# Do you have a favorite Sesame Street song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839 "2017-02-26T17:04:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/1 "2017-02-26T17:04:03Z")
It’s been years since I’ve seen the show, but my favorite song to this day is, “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon.” It’s crazy at my age, but that song still does something for me. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/2 "2017-02-26T17:26:08Z")
Said the alligator king to his seven sons “I’m feelin’ mighty down whichever one of you can cheer me up will wear my royal crown” Always my favourite and I still get it stuck in my head 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/3 "2017-02-26T18:20:23Z")
Rubber ducky, you’re the one! You make bath time so much fun. Rubber ducky, you’re my very best friend, it’s true… ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/4 "2017-02-26T18:22:13Z")
> [@BetsQ](#): > > Rubber ducky, you’re the one! > You make bath time so much fun. > Rubber ducky, you’re my very best friend, it’s true… That’s the closest one for me. Sesame Street was after my time and we never had kids so most of that missed me. But that one I remember getting a lot of radio play for a few months way back when. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/5 "2017-02-26T18:24:42Z")
“I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon” is a good choice; I’ll second that and add “Dance Myself to Sleep” and the song that plays during the “1-2-3 Red Ball” sequence. I hum the latter whenever I see the Rube Goldberg machine at the beginning of _Elementary._ ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/6 "2017-02-26T18:30:08Z")
“It is I, Captain Vegetable With my carrots and my celery…” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/7 "2017-02-26T18:41:00Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > Said the alligator king to his seven sons > “I’m feelin’ mighty down > whichever one of you can cheer me up > will wear my royal crown” > > Always my favourite and I still get it stuck in my head 🙂 Oooh, thanks for sharing that one; just watched it for the first time! ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/8 "2017-02-26T18:52:57Z")
\*Oh, everything comes in its own special size, Guess it can be measured by where you put your eyes. It’s so big when you’re close; it looks smaller back a bit. And that’s about the size of it. That’s about the size; where you put your eyes. That’s about the size of it.\* Very catchy in a most pleasant way, with a message about perspective that’s surprisingly deep for a kids’ show. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/9 "2017-02-26T18:53:16Z")
We all live in a Capital I In the middle of a desert In the center of the sky When we were kids my sister used to LOVE “Me and My Llama”. (Fuck, now I’m looking up old Sesame Street songs on youtube. _We all sing with the same voice the same song, the same voice, we all sing with the same voice and we sing in harmony!_) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/10 "2017-02-26T19:26:22Z")
Sunny day Chasing the clouds away On my way To where the air is sweet! Can you tell me how to find, how to find Cafe Society!!! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/11 "2017-02-26T19:39:02Z")
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things is not the same. We still use that one. Now, in terms of top 40 songs that had a version done on Sesame Street, I’ve always been partial to _Shiny, Happy Monsters_ by REM. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/12 "2017-02-26T19:42:32Z")
[Put Down the Duckie](https://youtu.be/UiQsaEdJ1aI) (if you want to play the saxophone!) ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/13 "2017-02-26T19:47:01Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Sunny day > Chasing the clouds away > On my way > To where the air is sweet! > > Can you tell me how to find, how to find Cafe Society!!! Yes, hard to top the theme song, sweet memories for me! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/14 "2017-02-26T19:47:26Z")
[Onetwothree FOUR FIVE sixseveneightnineten ELEVEN TWELVE! TWO!!! (Or which ever number is being featured).](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOaZbaPzdsk) So surreal. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/15 "2017-02-26T19:49:21Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > [Onetwothree FOUR FIVE sixseveneightnineten ELEVEN TWELVE! TWO!!! (Or which ever number is being featured).](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOaZbaPzdsk) > > So surreal. Beat me to it! 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12 is funk_ay_. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/16 "2017-02-26T20:38:54Z")
Ab-kadefky-jeckle-ma-nop-kwur-stoove-wix-is! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/17 "2017-02-26T20:59:17Z")
_Your hands can do so many different things: brush your teeth or comb your hair, throw a ball into the air, wave hello or wave goodbye, even make a pizza pie! So many things your hands can do!_ Sung in The Count’s voice, of course! I’ve always liked the version of the theme in _ **MAD Magazine** _: _Crummy day, smoggy sky’s charcoal grey! On my way past where the bullies meet! Can you tell me how to avoid, how to avoid Reality Street?_ ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/18 "2017-02-26T21:08:04Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > - > > I’ve always liked the version of the theme in _ **MAD Magazine** _: > > _Crummy day, smoggy sky’s charcoal grey! > On my way past where the bullies meet! > Can you tell me how to avoid, how to avoid > Reality Street?_ Ooooooh!!! Remember the take they did on nuclear war and the number five? Five countries with five nuclear warheads. Five world leaders with five different opinions. Five panic buttons with five fingers. Five Easy Pieces. (The Earth explodes into five big chunks.) Mad Magazine was DA bomb! ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/19 "2017-02-26T21:09:35Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > We all live in a Capital I > In the middle of a desert > In the center of the sky The same composer/singer (Steve Zuckerman) did the similarly awesome [Lowercase n.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btVGz294X0w) There was also a short “How It’s Made” type video set in a crayon factory that had a cool little prog-ish instrumental soundtrack. [Apparently a blend of two songs, Water Course A and Exchange by Richard Harvey.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_MEFVx5jM) ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839/20 "2017-02-26T21:09:44Z")
Sing makes me cry. I used to sing it to my kids when I changed their diapers. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-sesame-street-song/780839.md?page=2)