Really? How DO you get sugar out of a sugarbeet? Too bad I missed that one. 
Processing. Lots of processing. All while you sing “Sugarbeet, sugarbeet, sugarbeet, sugarbeet” of course.
There was also a version of the “Ernie has a piece of string knotted around every finger” sketch that ended with Ernie revealing that he was reminding himself to buy more string. Even as a kid, I didn’t get it. Why not just write it down and have at least a little string left over in case something comes up?
I’m kind of glad they took Telly off of the show. Nothing could ever make that damned depressive muppet cheer up, and he always expected the worst.
He was like Eeyore, but without the charm.
Actually, he’s still on the show, I just saw him this afternoon. Um, how did I know that? I have a baby sister. Yeah, a baby sister, that’s the ticket…
FTR, I watched Sesame Street from, say, 1980-1984.
My favorite Sesame Street moments were:
“Me and My Llama”. I loved the idea of owning a llama! I wanted a llama! And the girl lived in what looked like San Francisco, so if she could have a llama, so could I! (My parents did not agree, amazingly.)
The making of an orange crayon! My sister, who’s five years younger than me, tells me she saw the making of a Converse All-Star, too, which sounds cool.
There was one sketch where a girl would pick buttercups and rub them against her chin, leaving golden dust on her face. I remember being utterly fascinated by that, and rubbed flowers on my face for years. Do I still do it?
Maybe.
My favorite song was Big Bird’s Alphabet Song, which no one, apparently, has ever heard.
Abkadefgjeklmonquirstewixiz, it’s the strangest word I’ve ever seen!
Abkadefgjeklmonquirstewixiz, I wish I knew exactly what it means!
It’s worse than you think, Cadbury, he’s Elmo’s best friend now. He’s on all the time. The horror. The horror.
My first Sesame memory is Telly whining to Oscar about something. From that moment on I loved Oscar and hated Telly more than I’ve hated any plush object before or since. I merely want to punt Elmo. For Telly I have long torture planned involving scissors and explosives.
Kyla, I remember the orange crayon too! They need to do more “this is how we make stuff” bits on the show and REPLACE ELMO #@@#!#!@#%^#%^#%@!@#!
My favourite character was Forgetful Jones, my memory is a bit vague but he would forget the names of everyday objects. I still think of the phone as a “ringy-dingy-thingy” (Only to myself though, I think it is too obscure for others to remember). There was a time when Forgetful was asked to mind the store for a while and the phone rang.
The Sesame Street Website even has a story on its site where you help Forgetful Jones’ memory and create the story.
When they couldn’t see Snuffleupagus.
Mister Hooper.
That’s about the size/
Where you put your eyes/
That’s about the size of it.
Nagging little question whether Barkeley was a real dog.
How did they do that scene where Barkeley pats a tree trunk, then children come out – from behind the tree?
“Beet, beet, sugarbeet, sugarbeet, sugarbeet, beet”…
I think that the orange crayon was from Mr. Rogers (I could be wrong, though.) Mr. Rogers is the show for kids to watch if they like seeing how things are made.
Does anyone remember the “My Name is You” song? (According to the link, the song is actually called “We All Sing with the Same Voice”.) I remember thinking about that song…it didn’t really make sense to me as a kid. “My name is you? Huh?”
Kyla, you know that if the yellow shows up on your chin, you like butter, right? (Who doesn’t like butter? :))
I remember Big Bird’s alphabet song (the one where he sings the alphabet as one big long word). I had a 45 of that song for my little record player. I don’t ever remember it on the show, though. Must not have been used that much.
I’ve tried watching recent eps of Sesame Street and the show has just changed so much I couldn’t relate to it anymore. That isn’t surprising though, the show is meant to appeal to the kids of today, not the adults who watched it 20 years ago.
Thankfully, classic ep can be found on a cable network called Noggin which also features such other old favoritea as 3-2-1 Contact, The Electric Company, Square One Television and Bill Nye the Scinece Guy.
As for specific memories, SS had so many great songs.
On a nostalgia trip I recently downloaded an MP3 of It Ain’t East Bein’ Green and while listening to it I just started bawling like a baby . . .
Hey, shut up! I haven’t exactly been the most self-confident of individuals of late, I’m unemployed and looking for work and not finding it as the bills pile up has taken a lot out of me, and Kermit’s simple but effective message about accepting yourself for what you are and recognizing the good things about yourself connected with me on a very deep level.
And of the many songs that run through my head during quiet moments the Beatles homage “Letter B” is on promiment selection, another is . . .
1, 2, 3 . . .
4, 5, 6 . . .
7, 8, 9 . . .
10, 11, 12 . . .
And they all went down . . .
To the ladybug’s picnic!
As for the Mana Manap (or whatever its called) I remember hearing that on an ep of Cartoon Planet and wracking my brain for weeks trying to remember where I’d heard it before, then I saw it being performed on the Ed Sullivan Show. Man was that a relief, it was driving me nuts!
Maybe they keep him around to teach kids not to ostracize the mentally ill and socially maladjusted.