Sesame Street’s 39th Season started August 11th! On Thirteen, Sesame Street airs weekdays at 7am, and this season focuses on *MATH*. Celebrity guests this year include (announced so far!):
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Jessica Alba, Will Arnett, David Beckham, Jack Black, Kim Cattrall, Lorena and Lorna Feijoo, Leslie Feist, Neil Patrick Harris, Jonah Hill, Randy Jackson, Heidi Klum, LL Cool J, Jenny McCarthy, Megan Mullally, Sandra Oh, Mike Rowe, Jason Taylor, Tilly and the Wall, Patrick Warburton, Brian Williams, Chandra Wilson. (a partial episode rundown is here)
But the best bit of Sesame Street news:
Sesame Street’s new website has some amazing features: not the least of which is an enormous video archive of segments, skits, and songs that span nearly four (count ‘em *4*) decades, and more than 3,000 videos. (There’s a partial list here.) The videos are searchable by keyword or character, too.
We’ve found that not only is the new video player a huge and delightful time-sink, but it’s taken us down memory lane as well. Here are some of our favorites, both classics and more obscure skits and songs:
Classics:
C Is For Cookie! WATCH
Classic Bert and Ernie dynamic:
Banana in your ear Part I WATCH
Banana in your ear Part II WATCH
Rubber Duckie WATCH
we couldn’t find Mahna Mahna on the site, so here it is anyway:
Lesser-known bits:
The Count sings the near-klezmer “Batty Bat.” WATCH
Anderson Cooper reports for “GNN”–Grouch News Network. Includes appearances “Dan Rather-Not” and “Walter Cranky”. WATCH
The last segment of the Pinball counting videos–#12. (bonus trivia–Pointer Sisters did the music!) WATCH
Ernie sings ‘Grow High, Grow Low’ WATCH
The Oinker Sisters disco out with ‘New Way to Walk’ WATCH
Kermit sings a ‘zulu song’ (aka the alphabet song) WATCH
For you New Yorkers, a realistic portrayal of the Subway. WATCH
And to top it all off, we have a classic Old School Sesame Street DVD (Vol. 1) to give away. But we want something from you in return!
How to Enter:
We want to know what YOUR favorite Sesame Street sketches or songs are! Whether they’re obscure or wildly recognizable, old or new. We know it’s hard to choose. You can link to them or not. Enter by posting a comment below by September 1st, 2008.
Rules:
Please, only one comment per person per giveaway post (though you can say more than one favorite Sesame Street moment in your comment!). Duplicate comments will be discarded. We will choose one winner at random to win the DVD set.
Make sure the email address you put with your comment is valid (email address doesn’t display, only we can see it); that’s how we’ll contact you if you win.
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Enjoy Feist singing a special version of “1-2-3-4″ with Elmo, from the new season of Sesame Street:
After asking a two year old which is her favorite the census is “Rubber Duckie”.
I loved it when Ernie sings “If I could live under the sea” and has a fantasy montage of swimming in the ocean, going to the moon, ect.
Two aliens are looking through a window and see a telephone. One hears it ring and begins to imitate it: “Brring — yip, yip, yip.” And they repeat this phrase as if they’re communicating with the phone. Not only did I love this, but my daughter-in-law, without knowing about my affection for this episode, recently walked around the house saying “Brring– yip, yip, yip” (!)
My favourite moment was the short animated song that featured the letter ‘X’. The song went something like ” E, R, EXERCISE!” and the letters exercised around the screen singling in silly voices. My little brother and I would both randomly burst into this song for years and get the other one wound up at the most inappropriate times
I love, and will always love any scene with Burt and Ernie. Their neurosis is classic!
Favorite moment is the entire 1978 award-winning musical TV show on PBS, “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street”…with its beautiful song, “Keep Christmas With You (All Through the Year)”. Also, the connectin to O.Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi” is wonderful. What a great show, a great lesson, and a great song.
I have lots of special memories of Sesame Street. One of my favorites is when Ernie is going to Bert’s home to borrow something (I wish I could remember what it was). First he thinks Bert will be so pleased with the borrowing and then he gradually changes his mind. By the time he gets to Bert’s home, Ernie yells at him to keep the thing. And of course, Bert has that ever puzzled look on his face.
My most memorable Sesame Street moment was Smokey Robinson singing “You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me” while a giant foam “U” draped itself around him and he struggled to get untangled but kept singing.
As much as I love Ernie and Bert’s Bananaphone sketch (talking to an elephant on a banana) or the Cooperation song, and as well as I learned the alphabet with Kermit and his friend (A, B, C, D, E, F, Cookie Monster!), the song I simply must mention is one I still find myself singing to this day: “The Ladybug Picnic”. It’s a little animated song that counts to 12. It fills me with an irrational amount of joy.
When Cree Singer/Songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie was on with her son Cody. That was the first time I saw a Native American on television in a positive light, and it amazed me when she did “Cripple Creek” how talented she is. Everyone talks about the time she was breast-feeding Cody but I don’t remember it. I was fortunate to meet her years later and she is a remarkable person, and an even more remarkable native woman!
It’s a very long time ago, but I will never forget Placido Flamingo. Another all time favorite in our house was Charles Aznavour dancing with Miss Piggy and singing “The old fashioned way’.
James Taylor singing “Up on the Roof” and during 80’s shows: “I love to Sing, Sing in the Shower”
I just love Oscar singing “I Love Trash” (1970.
I watched Sesame Street from the age of 6 months to 12 yrs old. I have so many great memories, but my favorite song is Sing. One of my favorite sketches is The Alligator King. My favorite guest stars were C3PO and R2D2. I loved watching R2D2 befriend a fire hydrant!
As a former school teacher I loved S.S. & when it became available, would video tape Sesame Street. I adored the Klezmer riff & take-off
One of my favorite characters was Mr. Hooper (aka Mr. Looper as Big Bird would call him). The passing of Will Lee aka Mr. Hooper was very sad and the creators of Sesame Street did a great job explaining his death in the poignant episode in which Big Bird’s friends explain Mr. Hooper’s death to him. I will always remember Will Lee and that episode.
My husband would sing along with the old original ‘guys’ - Gordon, David, Luis . . . they sang “gimme 1-2-3-4-gimme 5!” in a great Motown imitation of theTemptations. “Gimme 1-2-3-4, but if you love me more, gimme 5 - - gimme 5″. Their dance moves and costumes were sooo right on - they cracked us both up.
One of the most memorable skits was “Aa the School Day Turns”..a soap opera spoof. Also Bert & Ernie saying “I can’t hear you…a banana in my ear.
I loved it as much as my kids and now my grandchildren
I loved the lady bug picnic song and the ten tiny turtle song. BUT MY ALL_TIME FAVORITE WAS BERT DOING THE (BOMP BOMP) PIGEON. I loved sesame street (as did my kids). Jim Henson and his puppeteers were so ahead of their time.
It is very difficult to decide - but I have to say that Grover teaching Near-Far and Over-Under-and Through are true classics. Don’t leave out Mr. Hooper, Snuffy when he was still invisible to adults (my father still can’t see him), and the ladybug picnic…
In our house, I know when Sesame Street comes on.
Because that is the only time that My 5 yr old
little girl (Grace)is calm. When she hears the
Sesame Street music comes on she runs right to
the TV and stairs at it. She is really in love with
Elmo. She talk to him, sing to him. She thinks
that he is real, and is talking to her. It is
so cute. Then she loves to gives us the play by
play on what happen on the show…The best thing
Sesame Street has done by far is Elmo’s World.
Kids really love that cute red little monster.
I have so many great memories of Sesame Street but I have to say my absolute favorite moments are Oscar singing “Swamp Mushy Muddy,” a song that never was on video or recordings. After my son was born in ‘85, I videotaped and then made a cassette tape of Alaina Reed singing “Listen to the Wind Blow” and that would soothe him on his fussiest days. I have to admit, I still occasionally sing it myself to relax after a tough day.
ANYTHING with Mr. Hooper! He had this thing with Big Bird, who couldn’t remember his name, and he was old, and he made milkshakes one at a time, and he knew how to make a egg cream.
I loved the friendship between Big Bird and Snufi. I remember when no one got to meet Snuf. Everyone belive him to be imaginary. But Bird was determined to have others acknowledge his friend and show acceptance.
I am 39, so you can say I grew up with Sesame Street. When my sister was born when I was three, I remember connecting to Kermit, as he had moments of being sad and lonely(I often felt jealous) , and then moments of happiness (where he was the roving reporter being blown by the wind, while reporting on the 3 little pigs story…). Until this day, I still love Kermit, and everything he represented. Now I get to share this experience with my two girls, and I am so appreciative of the fact that this classic is still going strong.
Sorry, as I hit “send” before the Tweedle Bugs came to mind…What happened to them? They were GREAT.
We have an old Sesame Street video, which has alot of great classic moments, but our favorite is the take-off on the Bruce Springsteen classic “Born to Run”, with “Baby We Were Born To Add”.
