Still no thread on Sesame Street

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dopers in the blessed age group to which i belong, do you ever stop to think how your childhood (and adult life) would have been different if you weren’t taught which one of these things was not like the other? my favorite songs and scenes:

  1. “it’s not easy being green.”

  2. those two screwballs, with one of them trying to catch his own thumb (using that same hand.)

  3. tribute to the letter W. wanda the witch.

  4. “i held your hand and told you that i love you…”

  5. “addition!” sung to the tune of tradition on fiddler on the roof.

  6. ernie ate one chocolate cake, got scolded by bert, and along came the cookie monster (shake the crumbs, clean clake-clean clake!)

  7. animal offsprings (cows have calves, and i’ll bet you didn’t know that elephants have calves too)

  8. tribute to the letter B (barney and brenda barker! haven’t seen you since birthday. i’m bernard beebee.)

  9. the golden AN (i take the golden AN to the tan van, and i give it to horace --no i give it to dan, who gives it to fran.)

and my top favorite…

  1. i love being a pig. youtube the cartoon version. the best pig gag there is, surpassing the animal farm. and for it to have been in sesame street is saying a lot. a genius within a genius.
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I thought that was from The Muppet Movie. Did it show up on the Street, too?

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One two three FOUR FIVE six seven eight nine ten, ELEVEN TWELVE.

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yep, years and years before the movie. kermit was sitting down against a dark background and closeups to his face. dramatic.

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Ray Charles sang it with Kermit on Sesame Street in 1975. Here’s the vid at YouTube.

To this day one of my favorite children’s songs is The Ladybug’s Picnic. The pinball bits were totally groovy. I’ll never forget a loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter. My g/f still do a joke about that whenever either of us is going to the store.

“Hey, I’m running to the store. You need me to pick up anything for you?”

“Yeah, get me a loaf of bread, a container of milk…”

Me, rolling my eyes.

Then there’s the noony noony typewriter dudewho totally ruled.

The little lost boy was one of my favorites as well because it was so trippy.

Also, anything with John John!!!

I could do this all day and night.

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If not for Sesame Street, I wouldn’t have a scar across the bridge of my nose. :wink:

For Christmas, 1970 (I was 5), I received, as gifts, a little record player, and the Sesame Street soundtrack album. A few days later, I had a friend over, and we were playing the record, and running around. I slipped and fell, and put my face through a decorative window next to our front door. It took a trip to the emergency room, and 4 stitches on the bridge of my nose, to stop the bleeding.

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I loved this so much and for so long that I recently showed it to my two-and-a-half year old daughter, on YouTube. (On the living room TV/media player.)

It’s one thing when toddlers demand to watch videos repeatedly. It’s another thing altogether when those videos are* one minute and twenty seconds long*. Kill… me…

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Vivaldi and the single daisy in the flowerpot on the windowsill of what looks to be an apartment in a housing project looking over a dreary cityscape.

I was too young to appreciate it at the time. But that was art.

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The Yip Yips and the Manah-Manah! Still good to this day.

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You gotta love The Alligator King.

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Oh yes!!! Love that so much!!! Any of the Bud Luckey stuff like My Martian Cutie were always favorites of mine.

Another great animated song was Capital I.

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You should have sued Sesame Street for damages. I’m quite sure The Count would have LOVED totaling up your settlement.

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I always liked the shadow puppet guy. He was a little creepy, but damn was he good at shadow puppets.

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I don’t remember it from the movie, but I have a video of Kermit singing it on the Street. It’s got to be one of the best kids’ songs ever written, as is “The Rainbow Connection.”

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Things I loved:

  1. When they would zip the numbers in front of you, from one to ten, stopping at the number they were going to sing about. The anticipation of getting higher in the count was great. And when they hit 10, we got to hear a song about 10. “How many is 10?” And at the end, the goofy chef would fall down the stairs. I don’t remember them all, but 10 was “10 chocolate layer cakes!”

  2. The songs were so very good. The Ladybug Picnic is good, but “1, 2, 3, 4, 5… 6, 7, 8, 9, 10… Ten tiny turtles on the telephone, talking to the grocery men.” was my favorite.

  3. Loved to see Manumana. They actually had another version for this on The Muppet Show. Both versions are great.

  4. The Martians (They may be the yip yips someone else mentioned earlier.) Love it when they try to talk to the phone!

  5. Ernies “rubber ducky” and Oscar’s “I love trash” and Bert’s “doin’ the pigeon” and Big Birds “abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz” song and Cookie Monster’s “C is for Cookie”. All great songs that have stuck with me for all these years.

Loved Sesame Street. Watching it today with my daughter is tough, because I loathe Elmo and that stupid laugh. But they still have enough of the old stuff that I can enjoy some of it.

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King of 8 was totally f-ing GREAT!!!

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LOL. As it was I had “four, four steetches! Ah-ah-ah-ah!”

(OTOH, The Count wasn’t introduced on Sesame Street until 1972…two years after my accident. :smiley: )

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Geometry of Circles.

Made me love both mathematical art *and *Philip Glass, though I didn’t realize this until much later.

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Yeah, but lawsuits can take years to settle, so he might have been on staff by the time you were able to collect.

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I liked the Manah Manahs. I could run to my mother and yell “Mom! On Sesame Street they said ‘PeePee’”