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Anything with Bip Bippodotta (the crazy muppet who sang Munumuna on Sesame Street, not to be confused with Munumuna, the crazy muppet who looks just like him who sang it on The Muppet Show). Here he is doing my favorite bit of all time, Fat Cat Sat. The little blue guy (who sounds like Frank Oz) is just brilliant. Bip also does an All Some None song that’s very funny.

I too love the Song of __ bits with the pastry chef falling down the stairs. I can’t get enough of that guy.

And while I can’t say it’s my favorite, Milk Crisis is seared on my memory forever.

–Cliffy

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Oh, also – I watch the current Sesame Street with the kid, and it’s very different of course. But I still laugh all the time.

–Cliffy, again

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First thing I thought of on entering the thread. Wow they must’ve played that a zillion times to be so ingrained in my membrane.

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La la la, linoleum!

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My top ten Sesame Street clips from when I watched as a kid and teenager (does not include recent clips that I think are pretty cool, or things that screened after I stopped watching):

[ul]
[li]I love Bert and Ernie, but one of my favourites is I Dance Myself To Sleep, with the Boogie Woogie Sheep.[/li][li]Lowercase N still affects me.[/li][li]E Imagination. Is it weird that I like the idea that the Queen has bare feet?[/li][li]Daddy Dear - Completely surreal.[/li][li]All By Myself - Well, why not?[/li][li]The Sesame Street Little Theater - Four Seasons. Oh welcome, oh welcome, to our little Play.[/li][li]Takes a lot of little nuts to make a jar of peanut butter - Joe Raposo at his best.[/li][li]Everybody Sleeps - Lots of long haired hippies in that clip.[/li][li]You can’t tell a hero by his size, he’s just a Teeny Little Super Guy[/li][li]The Letter Q - How do you hang that funny looking thing in the air like that?[/li][/ul]

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One two three four five six seven eight NIIIINE ten.

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I learned, here on the SDMB, that the singer in those “Jazzy Spies” shorts was a young Grace Slick.

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my wife’s favorite is “somebody come and play.”

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One song clip that I never see on Youtube, or anywhere else, goes back to the days when the Snuffalupagus was thought of as Big Bird’s imaginary friend. Of course, he wasn’t imaginary, but that was the running gag.

Anyway, Snuffy once got very depressed about people never hearing or seeing him, and he sang a song that went something like this:

“Nobody seems to want me,
Though I wish on stars above,
I guess I’ll just go back to my house
And make believe I’m loved…”

They showed this segment a couple of times, while I was just getting the first hints of my long battle with clinical depression, and holy hell! I remember it ripped the heart right out of me.

I’ve searched, but I cannot find this song anywhere on the net. I’ve never seen it in any Sesame Street compilations. Was or is it considered just too damn depressing for little kids?

Or did I hallucinate the whole thing? Does anyone remember this Snuffalupagus song on the show?

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When I attempt to make a point to a co-worker about comparing, say, apples to oranges, I usually break out into this: Sesame Street - "One of these things..." (Bird seed) - YouTube

Nine times out of ten, as soon as I get the first line out, they will be singing the second and figure out what I’m trying to tell them.

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It’s called Nobody, and is on the Sesame Street Live LP.

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“Me and my llama, me and my llama, goin’ to the dentist today…”

“Oh, I’m a workin’ dog, I’m a hard workin’ dog…”

Love love love The Street. Today’s incarnation is just a pale shadow.