My kids went crazy for Cookie Monster as Sir Alistair Cookie in “Monsterpiece Theater” with Grover doing their presentation of “Upstairs, Downstairs”. I loved it too.
My husband & I were married 36 years ago today. We had a small B&W TV & my husband always wanted a color TV, but I couldn’t justify it until our daughter was born. Then he said “how will she know if Big Bird is yellow, Cookie is blue and Oscar is green?!” The next day we bought a color TV. We have warm memories of sitting around reading the papers,our daughter playing on the floor with Sesame Street on the TV. Even today now that she is grown it seems odd if it not on in the background when we are reading the Sunday papers!
I love the segment that the ball rolls through the pin ball machine. The singers count up through the numbers. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12… I sing it to my 19 month old daughter.
Sesame Street provided so many lovely moments when my boys were little. I was as excited to hear the opening music as they were. Some of my very favorites: Lena Horne singing, “It’s Not Easy Being Green”, Ernie being able to lure fish to literally jump into his boat by yelling, “Here, fishy, fishy, fishy,” and Bert’s complete inability to duplicate it, and, of course, Ernie singing, “Oh, I’d like to live on the moon…” — still the sweetest and simplest of tunes.
One of my favorite moments is when Grover the salesman tries to sell Kermit various things..especially the nose so that Kermit could also get a nose warmer:D! I still get the giggles after so many years thinking of that …hehehe
I miss Kermit on Sesame Street :’(
I also like the Sesame News Flash segments based on fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Peter Piper! In Portland pressing pants!!!
I grew up on Sesame Street and reminiscing as an adult with the video archives sometimes brings me to tears. (”Hip to be a Square”, “We all sing with the same voice” and “Two Trees” all come to mind). My dad and I get a kick out of the Ernie and Bert skit of them sitting in a lake fishing to teach about ‘loud’ vs ’soft.’ When Bert resorts to yelling “HERE FISHY FISHY FISHY FISHY!!!!!” and the shark jumps into the boat, and says “You called?” we never fail to just laugh hysterically. Classic bit!
I have several special memories of the old Sesame Street. One of my favourite is the one where Grover and the blue man are at the airport. The blue man wants take a plane to South America and Grover, in showing it to him on the map makes him miss the flight!
I went to school a block away from my grandmother so I used to run to her house after school to watch Sesame Street. I loved when 10 was the number of the day so that they would show ‘Veggie Order’- the only reason I started to eat blackeyed peas was because of that song- “10 cans of blackeyed peas to give you good, strong muscles”. WOW- I can’t see blackeyes without singing that in my head!! And I absolutely loved NTV. I couldn’t wait for it to show so i could sing along.
oh my god it is so hard to choose. in trinidad i grew up looking at sesame street because there was really nothing else worthy of looking at . i am an adult now and when i get together with all my friends we sing songs from sesame street sketches. i love “the sign says don’t walk” , ” imagine that” i love to sing in the shower, telephone rock, the oinker sisters, sinister sam, grover and the guy with the beady eyes and big blue head, all super grover sketches, kermit singing on my pond, and so much more. i just love the old sesame street
The best sesame street flick is the one with disco grover man that was the best of all time with grover in his suit dancing and not wanting to stop not to meniton being cheered on by the other monsters telling him to ” dance dance” it reminds me of being in a club and my pals cheering me on to continue dancing when I start to get tired…I love it
I loved to see guy smiley. he is so crazy with his games, and remember not to speak to loud cause you’re scaring the animals away. Lolll..
It’s so hard for me to pick one special Sesame Street moment because i love everything about the show,i remember when i was younger i would try to get home from school before Sesame Street begin, but if i have to choose one moment it would be the one when The Count spent the night at Ernie and Bert’s house and The Count kept Bert up counting sheep, in the morning Bert’s eyes were puffy and he was counting the sheep..lol.. that was some funny stuff
The best sketches had to be the loony guy with the googly eyes that played pranks on all comers. It was sardonic wit at it’s best.”Hey buddy would you like me to put an “eye” on your hat???” and the sucker says yes and BOOM a huge concrete “I” is slammed upon the hat much to the guy’s chagrin and the “Prankster’s” lunatic sense of humor. I can’t remember the character’s name but he was discontinued and so remains a true classic character. Prairie Dawn or Betty lou got their revenge though and he did’nt like it at all,Haw haw haw haw haw that was reeeaallllyyyy funny too!!!
“Milk, MEEILK, MILK”
I do not know why this always comes to mind as my most vivid sesame street memory, but the story of how cow’s milk got to a baby’s bottle from a cow was and remains my favourite sesame street story. I guess at a young age I was struck by the fact that every thing connects and we are all inter dependent beings, and I am really pleased that I learned this from sesame street.
I also love “I am an ardvark, tall and PROUD!!!” To me this was a great celebration of the underdog (we have NO such animals in the caribbean zoos!) and of diversity and self pride
I loved it when Big Bird sang the alphabet because he thought it was a word! And also, the time that Bert and Ernie are exploring the pyramid and Ernie sings rubber duckie to himself and the statue joins in…great stuff!
I just have one line: “imagine me an alligator” !
Sparky the dog, pretending to be an alligator by casting a silhouette on the wall with a flashlight. That clip is nowhere online and I love it. For the last 25 years or so.
I love this show so much. I used to watch when i was a kid now i am 25 and i still watch it whenever i can. i have so many favorate scenes but my all time fav. song is ernie’s “i would like to visit the moon”
I have watched every single episode of sesame street since i started watching tv and now i am 18 my favorite character is snuffy because hes is an awesome role model and i have followed all that he has said sesame street has taught me sooo much so this is why my favorite moment of sesame street is when bigbird wants everyone to meet snuffy because they all thought he was imaginary and he uses the code word “FOOD”. it might not be the funniest moment but it is my favorite and thats all that counts to me
My absolute favourite Sesame Street moment/clip was of the Geefle and the Gonk from Planet Snoo…with the nectarines and sharing and cooperation. It was absolutely hilarious (especially at the end where Gonk says, “Let’s call this cooperation!” and Geefle says, “No…let’s call it…Shirley!” LOL!
As a child I thought all of the “Breaking News” segments with Kermit the frog were hilarious and reviewing the clips as an adult they still tickle me. Even then I know all the nursery rhymes the stories were based on by heart and was amused at how twisted the stories became. However one segment is branded in my memory “The Cow Jumped over the Moon”. There was nothing especially funny about this segment other than when asked why she jumped over the moon the cow replied in a decidedly southern drawl that me and all my classmates (all they way in the Caribbean I might add) perfected on this little monologue that I still recall word for word: “Because it is there, some people think all we cows do it chew hay but they’re wrong..we can do anything we put our minds to” Scary that I still recall this almost 18 years later!
OMG!!!! There are too many to name…. I turned 35 this past July and I still totally LOVE Sesame Street. Countless moments are still embedded in my mind… I am a graphic artist and Sesame Street’s colorful sceneries has influenced me time and time again. I am also a musician and Sesame Street’s timeless musical numbers have always inspired me to come up with sounds from my soul. Thank you Sesame Street for now only teaching me to sing, dance, count and tell colors. But thank you also teaching me that we all (Muppets, puppets, cartoon, real people) can get along and have a good time and be happy. My favorite song and sketch is the New Yorkers realistic portrayal of the Subway because it clearly illustrates my last point. Thank you Sesame Street for making me a better man.
My absolute favorite sketch was when Oscar the Grouch sang “I Love Trash”. I was so swayed by Oscar’s chops that I went as him for my first Halloween.
Hey Sesame St peoples….
I would have to say that I am the all time biggest Sesame St fan out there - I have the numbe plates “SESAME ST” to prove it.. and everything in my lil car done up sesame st!!!..
Who can pick one Sesame St favourite moment…
All i can say is that i miss watching Hooper’s Store.. but lately Elmo’s world would have to be my latesty craze, with his fish and crayon drawn walls…!
Thanx for all the good times… and many more to come..
Luv Lauren
I discovered Sesame Street when my kids started watching it in 1980 and I loved all of it, especially the music. My most vivid memory is the episode that aired on Thanksgiving after Mr. Hooper’s death. It presented, explained and explored this event for all the different age groups. It was deeply moving.
my favorite is “a loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter”
I grew up on Sesame Street and it is very difficult for me to choose one sesame street moment alone. My favorite moments were when everyone FINALLY saw Snuffy for the first time (I will never forget the look on Maria’s face and her wide open mouth). Also, sadly I will never forget the time they tried to explain to Big Bird that Mr. Hooper died, and it was actually the first time Big Bird got his name right. And of course the top two songs are Telephone Rock and Me Lost Me Cookie in the Disco!
one of my favorite sesame classic sketch is with Lefty the Salesman trying to sell Ernie the letter O. “Hey Bob, Who me? shhhhh…right…Will you like to be an O…”
Sesame Street is fantastic!! It taught me how to count, spell etc. I’m 38 so most of my favourite characters aren’t around anymore. Lefty is one of my absolute favourites! Always with a scam (the Golden AN) or trying to sell stuff to Ernie (Invisible Ice Cream Cones etc). He would always pull up and start with an “Ay bud.” and my favourite is “Would you like to buy an ‘O’?” One of the very best Sesame Street songs too and when things actually cost a nickel!! Ernie would always turn things around on him in the end. I’ve got to mention Sam the Robot just cause I had arguments for years about whether he existed and I finally found 1 clip on YouTube to prove I wasn’t crazy.
