# 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:** 2
**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, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/21 "2007-08-31T18:04:21Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] Oh, it was for real. [Here’s proof.](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Felix_the_Grouch) [/QUOTE] I guess even if it isn’t on youtube it still does exist. 😉 I’m surprised the Oscar/Odd Couple bit wasn’t tried earlier, you know, closer to when the Odd Couple was closer to the front of the pop culture mind. Lots of good memories in this thread. 😃 ---
**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, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/22 "2007-08-31T18:07:38Z")
No, there’s no server trouble at SDMB. It’s all a beautiful dream. See post below. ---
**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, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/23 "2007-08-31T18:08:08Z")
See below. Hangup = double post. ---
**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, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/24 "2007-08-31T18:09:36Z")
[QUOTE=Beadalin] 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. [/QUOTE] I can tell you that that song is from the Danny Kaye [Hans Christian Andersen](http://www.amazon.com/Hans-Christian-Andersen-Danny-Kaye/dp/0792843800) musical if that helps. [Here.](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9041177935870476437&q=%22hans+christian+andersen%22+inchworm&total=1&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0) ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/25 "2007-08-31T18:10:48Z")
Ernie’s “Sometimes I imagine” song, where he’s a knight and an explorer and stuff, and decides to just stay Ernie. “And I tip my hat… imagine that… imagine thaaaaaat…” For some reason that song is very often in my head, and I happened to catch it on TV this week and it made me smile. I love all of Ernie’s songs, actually. Big Bird thinking the alphabet is actually one giant word, and singing it in a song… Any instance of Super Grover, but especially the one where he tries to fix a computer by hopping in a circle saying “wubba wubba”. Grover the waiter, serving that beady-eyed blue-headed guy, and he makes up rhymes to remember what he ordered. Anyone remember Tiny Little Super Guy? ---
**Author:** ![rucciface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@rucciface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rucciface)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/26 "2007-08-31T18:17:02Z")
[QUOTE=Maus Magill] Kermit’s News Flashes, and Grover the Waiter. I always felt sorry for that guy. [/QUOTE] Me too! I work with young 20-somethings, and they didn’t believe me that Kermit was on Sesame Street as well as the Muppet Show. It’s been a lot of years, but I was just _sure_ of it. Admission: I would like to still watch Sesame Street in the mornings, but EVERY TIME I try to check it out, it’s all about Elmo. The most annoying character ever. ---
**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, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/27 "2007-08-31T18:18:07Z")
[Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr5er4ueWBQ) ---
**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, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/28 "2007-08-31T18:32:11Z")
> [@Shoshana](#): > > I can tell you that that song is from the Danny Kaye Hans Christian Andersen musical if that helps. Wow! Cool! First time I’ve heard of or seen that. So, it was the same set-up but a different delivery. Neat. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/29 "2007-08-31T18:37:20Z")
[One two three FOUR FIVE six seven eight nine ten, ELEVEN TWELVE.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDm0PqjAF78) ---
**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, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/30 "2007-08-31T18:41:48Z")
[More than you want to know about “Mahna Manah”](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mahna_Mahna_%28song%29) ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/31 "2007-08-31T18:42:02Z")
MortyMootMope - a skit with a song about a king who was bummed because there wasn’t a word that rhymes with his name…until some kid says “FortyFootRope” - 😃 Wish I could find _that_ on YouTube. Also “You Gotta Put Down the Ducky If You Wanna Play The Saxophone” VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/32 "2007-08-31T19:43:23Z")
Would You Like to Buy an ‘O’? Don Music: “I’ll never get it!” _smashes head on piano keys_ One of Don’s big hits: “Mary had a bicycle, it’s paint was red as fire…” Guy Smiley and his game shows. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/33 "2007-08-31T19:47:15Z")
[QUOTE=Antigen] Ernie’s “Sometimes I imagine” song, where he’s a knight and an explorer and stuff, and decides to just stay Ernie. “And I tip my hat… imagine that… imagine thaaaaaat…” For some reason that song is very often in my head, and I happened to catch it on TV this week and it made me smile. I love all of Ernie’s songs, actually. Big Bird thinking the alphabet is actually one giant word, and singing it in a song… Any instance of Super Grover, but especially the one where he tries to fix a computer by hopping in a circle saying “wubba wubba”. Grover the waiter, serving that beady-eyed blue-headed guy, and he makes up rhymes to remember what he ordered. Anyone remember Tiny Little Super Guy? [/QUOTE] I remember Tiny Little Super Guy!! I saw someone awhile back who’d gotten glass paint and made _real_ Tiny Little Super Guy glasses. It was one of the most incredible smile-inducing craft projects I’ve ever seen. In that same vein, has anyone ever noticed the painting in Bert and Ernie’s house that is a portrait of them? It’s like a painting of the puppets themselves; it’s not a cartoon. I love it so much, and I’ve always wanted to have it. Well, (brag!) an artist friend of mine owes me a bit of money, and he’s agreed to paint me that picture instead of pay me back. I’ve even managed to find a frame like the one they have! I can’t wait until he’s finished with it 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/34 "2007-08-31T20:14:30Z")
“A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of buttuh” [QUOTE=Trollhaugen] Near; Grover running away from the camera… FAR!.. Grover running towards the camera… near; Grover running away for the camera… etc… [/QUOTE] I just remembered. I used to do an impression of that when I was in college! ---
**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:** [August 31, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/35 "2007-08-31T20:33:35Z")
la, la, la…LINOLEUM!!! ---
**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, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/36 "2007-08-31T20:38:27Z")
Mustn’t forget [Ernie singing about the letter D](http://youtube.com/watch?v=IYSAKzEWnto), with Cookie performing backup. I tell you, Henson and Oz were comedic geniuses! ---
**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:** [August 31, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630/37 "2007-08-31T20:39:20Z")
Oh man, I still say “A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter” when I’m making a grocery list! Drives Mr. S bonkers. I always felt just awful for that poor pastry chef falling down the stairs, almost to the point of tears. He was so proud of his platter of beautiful desserts, and then he fell down and they were ruined and no one would ever get to enjoy them. All that hard work lost. It still makes me feel a little bad just thinking about it. (Shut up.) Kermit THE Frog reporting on various nursery rhymes. Bert singing “la la la, linoleum . . . la la la la, lumps in my oatmeal!” Anything with The Count. A few weeks ago we were in the poultry barn at the county fair, and at one end were four cages off by themselves holding three turkeys and one goose. Now tell, me, how could I NOT start singing, “One of these things is not like the others / Come on, can you tell which one?” ---
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You guys have all bought the [Sesame Street Old School](http://www.amazon.com/Sesame-Street-School-Vol-1969-1974/dp/B000H6SY8C/) DVDs right? ([Volume 2 out in November](http://www.amazon.com/Sesame-Street-Vol-School-1974-1979/dp/B000UNYJTK)) And the [Songs From The Street](http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Street-35-Years-Music/dp/B0000C05MP) CD boxed set too, right? Yes? All of this stuff can be found on those collections. They’re AWESOME. ---
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Oh how it makes me wish for the days of having really, really young children!!! \ ---
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[QUOTE=Beadalin] 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. [/QUOTE] [Charles Aznavour](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Inchworm_%28song%29) on the Muppet Show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sesame-street-bits/417630.md?page=3)