big Bird to help him find them. He goes to the playground (natrually) and finds the members of each section together. So when he finds the String section, the violin, viola cello and **contrabass** each demonstrate their instruments. (I remember the Violist’s name- Victor Viola… ha!) Then, they hop in Big Bird’s red wagon as he rounds up the rest of the group. Ah yes, the percussion section is in the monkey bars, and the piano is found in the pool. Anyone remember that? Anyone?.. \… ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/67 "2003-03-07T03:31:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\* > > What was the performance troupe that was on sometimes? Momenchance or something is how it was pronounced, I think. They were on the Muppets sometimes… they did the weirdest things… like those toilet paper rolls on their heads and stuff… if someone can get me the correct spelling and/or a link to a site about them I’d be thrilled. \*\* [Mummenschanz](http://www.mummenschanz.com/) I’m going to have to respectfully disagree with the people who claim the aliens called cooperation “Shirley”. That doesn’t make any sense. Even as a toddler, I realized they were coming up with two names for the same concept: “Let’s call it…co-op-er-a-tion” “No, let’s call it shar-ing” IIRC the 2nd alien had a high squeaky voice and it might have been hard to understand, but this child of the 70s heard “sharing”. I am serious, and stop calling me Shirley. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/68 "2003-03-07T03:39:17Z")
Hooray! Mummenschanz!! Thank you 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/69 "2003-03-07T04:15:01Z")
Contrabass: I was born in 82 so maybe they had gotten rid of it by the time I remember watching? Or perhaps they didn’t make as big an impression on me. I _do_ remember a little of the French though. I did find it funny when recently watching Mr Roger’s Neighborhood they were in the make believe world… and there was a Spanish mouse. Something totally different from what I remember. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/70 "2003-03-07T04:19:21Z")
Remember that brief period in Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood where they had that family of platypuses (platypi?) living over by the carousel? ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/71 "2003-03-07T04:19:31Z")
_Oh, I love trash, Anything dirty or dingy or dusty, Anything rotten or ragged or rusty, Oh, I love, I love, Iiiiii love trash._ Someone tell me I’m not imaging this, but I swear I saw Kermit sing “It’s not easy being green” with Ray Charles, which is about as poignant as it gets. I can’t find where it was on an episode of The Muppet Show, so I’m thinking it must have been on Sesame Street. ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/72 "2003-03-07T04:22:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\*Remember that brief period in Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood where they had that family of platypuses (platypi?) living over by the carousel? \*\* Yes, yes I do. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/73 "2003-03-07T04:46:10Z")
I think that was during ole Fred’s midlife crisis when he was tokin’ up a bit too much. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/74 "2003-03-07T12:48:56Z")
OMG! I saw Mummenschanz perform when I was a kid! My favorite sketch was the one where this Pac-Man looking creature was trying to catch a plant and eat it. Roll…plant moves away…roll…plant moves away…After a long struggle, it got the plant, chewed on it for a bit, then _ **PTUI!** _ spat it out again! Anyway. I remember Grover, in his superhero persona, coming to the aid of the little blonde Muppet who had to move some bricks from one side of the yard to the other. Then he couldn’t take off because she was standing on his cape. I remember Ernie with the banana in his ear. “Ernie, why do you have a banana in your ear?” “I can’t hear you, Bert; I have a banana in my ear!” ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/75 "2003-03-07T13:34:23Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by little_bit \* > \*_The Electric Company was better._ \*\* Nope, that was Captain Kangaroo. And “Who are the People in your Neighborhood,” I believe, was Mr. Rogers. Thank you to whomever remembered the Tweedlebugs, they were my FAVORITE, and I haven’t thought about them in about 15 years. I KNEW it was a Tweedlebug segment when Ernie was gardening at his windowbox, I’d get SO excited. No idea why. That about “A Gallon of Milk, a loaf of bread, and a stick of buttah.” (or some combination of those things?) It was a cartoon with a kid who had a GIANT afro, and his mother sent him to the store, but he had to remember to get those three things. He kept repeating them over, and over again so as to not forget them. Or the counting-to-ten in spanish song? That’s still how I know my Spanish numbers. Frankly, I’m a firm believer that Sesame Street jumped the shark when Elmo arrived. I was born in 79, but have clear memories from a really early age, starting at 2. So I remember the old ones. My little sister is 5 years younger, and by the time she was 3 or so, SS was firmly entrenched in ElmoFever. Though it WAS exciting when Maria and Luis got married…(no, wait! I didn’t watch that! I was, like, 7! And Sesame Street is for BABIES!!!) (apparently [a lot](http://www.jumptheshark.com/s/sesamestreet.htm) of people agree with me. But I swear I wrote the above paragraph before seeing this site…) God, I cried when Mr. Hooper died. One of the most traumatic childhood events of my life. Right up there with Bambi. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/76 "2003-03-07T13:51:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eats\_Crayons \* > \*\*BTW, wasn’t it “sharing” not “Shirley”? Or was I wooshed? \*\* Actually, maybe _I_ was; I’ve always thought it was “Shirley”. :o But hey, whaddaya want from me? I was like 5 years old . . . ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/77 "2003-03-07T14:05:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SwimmingRiddles \* > \*\*…“Who are the People in your Neighborhood,” I believe, was Mr. Rogers… > > \*\* No, it was definitely Sesame Street. We rarely if ever watched Mr. Rogers, but I remember these segments. They had Muppets in them, and Muppets = Sesame Street. I was born in 1965, so I was of the first cohort that grew up with Sesame Street. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/78 "2003-03-07T14:35:43Z")
After Googling around a bit, I am prepared to retract my previous statement. I thought the “Won’t you be my neighbor” sentiment covered all neighbor-related songs, but I am wrong. Sesame St., indeed. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/79 "2003-03-07T14:47:59Z")
**Opal** Did I understand you to say that you have an MP3 of the Capital I song? Please, Please, Please share it with me! Best. Song. Evar. **Lagomorph** WOO HOO! for the born in '65 ers! ---
**Author:** ![irkenDoom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@irkenDoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irkenDoom)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498/80 "2003-03-07T16:44:43Z")
I used to (maybe still do) have a 60 minute audio cassette of various Sesame Street songs, including Big Bird’s alphabet-as-one-word song, “I Love Trash,” “Who Are the People in your Neighborhood,” “Rubber Duckie,” and more. I remember the first time I listened to it, I started screaming and crying when it was over, because I thought Big Bird was never coming back. It took a while for my mom to talk me out of that one. I’ll have to go dig it out next time I visit the folks. This from someone who started out religiously watching _The Merv Griffin Show_ at age 3, before he finally discovered _Sesame Street_. Fortunately, I have since gotten my priorities straight… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-the-70s-what-do-you-remember-from-sesame-street/159498.md?page=5)