So many good times watching old school Sesame Street when I was little. My favorite song was always a 3 way tie between the original “A New Way to Walk” done by the Oinker Sisters
and “Eleven Twelve”
and “The Ladybug Picnic”.
It was such a shock to me when I started watching Sesame Street after a lapse of about 9 years, from when I was little until the time my baby brother started watching it, because when I’d seen it last they never counted above 13. And it made me really sad that The Adventures of Super Grover had been replaced by Elmo’s World.
One of my all-time favorites is when Lena Horne sings “How Do You Do?” with Grover. I was a shy child and this little song helped me so much. I still think of it regularly. It only helped me with shyness but as I’ve grown I’ve realized how true the lyrics “People know you by the little things you do” really are. It’s a fun, charming, totally entertaining bit that today’s world needs more of. I’m SO thankful for Sesame Street. There’s no doubt that it played a HUGE role in forming the person that I am today.
I love to sing just about anything and one of my favourite songs on Sesame Street is the ‘Capital I’ song. I also learnt a bit of Spanish from Maria — “Como esta usted — How are you? ” and the furits in the fridge ” Pera is pear, and platino, bananaaaaa…”. I was recently at an overnight camp with a few teachers, a few of whom grew up in the Caribbean like me. We were talking about our childhood memories and realised that we would all run home after school just to see Sesame Street. Missing the opening theme was out of the question. BUT, what was amazing was that two of us shared the same favourite song, “We all live in a capital I in the middle of the desert…” That started a choir of teachers yelling out song after song from Sesame Street. Awesome!!
“A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter…” No contest.
Even to this very day the most memorable bit from Sesame Street is “The Elephant Elevator Operator” … will never get that song out of my head…! =)
Sesame Street was the best ever! but my best song had to be when ernie was taking a bath and all his friends appeared in the tub singing the song rubba duck duck rubba duck rubba duck rubba duck duck…an then burt enters an everyone disappears. Cereal girl was my next favorite song
Definitely ANYTHING involving Ernie, Bert, and a banana. Also, the brilliant improvisation by Jim Henson and Frank Oz in the goldfish watching sketch, and Madeline Kahn and Grover performing “Be My Echo.” I watch Sesame Street to set the happy tone for my whole day!
I enjoyed the “Sesame Street News” segments.
Especially the one where Kermit ends up buried in snow from looking into a report of someone buried in snow.
Or the one on Rapunzel, and when the prince attempts to climb her hair….it falls off.
Segments like “Beat the Time”..Mr Hooper’s Store (original was better than the ones that followed)
Mr Snuffalupagas, Xmas Episodes..I would have to say that I enjoyed 90% of the “old school” programming.
I also wondered all the time what the staircase between Hoopers Store and Bob and Gordon’s Apartment
was…there was stairs…that didn’t seem to go anywhere and was in every episode….
Wow, where do I start? From primary school, to high school to adulthood, Sesame Street will always be #1!
There are too many favorites to list all so I’m choosing just my absolute top moments! Gonna list my songs first then my sketches :D~
Zulu Alphabet; Singing in the rain; Captain Vegetable; A new way to walk; Rubber Duckie (sings it still, all the time when I want to calm myself); Imagine That!; What’s the name of that song?; I would like to visit the moon; I love Trash. My all time fave ketch is Ernie and Bert in the tomb and Ernie tellign Bert bout the mummy and Bert not believing him; “A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter” (it still cracks me up so I find myself saying that one to just so I can say “I REMEMBER! I REMEMBER!”); anything with the tweddlebugs. OH! another sketch/ song came to mind that I also loved (don’t remember the whole song but I’m seeing Bert doing the Pigeon Dance) and also the Counting sheep where the sheep tote Bert out of the bedroom and Ernie goes to sleep like noting was amiss :D~
God how I love and miss the Original Sesame Street.
I thought some of the best songs were the ones that helped kids learn their numbers. I absolutely adored the “Pinball” song where you learned how to count to 12. I also loved the skits between Bert and Ernie. A favorite was the one where they go visit an Egyptian Museum. Ernie was the perfect sidekick to Bert.
“C” is for Cookie! … and so many many more! I liked “Sesame Street Flash Breaking News Story” clips with Kermit the Frog and all the witty humour woven into many clips. I liked a lot of musical clips like one with a flower opening and one with birds in flight and one with a kid showering and describing how things are cleaned. I know a LOT of the obscure oldies and classics. We grew up on Sesame Street in Trinidad and I still LOVE it to this day. This has been brought to you by the letters “M” and “J” and by the number “1″. “Sesame Street is a production of the Children’s Television Workshop.”
Im entering college and I still faithfully watch sesame street, its just too much fun. My favorites have to be the “Ladybug picnic” (its the only way to count to twelve), “One Banana”, and the old yip yip skits. The one where they see a telephone for the first time is just hilarious. Meee-oowwww
How I can pick just a few favorite Sesame Street moments? I love them all! I love watching Bert and Ernie’s banter, whether it’s playing rhyming games or camping out, exploring pyramids, or going fishing. These two best friends were always there for each other. And they have some great classic songs as well; some can be funny and some can be tender and poignant. I love “Do De Rubber Duck”, “Rubber Duckie” and “Doin’ The Pigeon” and of course, “Dance Myself to Sleep”, “I Like You”, their “La La La- L song”, and “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon”. And of course, there’s the friendship between Big Bird and Snuffy. I’ve always treasured that relationship on the show. I remember the time they jumped on a trampoline in Big Bird’s home and Snuffy landed on the roof (and The Count counted the jumps!), and the time they explored all over Sesame Street with a map, and they time they hit the disco hall! And songs like “ABC-DEF-GHI, etc.”, “Wheels on My Feet”, “I Adore Four”, “Everybody Makes Mistakes”, “The Snuffleullaby” and still others. And I’ve always loved Kermit on there and especially his interaction with Grover. The skits with Grover selling Kermit useless items (to a frog) are hilarious! And their demonstrations of concepts are always great. And classic songs like “African Alphabet”, “Alphabet in the Swamp”, “Frogs in the Glen”, “If I Were”, “Caribbean Amphibian”, “Disco Frog” and the ultimate classics- “This Frog” and “Bein’ Green”. And still others like “I’m Proud of Me”, “What Do I Do When I’m Alone?”, “Around, Over, Under and Through”, “Monster in the Mirror”, and “The Word is No”. And I’ve always loved “Elmo’s Song” and the classic parodies like “Cereal Girl”, “Rebel L”, “Hey Food”, “Letter B” and some of my favorites- “Born to Add” and “Barn in the USA”.
There’s also a great song called “There’s a Hole in the Bucket” and I love seeing the Muppets perform it. And yes, the Sesame Street version of “Mahna Mahna” is a classic in its own right.
And so many of the live action films, particularly those with Joe Raposo songs- wow! “Sugar Beets”, “Peanut Butter”, “What Do You Do With a Fruit?” and many others. And all the funny cartoons- “The Alligator King”, “Ladybugs’ Picnic” and especially the Pinball cartoons! And there’s plenty others, of course.
And so many other classic characters and songs- The Count and “Batty Bat”, Oscar the Grouch and “I Love Trash”, Sherlock Hemlock and “X Marks the Spot” and so many others. Herry, Prairie Dawn, Betty Lou, Guy Smiley, Farley, Roosevelt Franklin, The Two-Headed Monster, the Yip Yip aliens, The Twiddlebugs, Zoe, Rosita, Baby Bear, Telly, Abby Cadabby, Dr. Nobel Price, Dr. Rainbrain, Captain Vegetable, Cookie Monster, Alice, Fred the Dragon, Murray Monster, Maurice, Leo the Party Monster, Herbert Birdsfoot, Hoots the Owl, Gladys the Cow, Forgetful Jones, Harvey Kneeslapper- such a pantheon of great characters have paraded through Sesame Street- I love them all!
And I can’t forget the human characters- Bob, Susan, Gordon, Linda, Maria, Luis, David, Gabi, Miles, Olivia, Gina, Mr. Hooper, Mr. Handford, Alan, Mr. Macintosh, Willy the Hot Dog man, Buffy, Savion, Mike, Uncle Wally- and so many others that have made Sesame Street such a great place to hang out on.
There’s still tons of other things I’m sure I’m forgetting- but I enjoy so much of it all. It teaches kids so many things they need to know to be ready for school and to be ready for life and even more than that- it’s such a great environment for children that celebrates their unique talents and their potential for great things- and their God-given specialness for just being themselves. (much as a Christian hero of mine- Mister Rogers- lovingly showed for so many years.) Sesame Street is classic- 1969 and still running! And I’m happy to keep watching and learning and loving.
