# Favorite Sesame Street bits **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 31, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630 "2007-08-31T16:28:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/1 "2007-08-31T16:28:56Z")
I’m inspired to start this thread because I was sitting here with the kids this morning watching Sesame Street, and who should appear but James Blunt, singing “A Triangle” to Telly Monster. [Proof.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=lssJwHjKv_g) I also looked up my other favorite musical number from Sesame Street, namely [REM doing “Furry Happy Monsters.”](http://youtube.com/watch?v=lssJwHjKv_g) Just felt the need to share. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/2 "2007-08-31T16:31:28Z")
“Duck, Rubber Duck duck duck, rubber duck…” ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/3 "2007-08-31T16:38:24Z")
Anything with the Martians. “Yup yup yup. Cat. Caaat. yup yup Miaow.” ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/4 "2007-08-31T16:44:11Z")
[Manamana](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7173367298729056137) ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/5 "2007-08-31T16:54:21Z")
The Martians, [Mah Nah Mah Nah](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eANSmaRO_Ag), the [Hungry Cat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W0GtIn9lx0). Also, Celia Cruz’ songs she sang, didn’t she do numbers and the alphabet? For the Muppet Show, [Alice Cooper’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHr6GbWPBVQ) [visit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ8Z5fjqOYs) as well as [Vincent](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfNg484cRCQ) [Price’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xal8G-BRelU) visit were both neat. As was their rendition of Kenny Rogers’ [The Gambler](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utw30CKnATA). Also, the Viking Longboat skit [In The Navy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n1y3U4FarU). ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/6 "2007-08-31T16:58:32Z")
The “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12” pinball cartoon. The Martians. “Book book book book…” The clumsy baker. “6 Birthday Cakes! Oof.” Kermit the Frog’s fairy tale News Flashes. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/7 "2007-08-31T17:06:11Z")
Kermit’s News Flashes, and Grover the Waiter. I always felt sorry for that guy. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/8 "2007-08-31T17:13:22Z")
Oscar the Grouch being visited by his neat-freak grouch friend, Felix. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/9 "2007-08-31T17:24:09Z")
For whatever reason, possibly the pensive minor key, I have always been entranced by [“We All Live in a Capital ‘I.’”](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=365875669605485480&q=%22capital+i%22&total=36&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0) [“Rubbing it here, scrubbing it there.”] Could just be the narcissism I like. I also enjoy [“Wanda the Witch.”](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6477001758920617110&q=%22wanda+the+witch%22&total=3&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0) [“I am a weasel!”] ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/10 "2007-08-31T17:27:20Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] Oscar the Grouch being visited by his neat-freak grouch friend, Felix. [/QUOTE] Ha! Is this real or a whoosh? It sounds hilarious, but I see no sign of this on youtube. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/11 "2007-08-31T17:28:08Z")
Cookie Monster hosting “Monsterpiece Theater” and introducing the historical play 'Me, Claudius." “Onetwothreefourfivesixseveneightniiiiiiiinetennnnnn!” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/12 "2007-08-31T17:33:41Z")
I forgot to mention, the [yip yip aliens and the telephone.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z4VNMERVsC4) ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/13 "2007-08-31T17:37:41Z")
Sure thing, King! ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/14 "2007-08-31T17:37:50Z")
Back before I had cable- maybe early 90’s- I was watching it before I went to work and there was a segment with Kermit the Frog singing a great version of the A-B-C’s. He was sort of roaming through a marshy swampland, and going “A-alligator; B-bayou; C-[something else]”, etc. For each letter he pointed out an animal or other thing that began with the letter, and the tune was a cool little ditty. Never saw it since but I remember thinking it was a much better version than the normal Alphabet Song jingle. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/15 "2007-08-31T17:38:30Z")
[QUOTE=fiddlesticks] Ha! Is this real or a whoosh? It sounds hilarious, but I see no sign of this on youtube. ☹ [/QUOTE] It was real. I remember this episode- it was from a couple years back. At the end, one of the humans (Gordon?) comments something to the effect of “Wow, they are a very odd couple,” to which Telly responds, “I don’t get it.” (_Sesame Street_ is known for its pop-culture parodies- one interesting one I read online that I didn’t get a chance to see from recent years is The Count watching his favorite TV show, _24_, complete with a Muppet resembling Kiefer Sutherland. He likes to count the seconds, of course. It’s amazing how the writers are able to combine parodies with educational lessons- one of the spoofs announced for this year is _A’s Anatomy_.) ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/16 "2007-08-31T17:51:45Z")
[QUOTE=fiddlesticks] Ha! Is this real or a whoosh? It sounds hilarious, but I see no sign of this on youtube. ☹ [/QUOTE] Oh, it was for real. [Here’s proof.](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Felix_the_Grouch) ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/17 "2007-08-31T17:54:50Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] i]Sesame Street\* is known for its pop-culture parodies- one interesting one I read online that I didn’t get a chance to see from recent years is The Count watching his favorite TV show, _24_, complete with a Muppet resembling Kiefer Sutherland. [/QUOTE] That would be [this fella](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Bauer_Muppet). ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/18 "2007-08-31T17:55:23Z")
Ernie singing [“I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeNO56xNlZo). [Bert and Ernie go fishing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFTjeaDlxDI). There was one I remember from when I was a little kid, but haven’t been able to find on YouTube. I’m not sure if it was on Sesame Street or the Muppets. What I remember was a backdrop of some kid muppets in a schoolhouse, sing-songing, “Two and two are four, four and four are eigh, eight and eight are sixteen, sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two.” Over this, a live person sang “The Garden Song.” I think an inchworm muppet was involved in some way. It was really beautiful, but I haven’t seen it since I was maybe 6, so I could be misremembering. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/19 "2007-08-31T17:57:36Z")
Pretty much anything involving Cookie Monster. The _Elmo’s World_ parody _Cookie’s World_ stands out (“Confidentially, me no think you’re going to be around much longer…”), as do _Monsterpiece Theater_ ("…with your host, me, Alistair Cookie") and the _Letter Of The Day_ bits. ETA – Oh yeah…Liam Nissen as The Count kicked some pretty good butt as well. ---
**Author:** ![Trollhaugen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Trollhaugen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trollhaugen)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/20 "2007-08-31T18:01:57Z")
Near; Grover running away from the camera… FAR!.. Grover running towards the camera… near; Grover running away for the camera… etc… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630.md?page=2)