# Sesame Street Flashback... whoa! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 2, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725 "2005-12-02T14:58:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/101 "2005-12-05T02:28:18Z")
Whenever I’m at my parents home I always feel that Grover should be there - they have a big dog and a little dog and my dog is medium sized. This is big, this is medium, this is small…do you get it? No? Oh…This is. etc. Also used to walk around our streets singing: the McCabes are some people in the neighbourhood etc, the lesbians are some people in the neighbourhood etc and anyone else whom we knew as we walked around. Not to mention that one of the newsreaders on TV3 looks like the Maori version of the Count - I keep expecting him to count one, mwa ha ha ha. Oh, and I’m not even American! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/102 "2005-12-05T02:58:28Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Oh, what a kickass site! > > Ooooh, my personal favorite: > > Why are there so many songs about rainbows > And what’s on the other side? > Rainbows are visions, but only illusions, > And rainbows have nothing to hide. > So we’ve been told and some choose to believe it > I know they’re wrong, wait and see. > Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection, > The lovers, the dreamers and me. > > (I have the Sarah McLachlan version, but they have original with Kermit!!!) [nitpick] it my have been used on SS (altho I cannot recall) but it is originally from the Muppet Movie[/nitpick] along with Miss Piggy’s love song I used to croon to my then BF ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/103 "2005-12-05T05:22:37Z")
> [@Nature's Call](#): > > You’re evil! > > If _ever_ anyone says the word “phenomenon” I am required to reply “doo dooooo da doo doo” Funny how we remember things. I always thought the reply to Mahna Mahna (which I also thought was something like Minomina), was “ba do Ba doopy”. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/104 "2005-12-05T05:52:08Z")
I remember Kirmit doing a duet of “It’s not easy being Green.” with Ray Charles. I gotta tell you, it was Grammy worthy. Ray seems to have had a good handle on being green, ya know? Tris ---
**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:** [December 5, 2005, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/105 "2005-12-05T07:02:35Z")
The segments I remember-a little girl skipping along, carrying her cat under her arm, who howls because she wants down. Then the little girl imagines if her cat were big and she were tiny, she wouldn’t want to be carried. So she puts Kitty down, who skips happily along side her. Oh, and when they showed how crayons were made, or the bottles at the recycling plant. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/106 "2005-12-05T15:06:16Z")
Or the time Bob caught Cookie Monster dipping peanuts into a stick of butter. Bob: WTF?\* CM: Me like peanut butter Bob: No, no, Cookie Monster. Watch this clip with me on how peanut butter is made… [clip] Bob: See? CM: Oh. Thank you, Bob. PEANUT BUTTER!!!, [proceeds to dump the entire contents of the bowl of peanuts and stick of butter into gullet] Bob: [look of minor exasperation} ## [cue trombome]: Wamp wamp wamp waahhhhhhhmp - slight paraphrase ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/107 "2005-12-05T15:10:56Z")
That song is permanently engraved on my brain. Too late 🙂 VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/108 "2005-12-05T16:02:06Z")
Well, everything comes in its own special size, I 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, That’s about the size of it. Oh, the big becomes the little when you see it back a bit, The huge becomes the dinky, which is just the opposite. Of the larger that gets smaller, it never seems to quit, That’s about the size of it. That the big becomes the little, that’s the way it seems to go, That they make up a larger thing is something good to know. It’s nice to know that though we’re small, there’s always room to grow, 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. ---
**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/109 "2005-12-05T22:48:31Z")
ooooooooooooo I just remembered something we always do, when anyone says “would you like to buy…” “Would you like to buy a bottle of air?” “A BOTTLE OF AIR?” “SHHHHHHHH” “a bottle of air?” ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/110 "2005-12-06T02:30:42Z")
I think the Sesame Street bit I was most intrigued with was the Me and My Llama girl. Remember that? It’s about a girl who takes her llama to the vet, and there’s this song about Me and My Llama. The bit that interested me the most was that she seemed to live in a city! Now, I too lived in a city, and my parents were always using that as the reason I couldn’t have a horse or a cow or whatever, but how come that girl got a llama? Seemed unfair. Also: remember the making of the orange crayon? SO COOL. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2005, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/111 "2005-12-06T04:40:04Z")
I liked _Big Bird Goes to China_, where they were trying to solve a treasure map or something. Damn, I’ll have to see if I can’t rent that. A few months ago, _Follow That Bird_ was on, and to my secret shame, I sat down and watched it. And to my even bigger shame, I cried. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/112 "2005-12-19T02:45:40Z")
_Family Guy_ just had a scene with Stewie in a transparent pinball ball that was otherwise identical to the “1 2 3 4 **5** 6 7 8 9 **10** 11 12!” thing. I heard it from the computer and just about broke a leg trying to get to the living room to see it before it ended. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_MuD\_PhuD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/2bfe46/32.png) [@Elmer\_MuD\_PhuD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_MuD_PhuD)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/113 "2005-12-19T12:08:48Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > _Family Guy_ just had a scene with Stewie in a transparent pinball ball that was otherwise identical to the “1 2 3 4 **5** 6 7 8 9 **10** 11 12!” thing. I heard it from the computer and just about broke a leg trying to get to the living room to see it before it ended. Best Family Guy flash back ever. Serously. I finally remembered 1234 FIVE 6789TEN11 TWELVE. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/114 "2005-12-19T15:48:15Z")
How about “The King of Eight?” Wait! Good news is coming from the Queen A new baby has been seen And she’s alive and doing fine – Gadzooks! That’s Princess Number Nine! _dah dah da-da-da-da dah!_ ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/115 "2005-12-19T15:52:37Z")
While doing Christmas shopping we were all getting a bit tired. For me, the first thing to go when I’m tired is my ability to speak. So I tried to say something and started to stumble over my words. My brother gives me a mock slap across the face. My response [robotic-voice]Thank yooou![/rv] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725.md?page=5)