“Heee’s a tinny winny superguy, pops right up before your eyes…hes no bigger than your thumb…!” I jus loved him, loved the song the most, but i was sure to watch when i heard that song come on. There really are sooooo many, but my next favorite will have to be the song with “There’s a Hole in the Bucket!” Love, love, love it….i still know the song to this day and i am in my early 30’s! Friends and i still get a kick off of talking about The Street back when we were growing up! LOVE IT!
My favorite Sesame Street episode is the How Crayons Are Made. I always loved to see how things were made and the music is totally early 80’s, it still has a catchy beat that is fresh every time I watch it! I wish I could find the music.
My favorite is Bert doing the Pigeon. I love this one because you actually get to see his feet….I never thought they had feet…lol!
‘B’ is for Bubble as well as “we’re all singing with the same voice” are my absoloutely favorite songs I listen to them all of the time on Youtube…just love it!
I love kermit’s animal alphabet as well as ” a loaf of bread , a container of milk , and a stick of butter” ! I just love sesame street!
” Cowboy X will you please stop marking X’s all over our town? ” “why sure I will ! from now on I’ll be noted Cowboy O!”
I love “This Frog” by Kermitt. It’s all about how he worked hard to transcend his humble beginnings.
Like everyone who posted, I also grew up learning so much from Sesame Street. I love Ernie esp when he pulls a trick on his buddy Bert. That moment when he says “10 Que”. I also love “So, What’s The Golden Plan?” & “‘K’ is for Keyhole…”. Songs I love best are Big Bird’s”ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ, It’s The most remarkable word I’ve ever seen”, “Somebody, Come & Play” & of course Ernie’s “Rubber Duckie”.
Bert and Ernie have to be the best duo around! I liked all their domestic squabbles and I was always on Ernie’s side! A funny scene is when they go fishing and Ernie gets all the fish by calling them, while Bert fails miserably when he tries. The link below is the original clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFTjeaDlxDI
wow memories roll!!
the theme song itself(i still know it word for word) is my FAV,
also “C is for Cookie” by non other than our cookie monster:)
n’ the Elmo song…
those r defntly my favs…
1. yogi counting to 20
2. daddy dear, do dandelions roar, do daisies have feet
3. the yellow yahoo bird
4. somebody come and play
5. twiddlebugs “we’ll take the car to the zoo!”
6. the alligator king
7. the king of eight
8. pinball
9. a loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter.
10. everybody eats/sleeps
I love super groover the waiter and ernie and bert, ernie always have a trick up his sleve for bert.
Every thing that showed from the 70s to the mid mid to late 80’s did it for. I even have a signed pic of Mr. Jim Henson. I sooooooooo love the skits and the songs. Taught me a lot. Even now I hunt them down and look and sing a long.
My current fave is Captain Vegetable but by no means the only fave I have. Great job back then…now it’s all too weird and technical.
Like Comment #66 said: Growing up in Trinidad, Sesame Street is in your blood. It’s in your every thought. I’m 31 and I can still make comparisons of everyday life to sketches on Sesame Street or make cultural references thanks to Sesame Street. Of course I too have several favorite sketches like Big Blue and Lefty trying to get away from the Man with the Golden AN. Or the orange singing opera from Carmen. I’m always singing There Are Chickens in The Trees!!! Don’t get me started on the Twiddlebugs either going to the zoo or their sketch with the postage stamp. Or the girl who takes her llama to the dentist. But if I had to choose a favorite, I think it will be the 1972 classic: A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter!
Thank you Sesame Street!
I looooove Sesame Street! My ultimate favorite moment/song is I’d like to visit the moon by Ernie.
The one scene that sticks in my mind is the one where the grown-ups had to explain to Big Bird about Mr Hooper’s death (that “Mr. Hooper [was] not coming back”). The grown-ups made the explanations simple and plain for Big Bird to understand (and, ultimately, for the benefit of the show’s viewers to understand), and that is what has made this moment a Sesame Street classic.
I have a lot of fond memories of sesame street. I’ll try to be brief and just name a few. I like the episode when ernie and bert were sitting on a boat fishing. Bert’s been waiting for a catch all day, but nothing happened. Then, ernie tries it, shouts, “Hey, fishy, fishy, fishy!”, and with hardly any effort a fish jumps into the boat. Bert watches with amazement. The best part was when Bert tried the “fish call”. He said it very loudly that a huge fish came and gobbled him up. I remember laughing endlessly at that skit. It still makes me laugh whenever i remember it. Then, i also like the song, “SCHOOL”. I’m not sure if that’s the real title. It was performed by a group of singers. Some were singing “Boum,Boum,bidubiBoum,bidubidubi, Boum, boum bidubi, boumbidubidubi” and a soloist enters singing… ” school, we love, school, school is where you wanna ba…..” so that’s all the lyrics i can remember, but it was my ever so favorite. In fact, my elementary friends and i would sing it, do the blending and all during recess time or dismissal time.i also like the video clip of the little girl who had to buy a loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter…… she recites the grocery list over again, then buys everything from the grocery. she comes back home with a feeling of accomplishment. she was so happy to have remembered everything. oh, one more thing, i also like the video clip about milk…from milking a cow, then the milk is poured into a bottle then gets delivered to somebody’s doorstep.
My favourite Sesame Street song is “Telephone Rock” I mean the song is classic…”hey operator please give us a hand”….”we’re the telephone band”. But the old lady was so mean she could have just patch through the guys and how did that police get that booth out and off the ground…lol. It was real cool indeed!
My favorite Sesame Street song is “I like to visit the moon” when Ernie sings with Peobo. Infact my children love this song as well. We get so excited when we see it on an episode. Sesame Street keeps my children engaged and excited at any given time of the day. They stop and have to dance. BTW Great idea to do an High School musical skit. My daughter was in awwwwwwwww. Thanx for all you dedication!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here Fishy fishy fishy…. Bert and Ernie fishing is definately a classic.
As a member of Gen X, I grew up watching Sesame Street. I loved that they carried over things from the Electric Company, like Pinball! I remember coming home from school as a young kid and waiting for Sesame Street to come on. I’ve always been a fan of Jim Henson and his Muppets. I would have to say there isn’t anything I really don’t like about Sesame Street, but where did Bert go? The twiddlebugs will always be remembered as I have dedicated my skin to a part of my childhood that I hold so dear. The next tattoo will most likely be the martians. Thank you Sesame Street for all the wonderful things you taught me and will continue to teach generations ahead.
Like all the other fans who have gone before me, it is so difficult to single out one Sesame Street moment but the scene where Ernie and Bert explore the Egyptian pyramid is hilarious especially when Ernie is scared out of his wits and tells Bert, ” The sta…, the sta…, the statue talked to me Bert.” I keel over laughing at that point. Of course, who can forget the classic song about the number ten - ‘ten tiny turtles on the telephone talking to the grocer man, we would like 10 lettuce - would you send us ten heads please.” Oh - what about the skit about the letter Y where the western villain wants to know who bought the last pack of crayons and he wanted to know why and the guy said to him ‘I thought they looked kinda purdy’ all the while shaking in his boots. Sesame Street is so much fun - I prefer the seasons from in the 70s and 80s.
Frog in a coconut was one of my favs -it seldom got played though. Of course Telephone Rock will always be a classic. I enjoyed it a child and then fell in love with it as an adult.
Like most others, faves are so numerous, especially as i look at it with my almost 2 year old. of the classics-
1. Captain Vegetable.
2. Hey waiter- this guy who’s always trying to order his meal from grover (& charlie) but never gets to eat his meal.
3. the street seller- do you have an ‘a’ on u?, do you want an ‘i’ on your hat? and with ernie- do you want to buy an invisible icecream cone, ernie does- with an invisible nickle!! hahahaha!!
4. Ernie can’t sleep so he sings with the ssbugle duck and the tap dance sheep.
and of the new ones i like elmo visits the firehouse because it teaches kids about the importance of getting low n going, and satying outside. and parents to properly tech their kids what to do in the case of a fire.
