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!):

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.

Enjoy Feist singing a special version of “1-2-3-4″ with Elmo, from the new season of Sesame Street: