# favorite Sesame Street bit **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 20, 2001, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701 "2001-03-20T12:00:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/21 "2001-03-20T16:07:41Z")
- Marvelous Martha - the little girl who loved the letter “M”, and if you looked closely while she was stomping in the mud, the drops were tiny lowercase "m"s. - the musical interludes - there was one with raindrops to the Vivaldi Lute Concerto in D, 2nd movement. Very peaceful, and hooked me on classical music. - Monsterpiece Theatre with Alistair Cookie - damned clever - “One of these things is not like the other…” Call me shameless, but I love some of the parodical muppets [li] Flo Bear (took me awhile to get that one)[/li][li] Plcido Flamingo[/li][li] Virginia Wolf[/li][li] Hoot Sims (of course!)[/li]and of course… [li] Meryl Sheep[/li](I heard there was a “Rabbit DiNiro” character. Is that true?) Did anyone else catch the episode with Mel Gibson as Hamlet reading “Words, words, words” to Elmo? Loved that one. Counting to twelve? Criminey, I remember when they only counted to 10, with the numbers flashing in fast sequence in a multicolored border. My favorite was when a snake would twist itself into an eight. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/22 "2001-03-20T16:10:51Z")
Ok, Alligator King and the pinball sequence are great. I also really liked the painter guy who would have to paint the number du jour on a public place and it always would get washed off or demolished somehow! How about the Count and his song “battybatty batty bat bat bat” polka? I love that one and my kids do too. ::These are the people in your neighborhood…:: ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/23 "2001-03-20T16:12:28Z")
Ooo ooo ooo…and the guy who played “Bentley” on “The Jeffersons” as the painter…he was always painting numbers on the wrong things, and getting paint on himself… I read WAY early but am still thrown into giggles by the STUPIDEST things. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/24 "2001-03-20T16:32:33Z")
screech-owl: You missed H. Ross Parrot. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/25 "2001-03-20T16:43:02Z")
**Hama** , I think we were thinking of the smae guy! And how about the rousing song “Skin!” Glorious Skin! ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/26 "2001-03-20T17:03:40Z")
Naw, you’re all wrong. The best Sesame Street skit is the one that goes: yuuuuup yupyupyup yupyupYUP! Noooope nope nope nope nope nope NOPE! Anyone know what I’m talking about? ---
**Author:** ![kaiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@kaiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiju)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/27 "2001-03-20T17:05:07Z")
## ----------------------------------------------------------Did anyone else catch the episode with Mel Gibson as Hamlet reading “Words, words, words” to Elmo? Loved that one. God, I loved that. And there was a version of “Waiting for Godot” that they did, called “Waiting for Elmo.” The tree in the background said “Why can’t we do Oklahoma? I understand Oklahoma!” I was a culture starved mommy of two. ---
**Author:** ![DarbyV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@DarbyV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarbyV)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/28 "2001-03-20T17:33:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Athena \* > \*\*Naw, you’re all wrong. The best Sesame Street skit is the one that goes: > > yuuuuup yupyupyup yupyupYUP! > > Noooope nope nope nope nope nope NOPE! > > Anyone know what I’m talking about? \*\* That is either the Honkers (but I don’t think so because they just honk thier noses) or the martians which have names but I can’t think of them right now. My all time favorite is Lady Bug Picnic They tried to jump rope But the rope it broke So they just sat around Telling knock knock jokes ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/29 "2001-03-20T17:38:09Z")
:: chef enters carrying tray full of cakes [loud voice] Ten Chocolate Cakes![/loud voice] :: takes two steps, trips :: sounds of chef and cakes flying everywhere always cracked me up. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/30 "2001-03-20T17:52:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cmkeller \* > \*\*screech-owl: > > You missed H. Ross Parrot. \*\* **BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!** ::snort, guffaw, choke, etc.:: You’re kidding me! I never saw this character! What was he like?! Lemme guess, small, stocky and feathers sticking out on the sides of his head? OTOH, Sherlock Hemlock was kind of a dolt. I think the Yupyupyup/Nopenopenope was the alien characters: they were investigating a telephone, and when the phone rang, they would pull their lower lip over the top of their head and hide. Eventually, they would \ back at the phone in a conversation. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/31 "2001-03-20T18:09:59Z")
_The eagle and me . . . over the evening sea . . . hee hee_ Surely the mellowest thing ever televised. It never failed to put my brain into alpha & theta waves. It was so tranqilizing I felt it was a little spooky, but I loved it just the same. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/32 "2001-03-20T18:12:51Z")
_The eagle and me . . . over the evening sea . . . hee hee_ Surely the mellowest thing ever televised. It never failed to put my brain into alpha & theta waves. It was so tranqilizing I felt it was a little spooky, but I loved it just the same. [The E Song](http://members.nbci.com/oroborus12/esong.html) ---
**Author:** ![frobozz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ed8c4c/32.png) [@frobozz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frobozz)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/33 "2001-03-20T19:39:59Z")
First of all, thanks, **curwin**. I haven’t smiled this much in a long time. **Athena** , **DarbyV** , I always loved the ‘yupyupyup’ guys too. I remember them being martians who would walk around examining ordianry things, then trying to say their names- “ray-dee-oh. ray-dee-oh. radio. radio. radioradioradio yupyupyupyup…” I loved it. Also, the time Kermit tried to order a custom T-shirt that said “Kermit the Frog.” The guy behind the counter insisted that he had ordered a shirt that said “Kermit the Gorf.” They argued until a another monster came in and said, “I’m Kermit the Gorf, is my shirt ready?” Ha Ha! Kermit the Gorf! I love it! ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/34 "2001-03-20T19:40:38Z")
ATHENA: > [@](#): > > Naw, you’re all wrong. The best Sesame Street skit is the one that goes: > > yuuuuup yupyupyup yupyupYUP! > > Noooope nope nope nope nope nope NOPE! > > Anyone know what I’m talking about? The Martians! My favorite as well. They’d bob up and down and circle around an item and talk about it: “BOOKbookbookbookbookbookbook.” “Yep.” \*::bobbing up and down:: \* “YEPyepyepyepyepyepyep.” And when they got scared they’d pull their lower lip up over their eyes. 🙂 And, of course, Cookie Monster’s song: “C is for cookie, dat good enough for me; C is for cookie, dat good enough for me; C is for cookie, dat good enough for me; 'cause cookie cookie cookie start with C!” ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/35 "2001-03-20T19:48:56Z")
I second the “Capital I” nomination. That song was sooooo eerie. \*Rubbing it here, scrubbing it there polishing the “I” so high in theeeee air And when we’re done with the day’s only chore we go into the “I” and we shut the door Capital “I” Capital “I”\* For sheer hilarity though, you gotta go with Bert and Ernie. I remember a long hilarious sketch were Ernie took Bert’s cowboy hat to put the fish in, because he used the fishbowl for a plant, because he used the flowerpot for soup or something, etc. He ended up putting a souppot on Bert’s head and saying: “Ride 'em Cowboy, Bert!” I loved how Ernie would keep picking away at Bert until Bert would throw his hands in the air and go “Arrrrghh!!” lol, it was hilarious to see a muppet just lose it like that! Does anyone remember the Muppet Xmas special where Bert sold his paperclip collection to buy Ernie a dish for his Rubber Duckie, and Ernie sold his Rubber Duckie to get Bert a case for his paperclip collection? Sesame Street can only be truly appreciated AFTER you grow up and take all your literature classes, haha. ---
**Author:** ![frobozz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ed8c4c/32.png) [@frobozz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frobozz)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/36 "2001-03-20T19:51:20Z")
Anyone have the Sesame Street Gold album? Full of all your favorite Muppet disco hits, like “IN, OUT, That’s what this song is all about.” The record was gilded and the cover showed the muppets in a disco a la Saturday Night Fever. Very chic. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/37 "2001-03-20T22:03:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by malaka \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by neptune\_1984 \* > > \*\*There’s this one skit I like that features a little purple dude (and this skit is always throughout all Muppets shows or performances) saying, “Phenomonon,” and girl Muppets chant, “Doo-doo-doo-doo-doodoo!” It cracks me up! > > > > \*\* > > Are you sure you’re not thinking of [Mahna mahna](http://members.nbci.com/oroborus12/mahna.html) (sung by Mahna Mahna and the Snowths)? I believe Fozzie Bear also did a rendition of this on The Muppoet Show. > > \*\* Oh…yeah, that’s what I was thinking of. It always sounded like “Phenomenon” to me. Now I feel like a doofus! That’s what I’ve been chanting in school. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/38 "2001-03-20T22:42:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pcubed \* > \*\*:: chef enters carrying tray full of cakes > > [loud voice] Ten Chocolate Cakes![/loud voice] > > :: takes two steps, trips > > :: sounds of chef and cakes flying everywhere > > always cracked me up. \*\* When I was little, that bit always made me sad – almost to the point of crying. I felt so bad for the poor chef, who had gone to all that work only to see his breautiful cakes ruined. I still feel bad for him. On the other hand, Mr. Scarlett never saw Sesame Street (no reception for PBS in the rural area where he grew up, and he was a teenager in 1969). So I have fun taunting him with my favorite bits, like this one whenever we have to make a grocery list: “A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter.” ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/39 "2001-03-20T23:05:51Z")
**frobozz, Jodi** : You’ve got me LMAO… I remember those guys looking at a phone. Phooooone phone phoooooone yupyupyupyupYUPYUPYUP!!! What I would give for a recording of them! **Scarlett67** : OK, you’ve got me dyin’ here. What’s the “Loaf of bread, container of milk” reference? It sounds so familiar to me, but I just can’t place it. Also, I can relate to you on the SO not getting Sesame Street comments. My SO was born in 1957 and didn’t grow up with it. I was born in 1970 and spent a good part of my childhood watching Sesame Street. He just doesn’t get it when I rabidly defend funding of PBS for the sole reason of keeping the kid’s shows. yupyupyupYUPYUPYUPYUP! ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701/40 "2001-03-20T23:56:02Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by malaka_ > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by neptune\_1984 \* > > Are you sure you’re not thinking of [Mahna mahna](http://members.nbci.com/oroborus12/mahna.html) (sung by Mahna Mahna and the Snowths)? I believe Fozzie Bear also did a rendition of this on The Muppoet Show. > > Oh…yeah, that’s what I was thinking of. It always sounded like “Phenomenon” to me. Now I feel like a doofus! That’s what I’ve been chanting in school. You’re not a doofus, malaka (at least not for that). 🙂 “Phenomenon” was used in a version of the song on “Muppets Tonight”. Sandra Bullock plays a psychiatrist, and Kermit visits her because every time he says “phenomenon”, two muppets pop up and go “doo doooo do do do”. Sandra’s professional demeanor slips a bit and she gets into it. 🙂 They did do a version of “Mahna Mahna” for “The Muppet Show”, but with some other unnamed characer, not Fozzie. Two bits I liked from SS: [li]Bert and Ernie are exploring an Egyptian pyramid, and two mummies who look like them play tricks on Ernie but leave Bert alone. Bert’s final line went something like “I gotta win one once in while.”[/li] [\*]Some muppet is reading a story about a princess, played by Judy Collins. The muppet says “And the princess was very happy.” Judy interrupts, saying “Wait a minute! I’m not happy!” Muppet: “But the story says right here that you’re happy.” Judy: “Do you believe everything you read?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bit/58701.md?page=3)