Oh! The memories! Some of my faves are not often shown. Let’s see if you all remember these:
1. I think it’s TLC that sang this one on adventures. IT starts off: “Adventures make wonderful stories, so we invite you, to hear about something that happened to my friends and meeeeeee……” 2. “I’m a little airplane neaw, I’m a little airplane neaw neaw. …. And wankedy wang, wankedy wang ….” 3. Bert and Ernie exploring in the tomb. 4. ALL alphabet songs (I think I know them all! Alphabet jungle, zulu alphabet, etc.) 5. Nick Normal and the Nick Matics singing the letter ‘N’. 6. Wet Paint. “You can splish it you can splash it, be careful not to touch it wet paint ….” 7. Boogie Woogie Sheep. 8.Count and the Mad scientist building the rocket. 9. Count and the Battie Battie Battie Bats. 10. Cookie Monster: “I lost my cookie in the Disco!” 11. Dancing Grover. “Hey Grover, Wanna Dance?” Then, palming the girl’s face he pushes her back saying: “Perhaps Lator.” 12. “Said the alligator king to his seven sons …” 13. “Hi ho, Kermit the frog here …. at the home of the three little pigs who built their house out of straw.” “Aren’t you afraid that someone like, oh let’s say the big bad wolf might blow it down?” pig laughs. 14. Put Down the Duckie
15. “There’s a whole in the buket, …..” 16. “I was just off at the general store, and I hear some varmin bought the last box of crayons. I wanna know Y!” 17. “Meet me at the bus stop. Down by the corner at the five and dime. Meet me at the bus stop. We’ll go have a good time…..” 18. “Rock rock rock. It’s the telephone rock.” 19. Forgetful Jones: “La de da de da. What’s the name of that song?” 20. “Hi ho. Hi hey. The dirtiest town in the west.”
Oh, there are so many others but I’ll stop here. Let me just encourage all of you as Prarie Dawn and Grover did: “Let’s all exercise, (EXERCISE) …”
My favorite moment of all time? So hard to narrow down. I use so many of the things I saw on Sesame Street as a kid in my classroom every day! I loved the Twiddlebugs, Bert’s fascination with pigeons (”Don’t the Pigeon” was always my favorite song - and I still hold my “Sesame Street Fever” record as one of my most prized possessions), the ladybug’s picnic, and of course “Kermit The Frog” news breaks. The music was phenomenal - touching and toe-tapping and the message was always entertaining and intellectual! Then when Mr. Hooper died (and I, like so many other kids, was devastated) the show dealt with Big Bird’s grief in such a sensitive way that it really helped me understand what was going on.
But above all my favorite was when Grover and Cookie Monster interacted with real kids. I always wanted to be a kid on Sesame Street and wondered how you did in fact get there so that I could talk to Grover. My all time favorite clip would have to be one between Grover and John John. I don’t remember what they were even talking about but at the end they said they loved each other and John John looked at Grover with the same love and admiration that I felt for him. And Grover seemed to have the same look - returning his love. Then I knew that Grover just had to be real.
This show (like all of Henson’s work) inspired me as an artist and now as a teacher. I draw on it almost every day. I think above all else it showed me a place where compassion and kindness were the norm in a framework that was intellectual and entertaining….and that silliness was a trait even embraced by some adults.
My favouite (if I had to choose just one) is Bumble. The little boy who had a birthday and invited pigs to party while his mom was out. At the height of the party they all raised their glasses and said “Cheers, cheers, cheers, may Bumble live nine hundred years!”
The party continued until his mom came in, saw the mess and threatened to turn the pigs into ham.
I just loved it. I wish they would show those really old one again.
I grew up on sesame street….still brings a smile to my face to this day. My favorite moment was the “telephone rock” clip with the old lady as the operator.
My all-time favorite is a really old clip where this goat sings about getting MAD. He sings “I get mad, I get mad , I get mad….everybody gets mad.” He gets mad becuase a duck sneaks up on him and causes him to drop his ice-cream…that is really really funny. Classic Sesame Street is the best.
Without question - my absolute favorite is “C Is for Cookie”. I remember my daughters sitting on their rocking chairs, singing and rocking in time to the song, when they were very small. Now I enjoy it with their daughters!
Bert’s ‘Doing the er er.. PIGEON, it was the first time I can remember seeing Bert as a little girl being less than his normal serious self - love it.
One of my alltime favourites is Ernie and Bert episode visiting the Pyramid - when I was younger, that statue would scare the CRAP out of me. One of my favourite jams (shamelessly until now) is still “I don’t want to live on the moon”. My favourite character is by far, Oscar the Grouch … and yes, I Love Trash!! One of my first toys was a Fisher Price Oscar the Grouch popping out of the can with a squeeze hand thingy. 22 odd years later, Carrol Spinney was the commencement speaker at my graduation ceremony, and he also brought a special guest - Oscar. Talk about going full circle!!!
I love the cartoon skit with the song about the #10 some of the words are “…10 cans of blackeyed peas that give you big strong mussels, 10 of those tasty sprouts, the ones they call brussels…” Then of course there’s Ernie “Then I tip my hat….Imagine that…Imagine that….Imagine That!”. Love old school sesame street. Can’t seem to get into this new wave Elmo’s World
Classic Sesame street was the best - the new stuff does not compare - from Big Bird with Mr Flooper to Snufalpagus (hope I spelt that right) to Kermit and Oscar and Super Grover. Some of my favourites are Telly with Gordon at the bus stop, all the monsterpiece theatre skits, this is your life, Ernie and Bert - Whne the sugar bowl broke, Doing the pigeon, the band playng out side the house, rubber duckie. But I love forgetful jones with Oklahoma, Mana mana and the count.
Sesame Street Classics: “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon” Ernie and Aaron Neville makes me feel very nostalhic One of the best moments.
The cartoon where they need a letter ‘O’ in the sign for “grocery” store. They use a pizza and it melts off the nail from which the man in the white overalls hung it. Something about it was magical and aesthetically perfect. The thought put into the sketches by the contributors of Sesame Street has blessed countless children. Thank you, writers, artists, visionaries, and producers, for making childhood what it should be: full of wonder.
I love the wierd stuff video but for my fave clips …that’s a hard one
The grover waiter sketches are ace !!
this one is cool
oops for some reason it did not show the clip
it was grover the waiter and the big hamburger
( i know it says only post once but when half the message is missing ..what is a girl to do ??
the sketch where burt is in the airplane and he’s sitting next to Rick Moranis, and they are both thinking they have nothing in common. Then Rick orders a bowl of hot water for instant oatmeal, and they realize they have everything in common. I can still hear the song in my head “Stick out your hand and say hello! There might be someone just like you, who’s really great to know!”
My all time favorite moment with a Muppet is when Kermit the Frog is doing the alphabet with a little girl and when they get to certain parts of the alphabet, the little girl says “cookie monster” instead of a letter. She gets so tickled and Kermit even laughs with her. My all time favorite cartoon segment is the Ladybug Picnic.
Nothing can beat where Earnie & Bert went to search for the mummies and they came to life…oh poor bert always on the receiving end of “mr earnie & his stunts”
I absolutely love Sesame street. I grew up on the classics. Now I have 3 kids who all watch it.One of my favs is when Kermit sings “It’s not easy being green” It is such an important msg for kids. Also w/ Ernie and I forget the lady’s name where they sing ” Sing sing a song ..sing out loud” I know they are a couple of new versions to that but I still love the old one. Sesame is the absolute best children’s tv show. None can compare or even come close. Oh in the new episodes I love where they sing “We are all earthlings”
There are so many sketches and moments! I’ve had get-togethers where my guests and I spend hours reciting them, and we’re in our late twenties! For poignancy I’ll never forget when Big Bird dealt with Mr Looper’s death, and for lyrical brilliance I’ll go with the ladybug’s picnic (”they talked about the high price of furniture and rugs, and fire insurance for lady bugs”), but my all time favourite is the animated lady singing to 11. She’s on a farm and has this operatic thing going on (”Oh eleven’s the number for me! Don’t you see?”), but at the end she falls into the pigsty, “Ohhh, 11″.
Sesame street was completely brilliant, and just one of their melodies hummed in public will bring smiles from strangers.
oh my gosh - my comment is number 111! The irony…
cookie monster singing cookie in an issaac haynes impression, all episodes with ernie playing tricks on bert, all episodes of oscar, basically i loved and still watch it on utube i also send clips to my friends cause we dont see full episodes that program is a classic its a pity my younger kids never had that experience and joy of watchin and laughin and learning to count in spanish etc
Those are cool but who can ever forget that immortal song, “Telephone Rock.” That song will forever be part of Sesame Street lore! Besides, the policeman lifting up the telephone booth at the end? Who would want to run into a policeman like that? Classic!!! Telephone Rock does it for me!
I am 24 and there are so many Sesame Street moments that I liked, the songs “Telephone Rock”, “First Blanket” when the sheep tell Bert where his blanket came from, the Rhymies, “I Would Like To Visit The Moon”, ” Imagine That”, the Christmas episode when Oscar told Big Bird that Santa Claus doesn’t exist, and those plays where Prarie Dawn would do the introduction “welcome oh welcome to our little show” and everything would go wrong after that. My favourite Sesame Street thing however is the song “We’re Alive” - (huh, breathe in, hoh breathe out, we’re alive, yeah we’re alive, we’re a-li-i-i-i-ive and that’s no jive!).
