Favorite Sesame Street Moments and Characters

[serenity]

I saw sesame street recently and i got all nostalgic. I love Grover :lol:
Remember super grover and marshall grover with the talking horse?
Remember the guy who lost his elbow?

[Scorpio]

Kids like you and me, baby we were born to add....

(that is a parody of a classic Bruce Springsteen song, "Born to Run")

[Solachica]

I saw SS recently and it showed Grover talking abt Trinidad and he was wearing stilts.
Then it shows a lil girl who training to be a moko jumbie.
I wasn't to impressed by it.

[BW]

here fishy fishy fishy....

[sylvestter]

oscar the grouch was the bomb!

[vaio]

ernie was gr8 until i heard he was gay :?

[sheppy]

oh lord Seren...look what u start nuh...

i eh know where to start yes....I tink i remember the songs the most

The story of Bert's blanket
Rubber duckie
the batty bat
I got a new way to walk
The word is No
Caribbean amphibian
I dance myself to sleep
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (remember big bird find a banner in d trunk ?)
I'd like to visit the moon
That's why i sing in the shower
do de rub-a-duck

favourite short films
Teeny little super guy
One of these things is not like the other...
the typewriter than used to spell stuff on himself....nooom nee nooom "y-o"......"y-o-y-o"

aye lord lemme stop now yes...

[serenity]

Oh yes sheppy! I forgot half of those! The momories! Good times..good times....
And ernie singing about going to the moon and under the sea etc.
And slimey!!!

[Scorpio]

ernie was gr8 until i heard he was gay :?


Earnie Gay ???? :o :shock:

[sheppy]

well he was living with bert.....

[sylvestter]

well he was living with bert.....

they had separate beds...

[sheppy]

I know (woman and man) marrid wit separate beds too... dat mean dey gay then?

[Scorpio]

Geeze, sorry I asked, guys. :roll:

[sheppy]

lol... com'on u know i playin...

it was one of the many rumors on Sesame street...
We never knew if big bird was a boy or girl for a longgggg time (and i still not convinced)
Den the song "kids just love to brush" that caused quite the stir...ROFL.
Mr. Hooper an Gina was havin an affair an savion (d tap dancer fella who was mumbles on happy feet) was doin her too...

[serenity]

So why allyuh have to go and taint my memories with allyuh nastiness? :cry:

[Scorpio]

I should know better than to ask this question, but, Is Big Bird a Boy or a Girl ?

[Solachica]

Up until a few yrs ago I always thought Big Bird was a girl......Big Bird is a BOY. :lol:
I think the same man who does Big Bird voice also does Oscar.
I remember the big wedding on Sesame Street when maria and louis get marrid. And when Gabby born and when they adopt Miles.
Now Gabby and Miles are teens or maybe 18 on the show. :?
The other day I watch SS again and I see they had a karoke evening and people went up and sing back in time songs.
SS is only 1/2 hr nowdays ent?

I liked the Tweetle Bugs :mrgreen:

[vaio]

Yep Big Bird is ah boy.

[kayt]

Don't forget Slimey, Prairie Dawn, The Count, Mr. Snoffleophagus (that's how I think it is spelt), Cookie monster and Kermit.

Of the songs I remember, "B is for Bubble", "Everybody sleeps", "We're a family", "Me/yo","C is for cookie", " I love to sing", "Telephone rock", "Why do you always do the opposite to what I do" and "Women can be".

Before Miles and Gabby there was Cody.

[KFCSpicy]

Big bird was always a 6 year old boy...umm that was from ever since the 70's when the show came on.

You Tube is my fave place to watch sesame street plus I am on a Sesame Street Forum on another Website called IMDB.com

Sorry but the 70s and mid 80s was the best ever period to grow up and learn clean healthy and with tons of fun.

My question tho is which is your scariest clip on sesame street? Mine is the birthday boy whose mother (sweet adelaine) left him and the 12 swine came to the party and made a mess of the house. Shiver shiver shiver...

I learnt how to be sarcastic and have a sense of humour from this show and when I watch the clips on You Tube I cry. So sue me!

My fave memories are stuff like Wanda da Witch, Gimme Five song, the Opposites song, 123 Four 567 8 9 10 11 12 song. Monsterpiece Theatre, Milk skit, Everybody loves to sleep/play, skits. Sigh the Letter N Songs. Me and my Illama song (which I still sing here at my desk) The I am an Aardvark song

List goes on for me as nooooooooooooooooooobody cud love SS more than me.

[sapodila]

remember the episode with the Trini family selling doubles in ah ice cream "truck"/ van in new york? and the steelpan music and de kids learning de moko jumbie? Does anyone other than Maria fix toaters? what about cooper's store and uncle Ian? Rubber ducky, you're the one and the Count........1 eh eh eh eh eh, 2 eh eh eh eh eh, 3 eh eh eh eh eh 4 eh eh eh eh eh ...........dat use to irritate meh! what elmo's fish name again?

[sheppy]

Scariest for me was dat dude..vincent twice...vincent twice... :lol:

AYe allyuh remember Monsterpiece theater with Alaistar Cookie ???

Cookie bawl..."today movie is .... little house on the prairie "
snap to screen yuh see Prairie Dawn wit a lil doll house on her head.... :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol:


what about.."oh welcome oh welcome to our little play" kix !
Aye d everybody sleeps song is d bomb!! everybody close their eyes...until the morning creeps!..

d recycling song...."compact it....compress it....recycle....make less of it!...there's a million things that garbage can do...recycling saves energy too...ouuuuuuuuu keep on truckin!

The froggy song...."la dee daa dee-o, la dee daa dee-o, la dee daa dee-o day"

Let's go driving in an automobile...let's take a drive in the car...listen to the wipers go 'swish swish swish' as we travel near and far....

We all sing in the same voice and we sing in harmony....

Kermit wit the abcd song with the african fellas...a-aligator, b-bioon, c- cyperstream, d- doon, e-elephant, f-fish, g-goat, h-home to you
and a-amazing b,beautiful, c-creatures dancing, e-exciting forest glades....

Co-operation. makes it happen, co-operation...working together!

the Pinball cartoon with the song 12345, 6,7-8,9-10,11-12...doo doo..

the count ...THen i will count Ben...for ben is number 10

The 'w' song-...what's the letter we love..its not any trouble you know its a double u..when u hear wouh wouh wouh wouh!

Doin the (eh-eh) pigeon.

the cartoon when sparky the dog was pretending to be an aligator... "imagine me an aligator...mom! dad ! there's an aligator in my room"

the Shark wit the perfectly pearl white teeth....

Captain Vegetable !... my name is andy..i love candy.. so i eat it..whenever I can...if it is handy...gimme some candy..
It is I captain vegetable..with my carrot..and my celery...eating crunchy vegetables is good for you..

ok i stoppin for now..buh i did warm allyuh not to start me... KFC i tink i cud challenge yuh to a sesame street challenge ;)

[KFCSpicy]

nah nahhhhhhhhhhhh is war now Sheppy! Lol I here killing myself. Ah find all yuh doh have nutten to do when de darn day come but to talk bout SS.

Ummm who remembers when they never knew Mr. Snuffulupagus? The day when they all met him? When Mr. Hooper died and even I cried. What about that other great show? The Electric COmpany and The Banana Split show? Love American STyle on Saturday mornings? Bizarre? Benny Hill? Them was de days.... I am here watching a clip from the CArol Burnett Show she was one baxide eh...lmaoooooooooooooo!

Look let me stop eh. :lol: :D :) :oops:

[strombo23]

dem octapus looking aliens...blue and pink....going yep yep yep-yep-yep-yep.....uh-huh uh-huh :D :lol:

[strombo23]

the rain song.

its a rainy day, its a rainy day.
its raining outside and i cant go out to play.
why do we need the rainnnnnnnnn anyway.

the milk song

milk...Miiiiillk...Milk

hmm...daiz all i remember.

Dance my Self to Sleep was a classic

[vaio]

i like visit to the moon...

[kemist]

STOP!!!!! (thunder/lightening) NO ONE CROSSES THIS BRIDGE BY ME UNTIL THEY CAN ANSWER MY QUESTIONS 3.

that bridge keeper scared the hell out of me.

[Solachica]

Oh gosh yes tht bridge keeper I forgot tht one :lol:

[KFCSpicy]

STOP!!!!! (thunder/lightening) NO ONE CROSSES THIS BRIDGE BY ME UNTIL THEY CAN ANSWER MY QUESTIONS 3.

that bridge keeper scared the hell out of me.


hmmm strangely that all rhymed

[sheppy]

there once was a moose that lived in a caboose...with a goose...and they drank juice...

[KFCSpicy]

^^^^ sheppy...we done! :evil: jess becuz yuh remember dat shizznit :x

[Scorpio]

Remember Kemit the Frog's News Flashes ?

[KFCSpicy]

My fave Kermit da Frog news Flash was wid MacDonald on his Farm when the dog was playing wid the frisbee and Old Macdonald said ..."put that spaceship down" lmaooooooooooooo. When Kermit asked him if he was scottish he said "wid a name like McDonald u think I am from Calcutta?" How hilarious was that? Made me hone my sense of humour :lol:

[KFCSpicy]

Ohhh and I loved the Rapunzel skit too. The Prince was sooo ...wrong! She was soooo just not right either throwing her entire hair down de tower wall. Sigh! I would love to meet these writers and shake their hands. Jim Henson was the greatest human being on earth.

[Ali]

The best news flash was with The Invisible Man das rell kicks!!
I watch that just d other day. lol

Telly take the cake for being most annoying :lol:
always panicing

[KFCSpicy]

I cyahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh standdddddddddd Telly never did

[sheppy]

Do-at do-at.. HOP!

Do-at do-at..don't stop

[kayt]

"Oh who are the people in my neighbourhood.................., they're the people that you meet when you're walking down the street each day."

[sheppy]

Momma's tree is over here...back there is daddy's tree..
they live in different places..but they both love me

123,456,789,10 11 12...and they all sat down at the ladybug's picnic

One of these things is not like the other..
one of these things jus doesn't belong

tell me before i ring the bell... before i ring... this.... ringer's ding dong bell....

muh nuh muh nuh ....doo dooo duh doo doo
muh nuh muh nuh.....doo dooo duh doo
muh nuh muh nuh...doo dooo duh do do duh do do duh do do..duh doo duh doo duh duh doo doo doo

what's down below the street? what's under the pavement that's under your feet
what's down deeper down...down below the street.

Starship enterprise..and the planet "ch"

Ernie in the forest /.. " Dr. Livingston i presumee"

The monster that ate the television...cuz he like television :roll:

d fella das play d piano..buh cud never finish a song... i'm never gonna get it..never NEVER *bangs head on piano repeatedly*

la la lala la la lala elmo song

Above it all i love to fly
above it all there in the sky
the world below
I was above it all.... then one day i saw a dove (ahhh ahh ah) i was below he was above... :lol:


Sinister Sam and the last box of crayons.... he wanna know "y"

Every story has a beginning middle and an end...


Guy Smiley and the days of your lives....

B is for bubble..bubble bubble bubble...
B is for bubble and bubblegum and B is for brother who bought you some

When Grover was a waiter...and he had to rhyme to remember the order..
In a hurry to be fed...beady eyes and a big blue head
round and toasted on a bun...pickles french fries..yum yum yum
(this incidently was the same guy that cud play a tuba when he opened his mouth...he tried to teach Bert how to do it...an instead Bert let out a big MOOO and Glady's d cow come running)

ok...das round 2 eh KFC....

[KFCSpicy]

haul he ^^^ but look here nah dread... now ah have to go and pull out de big guns for Sheppy dreadddddddd. is warrrrrrrr. :)

[bluenote492000]

I like the one where Ernie gets a box of disguises to fool your friends and he comes in wearing these stupid disguises while he annoys Bert. Or the one where Ernie keeps walking back and forth with a glass of water because the bathroom's flooded and he’s trying to bail out the water without Bert knowing.

Or Grover trying to remember the customer’s order:

“Round and tasty on a bun. Pickles, French fries, yum, yum, yum. In a hurry to be fed. Beady eyes and a big blue head.”

[Ali]

^ you should give grover some tips
u actually remembered dat :D

[kayt]

The amazing Mumford, "I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches" *pooof!*, magic happens although it might not go to plan.

[Midnight]

The Count :mrgreen:

[strombo23]

i had a crush on Maria :lol: and dat other white girl that helped out in store. ah forget she name.

[KFCSpicy]

Linda?

[serenity]

Nah it was Gina in the store.

[KFCSpicy]

Oh right...ah forgot about her.

[sheppy]

oh yeh gina....i tink i had like gina too :oops: :oops:
what yuh go do...yuh is only 8 years ole an she was so nice an kind... :lol:

her real name was alison bartlett
http://www.guatadopt.com/archives/Pictures/Alison.jpg

[KFCSpicy]

Sheppy does real worry me dread...he went and find a pic ah de oman :shock:

[sheppy]

oh good lord... i now see wikipedia have a dictionary of all the sesame street characters.....
some real memories dey...goungetta and ernestine..the two headed monster and d host from squeel of fortune...

Barkley the biggg dog ...
Sully an Biff the construction workers....
Forgetful Jones...(i really fuhget about him :lol:)
and Buster was his horse!

Harvey kneeslapper...was the guy that sais..."wanna buy an I ?"
Herry Monster..
Hoots the owl...member "put down the duckie"
zoe and rosita...wow...

[KFCSpicy]

ummm Shepps...doo doo dahling...yuh doh wuk? :(

[sheppy]

buh like yuh never hear bout multi-taskin!

[KFCSpicy]

:D :D :D good excuse.

[Ali]

^^^ i thought barkly died
aint see him long time

[KFCSpicy]

why yu killing up de fluffy dolly dog soooo dread? Remember them likkle tiny families dat used to live on Ernie window sill? The Family Car story? lol :lol:

[strombo23]

man find a picture yes. :D borrr! she was a real cutie. an caring n sooooo helpfull

[KFCSpicy]

ewwwwwwwwww strombo...get over it...ewwwwwww

[Solachica]

:lol: meh friend friend ringtones with SS songs.
Them real bring back memories :D

[Ali]

remember the guy smiley looking fella who sing d song bout d seasons?

SPRINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!
SUMMERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
AUTUMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
WINTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

BUT D SEASON I LIKE IS I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:

[KFCSpicy]

never heard of that one ^^^ :o

[Ali]

how you mean das a classic^

[KFCSpicy]

i need to hear de song and see de clip fuss it eh ring no bells dread. :(

[vaio]

ah loved that one.. :D

[Ali]

ebbraberbbabrbabr ay ar ur excercice

[sheppy]

yeh i remember dat one....de seasons used to change so fast...
hahahaha

[KFCSpicy]

steupse ...it not coming to mind...is dat de one where he would be talking bout spring and it go snow? lmao ok I get it now :lol:

Oh I am betweeeeeeeen
Just like a string beeeeeeeeean
There's a monster on my left "ha ha ha"
A monster on my right "ha ha ha"...

Lol!

When they went to the planet Sh and it had shopping sheep looking for shoes and the dance on the planet was the Shimmy shake. Lmaoooooooooo!

I am an Aardvark

Me and my LLama..I stuck dey cause dem is meh fave songs. :?

[Ali]

remember d grumpy rabbit who works ind hotel and always squeaking his teeth :lol:
he's rell kicks yes!!

[KFCSpicy]

Kids jess love to Brussssssssssh.... lmaoooooo first time I heard that song. Cause we allll knew what the other meaning of brush was.

[Ali]

^ so you mean to say d first time you hear dat song you tinkin bout dem ting?
LOOOOORRRRRRRD!
:|

[KFCSpicy]

:D not my fault dread... ;)

[Ali]

but you is 2 and 3 years old

ne way..................................

[KFCSpicy]

not really Ali doh make assumptions remember sesame street is something that was repetitive from 72 till now.

[Ali]

doh study i just kicksin around ;)

[Ali]

Wet paint ! Wet paint !

4get d rest
dat song bad

[sheppy]

wait i now remember anudder one....remember the cartoon of the tall tall tall tall tall tall building and d bell hop had to run up all d stairs to the floor to get dogs that he hadda walk?

and a loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter... i remember i remember....

and wubba wubba...if u wubba me then i will wubba you...:lol: whatever the hell that meant!

and rock rock rock...the telephone rock

That's why i sing...sing in the shower..la la la...cuz i like the way my voice rings out so loud and clear!

Sometimes i imagine that i would like to be....a sailor on the ocean sailing on the deep blue sea...
and i tip my hat....imagine that...imagine thatttttttt......imagine that.

and the lil cartoon with 'plants need waterrr' and the other cartoon wit d man dat pull out all the weeds and cyah get no fish...
cuz the little fish eat the plants and the big fish eat the little fish...no plants..no big fish...

Ernie on d boat wit Bert goin..here fishy fishy fishy fishy FISHEY ! and a shark jump in an bawl..."someone called? "



hmmm allyuh go start meh again yuh now...

[Ali]

and the lil cartoon with 'plants need waterrr'


hmmm allyuh go start meh again yuh now...

plants need waterrr maaan :lol:

[strombo23]

Sometimes i imagine that i would like to be....a sailor on the ocean sailing on the deep blue sea...
and i tip my hat....imagine that...imagine thatttttttt......imagine that.

wheeeeelllll dat big tune boy Sheppy :D

[KFCSpicy]

having a candle light vigil for strombo and sheppy. :(

[strombo23]

la la la la...la la la la...ELMO's song :shock:

daiz all i remember :)

[KFCSpicy]

^^^dats all there was to the song.

[Ali]

^^ daz d most annoying thing on S.S. now
elmo killed S.S.

[KFCSpicy]

^^^ I agree but the kids love him. He is the biggest franchise they have off of it. Sigh...

[Ali]

Last night i was doing a test and jus so outa d blu this song come in me head:

yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip borhor borhor
yip yip you .........yip yip me
yip yip baby....yip yip family............

Ah cudda dead :lol: i dunno how dah reach in meh head nah :mrgreen:

[kayt]

Remember Biff the blabber mouth and quiet silent Sully that could never get a word in?

[Ali]

^ ringing ah bell but just cant picture them :roll:

[sheppy]

they were constructions workers... http://www.sesameworkshop.org/uploaded-images/1290/0-0.gif

[Ali]

^doh make joke yuh went an find ah pic :D

thanks i remember now :mrgreen:

[sheppy]

hey yuh cud google d bald spot on yuh head an find it....
(ah feel das how kfc did know :oops: )

[KFCSpicy]

muddah corn husks dread... ;)

[kayt]

Henry " I'm going to fetch a pail of water Liza".
LIza, "ok"
H, "huh! :o , "There's a hole in the bucket dear Liza, dear Liza, there's a hole in the bucket dear LIza, dear Liza a hole"
L, "well fix it dear Henry, dear Henry, well fix it dear Henry, dear Henry fix it!"
H, "With what shall I fix it dear Liza, dear Liza, with what shall I fix it dear Liza with what?"
L, " With a stick dear Henry, dear Henry, with a stick dear Henry a stick."
H, "The stick is too long dear Liza, dear Liza, the stick is too long dear Liza too long."
L, Well cut it dear Henry, dear Henry, well cut it dear Henry cut it!"
H, "With what shall I cut it dear LIza, dear Liza, with what shall I cut it dear Liza with what?"
L, "With an a-axe dear Henry, dear Henry, with an axe dear Henry an axe."
H, "The axe is too dull dear Liza, dear Liza, the axe is too dull dear LIza too dull."
L :x , "Well, sharpen it dear Henry, dear Henry, well sharpen it dear Henry, sharpen it."
H, "With what shall I sharpen it dear Liza, dear Liza, with what shall I sharpen it dear Liza with what?"
L :x With a stone dear Henry, dear Henry, with a stone dear Henry a stone." :roll:
H, "The stone is too dry dear Liza, dear Liza, the stone is too dry dear Liza too dry."
L :x :x "Wellwetit dear Henry, dear Henry, wellwetit dear Henry wet it!"
H, With what shall I wet it dear Liza, dear Liza with what shall I wet it dear Liza with what?"
L :x :x :x "withWATER dear Henry, dear Henry, withWATER dear Henry WATER!"
H, "There's a hole in the bucket dear Liza dear Liza, there's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, a hole.
:x :evil: :x :evil:

[KFCSpicy]

Yuh know when somebody ask me a dohtish question that I find they shuddah ah know de answer too as I either did jess tell them or it staring them blatantly in the face....I does say well x and y dear henry dear henry x and y (of course placing said discussion topic or object or answer where x and y is)lmao that was jess weird. I done!

[Ali]

Wappen allyuh doh watch Sesame Street again? :lol:

[KFCSpicy]

Ali yuh doh wuk? :o

[vaio]

^^^wait You askin ali if He doh wuk... :lol: :lol: :lol:

[KFCSpicy]

lmaooooooooooo hush nah Vaio...steupse. :D

[vaio]

^^^lemme doh get on your nerves...scorps say you is a badjohn and you does beat up ppl... :?

