# Was Samuel L Jackson Gordon on Sesame Street? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 25, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-samuel-l-jackson-gordon-on-sesame-street/554961 "2010-09-25T02:30:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-samuel-l-jackson-gordon-on-sesame-street/554961/1 "2010-09-25T02:30:46Z")
Of course not. But watch [THIS](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9fwjox49Wk) old SS clip. Especially the last 20 seconds. Not only does he look like a young SLJ, he sounds quite a bit like like him. Now imagine Jacksons Jules Winnfield being Gordon. _Oscar you orange son of a bitch! I want this mother fuggin trash off my mother fuckin’ street right mother fucking now!_ Why do I think of things like this?😕 ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-samuel-l-jackson-gordon-on-sesame-street/554961/2 "2010-09-25T02:36:15Z")
You might be on to something there with a theme - after all, Morgan Freeman **was** Easy Reader on the Electric Company. He comes in at around 45 sec on [this clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u8MY7PjSXU). ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-samuel-l-jackson-gordon-on-sesame-street/554961/3 "2010-09-25T02:46:52Z")
“One of these things is not like the others” – so I’m moving this one from MPSIMS to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-samuel-l-jackson-gordon-on-sesame-street/554961/4 "2010-09-25T03:00:47Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > “One of these things is not like the others” – so I’m moving this one from MPSIMS to Cafe Society. Um, fine. But this thread was just an expression of a goofy thought I had after seeing that clip. Truly mindless and pointless if you ask me. I know SLJ wasn’t Gordon. Matt Robinson was. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-samuel-l-jackson-gordon-on-sesame-street/554961/5 "2010-09-25T10:36:30Z")
Man, I’m just not seeing it. You paint a funny picture, but I don’t see a tremendous resemblance. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-samuel-l-jackson-gordon-on-sesame-street/554961/6 "2010-09-25T12:48:42Z")
Sorry, I couldn’t hear you. All I could think was “Oscar used to be orange?!” ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-samuel-l-jackson-gordon-on-sesame-street/554961/7 "2010-09-25T12:55:19Z")
Matt Robinson played him 2-3 seasons, as did another actor, but Roscoe Orman (Willie Dynamite) has played him since 1974 to today. Love pointless trivia. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-samuel-l-jackson-gordon-on-sesame-street/554961/8 "2010-09-27T01:19:18Z")
**caligulathegod** you’ll be pleased to know that Matt Robinson is the father of Holly Robinson-Peete of _21 Jump Street_ and _Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper_ fame (now married to NFL star Rodney Peete). ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-samuel-l-jackson-gordon-on-sesame-street/554961/9 "2010-09-27T02:29:13Z")
In my youth when I was watching Sesame Street, I thought that Gordon and Walt Frazier were the same person. [Matt Robinson as Gordon](http://blog.wfmu.org/photos/uncategorized/2007/08/25/matt_robinson.jpg) (w/ Roosevelt Franklin) [Walt Frazier](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuV6zd7TbT4/SZiVlnptmVI/AAAAAAAADKI/O2gLsOBG5IA/s1600/0_WaltFrazierCLR.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![LegendHasit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/legendhasit/32/8246_2.png) [@LegendHasit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegendHasit)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-samuel-l-jackson-gordon-on-sesame-street/554961/10 "2010-09-27T03:21:05Z")
I remember Morgan Freeman was a vampire.