Hi I am 28 and when i was a little girl growing up in the Caribbean we only had one television station. By the time I was maybe 9 we got 2. Most people did not have cable except those fortunate to have their own satelite dish in their front yard. What was on the television for kids was also limited, Like a few cartoons, smurfs, thunder cats and fortunately for me sesame street showed twice a day, once in the morning at 9:00am and another episode at 3:00pm. Sometimes it was the same episode but I would be glued to the tv because sesame street was and still is magical. I remember when Linda and Bob were in Linda’s apartment and it was the first time she could watch televison because she got this new machine that when plugged in would show subtitles. I remember her smile, like WOW! I also remember how mister Hooper’s store was the best place to be to enjoy a big ice cream float. Sesame street kept this only child at that time happy. Who could forget the “Gifo” and the “Gonk”. I always felt like the gonk but to know that a gifo was out there to compliment me was a great feeling. I know all the words up to today of the “zulu song”, the rhythm was just intoxicating. How about Barkley, i remember asking for a dog like him but i guess my parents did not know what breed he was. I think everyone who grew up on sesame street has all this songs and skits indelible marked on their hearts like ( A loaf of bread a container of milk and a stick of butter, Wa wa wa Wilhemina, Super grover, Monster piece theaatre, Vincent Twice, Polly Darton, Flacido Flamingo, Linda teaching the kids on the stoop to sing ” Sing sing a song”, when everyone thought that snuffy was imaginery, A great song ” U really got a hold on me). There are so many moments and the great thing about sesame street was that it fits every mood, happy, sad, or angry but no matter what at the end of the programme when you saw the letter and number of the day you were all smiles. I love those days, ” Sunny days sweeping the clouds away, on my way to where the air is sweet, can you tell me how to get how to get to sesame street, how to get to sesame street”
I love old school sesame street … and no wonder, because I grew up on it. I’m told by my mother that i would take sticks from the yard and form letters and call them ’sesames’ because didn’t know the names yet.
My favorite Sesame moment is Cookie Monster dressed like Isaac Hayes, doing one of his classic ‘Cookie’ songs, but to the tune of SHAFT!
That right there was the bomb!
So nice to see that there are so many of us that remember how goo dit used to be!
There are so many Sesame Street songs and skits that I love. I’d have to say that my favourite ones are: 1)Zulu song/African alphabet with Kermit the Frog 2)The Golden “An” skit and 3)Ladybug Picnic. All three bring a smile to my face every time and when I have kids I ‘m going to teach them the Zulu song. There’s nothing like the classics.
My favorite are many but I do love the scene in the library with only books no cookies with Cookie Monster, its a line lots of us use till today even though we are so old.
i grew up watching Classic Sesame Street, i cant pick a favorite but i jus really love it
This is very hard to choose, but since I can only choose one, I would have to say I don’t want to live on the moon by Ernie.
I am a few years older than Sesame Street so I am fortunate to have grown up watching the Golden Era of Sesame Street. Even as a teenager and young adult I found the show enjoyable and some of the skits, songs, etc absolutely priceless.
Picking a favorite is impossible so I will just list 3 of the numerous moments forever stored in my mind and my heart.
1) Ernie getting the bottle cap from the 12 oz bottle of Figgy Fizz for Bert and with all the ‘excitement’ Bert’s I gotta lie down.
2) Bumble Ardy’s Birthday Party, his mom Sweet Adeline’s “I’ll give you pigs ’til number nine to split! Get lost! Vamoose! Just scram, or else I’ll slice you into ham!” and Bumble plea “Please let me in. It’s your boy, Bumble.”
3) Fond memories of Mr. Hooper trying to get Big Bird to pronounce his name correctly “It’s Hooper Big Bird, Hooper”
A special hello to Jeanine post # 116, sounds like she grew up watching Sesame Street on TTT in Trinidad & Tobago just like me.
My Favourite Sesame Street Moment is when Kermit sings the “Bayou Alphabet”….
A - Alligator, B - Bayou etc….
Wow! Where can I start??? Seasame Street is by far the best show/programme/t.v series in the entire universe. I think Jim Hensen should be referred to as Sir Jim Hensen for his great works that continues to live on.
Ok now down to business. Well, when I get started talking about my favorite episodes it takes me at least an hour if someone can spare the time but I’ll try to be short.
Grover:(harminica plays)hmmm…Mister Johnson ho! ho! ho!, I met you once in Buffalo, I found your hat the other day, come and get it (tap dance for about 4.9 sec.), rite away….
Mr.Johnson a.k.a beady eye, big blue head guy:That’s it, that’s it, my name is Johnson, and I lost my hat, my favvvourite hat. Now! Tell me wwwhhhooozit from????
Grover:Who’s what from?
Mr. Johnson a.k.a beady eye, big blue head guy:Who sent the message? Who has my hat???
Well I think you know the rest…lol
Just one moment? If I must pick one it would have to be Oscar The Grouch, in his original ORANGE fur, singing “I Love Trash”. I am almost 44 years old and I still LOVE that song, Oscar, Caroll Spinney, and Sesame Street.
Kermit the frog sesame street new, who could forgget that? telephone rock……………the list goes on and on
My favorite moment on Sesame Street is the easiest to remember… It was the first time i saw my very own country, Trinidad & Tobago, featured on Sesame Street. The clip featured a big red ball bouncing all over different parts of my country. then it showed the ball being passed down from kids on stilts from the tallest to a little girl on the ground, all the while a song from an artiste from my country was playing in the background. I remember asking my mom, ” is that really our country on Sesame Street?” I was so amazed by it. I had always wanted to be “on” sesame street and now i saw a way. Sesame Streeat finally became “real” to me. All the time i was watching it and never realised that the muppets and Maria and Louis and anyone else on Sesame Street even knew or had the slightest idea that i existed! WoW I love Sesame Stret just like i loooooove this boat:)
My favourite song/sketch EVER, is “The subway”. This is truly vintage, strap hangers Ernie, Bert, Kermit and many more on the E (Local) train singing about the adventures of traveling by the subway in NY. There’s also a groovy dance routine
Fantastic stuff!!
my fav is the sketch where the guy comes into the saloon looking for the guy who bought the last box of crayons and the guy who bought it went to hide,turns out he wanted to just draw the letter Y.
oh it would have to be he song telephone rock and also where ernie and bert went into the jungle to search for doctor livingston… “Dr. Livingston I presume?” just the way ernie said it cracked me up. And who could forget the song “Oh I’d like to visit the moon” Ironically enough I was actually singing the song this morning (and I am 27). And those 2 headed monsters… it was funny trying to understand what they were saying and they always wanted to go in opposite directions. and the martians and their song “yup yup yup yup family.. yup yup you, yup yup me, yup yup baby, yup yup family.” i sing that to my daughter everyday. i can go on and on… but those are some of the best and most memorable for me.
So so many memories. I almost wish I hadn’t read the posts before posting!
But My all time facourites are actually 2 of the moments that scared me the most as a child….
The first, when Ernie and Bert visit the pyramid in Egypt and “the sta… the sta… the statue talked to me!”
And the other is Cookie Monster’s nightmare. The cookies are dancing all around him singing in this off key tone and he can’t eat them.
Totally freaked me out but that’s the joy of childhood I think. Scared to bits, but you know it’s gonna be ok because it’s only a nightmare.
Also, I love when The Count is counting elephants at his castle. (When there’s nothing to count)
So many moments………..however if I had to choose one, it would be “The Telephone Rock”!!!!! Love the singer in the phone booth and the old school telephone operator who brought the police in the end!!!
Hmmm…. my favourite moment would definitely have to be Bert doing the pigeon… doing the pigeon..br, br… LOL used to pratise it as a kid!
Some of my favorite Sesame Street moments are: Grover dancing to the ABC Disco, “Honk Around the Clock”, “The Ballad of Slippery Slim”, “It’s Funny”, “anything with Oscar, Grover or Cookie Monster, and Bert’s “All Dressed UP”.
My favorite seasame street moments, Put down the ducky,”I’m crowded roll over” song,”Here fishy, fishy, fishy” skit, “Dan the man in the Tan Van” skit and teeny lil super guy.
You can’t beat Cookie Monster as Alastair Cookie in Monsterpiece Theatre. He looked dashing in his smoking jacket and he enthusiastically introduced each story. (Even if he did get crumbs stuck in the pages.)
The cartoon where the one friend wants to show his friend a plat that he grew “from like a tiny seed”. They notice that it’s “asleep” so they try to figure out how to wake it up then finally reaize that “plants need water man!” It’s so classic because they talk so laid back and the cartoon itself is so retro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEip_OoF4dY
Also, my other favourites are any scene with the Tweedle Bug family that live in Ernie’s flower box. Their voices are so adorable and their home is the cutest ever!
Where do I begin? One of my favorites is the cartoon sketch with a boy who is lost and sees all kinds of weird things and eventually meets up with a man who tells him to ‘look backwards into his mind…make the first thing the last’. One of the funkiest ever. I must mentionall the news flashes with Kermit especially rapunzel story and the Prince’s ball to find his true love. The song for the “lowercase n “, The song for the letter G with an ape “looking for his birthday cake”, the”everybody sleeps” song the ’six dollar man. It would probably take me a long time to truly list all the my faves because it was such a part my childhood experience!!