[KFCSpicy]

girl...apparently I is de only person who now findin this out. :shock:

[Ali]

^^^wait You askin ali if He doh wuk... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yes vaio defend me........tell she is you doh wuk :mrgreen:

[vaio]

^^^wait You askin ali if He doh wuk... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yes vaio defend me........tell she is you doh wuk :mrgreen:

but what the :twisted: .....i wukkin hard everyday...how you think i hve sooo much posts....steups........ :mrgreen:

[sheppy]

Just an article i thought was funny and relevant to the topic....
but on another note...VAIO D FORUM ONLY OPEN IN OCTOBER...WHAT U POSTING FOR 1600 POSTS...I tink u need to seek some professional help for your addiction :?

New York Times
November 18, 2007
The Medium
Sweeping the Clouds Away
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN

Sunny days! The earliest episodes of “Sesame Street” are available on digital video! Break out some Keebler products, fire up the DVD player and prepare for the exquisite pleasure-pain of top-shelf nostalgia.

Just don’t bring the children. According to an earnest warning on Volumes 1 and 2, “Sesame Street: Old School” is adults-only: “These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.”

Say what? At a recent all-ages home screening, a hush fell over the room. “What did they do to us?” asked one Gen-X mother of two, finally. The show rolled, and the sweet trauma came flooding back. What they did to us was hard-core. Man, was that scene rough. The masonry on the dingy brownstone at 123 Sesame Street, where the closeted Ernie and Bert shared a dismal basement apartment, was deteriorating. Cookie Monster was on a fast track to diabetes. Oscar’s depression was untreated. Prozacky Elmo didn’t exist.

Nothing in the children’s entertainment of today, candy-colored animation hopped up on computer tricks, can prepare young or old for this frightening glimpse of simpler times. Back then — as on the very first episode, which aired on PBS Nov. 10, 1969 — a pretty, lonely girl like Sally might find herself befriended by an older male stranger who held her hand and took her home. Granted, Gordon just wanted Sally to meet his wife and have some milk and cookies, but . . . well, he could have wanted anything. As it was, he fed her milk and cookies. The milk looks dangerously whole.

Live-action cows also charge the 1969 screen — cows eating common grass, not grain improved with hormones. Cows are milked by plain old farmers, who use their unsanitary hands and fill one bucket at a time. Elsewhere, two brothers risk concussion while whaling on each other with allergenic feather pillows. Overweight layabouts, lacking touch-screen iPods and headphones, jockey for airtime with their deafening transistor radios. And one of those radios plays a late-’60s news report — something about a “senior American official” and “two billion in credit over the next five years” — that conjures a bleak economic climate, with war debt and stagflation in the offing.

The old “Sesame Street” is not for the faint of heart, and certainly not for softies born since 1998, when the chipper “Elmo’s World” started. Anyone who considers bull markets normal, extracurricular activities sacrosanct and New York a tidy, governable place — well, the original “Sesame Street” might hurt your feelings.

I asked Carol-Lynn Parente, the executive producer of “Sesame Street,” how exactly the first episodes were unsuitable for toddlers in 2007. She told me about Alistair Cookie and the parody “Monsterpiece Theater.” Alistair Cookie, played by Cookie Monster, used to appear with a pipe, which he later gobbled. According to Parente, “That modeled the wrong behavior” — smoking, eating pipes — “so we reshot those scenes without the pipe, and then we dropped the parody altogether.”

Which brought Parente to a feature of “Sesame Street” that had not been reconstructed: the chronically mood-disordered Oscar the Grouch. On the first episode, Oscar seems irredeemably miserable — hypersensitive, sarcastic, misanthropic. (Bert, too, is described as grouchy; none of the characters, in fact, is especially sunshiney except maybe Ernie, who also seems slow.) “We might not be able to create a character like Oscar now,” she said.

Snuffleupagus is visible only to Big Bird; since 1985, all the characters can see him, as Big Bird’s old protestations that he was not hallucinating came to seem a little creepy, not to mention somewhat strained. As for Cookie Monster, he can be seen in the old-school episodes in his former inglorious incarnation: a blue, googly-eyed cookievore with a signature gobble (“om nom nom nom”). Originally designed by Jim Henson for use in commercials for General Foods International and Frito-Lay, Cookie Monster was never a righteous figure. His controversial conversion to a more diverse diet wouldn’t come until 2005, and in the early seasons he comes across a Child’s First Addict.

The biggest surprise of the early episodes is the rural — agrarian, even — sequences. Episode 1 spends a stoned time warp in the company of backlighted cows, while they mill around and chew cud. This pastoral scene rolls to an industrial voiceover explaining dairy farms, and the sleepy chords of Joe Raposo’s aimless masterpiece, “Hey Cow, I See You Now.” Chewing the grass so green/Making the milk/Waiting for milking time/Waiting for giving time/Mmmmm.

Oh, what’s that? Right, the trance of early “Sesame Street” and its country-time sequences. In spite of the show’s devotion to its “target child,” the “4-year-old inner-city black youngster” (as The New York Times explained in 1979), the first episodes join kids cavorting in amber waves of grain — black children, mostly, who must be pressed into service as the face of America’s farms uniquely on “Sesame Street.”

In East Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant in 1978, 95 percent of households with kids ages 2 to 5 watched “Sesame Street.” The figure was even higher in Washington. Nationwide, though, the number wasn’t much lower, and was largely determined by the whims of the PBS affiliates: 80 percent in houses with young children. The so-called inner city became anywhere that “Sesame Street” played, because the Children’s Television Workshop declared the inner city not a grim sociological reality but a full-color fantasy — an eccentric scene, framed by a box and far removed from real farmland and city streets alike.

The concept of the “inner city” — or “slums,” as The Times bluntly put it in its first review of “Sesame Street” — was therefore transformed into a kind of Xanadu on the show: a bright, no-clouds, clear-air place where people bopped around with monsters and didn’t worry too much about money, cleanliness or projecting false cheer. The Upper West Side, hardly a burned-out ghetto, was said to be the model.

People on “Sesame Street” had limited possibilities and fixed identities, and (the best part) you weren’t expected to change much. The harshness of existence was a given, and no one was proposing that numbers and letters would lead you “out” of your inner city to Elysian suburbs. Instead, “Sesame Street” suggested that learning might merely make our days more bearable, more interesting, funnier. It encouraged us, above all, to be nice to our neighbors and to cultivate the safer pleasures that take the edge off — taking baths, eating cookies, reading. Don’t tell the kids.

[Ali]

ooh gooosh dat too long to read rite now :roll: :mrgreen:

[KFCSpicy]

oh dear :o :cry: :( :? :geek:

I depressed now. Once again Pastor Cuffie strikes eh! :roll:

[Scorpio]

Aye yuh know who I like ? telly Monster :D

[Ali]

nope ........he is the most annoying character in SS. :roll: ........always panicking for everyting.....shux

[KFCSpicy]

such dark language dey Ali...Shux??? :o Take care yuh burn in hell for dat obscene word dey :roll:

But yuh right telly annoying to rass dread. :shock:

[Ali]

ah talkin meh mind........http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/waffen/violent-smiley-016.gif

[Scorpio]

nope ........he is the most annoying character in SS. :roll: ........always panicking for everyting.....shux


Telly Monster was a rising start on SS until Elmo came and stole his thunder... :D

[Solachica]

ooh gooosh dat too long to read rite now :roll: :mrgreen:
for real
http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/fragend/confused-smiley-009.gif

[Scorpio]

ooh gooosh dat too long to read rite now :roll: :mrgreen:
for real
http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/fragend/confused-smiley-009.gif


for real real :?

[Ali]

i was hoping one ah allyuh^^ woulda read it it and summarize it fuh meh but ...... :(

[Solachica]

http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/sprachlos/speechless-smiley-002.gif U stay dey and hope

[Sumana]

Really good article, I was just about to post it in this thread. real interesting too

[Solachica]

:geek: :geek: :geek: :geek: :geek:

[Ali]

look who :geek: :geek: :geek: :geek: ing.......... :lol:

[Scorpio]

ok, so who doing de summary ????

[Ali]

sola..........start reading :ugeek:

[Scorpio]

..and Ali, start typing :D

[Solachica]

Didn't find tht article intresting. :roll:
Seasame street of yesteryear was for grownups?
Maybe they prefer the violence of cartoons today.
Cookie monster on way to diabetes.
Oscar depressed.
Elmos world is better? I find elmo so annoying. I get psychotic thoughts when my cousin had their elmo toys laughing over and over.