Favourite Sesame Street moments….. hard to say….. here’s a few:
Monster Piece Theatre, Rebel L, Burt doing the Pigeon, “Don’t put a carrot in your belly button!”, “Some of us are here!”, “Plants need water maaaaan!”, J is for Jacket, Billy Jo Jive and Smart Susie Sunset, (they were always on the case), the singing Orange, “L’amour!” and of course, my all time favourite, the goat who gets mad: “And what if someone gave you a fright? Would a goat laugh “Ha ha, it’s quite alright!” Noooo I get mad, I get mad I get mad!” Nothing can or will ever top Sesame Street it was simply the best!
Every day of my life I have a Sesame Street Flashback…but my favorite would have to be-
1. “There’s a hole in the bucket dear Liza dear Liza, there’s a hole in the bucket dear Liza a hole; well fix it dear Henry dear Henry dear Henry well fix it dear henry dear henry fix it…etc”
2. Cowboy X decides to spare the good citizens of Sniddler’s Gulch by becoming Cowboy O;
3. The cartoon of a lady who walks up to a man with a beard and says “GUESS who I saw today” and ends by saying “I saw YOU today!!” and giggles hysterically..
4. Grover’s duet with Madelene Khan singing high and low
5. Don Music banging his head on the piano when he can’t get a song right…
Oh boy, I could go on and on!!!
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Sesame Street is still my fave. I love love love Two heads are better than one, Cooperation makes it happen, Mahna Mahna and C is Cookie. They will stay in my memory forever and rank as my top 3. I love telling my son two heads are better than one and cooperation makes it happen, such a simple way to promote team-work. Go Thirteen!
hi, love to look a sesame st. i loved going on an alpha quest that was cool, and also super grover moments were funny another of my favourite is rubber ducky ur the one. got many more but those were the best.
I’m from the old skool, so my favourite moment has to be Cookie Monster in “Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco”…or possibly the one with Grover dancing to the disco version of the alphabet! Classic!
Although, the Grover the Salesman vs Kermit scenes were all pretty high up on the list. Especially when he tried to sell Kermit a set of teeth…!
I love Cookie Monster in the Library…….”No cookies! Just BOOKS!!” I am a child every time I use this in conversation : )
Me & my llama are going to the dentist to-daaay!
I have quite a few favorite moments, but these are my favorite:
1. India Irie and Elmo singing a soulful rendition of the ABC’s.
2. Gabby and Miles leading the pack in singing a fun version of “Everybody’s Song”.
3. Diane Schur sings “From Your Head” with Elmo and Elmo ends up delivering some pretty great harmonies.
4. Kingston’s birthday party where everybody was standing outSIDE the house, but eventually made their “In the House” (Telly in the house, Telly in the house…)
5. Ernie is bathing in what’s got to be the biggest bathtub party I’ve ever seen as he sings a rubber duck song that’s set to a hot reggae beat.
6. Elmo sings with the Goo Goo Dolls (he actually dons a motorcycle jacket! LoL)
One of my all-time favorites since my early childhood is the family of Martians with the wide jaws that sing, “FA-MI-LY, FA-MI-LY, eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh, FA-MI-LY, FA-MI-LY!”
For me personally,my #1 Favorite “Sesame Street Moment/Sketch”, has to be when BERT & ERNIE are in a middle of a lake & Bert can’t stop calling the fishes until he gets tired!! Until Ernie joins in with him & helps/teaches him to call Fishes from the lake into the boat!!! Eventually a “BIG FISH”. jumps into the boat & Bert just faints right in front of it & Ernie at the very end!!!
Grover in the disco, dancing to the ABC song! A-BC-DE-FG let’s go!
I have too many favourites, so I’m just going to list a few that I didn’t see on this (most recent) page…
“we all live in a capital i”…
“said the alligator king to his seven sons, I’m feeling mighty down”…
“my L, my L, I’ve lost my L!”…
the little animated girl who’s having her worst day ever until her little sister offers her piece of the last orange…
“my name is You”…
Simon, the blue guy who is always frustrated by Grover when he wants to buy something to eat…
“ten tiny turtles on the telephone, talkin to the grocer man (yak yak yak!)”…
the sequence that would count from one to X (up to a maximum of ten), and would always end with a baker with X pastries, who would promptly fall down some steps and throw away all the pastries…
“1 2 3, 4 5 6, 7 8 9, 10 11 12, ladybugs, at the ladybug picnic”…
I’m done now because I could keep going forever! Ooh, last one… the princess who kisses kermit and turns into a frog!
My favorite moment is with Bert and his gong “Doing the Pigeon” real cool. we actually got to see Bert’s feet while he was doing it. Totally hilarious!!
It’s really hard for me to pick just one clip, but I think my vote would go to “I’m a Working Dog,” which taught me that dogs love to have a role in the family. I’ve had that song in my head for almost thirty years!
(I’m also very fond of Jesse Jackson’s reading of “I Am Somebody” to the kids of Sesame Street, which brings a tear to my eye today. And the entire episode where Big Bird learns that Mr. Hooper has died — one of the bravest things I’ve ever seen a TV show do)
It’s hard to pin down my favorite sketch or even the top 3 but I loved the episode where everyone found out that Mr. Snuffleupagus is real. Also, to this day I can read of the grocery list that the little girl had to get from the store. Out of nowhere I sometimes say “and a stick of butter”. And the tiny little super guy, love him. And the first time I saw Bert doing the pigeon. I could go on and on.
How in the world can any one choose just one thing to LOVE about sesame Street. I just LOVE it all. Can’t choose, sorry.
The songs have always been my favourite part of Sesame Street, if I had to choose, it would be a toss up between “Alligator King”, fruit performing “Carmen” and “Telephone Rock”. There were so many great moments!!!
A whole generation and more of watching Sesame Street!Favorites? Miss Piggy’s pas de deux with Nureyev,Pete Seeger and Oscar singing about garbage, the Alligator King and his Seven Sons and Ten Tiny Turtles on the Telephone to name just a few.
my best moment is when Ernie sang the imagination song. He was imagining that he was a knight, a brave sailor and himself. i love that song. i also love Ernie singing “i would like to vist the moon”
‘Nancy the nanny goat who wore a nifty necklace’ and ‘the lady bug picnic.’
This is like picking your favorite grain of sand at the beach! I’ll go for 3: Sesame Street New’s coverage of the The Pied Piper (that dude was “far out”), the cartoon where a guy hung a letter g in the air and it was referred to as being a funny little thing, and “Me lost me cookie in the disco”!!
Sorry, but i could not help but mention:Grover the chick magnet in the disco is also an indelible image for me. NO fair! There are so many.
How can you pick just one:
Ernie imagining he is drinking a glass of water in bed
Ernie eating cookies in bed “shake the crumbs”
The bathtub party ‘rubber duckie’
There is a hole in the bucket Eliza
Mr. Hooper and Big Bird ( the most loving grandpa/grandchild moments are there)
1)”Capital I” where the cartoon men are washing the I
2)What about the time when Maria & Louis was getting married and elmo was the ring bearer. He kept tellin Himself, “Don’t drop the ring Elmo please Elmo don’t drop the ring.
3) The one with the crystal-like ball the goes all over a maze type thing with music from an organ plays while it goes along. I child counts 1-2-3 at certain intervals. At the end, the girl gets 3 cherries to put on top of her ice creams.
4) Cant forget the count at school - “I COUNT Gregory, Sue and Borris, Egore, Eloise and Morris, Theodore, Jane and Eloline and Ben and that makes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7…8…9…10)
My all time favourite is when Kermit was doing the Sesame Street news and he had to interview The Prince who was meant to rescue Rapunzel. He goes through the whole spiel Rapunzel Rapunzel let down your hair and when finally, after much exasperation for the prince, she sticks the hair out the window, the wig falls off her head and he’s forced to give up on the hopeless Rapunzel. Ever fickle,it ends with Rapunzel declaring that she finds Kermit cuter anyway. CLASSIC
One of my favorites (I say one because I have lots, I mention some below) is when the guy is walking his dog and the dog decides he’s tired of not being asked where he wants to go. Eventually the owner relents and tells the dog to lead at which time the dog proceeds to walk up the wall. Loved it.
(Some other ones I like include “guys and dolls” with Harry monster playing with dolls and a female monster playing with trucks. Oh my gosh…I almost forgot about the Beatles “Letter B” awesome song. Anyway I mentioned everyone I would be here for a while but thanks for taking me down memory lane.)
My faourite was when elmo was the ring bearer for I think it was David and Maria wedding. He was singing the song…..don’t drop the ring elmo, please elmo dont. He is my favourite character.
Definatly when Bert and Ernie visit a pyramid,Bert is so sarcastic, and his reaction at the end when the statue talks to him- priceless! And it makes you think “yea, in your face Bert!!!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_YTCJqrtHs
My son would not try cereal when he was a baby. One sesame street episode featured a little girl singing the cereal song..”I said I’d taste it, I’ll give it a whirl cause I am a cereal girl” I changed the words to “I said I’ll taste it, I’ll give it a try, cause I am a cereal boy” He tried it and loved it. Thanks, Sesame Street for healthy eating habits taught using fun songs!!!
In our house we love when Ernie and the gang sing Rubber Duck (not Rubber Ducky) in the bathtub and Bert is on the other side of the door. Rubber Duck, Duck , Rubber Duck, Rubber Duck Duck! Love it!!! Oh and “I don’t know why Y didn’t come” is sung all the time around here.
wow… to name a favourite song or skit from Sesame Street is really hard to do, but i think i’d have to say Ernie and Bert’s “Here Fishy Fishy Fishy” is probably ranking high up there! Ernie always cracks me up with his crazy antics and the ability he has to drive Bert insane! The gang here in Trinidad can sit for hours exchanging Sesame Street favourites and spend hours entertaining each other down memory lane and we laugh so hard till our sides hurt!
aaaah so much to choose from
1. Rapunzel in her brooklyn accent ” you want me to let down my what?” and prince charming getting frustrated more concerned about ‘where’s my horsie” Horsie?”
2. ernie and bert rhyming game when ernie leaves bert hanging and he goes ‘ hey there lamp, that’s a nice shade…you!”
3. do wop do wop hop sung by kermit with the sheep flinging themselves in the air.
4. “Plants need water man” nuff said.
I just love the goat who sings, “I get maaaaaad, I get Maaaaaad, I get maaaad, everybody gets mad!”
and then there is the ernie and bert with the sheep,”The story of berts’ blanket” or “Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep”
or the rhyming somg with the three guys singing and the crazy one “Cat… Hat.. Sat…”
ohhh so many so many
Hands down… the “you gotta put down the duckie if you want to play the saxaphone!” is the best sesame street song!
Thanks to recent DVD releases and the wonderful new data-base on the Sesame Street website I am able to revisit the clips from Sesame Street that linger in my childhood memories: the perspective on life from the view of the Tweedlebugs or the Muppet News-Flash fairy tales or Bert and Ernie exploring the pyramid and discovering statues that closely resemble the two friends.
I can remember watching episode after episode just for the chance to see some of these segments, and if it ever came on running to find my brother so we could watch it together. We watched when Mr. Hooper died, and discussed it with our families. We videotaped when the adults found out that Snuffleupagus was real and replayed it hundreds of times, laughing at an editing mistake.
Yet, out of all the fantastic, educational, heart rendering, and hilarious episodes I must say that “Captain Vegetable” is the most outstanding in my memory and heart.
Three Cheers for me Captain Vegetable, crunch, crunch, crunch!
I had Sesame Street albums. Still have them, actually!! Played them over and over again. My older sister and I still sing Oscar’s song “MAD!” “Real mad, very angry, very, very angry” when we were upset about something. And Eckhart Tolle would love the song “Nearly Missed That Rainbow”, a great song about being in the moment and appreciating what’s right in front of you. Big Bird’s “ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUWXYZ” - Who else but Joe Raposo would make that a word? He was the best Sesame Street composer and is so missed. These songs will always be in my heart. When I’m old and they roll me into the home I’ll be singing, “Sunny day, sweeping the clouds away on my way to where the air is sweet…” Thanks to Jim Henson, Joe Raposo and all the people that created such great learning experiences and memories for us all.
Sesame Street premiered a month before I turned three. It was clearly perfect timing. My favorite song was Oscar singing “I Love Trash”. I still have two LPs from my childhood days and the 45 of I Love Trash. Sing Sing a Song is still a positive song for children of all ages. B is Bubble is still good. I was humming that one today when someone was blowing bubbles in Midtown. City Councilman Felder wanted to get rid of the pigeons a little while ago by starving them. I do not think Bert would approve. Finally how does Santa get down all those little chimneys?
Any time the count sings a song I think of my dad. He used to sing to me when I was a little girl, who am I kidding, I’m 28 and still make him sing to me! He does all the voices so well but I think he enjoys singing “Then there was one bat in the belfry…etc” It always makes me smile. I teach kindergarten and this year he is coming in to read them a book with voices!
We love Ernie’s “RUBBER DUCK” episode when he’s singing “Rubber Duck, duck, duck” and all of the characters start joining him in the bathtub. Catchy little tune…we sing it at bathtime every night.
One of my most memorable Sesame Street episodes was when Mr.Hooper died. I remember how sad Big Bird was. My dad sat with me and we watched it, and talked about people dying. I cried so much. I felt sad that Mr.Hooper was gone and felt sorry that Big Bird lost his friend. I never looked at Big Bird the same way - from then on he seemed so vulnerable to me. I love this show!
Dance Myself to Sleep is my favorite. In the recurring theme of Ernie preventing Bert from going to sleep, features the hilarious shot of sheep tap dancing and carrying Bert’s bed out the window. So funny and cute!
Though there are soooo many great moments, as kids, my brother and I would love to sing along with Cookie Monster when he ate the snow to get the train through and we would drive our Mom crazy running around the house singing “through, through, through, we’ll get the train through!” cause it was the only line of the song we could remember
My favorite song is by far “Put down the Duckie” and my favorite moment is when Nathan Lane sang about the Nose.
I turned on the very first show for my (now 41 and 39 years old) children and it was so great that I called my husband at work to tell him about this unbelievable kid’s show that we were watching!
My favorite song Ernie singing “Rubber Ducky” in Egypt at the pyramids. Classic Ernie and Bert sketch. I also love “W for Willamina”
Just the other day, I was telling a friend about a segment featuring Danny DeVito as a curator for a garbage museum. Surveying Oscar’s sculptures for possible exhibition, he says “Oscar, this may be art, but it’s not trash.” It’s everything that I’ve always loved about the show, especially the way that it speaks to adults and children at the same time.
I always loved the star appearances and the remakes of their songs to alphabet songs like Billy Idol’s Rebel L and Sheryl Crow’s I song. I loved the music stars contributing their stuff for kids and having a sense of humor about it as well. I also loved the classic Kermit It’s not Easy Being Green and Ernie’s song Why Are There So Many Songs About Rainbows. I loved it all, really. I’ve been a fan from Sesame’s inception when I was 4 through my children’s watching it the last 5 years. What a history!!
My favorite is from an episode of Elmo’s world. Elmo can’t get the window shade to open so he says “Elmo’s going to get a venetian blind”! Humor added just for us moms!
My favorite moment was when the whole cast went to Hawaii and Snuffy went by helicopter because he couldn’t fit in the plane. Once there, Big Bird and Snuffy went looking for Mount Snufleupagus.
I always loved it when Grover was working as a waiter in the restaurant and he had to keep going back and forth and back and forth and he’d get so frustrated. That just cracked me up.
I have so many favorites, but I really loved the music on Sesame Street. Anything by Joe Raposo: Would you like to buy an O, Sing, Run run everybody run, Ladybugs Picnic… too many good ones to be able to pick one.
I’ve always been fond of “Fuzzy and Blue”. Sure, it teaches colors, but more importantly, it teaches that sometimes a monster just needs to pick up a straw hat and cane, dance onstage, and see who joins in.
Both of my boys are constantly “firing” my husband and I because of the Donald “Grump” skit with Elmo and Oscar. It’s very funny…it’s all so clever. Thank you for a great show!
I have always loved Sesame Street. I hope it runs forever. Does anyone remember a game from the 80’s with Sherlock Hemlock. It was mystery based. I loved it so much, it would be great to find it so my daughter can enjoy it as much as I did. Anybody know what it was called?
I would like to know how to get my grandson on sesame street. I grow up on sesame street it the best leaning station on TV THANK YOU.
My favorite Sesame Street song is the one about the TWO girls, & TWO dolls, & TWO kittycats & a little dollhouse! I love it so much, I watch it on DVD five times in a row to get my fix! I also love the one about the ‘alligator king’ & his favorite son. My third favorite is Ernie singing, “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon.” If I had these songs on CD, I’d put them on my ipod–seriously!!
I watch Sesame Street clips on youtube for hours. I have uncovered so many memories from this incredible show, as well as found some songs Ive been wanting to hear again for years, like “the batty bat” and “Me and my Llama”. I also love the animated clips, like the ladybug Picnic and 7 Alligatiors and orange sings Carmen. I loved when Grover was an annoying waiter with the cranky customer, and when Ernie and Bert explore the Egyptian pyramid. So simple and so geniously funny!
Im obsessed with there’s a hole in the bucket. i need to see that clip. that was one of my favourites. and i say one of. my goodness i loved so many more especially grover and the blue guy in the restaurant. grover was soooooooo funny.
i wish sesame street or someone could develop a tv station that run all their old progams that we grew up on.i also loved kermit’s flash break in news stories. then there’s all other inividual clips like the golden an and the secret knock. wow!can someone find there’s a hole in the bucket. told you i was obsessed.
I am looking to buy the old Sesame Street programs,I think my children should watch these.These were the best.I have always loved the the song that was sung by a group”We love school”, but one of my favorites is the one with Sparky( imagine me an alligator)!
I loved the song hat fat sat cat,and the alligator king was a favorite,but I will always remember A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter.