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(Jezebel) Amusing 10, 10 awesome moments from Sesame Street, ah ah ah   (jezebel.com) divider line 311
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UberDave [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 11:08:49 AM  
Cookie Monster was better before he went to rehab...

i44.tinypic.com

 
LegacyDL 2009-05-27 11:14:31 AM  
No mystery box? (new window)

 
fuzzwell [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 11:40:49 AM  
Sweet!

I hadn't seen all of those, some were before my time!

Nice!

Also, I had forgotten how funny Bert and Ernie were.

 
Kellner21 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 11:49:14 AM  
fuzzwell: Also, I had forgotten how funny Bert and Ernie were.

I can't stand Ernie. He is a selfish asshole douchebag fartface. I'm surprised Bert hasn't had him killed yet.

 
Burn_The_Plows [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 11:52:26 AM  
Kellner21: I can't stand Ernie. He is a selfish asshole douchebag fartface. I'm surprised Bert hasn't had him killed yet.

Where would Bert find another bottom on Sesame Street?

 
Lilmama [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 11:52:29 AM  
No "Jazzy Spies"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeqpgF9EkhA&feature=PlayList&p=2E2E479212DB1699&i ndex=0&playnext=1

 
Freak Flag Fly 2009-05-27 11:59:15 AM  
img40.imageshack.us

This would definitely be in my top 10.

 
H_is_for_Heretic 2009-05-27 12:34:41 PM  
img4.imageshack.us

 
gopher321 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 12:45:01 PM  
My favourite was when Snuffleupaguss went postal and took out Oscar and Big Bird with an Uzi.

Or did I imagine that?

the voices...the voices...

 
xanadian [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 12:46:49 PM  
THIS is in my top 10. (new window)

/not a RR

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:09:55 PM  
Freak Flag Fly: img40.imageshack.us

This would definitely be in my top 10.


Seriously. How do you do the best of Sesame Street and leave off the Yip Yips?

 
okami36 2009-05-27 01:21:35 PM  
The Count Censored (new window)

/when I'm alone, I fark myself

 
bobsyouruncle 2009-05-27 01:23:55 PM  
Where's "Squeal! of! fortune!"?

 
T-Servo 2009-05-27 01:24:46 PM  
i151.photobucket.com

The Sesame Street version of Reservoir Dogs was mind-blowing.

 
wow 2009-05-27 01:24:51 PM  
No Dr. Livingston Burt and Ernie Skit?

By FAR my favourite.

 
AgentKGB 2009-05-27 01:25:19 PM  
I miss Forgetful Jones.... :(

but most of all I miss pre-Elmo Sesame Street

/death to Elmo

 
Colonel_Debugger 2009-05-27 01:25:22 PM  
xanadian: THIS is in my top 10. (new window)

/not a RR



That was nice, but it was no Jonas Brothers.

 
linc654 2009-05-27 01:25:25 PM  
Manamynah! (Sp?)

/ good call as well Freak Flag Fly
// wait! was that the Mupper Show?

 
gorgor 2009-05-27 01:25:28 PM  
COOKIES!
http://tinyurl.com/pw2nb7
(copy and paste)

 
thelordofcheese 2009-05-27 01:26:25 PM  
Muppet Show with Alice Cooper.

 
Rapmaster2000 2009-05-27 01:26:38 PM  
Freak Flag Fly: This would definitely be in my top 10.

I love those guys, but people have told me that those things freaked them out.

upload.wikimedia.org
This thing freaked me out. A skeleton in a spacesuit? Zoinks!

 
Solty Dog 2009-05-27 01:26:41 PM  
Only song to get stuck in my head for 10 years straight.

Telephone Rock (new window)

 
moriquendi [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:26:51 PM  
No death of Mr. Hooper?

 
Deadfeznt [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:28:05 PM  
Celia Cruz -Putdown that Duckie was awesome

 
adder1 2009-05-27 01:28:07 PM  
linc654: Manamynah! (Sp?)

Yes, the Manamanas were on the (1st? 2nd?) episode of The Muppet Show, although they may have been brought over to SS as well.

 
7wolf 2009-05-27 01:29:21 PM  
Wait... Oscar isn't orange now?

/it's been a while...

 
kwame [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:29:45 PM  
This one (new window) always makes me smile. I think the little girl is Jim Henson's daughter.

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:30:21 PM  
Freak Flag Fly: This would definitely be in my top 10.

Yip yip yip yip uh-hoh

 
Cantankerous Gnome 2009-05-27 01:30:55 PM  
AgentKGB: I miss Forgetful Jones.... :(

but most of all I miss pre-Elmo Sesame Street

/death to Elmo


Seconded. I still hold a grudge against Elmo for deposing Big Bird as the king of Sesame Street, at least in my imagination. And on the topic of awesome Sesame Street moments, I love this guy singing Fat Cat Sat Hat
Link (new window)

 
MrBurns 2009-05-27 01:30:56 PM  
We all live in a capital I.

 
mephisto6 2009-05-27 01:31:00 PM  
I remember liking the dots when I was little. Just dots that would appear one by one with each note of a chromatic scale playing in the background. Sometimes there would be a long delay before last-dot appeared and that would make me happy. Or last dot would push through all the other dots instead of just appearing at the end.
I'm not sure it actually happened though, because nobody I know remembers the dots. I probably describe it poorly and that's frustrating. Because Dots were simply the best thing on Sesame Street. Ever.

/Dots

 
Krymson Tyde 2009-05-27 01:31:09 PM  
Burn_The_Plows: Kellner21: I can't stand Ernie. He is a selfish asshole douchebag fartface. I'm surprised Bert hasn't had him killed yet.

Where would Bert find another bottom on Sesame Street?


I think pretty much everyone knows Bert's catching.

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:31:46 PM  
Was Manamana the Muppet Show?

 
dreadprophet 2009-05-27 01:31:55 PM  
okami36: The Count Censored (new window)

/when I'm alone, I fark myself


That video always amuses me.

/The Count is awesome

 
Ant 2009-05-27 01:32:55 PM  
Freak Flag Fly: This would definitely be in my top 10.

That's the ringer for my phone

 
Il Douchey [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:33:00 PM  
Adventure (new window) w/En Vogue
New Way to Walk (new window) w/Destiny's Child

 
sleep lack 2009-05-27 01:34:09 PM  
one two three four five
six seven eight nine ten
eleven twelve

/leaving satisfied

 
girljen 2009-05-27 01:34:27 PM  
kwame: This one (awwww!) always makes me smile. I think the little girl is Jim Henson's daughter.

That is one of my daughter's absolute favorite segments. It's adorable...until the 6847374957839305686th time she asks for "more a-b-cookiemonster!"

/then it's just cute

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:34:30 PM  
IXI Jim IXI: Was Manamana the Muppet Show?

Yes.

 
KelvinTheClown 2009-05-27 01:34:54 PM  
GAT_00: How do you do the best of Sesame Street and leave off the Yip Yips?

Because it's a best of Sesame Street.

 
Ant 2009-05-27 01:35:18 PM  
xanadian: THIS is in my top 10. (new window)

/not a RR


Mine too. I loved that when I was a kid.

 
FHLudlow 2009-05-27 01:37:16 PM  
Pointer Sisters Pinball Counting

Does anyone remember the sketch where Bert gets all pissed off at Ernie for eating cookies in the bed?

They used to sleep in the same bed!!

 
lukelightning 2009-05-27 01:37:38 PM  
My favorite was Sam the Robot. I wonder why they got rid of him.

 
jbrooks544 2009-05-27 01:38:12 PM  
I CHALLENGE anyone to find a better moment than this!

Stevie Wonder plays "Superstition" live on Sesame Street - video (new window)

AWESOME version. turn it up!

 
kwame [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:38:22 PM  
lukelightning: My favorite was Sam the Robot. I wonder why they got rid of him.

His pedo-programming did him in.

 
binox 2009-05-27 01:38:33 PM  
AgentKGB: /death to Elmo

4.bp.blogspot.com

"I will have my revenge!"

 
Krymson Tyde 2009-05-27 01:40:41 PM  

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:41:14 PM  
img43.imageshack.us

 
bongmiester [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:41:15 PM  
"Somebody Come And Play" - orang picks mom's butt and sniffs 0:11

 
turbowaffle 2009-05-27 01:41:41 PM  
What, no Cab Calloway? (new window)

 
gilby_jr 2009-05-27 01:42:10 PM  
Came here for Rubber Ducky....
Jaw on the floor that it's not there.

 
Hack of all trades 2009-05-27 01:43:57 PM  
kwame: This one (new window) always makes me smile. I think the little girl is Jim Henson's daughter.


Not only did the video make me smile, but it also caused something to get into my eye...

 
H_is_for_Heretic 2009-05-27 01:44:07 PM  
www.boneyourmother.com

Sleep tight.

 
Gravitholus 2009-05-27 01:44:11 PM  
i238.photobucket.com

A "B" or not a "B"?

i238.photobucket.com

 
It's a Sunshine Day! 2009-05-27 01:44:27 PM  
For some reason, I always liked the Operatic Orange.

Operatic Orange

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 01:45:31 PM  
came here for the yip yips, see they're already covered

I also will add in

This bit scared the hell out of me as a kid (new window)

Loaf of Bread, Container of milk, and a stick of buttuh (new window)

We all sing in the same voice (new window)

Teeny Little Super Guy (new window)

the Twiddlebugs (new window)
and
Put Down the Duckie (new window)

 
wantyou2wantme 2009-05-27 01:46:36 PM  
IXI Jim IXI: Was Manamana the Muppet Show?

Yes, it's the very first skit on the pilot episode. (You can see the pilot episodes on the first season DVD set.)


My faves:

Halfway down the stairs... (new window)

Fever (new window)

Had this on 8-track (new window)

 
girljen 2009-05-27 01:46:43 PM  
I find this (pops) much more amusing than I should.

/la-la-la-la LOL

 
Freak Flag Fly 2009-05-27 01:46:47 PM  
7wolf: Wait... Oscar isn't orange now?

See, I never noticed the color change, because we didn't get a color TV until after I stopped watching Sesame Street. Even the poster I had (with the "old Gordon") was in black and white.

 
logophile 2009-05-27 01:46:48 PM  
lady bug picnic and pinball 12 are the awesome. those others, meh.

List fails for not including the "O" song. (new window)
/it'll cost ya just a nickel...

 
HAMMERTOE [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:46:56 PM  
I was kinda partial to the Kermit the Frog/ Streetcorner Pusher skits myself. Those, Guy Smiley, SuperGrover-(Especially in the Everyone Knows it's Windy skit), the Martians, and Ernie's hilarious hi jinks. Sure, I learned a bunch of stuff along the way.

Elmo was definitely when Sesame St. jumped the snuffalupagus.

Did they really have a monster with AIDS not too long ago? I'd love the hear the whitewashing they gave to the transmission vector.

 
dkimball 2009-05-27 01:47:58 PM  
Freak Flag Fly: This would definitely be in my top 10.

Yep...BURRRRINNNNGGG...should have been there.

 
HAMMERTOE [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:48:14 PM  
FHLudlow: Does anyone remember the sketch where Bert gets all pissed off at Ernie for eating cookies in the bed?

Bull. I distinctly remember the last line in the skit, where Ernie says, "Why, I'm eating cookies in YOUR bed."

 
mikey15 2009-05-27 01:48:20 PM  
ma nah ma nah was Sesame Street

saw it original (I'm old)

Link (new window)

 
HAMMERTOE [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:50:08 PM  
The Rita Moreno/ Animal "Fever" number will stick with me until I die. That's exactly when I knew that "Pigs in Space" was not going to ruin The Muppet Show.

 
rhiannon [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:50:11 PM  
jbrooks544: I CHALLENGE anyone to find a better moment than this!

Stevie Wonder plays "Superstition" live on Sesame Street - video (new window)

AWESOME version. turn it up!


Excellent

 
It's a Sunshine Day! 2009-05-27 01:51:26 PM  
Aw, man! I forgot this one! I love it.

A, B, C, D, Cookie Monster!

 
slewfootedhoopajoo 2009-05-27 01:52:28 PM  
noo noo noo noo noo noo

/typewriter

 
EchoMike [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:52:35 PM  
I forgot how awesome of a kid John-John was. Check out this video of him counting to 20 with Herry Monster in 1974 & '89 (new window, skip to 5:14), and then read up on what he's doing now. (new window)

Dude ended up a pretty cool guy.

 
Krymson Tyde 2009-05-27 01:52:48 PM  

 
naturalbornworldshaker 2009-05-27 01:53:01 PM  
I just stumpled on this one (new window).

Anyone remember a similar claymation sesame street skit, where it was all about a summer thunderstorm on a farm or something? I've never been able to find that one online.

 
systerchristian 2009-05-27 01:54:01 PM  
kwame: This one (new window) always makes me smile. I think the little girl is Jim Henson's daughter.

Awwwww, that was cute.

 
KJUW89 2009-05-27 01:54:54 PM  
sleep lack: one two three four five
six seven eight nine ten
eleven twelve

/leaving satisfied


Always one of my favorites. I'll probably have that song stuck in my head the rest of the day.

/one of the first-generation Sesame Street fans

 
EchoMike [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:56:42 PM  
Rapmaster2000: Freak Flag Fly: This would definitely be in my top 10.

I love those guys, but people have told me that those things freaked them out.


This thing freaked me out. A skeleton in a spacesuit? Zoinks!


i145.photobucket.com

"HEY! WHO TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS?!"

 
Kwai Lo 2009-05-27 01:57:11 PM  

 
mephisto6 2009-05-27 01:57:12 PM  
JessicaRaven: Loaf of Bread, Container of milk, and a stick of buttuh

I remember thinking she was saying, "Lopa bread, potato & milk, and a stick of butter"

No it's not.

/Where da lopa bread at!

 
leonel 2009-05-27 01:57:46 PM  
What? No clip of that red ball that goes on this awesome metal course and a girl goes "1, 2, 3!"?

 
slypig 2009-05-27 01:59:05 PM  
mephisto6: I remember liking the dots when I was little. Just dots that would appear one by one with each note of a chromatic scale playing in the background. Sometimes there would be a long delay before last-dot appeared and that would make me happy. Or last dot would push through all the other dots instead of just appearing at the end.
I'm not sure it actually happened though, because nobody I know remembers the dots. I probably describe it poorly and that's frustrating. Because Dots were simply the best thing on Sesame Street. Ever.

/Dots


I remember the dots. Link (new window)

 
honk if you demand satisfaction [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 01:59:20 PM  
This was always my favorite. Pretty trippy...

Link (new window)

 
Saiadan 2009-05-27 02:00:10 PM  
No Stevie Wonder singing Superstition? This list is lame.

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 02:00:49 PM  
leonel: What? No clip of that red ball that goes on this awesome metal course and a girl goes "1, 2, 3!"?

here ya go (new window)

nearly forgot that one myself

another one that tended to scare kids shiatless (new window)

and because he was mentioned earlier in thread

I alwasy thought this guy's name was Noonanoo (new window)

 
Crown_of_Shoes 2009-05-27 02:00:57 PM  
10 Random moments from Sesame Street is more like it.

 
Porcellina 2009-05-27 02:02:57 PM  
Three of my favourites:

There's a bird on me (new window)
Love, love, LOVE being a pig (new window)
Sounds through the apartment (new window)

It's a real shame Sesame Street isn't what it used to be--it's gone from educational and fun to 'how not to kill each other' and over-the-top cutesy. Sign of the times, I suppose, but it was kick ass back in the day.

Or maybe I'm just old.

 
EchoMike [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 02:03:20 PM  

 
Freudian_slipknot 2009-05-27 02:03:45 PM  

 
honk if you demand satisfaction [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 02:04:42 PM  
Another favorite, the Beetles playing Letter B.

Link (new window)

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 02:05:37 PM  
honk if you demand satisfaction: This was always my favorite. Pretty trippy...

Link (new window)


oh god I forgot about the yoyo master, the kid in the video was even like "WTF when did I take the brown acid?"

RUN DMC(ookie Monster) (new window) turns out the "cookies are a sometimes food" thing is older than we realize

 
WyattDonnelly 2009-05-27 02:06:51 PM  
Krymson Tyde: Sesame Street Unnecessary Censorship (new window)

now that is farking funny!

 
Dire [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 02:07:43 PM  
Cab Calloway appeared on Sesame Street... Did that make the list?

 
mephisto6 2009-05-27 02:07:55 PM  
slypig: mephisto6: I remember liking the dots when I was little. Just dots that would appear one by one with each note of a chromatic scale playing in the background. Sometimes there would be a long delay before last-dot appeared and that would make me happy. Or last dot would push through all the other dots instead of just appearing at the end.
I'm not sure it actually happened though, because nobody I know remembers the dots. I probably describe it poorly and that's frustrating. Because Dots were simply the best thing on Sesame Street. Ever.

/Dots

I remember the dots. Link (new window)


Sweet! Thanks man...

 
Crown_of_Shoes 2009-05-27 02:09:43 PM  
mikey15: ma nah ma nah was Sesame Street

saw it original (I'm old)

Link (new window)


Terrific! Funny how kids still immediately love this one.

 
Pope Larry II 2009-05-27 02:10:22 PM  
My personal faves (as an adult with access to Youtube) are:

lower case n
the pinball counting
the restaurant bit with the giant hamburger
Stevie Wonder's Superstition
C is for Cookie
the waiter on the stairs bits
Rebel L
Letter B
Telephone rock
Grover's Near.....Far sketch.

I have shown a few of them to my SO, who grew up without Sesame Street. She thinks I was warped as a kid. A lot of the sketches I loved are very trippy in retrospect.

 
Guma 2009-05-27 02:11:17 PM  
xanadian: THIS is in my top 10. (new window)

/not a RR


this was even better

/dripping with funk

 
rhiannon [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 02:11:38 PM  
JessicaRaven: Loaf of Bread, Container of milk, and a stick of buttuh

That's what I enjoy about Fark. Occasionally running across something I haven't thought of in almost 40 years.

 
buckeyebrain 2009-05-27 02:11:44 PM  
I'm not looking at clips from 88 comments, so forgive me if I'm repeating somebody...

List is incomplete without the Jim Henson dressed as a baker and falling down the stairs with a certain number of desserts.

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 02:13:57 PM  
damn nostalgic youtube dives, here's some more

The Coconut Counting Man (new window)

Take A Bweaf (new window)

 
Robinqwerty 2009-05-27 02:15:15 PM  
Crown_of_Shoes: Funny how kids still immediately love [Manamana].

Funnier that it was originally a background song in a soft-core pr0n... Wikipedia (new window)

 
Pxtl 2009-05-27 02:16:25 PM  
JessicaRaven: another one that tended to scare kids shiatless (new window)

Seriuosly? I farking loved the I-beam!

 
Robinqwerty 2009-05-27 02:18:43 PM  
Pxtl: JessicaRaven: another one that tended to scare kids shiatless (new window)

Seriuosly? I farking loved the I-beam!


You and I are apparently of a strange breed. I thought it was sweet as hell too.

\also, as per your profile, Pxtl, STFU and GBTW

 
wantyou2wantme 2009-05-27 02:19:12 PM  
I'm surprised the Rubber Ducky Song wasn't on the list.


And just because it's funny... Danny Boy (new window)

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 02:20:17 PM  
Pxtl: JessicaRaven: another one that tended to scare kids shiatless (new window)

Seriuosly? I farking loved the I-beam!


so did I but evidently it terrified some kids

oh and I also loved the Crayon Factory (new window) (I always thought the orangish yellow crayons in that vid were made out of macaroni and cheese)

 
stickmangrit [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-27 02:21:20 PM  
JessicaRaven: What? No clip of that red ball that goes on this awesome metal course and a girl goes "1, 2, 3!"?

here ya go (new window)

nearly forgot that one myself


i used to have that one on a VHS collection, along with the animated counting cowboys by the guy who narrated Pixar's Boundin'.

Porcellina: It's a real shame Sesame Street isn't what it used to be--it's gone from educational and fun to 'how not to kill each other' and over-the-top cutesy. Sign of the times, I suppose, but it was kick ass back in the day.

Or maybe I'm just old.


considering i'm 23 and feel the same way, i'd say it's not just you.

/your lawn
//getting off of it now

 
crho85 2009-05-27 02:21:40 PM  
FHLudlow: Pointer Sisters Pinball Counting

Does anyone remember the sketch where Bert gets all pissed off at Ernie for eating cookies in the bed?

They used to sleep in the same bed!!


I remember that, it looked like this:

i23.photobucket.com

 
chopit 2009-05-27 02:23:31 PM  
Anyone remember the trippy shapes moving around to an enya song? I swear it was Sesame street, but I can't find it anywhere, and my friends all look at me like I'm crazy when I mention it.

 
brightsun66 2009-05-27 02:23:51 PM  
Cookie Monster visits the library is one of my favorites. Wait for the ad libs at the end...

 
HKWolf 2009-05-27 02:24:03 PM  
The pinball song...awesome! Mahnahmahnah! Yup..yup!

Anyone remember the angry goat? I get mad! I get mad! I get mad! It ain't bad to get mad!

If i had children, it would be SS and Muppets all the way. Fark Dora and Barney!

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 02:25:50 PM  
buckeyebrain: I'm not looking at clips from 88 comments, so forgive me if I'm repeating somebody...

List is incomplete without the Jim Henson dressed as a baker and falling down the stairs with a certain number of desserts.


took some searching but here ya go

TEN BANANA CREAM PIES! (new window)

 
Jesus built my hybrid 2009-05-27 02:26:06 PM  
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,tweelve

Damn you subby, have that song in my head now.

 
Robinqwerty 2009-05-27 02:26:19 PM  
stickmangrit: considering i'm 23 and feel the same way, i'd say it's not just you.

/your lawn
//getting off of it now


I love that the DVDs for the original seasons of Sesame Street come with "don't show these to your kids today" warnings. Clearly the Gen X-ers who grew up on those are so farked up they can't function, right?

/ok, going home with strangers who give you cookies when you're lost = probably bad idea
//cookies are an all the time food goddamnit

 
GalFriday 2009-05-27 02:26:56 PM  
My favorite from Sesame Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg71djeZfos

 
naturalbornworldshaker 2009-05-27 02:27:02 PM  
naturalbornworldshaker: Anyone remember a similar claymation sesame street skit, where it was all about a summer thunderstorm on a farm or something? I've never been able to find that one online.

YES! I've finally found it! (new window)

One of my all time favorite childhood sesame street memories.

 
NotaNYer 2009-05-27 02:28:29 PM  
mikey15: ma nah ma nah was Sesame Street

saw it original (I'm old)

Link (new window)


I remember that! (I'm old, too, apparently.)

Excellent, and many thanks.

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 02:29:55 PM  
HKWolf: Anyone remember the angry goat? I get mad! I get mad! I get mad! It ain't bad to get mad!
!



Angry Goat (new window)

 
NotaNYer 2009-05-27 02:31:47 PM  
buckeyebrain: I'm not looking at clips from 88 comments, so forgive me if I'm repeating somebody...

List is incomplete without the Jim Henson dressed as a baker and falling down the stairs with a certain number of desserts.


Absolutely. Those were my absolute favorites as a kid, lo these many years ago.

 
steamingpile 2009-05-27 02:31:53 PM  
Freak Flag Fly: This would definitely be in my top 10.

Yeah thats the number one moment, it was also the time when you realize the writers were on drugs.

 
Porcellina 2009-05-27 02:31:54 PM  
How could I forget:

Dance myself to sleep (new window) Poor Bert!
Fishing lesson from Ernie (new window)
Neeeeaaaaar and faaaaaaaaaaaaaaar (new window)

 
Thorndyke Barnhard 2009-05-27 02:34:35 PM  
What a about the baker that comes out of the kitchen anouncing "10 APPLE PIES!!!" and then proceeds to stumble down the stairs smashing all the pies?

 
Thorndyke Barnhard 2009-05-27 02:35:53 PM  
JessicaRaven: buckeyebrain: I'm not looking at clips from 88 comments, so forgive me if I'm repeating somebody...

List is incomplete without the Jim Henson dressed as a baker and falling down the stairs with a certain number of desserts.

took some searching but here ya go

TEN BANANA CREAM PIES! (new window)


Ah that's it!!! CHEERS!

 
Iksar 2009-05-27 02:36:09 PM  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kojxgL3nf0YLink (new window)

 
hogans 2009-05-27 02:36:29 PM  
Sesame Street had more consistently funny skits, but my favorite from PBS was Tom Lehrer's "ly" song from the Electric Company. (new window)

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 02:38:17 PM  
hogans: Sesame Street had more consistently funny skits, but my favorite from PBS was Tom Lehrer's "ly" song from the Electric Company. (new window)

Electric Company and 3-2-1 Contact was how I ROLLED, baby!

 
HKWolf 2009-05-27 02:38:47 PM  
JessicaRaven: HKWolf: Anyone remember the angry goat? I get mad! I get mad! I get mad! It ain't bad to get mad!
!


Angry Goat (new window)


YAY! Thanks! I'll be muttering that to myself all day now. That and the pinball song.

 
Yakk 2009-05-27 02:39:10 PM  

 
stickmangrit [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-27 02:39:18 PM  
Robinqwerty:

I love that the DVDs for the original seasons of Sesame Street come with "don't show these to your kids today" warnings. Clearly the Gen X-ers who grew up on those are so farked up they can't function, right?

/ok, going home with strangers who give you cookies when you're lost = probably bad idea
//cookies are an all the time food goddamnit


i bought the first season set as a christmas present for my autistic baby brother(he'll be four this July). he wasn't diagnosed until he was about two, but this was the child who hated TV and baby food, and just wanted to climb shiat and eat whatever we were having. my mother tried Barney, The Wiggles, Veggie Tales, all the new-fangled crap, he didn't want anything to do with it. i sat him down in front of ManahManah on my laptop and he sat still, shut up, and tried to make it play again when it was done. he's now got Muppet Show season one, Fraggle Rock seasons 1&2, and Sesame Street Old School Vol. 1.

/i can die knowing i did something right

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 02:41:06 PM  
hogans: Sesame Street had more consistently funny skits, but my favorite from PBS was Tom Lehrer's "ly" song from the Electric Company. (new window)

as long as we're delving into other PBS kids shows, Electric Company rocked (the new one has its moments but it's just not the same)

but this one (new window) actually influenced me above all the others



/Z-E-E-E-E-E-EBTRO-YO-YO-YO-YO-YON

 
AbbeySomeone 2009-05-27 02:42:02 PM  
I watched the SS debut in the 70's with my youngest brother, and my daughter watched them in the 80's and 90's. I will have Rubber Ducky, and Honker DuckyDinger Jamboree running through my head for the rest of the day. TYVM

/off my lawn
//I will assault you with record albums and VHS tapes

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 02:42:20 PM  
IXI Jim IXI:

Electric Company and 3-2-1 Contact was how I ROLLED, baby!


whenever there's trouble we're there on the double, Mr Bloodhound isn't here

 
jonjr215 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 02:42:42 PM  
What about the ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ song sung by Big Bird? That was my favorite...here you go: Link (new window)

 
ZannSu 2009-05-27 02:46:02 PM  
Porcellina: How could I forget:

Dance myself to sleep (new window) Poor Bert!
Fishing lesson from Ernie (new window)
Neeeeaaaaar and faaaaaaaaaaaaaaar (new window)


I love Grover. He's my all time favorite. I laughed my little kid butt off at Near and Far and this one too

Link (new window)

 
mralphabet 2009-05-27 02:47:42 PM  
I had a cat I named Grover, because when he was a kitten he'd climb up on my bed, so I'd teach him about near....... and far..... by throwing him.

 
sniderman 2009-05-27 02:48:32 PM  
images1.wikia.nocookie.net
/do the pigeon

 
Jesus built my hybrid 2009-05-27 02:48:57 PM  
Elmo was the downfall of kids shows on PBS

They almost redeemed themselves with Bill Nye the science guy, then they started doing animation.

 
chopit 2009-05-27 02:49:56 PM  
Sorry, not enya. Phillip Glass.

 
stuhayes2010 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 02:53:18 PM  
The death of Mr Hooper was one of the biggest things that show ever tackled.

List is a FAIL because it missed Mr Hooper.

 
True Value 2009-05-27 02:53:21 PM  
Grover as a waiter serving a big hamburger (new window). My daughters loved this one, and I was able to do a nice Grover imitation so I'd re-enact this at various times just to amuse them.

 
ryant123 2009-05-27 02:54:23 PM  
No Monsterpiece Theater? (new window)

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 02:54:32 PM  
now mentioning 3-2-1 Contact brings up a couple memories from it


Cosmic Clock (new window) another of those that tended to scare the hell out of kids at the time

Arctic/Antarctic (new window) I STILL sing this one to myself whenever anyone mentions polar bears and penguins in the same sentence, "where can you find the wingless flyyyyyy?"

 
Katred00 2009-05-27 02:54:41 PM  
JessicaRaven: Pxtl: JessicaRaven: another one that tended to scare kids shiatless (new window)

Seriuosly? I farking loved the I-beam!

so did I but evidently it terrified some kids

oh and I also loved the Crayon Factory (new window) (I always thought the orangish yellow crayons in that vid were made out of macaroni and cheese)


I loved the crayon factory!! I'm so glad someone posted that...

 
mander 2009-05-27 02:55:45 PM  
I totally forgot about Lady Bugs' Picnic! Awesome indeed, thanks subby

 
old_toole 2009-05-27 02:55:54 PM  
rhiannon: JessicaRaven: Loaf of Bread, Container of milk, and a stick of buttuh

That's what I enjoy about Fark. Occasionally running across something I haven't thought of in almost 40 years.


I agree
Man I feel old today.

 
In loo of... 2009-05-27 02:56:14 PM  
Thank you everyone for bringing back such great memories. I'm a first-time father of a 5-day-old son, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies!

Thanks a million!!!

/The a-b-c-cookie monster girl brings a tear to my eye, especially the very end.
//Remember it well when I was a wee lad...

 
EdVenture 2009-05-27 02:57:11 PM  
The count is funnier when he's censored.

 
tzzhc4 2009-05-27 02:57:26 PM  
I didn't see:

Capital I

or

lowercase n

Much less anything about Mr Hooper dieing.

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 02:58:04 PM  
In loo of...: Thank you everyone for bringing back such great memories. I'm a first-time father of a 5-day-old son, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies!

Thanks a million!!!


here's a suggestion, download all these clips and burn them on DVD for him to watch when he gets older, that's what I'd do at least

better than Elmo and the Teletubbies and whatever else it is kids have today

 
Porcellina 2009-05-27 02:58:27 PM  
ZannSu

See, I always hated Grover and his annoying little ass, so whenever they put him through hell, like Super Grover crashing into things, or this 'Near and Far', I evil giggled myself silly.

And Bill Nye! Science Rules! Thanks for reminding me, Jesus built my hybrid!

(also, I'm 27, stickmangrit, so my lawn is your lawn)

 
crimsin23 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:00:31 PM  
mander: I totally forgot about Lady Bugs' Picnic! Awesome indeed, thanks subby

You are welcome.

Jesus built my hybrid: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,tweelve

Damn you subby, have that song in my head now.


I know, me too. But isn't it great?

/Subby

 
girljen 2009-05-27 03:02:43 PM  
in loo of... Thank you everyone for bringing back such great memories. I'm a first-time father of a 5-day-old son, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies!

Thanks a million!!!

/The a-b-c-cookie monster girl brings a tear to my eye, especially the very end.
//Remember it well when I was a wee lad...


Congratulations and good luck, man. There's a whole internet (and DVD catalog) of good Sesame Street clips out there, and the new stuff isn't that bad either.

 
shadowself 2009-05-27 03:05:35 PM  
I can't stand Elmo either, but to me the ruin of sesame street started with Barkly the dog.

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:05:40 PM  
Thorndyke Barnhard: What a about the baker that comes out of the kitchen anouncing "10 APPLE PIES!!!" and then proceeds to stumble down the stairs smashing all the pies?

Dear god, I haven't thought about that in ages. Wasn't it a theme thing, where they had different skits and he'd announce some number of stuff and then go tumbling down the stairs?

And it's posts like this that are why I love Fark.

JessicaRaven: TEN BANANA CREAM PIES! (new window)

Annnd never mind, there it is! Awesome!

 
HAMMERTOE [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:06:03 PM  

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:06:46 PM  
I'm an aadrvark and I'm proud (pops)

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:08:21 PM  
d, d, d, d (pops)

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 03:08:57 PM  
shadowself: I can't stand Elmo either, but to me the ruin of sesame street started with Barkly the dog.

oh come on I loved Barkley, and at least they didnt devote 75% of their airtime to him

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:09:32 PM  
Gonna paint a 9 (pops)

 
Lloyd Braun 2009-05-27 03:11:40 PM  
ecx.images-amazon.com

I'd hit it.

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:12:18 PM  
zOMG! I haven't seen this in years, searched for it before and nada, but now there it is. the car wash (pops)

 
Insert_Obscure_80's_Pop_Culture_Reference_Here 2009-05-27 03:12:38 PM  
sleep lack: one two three four five
six seven eight nine ten
eleven twelve

/leaving satisfied


SO THIS!

 
anniesmom 2009-05-27 03:13:02 PM  
Porcellina: How could I forget:


Fishing lesson from Ernie (new window)

I did that while fishing with my husband...He looked at me like I was nuts!
of course I had learned it 40 or so years earlier....
thanks for the memories...Gonna show my Grand daughter that fishing trick when she gets old enough!

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 03:13:18 PM  

 
HAMMERTOE [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:15:02 PM  

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 03:15:36 PM  
WhyteRaven74: Gonna paint a 9 (pops)

ooohh I totally forgot about the mad painter

 
Epsilon [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:15:40 PM  
I was a Sesame Street addict from about 1973 to 1981 or so. My favorite character was always Oscar the Grouch, but I don't like seeing him orange in that 1969 version. The Oscar I always loved was a filthy green color.

 
bruegel 2009-05-27 03:15:56 PM  
Am I the only one who watched SS, Electric Company, Mr Rogers Hood (hated that show) and my all time oddity favorite ZOOM? School House Rocks videos should always be included in the education of children

Didn't SS start in the 60s not the 70s?

 
Taolie 2009-05-27 03:17:42 PM  
My favorite was always Lost Boy, with Isaac Hayes as the Yo-Yo Master.

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 03:18:03 PM  
bruegel: Am I the only one who watched SS, Electric Company, Mr Rogers Hood (hated that show) and my all time oddity favorite ZOOM? School House Rocks videos should always be included in the education of children

Didn't SS start in the 60s not the 70s?


for me, it was Sesame Street, Mr Rogers, Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact, Secret City and Reading Rainbow (the local PBS channel is actually airing the old 80's Reading Rainbow eps at 2 am, which is awesome)

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:20:10 PM  
JessicaRaven: ooohh I totally forgot about the mad painter

The actor who played him was also played Mr. Bentley on the Jefferson's.

bruegel: Am I the only one who watched SS, Electric Company, Mr Rogers Hood

I watched that and Electric Company, and yes School House Rocks. I remember when Saturday morning cartoons on ABC were mandatory viewing. Remember the little animated segment of the kids getting off a school house and walking into a little school house?

 
goofoffgoose 2009-05-27 03:20:57 PM  
WhyteRaven74: zOMG! I haven't seen this in years, searched for it before and nada, but now there it is. the car wash (pops)

Holy craps!!! I haven't seen that since, well, since I was a regular viewer of Sesame Street (I'm 36). And the music and the visuals all came right back to me! And I can't even remember things that I learned last week for my job. Thank you! :)

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:21:07 PM  
WhyteRaven74: off a school house bus

FTFM

 
Oldiron_79 2009-05-27 03:22:33 PM  
So do they ever show the Count feeding?

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:22:45 PM  
goofoffgoose: I haven't seen that since, well, since I was a regular viewer of Sesame Street (I'm 36).

Same here, and I'm 34 getting close to 35. And yeah I remembered it all too. And you're welcome :)

 
goofoffgoose 2009-05-27 03:24:08 PM  
JessicaRaven: WhyteRaven74: Gonna paint a 9 (pops)

ooohh I totally forgot about the mad painter


Don't know the guy's name, but he was also the English neighbor on the Jeffersons. I remember my dad telling me that in the late 1970's and I was like, "noooo way! that's impossible!"

 
AbbeySomeone 2009-05-27 03:25:08 PM  
bruegel: Am I the only one who watched SS, Electric Company, Mr Rogers Hood (hated that show) and my all time oddity favorite ZOOM? School House Rocks videos should always be included in the education of children

Didn't SS start in the 60s not the 70s?


Nope, you're not the only 45 owning person here. SS may have been in the late 60's. Schoolhouse Rock was cool. Do you remember "Conjunction Junction, What's your function?"

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:26:07 PM  
Put Down the Duckie (pops)

/with tons of celebrities joining in

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:27:51 PM  
AbbeySomeone: Do you remember "Conjunction Junction, What's your function?"

To hell with remembering, just watch it (pops) and remember again :)

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:28:43 PM  
goofoffgoose: Don't know the guy's name

Paul Benedict :)

 
bruegel 2009-05-27 03:29:33 PM  
AbbeySomeone: bruegel: Am I the only one who watched SS, Electric Company, Mr Rogers Hood (hated that show) and my all time oddity favorite ZOOM? School House Rocks videos should always be included in the education of children

Didn't SS start in the 60s not the 70s?

Nope, you're not the only 45 owning person here. SS may have been in the late 60's. Schoolhouse Rock was cool. Do you remember "Conjunction Junction, What's your function?"


My function is to skate a figure 8 or I could be playing pool with cats or hanging out with a bill all lonely on capital hill.

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:30:12 PM  
How about the marching band? (pops)

/people around my age and older will remember this

 
goofoffgoose 2009-05-27 03:30:40 PM  
Ok, I'm fully prepared to be ridiculed/ignored/called a liar, but I'm used to it by now, because I've been saying this since I first saw it when I was a little kid, and I did see it several times:

There was a Sesame Street bit with Guy Smiley hosting a TV game show (I know there are many), and I don't know exactly which one it was, but all I do know is that when one of the muppets wins the big prize at the end, Guy Smiley does his usual freak-out, arms waving wildly, mouth opens so wide it's like a flip-top head, and he's screaming...BUT, and I swear on the life of my dog and the lives of my immediate family members, he says, "YOU'VE JUST WON A TRIP TO NEW PENIS, CALIFORNIA!!!"

Does anyone, ANYONE out there remember this?

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 03:32:01 PM  
WhyteRaven74:

I watched that and Electric Company, and yes School House Rocks. I remember when Saturday morning cartoons on ABC were mandatory viewing. Remember the little animated segment of the kids getting off a school house and walking into a little school house?


some of the educational and PSA stuff they aired during saturday morning cartoons rocked

Furries teach you about the wonderful computer breakthroughs of the 80s (new window)

and that's one to grow on (new window)

Captain O.G. Readmore (new window)

I'm not a chicken you're a turkey! (new window)

this song was actually damn catchy (new window)

I hanker fer a hunka cheese (new window)

Wile E Coyote's constitutional right to fail (new window)

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:32:38 PM  
bruegel: is to skate a figure 8

just as long as you have bows in your hair (pops)

 
r0cj07p 2009-05-27 03:32:51 PM  
What ever happened to Roosevelt Franklin?

 
Purity Of Essence 2009-05-27 03:34:53 PM  
10 Chocolate Layered CAAAAAAAAAAAKES! *crash*

 
bruegel 2009-05-27 03:36:30 PM  
WhyteRaven74: bruegel: is to skate a figure 8

just as long as you have bows in your hair (pops)


If I don't I can express myself with interjections like when I mad - drat

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:36:32 PM  
goofoffgoose: Does anyone, ANYONE out there remember this?

dear god, I'm trying to think of which one that might have been. I'm sure I've seen all the guy smiley game show bits and now I'm trying to place that one.

/saw your profile, sweet pickles book? Awesome!

 
r0cj07p 2009-05-27 03:37:39 PM  
My favorite was the time Ernie and Bert started a grindcore band:

Link (new window)

 
The Bad Astronomer [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:38:03 PM  
No Put Down the Ducky (pops like Yosh Schmenge on the clarinet)? Fail.

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:38:13 PM  
bruegel: If I don't I can express myself with interjections like when I mad - drat

interjection you say? (pops)

 
huntercr 2009-05-27 03:39:23 PM  
stickmangrit: Robinqwerty:

I love that the DVDs for the original seasons of Sesame Street come with "don't show these to your kids today" warnings. Clearly the Gen X-ers who grew up on those are so farked up they can't function, right?

/ok, going home with strangers who give you cookies when you're lost = probably bad idea
//cookies are an all the time food goddamnit

i bought the first season set as a christmas present for my autistic baby brother(he'll be four this July). he wasn't diagnosed until he was about two, but this was the child who hated TV and baby food, and just wanted to climb shiat and eat whatever we were having. my mother tried Barney, The Wiggles, Veggie Tales, all the new-fangled crap, he didn't want anything to do with it. i sat him down in front of ManahManah on my laptop and he sat still, shut up, and tried to make it play again when it was done. he's now got Muppet Show season one, Fraggle Rock seasons 1&2, and Sesame Street Old School Vol. 1.

/i can die knowing i did something right


I don't want to spoil this thread with a serious tangent, but...

your baby brother was diagnosed with autism at *2*??
It is extremely difficult to accurately diagnose a child younger than 3-4. I assume since its been years that it turned out to be true, but have your parents gotten a 2nd opinion about him?

If I were you I would also take him as far away as possible from the television.( I mean that figuratively... i.e limit his exposure ).

There have not been any concrete links to TV and causing autism ( though this has been proposed and studied ), but you're just adding fuel to the fire for an already diagnosed autistic child. Television can very quickly overstimulate an Autistic child ( well, the same goes for other children..it's no coincidence that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends zero TV until 2 years of age. ) Better to simply avoid it.

I'm glad he did well with the shows you showed him, but you'll be doing him far greater a favor in life reading to him, or taking him out for a walk in the woods, to a petting zoo, or to a water park.

 
HAMMERTOE [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:39:28 PM  
AbbeySomeone: Nope, you're not the only 45 owning person here. SS may have been in the late 60's. Schoolhouse Rock was cool. Do you remember "Conjunction Junction, What's your function?"

Damn. I just unpacked my adjectives!

 
AbbeySomeone 2009-05-27 03:40:02 PM  
WhyteRaven74: AbbeySomeone: Do you remember "Conjunction Junction, What's your function?"

To hell with remembering, just watch it (pops) and remember again :)


Thank you! I haven't seen that in years. No, I did NOT bookmark it.

 
HAMMERTOE [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:42:08 PM  
huntercr: your baby brother was diagnosed with autism at *2*??
It is extremely difficult to accurately diagnose a child younger than 3-4. I assume since its been years that it turned out to be true, but have your parents gotten a 2nd opinion about him?


My wife and I were recently discussing this. She said that detecting Autism in infants is done partially by watching where the infant's attention goes when interacting with their parent. Something about Autistic children focusing entirely on the mouth

 
xkranda [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:43:09 PM  
Sesame Street went through a pretty low period in the few years after Jim Henson died. But they're starting to do MUCH better, even using Elmo in a constructive way.

/Tina Fey as a "bookaneer" was brilliant.

 
bill4935 2009-05-27 03:43:56 PM  
Hey, if this is the thread to ask about childhood memories, did anyone ever see a cartoon about a giant monster cake created by a Dr. Frankenstein-type who would knock on doors and then eat all the villagers?


/might have been a Canadian NFB production.
//might not.
///If you find me this, I will send you money.

 
Debeo Summa Credo 2009-05-27 03:45:15 PM  
buckeyebrain: I'm not looking at clips from 88 comments, so forgive me if I'm repeating somebody...

List is incomplete without the Jim Henson dressed as a baker and falling down the stairs with a certain number of desserts.


"8 Coconut Cream Pies" (or something) tumbletumbletumble... LOVED that as a kid.

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:46:12 PM  
AbbeySomeone: Thank you! I haven't seen that in years. No, I did NOT bookmark it.

hehehehe :D

 
The Why Not Guy [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:49:48 PM  
rhiannon: That's what I enjoy about Fark. Occasionally running across something I haven't thought of in almost 40 years.

mama, mama, you remembered!

 
goofoffgoose 2009-05-27 03:51:32 PM  
WhyteRaven74: dear god, I'm trying to think of which one that might have been. I'm sure I've seen all the guy smiley game show bits and now I'm trying to place that one.

/saw your profile, sweet pickles book? Awesome!


I swears! I remember being so shocked that I recognized the skit every time it came on afterwards, and waited for the end to hear if he really did say what I thought I'd heard him say before, and he did! But I've yet to find anyone else who remembers. Maybe I'm completely nuts.

And yes! Sweet Pickles ruled! I never did have that cool green bus, but I had several of the books, and damn if I didn't grow up to be just like that indolent, reprobate goose.

/I'm takin' it easy
//all the way to New Penis, California

 
The Why Not Guy [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:51:34 PM  
Oh, and as an older sibling who dreamed of murdering my younger brother, I was always drawn to the "what would happen if I dropped this vase?" segment.

 
zephyrkate 2009-05-27 03:52:47 PM  
List is useless without The Story of Bert's Blanket and Sugar Beets. (You will have the last one in your head all day, and you will smile.)

I would buy the Sesame Street Old School videos in a second if they were full episodes, but as I understand it, they're just the full street scenes with a handful of the "commercials" added into the mix.

I'd love to have some of the older Mister Rogers episodes too, I know they retired the older episodes on a pretty regular basis.

Actually, I've read it's debatable how much Sesame Street really assisted children in learning anything. Most of the kids that really seemed to pick up the songs are the ones who would've been early learners anyway. The bigger impact was in exposing kids to things they might not have learned about for a very long time otherwise- all the farm and gardening shorts were aimed at inner city kids who might never make it outside their neighborhood until they were in school.

 
Flapjack727 2009-05-27 03:52:54 PM  
EchoMike: Rapmaster2000: Freak Flag Fly: This would definitely be in my top 10.

I love those guys, but people have told me that those things freaked them out.


This thing freaked me out. A skeleton in a spacesuit? Zoinks!



"HEY! WHO TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS?!"


FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

 
AbbeySomeone 2009-05-27 03:53:39 PM  
The Bad Astronomer: No Put Down the Ducky (pops like Yosh Schmenge on the clarinet)? Fail.

My daughter learned to work the vcr because she wanted to watch. this video so much. I love all these songs too.

 
airsupport 2009-05-27 03:54:40 PM  
Rapmaster2000: Freak Flag Fly: This would definitely be in my top 10.

I love those guys, but people have told me that those things freaked them out.


This thing freaked me out. A skeleton in a spacesuit? Zoinks!


Many nightmares for me, too. That skeleton thing was terrifying!

The muppets, not so much.

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:56:54 PM  
Here's Jim Henson's short film Time Piece (pops). Which was nominated for a best short film Oscar.

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 03:59:21 PM  
goofoffgoose: but I had several of the books,

I remember the books so well, and how they were illustrated and all. So so awesome.

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 04:00:14 PM  
And another segment from a series on counting on Sesame Street (pops)

 
Xixox [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 04:02:24 PM  
Already seen mention of the Philip Glass geometry things and Capital I... those are my favs.

But no Sesame Street reminiscence is complete without Five Bears in the Bed^ and Plants need water, Man^

 
I_Don't_Want_FOP 2009-05-27 04:05:13 PM  
Twelve Rocks in the Desert (new window)

Very surreal.

JessicaRaven, I loved the Time for Timer shorts on Saturday mornings. "Look! A wagon wheel!"

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 04:05:24 PM  
Xixox: Plants need water, Man

Even stoners got love on Sesame Street.

 
mralphabet 2009-05-27 04:05:57 PM  
Apparently Jim Henson did a TV movie that was a precursor to the movie "Cube", interesting stuff Link (new window)

 
OtherLittleGuy 2009-05-27 04:07:36 PM  
Robinqwerty: stickmangrit: considering i'm 23 and feel the same way, i'd say it's not just you.

/your lawn
//getting off of it now

I love that the DVDs for the original seasons of Sesame Street come with "don't show these to your kids today" warnings. Clearly the Gen X-ers who grew up on those are so farked up they can't function, right?



I wasn't there just at the dawn. I was there at the farking first episode, when it was NET.

/1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (weirdass interim sound) FTW!
//followed by falling-down-the-stairs caterer
///all pre-Elmo viewers, on my lawn

 
OtherLittleGuy 2009-05-27 04:10:56 PM  
AbbeySomeone: bruegel: Am I the only one who watched SS, Electric Company, Mr Rogers Hood (hated that show) and my all time oddity favorite ZOOM? School House Rocks videos should always be included in the education of children

Didn't SS start in the 60s not the 70s?

Nope, you're not the only 45 owning person here. SS may have been in the late 60's. Schoolhouse Rock was cool. Do you remember "Conjunction Junction, What's your function?"


Thanks to Schoolhouse Rock, a generation got the Preamble *almost* right.

/We the people of these United States, in order to form a more perfect Union....

 
stickmangrit [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-27 04:11:15 PM  
huntercr: I don't want to spoil this thread with a serious tangent, but...

your baby brother was diagnosed with autism at *2*??
It is extremely difficult to accurately diagnose a child younger than 3-4. I assume since its been years that it turned out to be true, but have your parents gotten a 2nd opinion about him?

If I were you I would also take him as far away as possible from the television.( I mean that figuratively... i.e limit his exposure ).

There have not been any concrete links to TV and causing autism ( though this has been proposed and studied ), but you're just adding fuel to the fire for an already diagnosed autistic child. Television can very quickly overstimulate an Autistic child ( well, the same goes for other children..it's no coincidence that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends zero TV until 2 years of age. ) Better to simply avoid it.

I'm glad he did well with the shows you showed him, but you'll be doing him far greater a favor in life reading to him, or taking him out for a walk in the woods, to a petting zoo, or to a water park.


he was probably closer to three now that i think about it. basically, the first indication of something being wrong was thanksgiving when he was 2&1/2. my parents moved away when he was about 2, and up until that point i was around him more than anyone(save possibly our mother). his father(my step) was constantly on the road, and i was always the one to wake up with him in the morning so mom could sleep, so he responded better to me than anyone else, but he was always shy around strangers, and to this day has yet to say his first word. then they moved and i didn't see them for about seven months. when i came home for Thanksgiving, he treated me like a complete stranger. a little while after, they diagnosed him and he's been in a special ed program at Auburn University for Autistic kids ever since.

i'm no longer living with them, so i don't exactly have a lot of control over what he sees and does, but i've tried to keep giving him the more sedate older stuff like Muppet shows to balance out the edited-especially-for-ADHD shiat that passes for children's entertainment these days.

 
theknuckler_33 2009-05-27 04:11:52 PM  
I was playing "Sorry!" with my 6-year old daughter just a couple weeks ago and drew a 12 from the card stack and started moving my pawn around the board, saying out loud "1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9. 10-11-12" and then followed it up by singing "...and they all played games, at the ladybug picnic".

My daughter just looked at me with a confused smile on her face and my wife (who was in the kitchen at the time) just looked at me and said "WUT!?". Neither of them had ever heard ladybug picnic before. So, of course, I found it on youtube and my daughter just loved it. Now she wants me to play it on my guitar whenever I'm playing.

It was a great family moment.

/awwwww!

 
PlNG 2009-05-27 04:12:57 PM  
Anyone else remember the dog paddle song?
/"La-di-da-di-oh, La-di-da-di-oh, La-di-da-di-oh-day!"

 
puddleonfire 2009-05-27 04:16:12 PM  
I remember when Gordon had hair.

"Hey BUD! Ya wanna buy an O?" (we laugh at that now)
"And it only costs a nickel..."
"A NICKEL?!"
"Ssshhhhhh!!! Riiiiiiiiight."

"I've got an invisible ice cream cone."
.......(skit)
"It's an invisible nickel!"

 
dbrikhs 2009-05-27 04:17:51 PM  
Sesame street spinoff?

images2.wikia.nocookie.net

No, but really, I learned how to do my ABCs in sign language from Sesame Street... They're the best!

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 04:18:46 PM  
Grab a couple boxes of kleenex, Mr Hooper's not coming back (pops)

 
Galileo's Daughter 2009-05-27 04:19:21 PM  
Rapmaster2000: Freak Flag Fly: This would definitely be in my top 10.

I love those guys, but people have told me that those things freaked them out.

This thing freaked me out. A skeleton in a spacesuit? Zoinks!


Thank you for bringing back traumatic childhood memories. I'll be curled up under my desk in the fetal position if anyone needs mee.

 
Juniper Jupiter [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-27 04:20:02 PM  
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I hated that "Me and My Llama" song.

/Had too much ham.

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 04:20:03 PM  
puddleonfire: "Hey BUD! Ya wanna buy an O?" (we laugh at that now)

And here's Richard Pryor, just a little high, doing the alphabet (pops)

 
Fholes 2009-05-27 04:28:00 PM  
i242.photobucket.com

 
the stugots 2009-05-27 04:31:01 PM  
Ok, This is perhaps the Jacobs Ladder of kids shows:
www.freeimagehosting.net

www.freeimagehosting.net

Does anyone want to join me inn the church basement where my support group for this show meets, and we weep while talking about, 'The Soup', 'The Soup'...

obscure?

 
Tartha De Tear [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 04:34:06 PM  
This has to be the weirdest bookmark I ever did see.

 
Lurkerbunny 2009-05-27 04:34:07 PM  
Well, since some of my other favorite moments have already been shared by other people, I suppose I should share the skits that changed my life forever.

/Yeah, the little red bastard is in a couple. But he's pretty easy to ignore in them.

 
lukelightning 2009-05-27 04:36:01 PM  
JessicaRaven:
Arctic/Antarctic (new window) I STILL sing this one to myself whenever anyone mentions polar bears and penguins in the same sentence, "where can you find the wingless flyyyyyy?"


Me too! It's great to find other PC people... Polar Correct.

 
OtherLittleGuy 2009-05-27 04:37:50 PM  
Galileo's Daughter: Rapmaster2000: Freak Flag Fly: This would definitely be in my top 10.

I love those guys, but people have told me that those things freaked them out.

This thing freaked me out. A skeleton in a spacesuit? Zoinks!

Thank you for bringing back traumatic childhood memories. I'll be curled up under my desk in the fetal position if anyone needs mee.


Anyone else remember the never-ending marriage ceremony where the groom produced everything BUT the wedding ring?

/nightmare fuel

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 04:39:22 PM  
Lurkerbunny: /Yeah, the little red bastard is in a couple. But he's pretty easy to ignore in them.

It's funny seeing Robin Williams on Sesame Street, cause you see just how much he's a kid himself. You almost expect him to run up to the camera and go "I dressed myself today!", and we'd all go "Wearing that shirt? We'd never guess".

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 04:41:14 PM  
And how have we missed, the Trash Can Tango? (pops)

 
Cup_O_Jo 2009-05-27 04:44:29 PM  
What about the TWIDDLEBUGS?!?!?!?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M36TyN2TXrY

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 04:47:32 PM  
Geefle, geefle, gonk (pops)

/believe this is one of the longest playing segments, from 71 until the mid/late 80s

 
Hibno 2009-05-27 04:50:45 PM  
jbrooks544: I CHALLENGE anyone to find a better moment than this!

Stevie Wonder plays "Superstition" live on Sesame Street - video (new window)

AWESOME version. turn it up!



Dude, I just watched that video earlier today. It kicks ass.

You have to watch the follow-up, too.

Stevie chilling with Grover (new window)

 
cowgirl toffee [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 04:52:30 PM  
Sesame Street as influenced me to this day.

webpages.charter.net

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 04:53:05 PM  
WhyteRaven74: Geefle, geefle, gonk (pops)

/believe this is one of the longest playing segments, from 71 until the mid/late 80s


I totally forgot about that one, I was disapointed to find out nectarines dont taste as good as they look in that skit

also

Here is your life Oak Tree! (new window)

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 04:55:59 PM  
JessicaRaven: Here is your life Oak Tree! (new window)

oh my god, I have not seen that in ages, and I remember it from beginning to end.

 
cowgirl toffee [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 04:58:54 PM  
Sesame Street foods:

webpages.charter.net

webpages.charter.net

 
etherknot 2009-05-27 05:00:33 PM  
Cup_O_Jo: What about the TWIDDLEBUGS?!?!?!?

Nobody forgot about them, they're just late to the party because it takes them forever to get anywhere in THE FAMILY CAR.

 
NimbleWalrus 2009-05-27 05:00:48 PM  
Best Sesame Street reference ever (new window)

/give it a couple seconds

 
puddleonfire 2009-05-27 05:00:54 PM  
the stugots: Ok, This is perhaps the Jacobs Ladder of kids shows:
Does anyone want to join me inn the church basement where my support group for this show meets, and we weep while talking about, 'The Soup', 'The Soup'...
obscure?


--- Not obscure!
Come on along and join us...
Come on along and have some fuuuuHun!
......Vegetable Soup.

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 05:03:07 PM  
other kids show reference


lets see how many Farkers' ears perk up when I say


Hocus Pocus Ala Magokus!

 
boozehat 2009-05-27 05:04:14 PM  
The Why Not Guy: Oh, and as an older sibling who dreamed of murdering my younger brother, I was always drawn to the "what would happen if I dropped this vase?" segment.

wasn't that the brady bunch? "mom always said, don't play ball in the house!"

 
Cup_O_Jo 2009-05-27 05:06:03 PM  
etherknot: Cup_O_Jo: What about the TWIDDLEBUGS?!?!?!?

Nobody forgot about them, they're just late to the party because it takes them forever to get anywhere in THE FAMILY CAR.


The FAMILY CAR! the fam i ly car. *giggles. 70's children.

 
Cup_O_Jo 2009-05-27 05:07:02 PM  
JessicaRaven: other kids show reference


lets see how many Farkers' ears perk up when I say


Hocus Pocus Ala Magokus!


*shakes head..

 
Gangway Fathead 2009-05-27 05:07:51 PM  
The best line in ladybug picnic is in the last verse


They talked about the high cost of furniture and rugs
And fire insurance for lady bugs


That's clever.

 
etherknot 2009-05-27 05:09:04 PM  
JessicaRaven: other kids show reference


lets see how many Farkers' ears perk up when I say


Hocus Pocus Ala Magokus!


Contradictory to the opening credits, "Today's Special" is not for everyone.

/Disliked that show a lot.

 
5 dollar milkshake 2009-05-27 05:12:53 PM  
Link (new window)
You're ali-yi-yi-yi-yive that's no jive! *breathe in* *breathe out*

I'm glad the moon is not...a cookie!
Link (new window)

 
RicosRoughnecks 2009-05-27 05:24:08 PM  
and when animal gave weezer key assistance Link (new window)

 
angie_stl 2009-05-27 05:32:29 PM  
fat cat sat hat (new window)

 
Mad Canadian 2009-05-27 05:34:40 PM  
I really hate all you guys here...

Somehow my room has become very 'dusty'.

When I would get home from kindergarten, it was Sesame Street, then Electric Company, then Zoom.

I didn't like Zoom, but the only other 'choices' I had were the Watergate hearings or the Mel Jass movie / Perry Mason.

Something I will randomly say is 'Left turn, right turn, fifth avenue'...

Sorry for the mindless rambling, I suddenly want some cookies. That are good enough for me!

 
DoctorWorm21045 2009-05-27 05:38:58 PM  
JessicaRaven: Put Down the Duckie (new window)

THANK YOU FOR THIS! Major flashback to childhood here. Great to see it again, and also great to note all the celebrities that I recognize now; I had no idea who the hell these guys were 15 years ago.

 
dgames 2009-05-27 05:44:05 PM  
This caused me to look up "Cookie as Casey McPhee." Kind of scary direction for Sesame Street, at least when I was a kid.

 
Lesbian_Platypus 2009-05-27 05:49:02 PM  
goofoffgoose: Ok, I'm fully prepared to be ridiculed/ignored/called a liar, but I'm used to it by now, because I've been saying this since I first saw it when I was a little kid, and I did see it several times:

There was a Sesame Street bit with Guy Smiley hosting a TV game show (I know there are many), and I don't know exactly which one it was, but all I do know is that when one of the muppets wins the big prize at the end, Guy Smiley does his usual freak-out, arms waving wildly, mouth opens so wide it's like a flip-top head, and he's screaming...BUT, and I swear on the life of my dog and the lives of my immediate family members, he says, "YOU'VE JUST WON A TRIP TO NEW PENIS, CALIFORNIA!!!"

Does anyone, ANYONE out there remember this?


Milpitas, California.

The same city was referenced in a skit where Bert was talking to himself about the weather before being interrupted by Ernie on an audio cassette I owned as a child.

 
Homer Elmer [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 05:49:26 PM  
Link (new window)

For some reason this one always gave me chills

 
SueDisco 2009-05-27 06:01:53 PM  
My favorite ever was Ray Charles on Sesame Street. The street was rocking that day. Link (new window)

 
Dire [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 06:03:21 PM  
The list definitely fails for not including the matryoshka (new window)

The unholy sounds they make are the best...

 
Dhusk 2009-05-27 06:03:21 PM  
I'd like to think that, somewhere, those little aliens guys are reading this, and they turn to each other and say, "COMMM--PYOOOT--OARRRR...computer...computercomputercomputer yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip..."

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 06:03:36 PM  
How to make a steel drum (pops)

How saxophone is formed (pops)

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 06:04:16 PM  
Dire: The unholy sounds they make are the best...

I always loved that bit.

 
Loreweaver 2009-05-27 06:14:04 PM  
WhyteRaven74: Grab a couple boxes of kleenex, Mr Hooper's not coming back (pops)

Dear God, how could I have forgotten this?

This was something other kids' shows simply didn't tackle, in this or any other generation. Trying to explain to a child about death is one of the most difficult things to do.

Also, seeing it again, I was struck by a thought. This was not just some way to explain the absence of a main character, they were really saying goodbye to a friend.

/stupid allergies

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 06:16:11 PM  
Loreweaver: they were really saying goodbye to a friend

Yeah they were. And you're right no other kids show has ever touched the subject.

 
hitmanric 2009-05-27 06:21:52 PM  
WhyteRaven74

Grab a couple boxes of kleenex, Mr Hooper's not coming back (pops)


i224.photobucket.com

 
CLEARLY I'm evil 2009-05-27 06:23:27 PM  
xanadian: THIS is in my top 10. (new window)

/not a RR


Good lord yes. Thank you for linking that.

 
Certainly You Jest 2009-05-27 06:24:35 PM  
WhyteRaven74: Grab a couple boxes of kleenex, Mr Hooper's not coming back (pops)

For this Farker born the same year as Sesame Street, that clip was tough to watch, but thanks.

I remember watching the 20th anniversary special in a dorm lounge in '89, and it included a very touching tribute to Mr. Hooper. By the end of it several of the females were openly weepy and several of the guys wandered out of the room making excuses they needed to go study, etc.

Stevie's Superstition is completely off the charts. I think the headbanging kid speaks for all of us. No lipsynch, probably done in very few takes, as they likely had to get back on the bus to get to another show back in those days.

I wonder how that track was recorded? If multitrack (I'd assume so, even back then), I wonder if it could be remastered and released--I'd buy that in a heartbeat.

Big Bird says: "This, happy children, is what you call layin' it the fark on down and jammin' like a motherfarker. Take it, Stevie."

It's a dim memory now, but as I recall in the early 70s there was a short that was shown between skits of the caterer falling down the stairs with the cakes that was on a much larger staircase, and IIRC, was in slow-mo. Am I wrong?

/the dust-farting commences July 16

 
crimsin23 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 06:27:25 PM  
WhyteRaven74: Grab a couple boxes of kleenex, Mr Hooper's not coming back (pops)

That was just brilliant.

 
nucular bum 2009-05-27 06:27:41 PM  
Where, I ask, WHERE is the love for Grace Slick (new window)?

/unjustly underrated
//musical mayhem
///psychedelic playfulness
////this comment brought to you by the letters u, m, p and the number 10

 
Nacc 2009-05-27 06:48:55 PM  
This is awesome because I was just going through some videos on youtube with a good friend memorial day weekend, we were looking for a few specific ones, some of them have been mentioned or shared here, and it's great to see the ones that had faded a little from memory. One of my favorite book purchases ever was sesame street unpaved that covered a range of characters and the age groups they were supposed to relate to or represent. They explained why they ousted Snuffy when they did, which to me would have been relieving regardless of the reason. I was always heartbroken thinking "this would be the time they would catch snuffy and not think big bird was a liar!"

It was one of my favorite shows, and still is pretty much the best kids show ever, imo.
They did it right, their thought processes behind the stuff. Some of it was a little weird, sure, but clearly it stuck with you. I doubt shows in the last 10 years have achieved the same.

 
The Hutt 2009-05-27 06:50:25 PM  
mander: I totally forgot about Lady Bugs' Picnic! Awesome indeed, thanks subby

Agree. This song gets in my head once in a while. Completely forgot where it came from. Thanks Subby!

 
hamdingers 2009-05-27 07:21:25 PM  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFhqghww9sM

W Lovers - always seemed brilliant to me.

 
Ow My Balls 2009-05-27 07:23:28 PM  
i471.photobucket.com

Noony Noony Noony Noony Noon...

 
elev8meL8r 2009-05-27 07:45:28 PM  
What about the one where Bert's TV set got possessed by the letter "H"? And later in the episode the "H" had left, and the set had been taken over by the letter "I"?

For reasons that probably only make sense to a three-year-old, that one scared the unholy living christ out of me. Anyone remember this one? Probably helps if you're over 30.

 
DuttySoldier 2009-05-27 07:49:23 PM  
Do the rubber duck (new window)

As I got older I wondered if they really meant to say rubber duck or something else based on the fact that there were no female muppets in the video.

Just changing the second U to an I would have put this in the top ten but being remembered isn't bad

 
goofoffgoose 2009-05-27 07:58:53 PM  
Lesbian_Platypus: Milpitas, California.

The same city was referenced in a skit where Bert was talking to himself about the weather before being interrupted by Ernie on an audio cassette I owned as a child.


Oh...my...god. You do not know the closure you have provided me. Although as I grew up, my sense of confusion over hearing Guy Smiley scream, "NEW PENIS, CALIFORNIA!!!" turned into amusement at the thought of someone having a giggle behind the scenes, at least now I know for sure. I swear though, with all the noise of the game show, and the frenzied way he screamed it, it truly did sound like New Penis, California.

At this point in my life, I just figured I'd never be able to convince anyone of what I'd heard. I've carried this burden for decades!

/will always be NEW PENIS, CALIFORNIA!!! in my heart

 
GameHat 2009-05-27 08:07:26 PM  
Sorry, Stevie Wonder doing "Superstition" on Sesame Street is the awesomest thing ever.

Check out the kid in the red shirt rocking out in the background.

 
rhiannon [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 08:08:37 PM  
goofoffgoose: /will always be NEW PENIS, CALIFORNIA!!! in my heart

As long as it's only in your heart, and nowhere else.

 
ADHD Librarian 2009-05-27 08:16:00 PM  
"Grover, voiced by Frank Oz who later played a cop in the Eddie Murphy/Dan Akroyd flick Trading Places"

What? That is the best they could do?
Frank Oz who Is Yoda
Frank Oz who directed Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Little Shop of Horrors

Hell you could have just gone with Frank Oz who is also Fozzy Bear and Miss Piggy?

But no, they emphasise perhaps the lowest point of his career?

 
clintp 2009-05-27 08:22:44 PM  
The death of Mr Hooper was one of the biggest things that show ever tackled. List is a FAIL because it missed Mr Hooper.

Agreed on both points. This was about "awesome moments", and this was the biggest in 40 years of the show. No political correctness farking shiat (oh no! a different color muppet is unhappy!) or made-up crisis (elmo stubs a toe!).

The death of a beloved friend was explained to children as simply as it could be -- which is to say, it's not simple at all. Adults acting like adults, children acting like children, and nobody with answers. Bad things happen. It's how you deal with it that makes you what you are.

The education of children about death in this way was completely unprecedented in television. List fail.

 
Doombuggyman 2009-05-27 08:40:53 PM  
Good to see "The Ladybugs' Picnic" mentioned in the list.

Not many realize that was written, performed, and animated by a guy named Bud Luckey. Bud went on to join Pixar in 1992, where he became a character designer for just about all of Pixar's feature films. He wrote, designed, directed and voiced Pixar's short film "Boundin'", and has illustrated over 100 books for children.
He was also the voice of NSA Agent Dicker in "The Incredibles" and "Jack-Jack Attack".

About "Boundin'", he said, "I taught kids numbers using animation, and now those kids are teaching me to animate, using numbers."

Amazing guy. If I ever meet him I'm buying him a beer.

 
bigtotoro 2009-05-27 09:16:13 PM  
Link

No one has mentioned Disco Grover?!?

 
New Age Redneck 2009-05-27 09:18:13 PM  
This. Link (new window)

/loved Sesame Street and The Electric Co.
//Square One's MATHNET was also cool. CTW ruled!!!

 
New Age Redneck 2009-05-27 09:19:45 PM  
Link (new window) And this

 
Dennis_Moore 2009-05-27 09:24:30 PM  
ADHD Librarian: "Grover, voiced by Frank Oz who later played a cop in the Eddie Murphy/Dan Akroyd flick Trading Places"

What? That is the best they could do?
Frank Oz who Is Yoda
Frank Oz who directed Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Little Shop of Horrors

Hell you could have just gone with Frank Oz who is also Fozzy Bear and Miss Piggy?

But no, they emphasise perhaps the lowest point of his career?


chud.com

 
lamenta3 2009-05-27 09:30:07 PM  
goofoffgoose: Lesbian_Platypus: Milpitas, California.

The same city was referenced in a skit where Bert was talking to himself about the weather before being interrupted by Ernie on an audio cassette I owned as a child.

Oh...my...god. You do not know the closure you have provided me. Although as I grew up, my sense of confusion over hearing Guy Smiley scream, "NEW PENIS, CALIFORNIA!!!" turned into amusement at the thought of someone having a giggle behind the scenes, at least now I know for sure. I swear though, with all the noise of the game show, and the frenzied way he screamed it, it truly did sound like New Penis, California.

At this point in my life, I just figured I'd never be able to convince anyone of what I'd heard. I've carried this burden for decades!

/will always be NEW PENIS, CALIFORNIA!!! in my heart


Again, it goes to show that nothing is obscure on Fark. :)

 
snoproblem 2009-05-27 09:34:56 PM  
elev8meL8r: What about the one where Bert's TV set got possessed by the letter "H"? And later in the episode the "H" had left, and the set had been taken over by the letter "I"?

For reasons that probably only make sense to a three-year-old, that one scared the unholy living christ out of me. Anyone remember this one? Probably helps if you're over 30.


mmMMmm...H...mmMMmm...H...mmMMmm...H...


/ hides under bed, wetting oneself
// can't sleep, 'H' will get me...

 
Thosw 2009-05-27 09:45:04 PM  
The one skit I can't find is the muppet teaching different shapes by drawing them in the air, and the hippie muppet turning the triangle into a guitar, drawing a square around the guy's head.

Anybody remember that one?

 
Scurvy Dog 2009-05-27 09:47:19 PM  
Does anyone remember the terrifying Kingdom of the Cracks, where some little girl couldn't go outside, so she imagined designs in the cracks in the wall, and invented a whole kingdom. A really big and angry looking crack started yelling at her and made such a terrible face its plaster cracked right off the wall. She then said she was going to visit the Kingdom of the Cracks again someday.

This was probably around 1974 or so. I don't think today's Elmo-brainwashed snowflakes would handle that scene very well.

 
snoproblem 2009-05-27 09:58:39 PM  
Thosw: The one skit I can't find is the muppet teaching different shapes by drawing them in the air, and the hippie muppet turning the triangle into a guitar, drawing a square around the guy's head.

Anybody remember that one?


O heck ya, I was still too young to get whose noses were getting tweaked, but I still found it really funny. I wouldn't mind seeing that clip again, too.

 
snoproblem 2009-05-27 10:04:36 PM  
Thosw: The one skit I can't find is the muppet teaching different shapes by drawing them in the air, and the hippie muppet turning the triangle into a guitar, drawing a square around the guy's head.

Anybody remember that one?


Update: Found it!! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFbzkyOxsao

 
Tartha De Tear [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 10:27:49 PM  
It's not easy, being green.

 
Thosw 2009-05-27 10:28:00 PM  
snoproblem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFbzkyOxsao

Awesome!

 
MadTheologian 2009-05-27 10:28:42 PM  
PlNG: Anyone else remember the dog paddle song?
/"La-di-da-di-oh, La-di-da-di-oh, La-di-da-di-oh-day!"


Yes...and here you go! (new window)

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 10:43:07 PM  
Certainly You Jest: For this Farker born the same year as Sesame Street, that clip was tough to watch, but thanks.

I remember when it first aired. I was beyond Sesame Street age, but I watched it all the same. Still one of the most awesome things I've ever seen on TV.

hitmanric: i224.photobucket.com

You sick twisted fark, that's hilarious! :)

crimsin23: That was just brilliant.

Indeed it was

Tartha De Tear: It's not easy, being green.

and another version (pops)

And since we're talking Frank Oz too, here he is at the Jim Henson memorial service (pops)

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 10:46:41 PM  
I'm a Carribean amphibian (pops)

/not the original but still good

 
queenstacela 2009-05-27 10:52:34 PM  
As a child of the 80s I clearly remember SS before Elmo. This is when Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster, and Snufflpugus were the bomb.

I loved Schoolhouse Rock which I have passed on to the generation via the teachers I know.

Ah the 80s....smurfs, duck tales, she-ra/he-man, and the gummy bears...good times

 
JessicaRaven 2009-05-27 10:59:05 PM  
New Age Redneck: This. Link (new window)

/loved Sesame Street and The Electric Co.
//Square One's MATHNET was also cool. CTW ruled!!!


and beware the nasty Mr Glitch, he will eat you if you are wrong!

 
Burden_In_My_Hand 2009-05-27 11:01:20 PM  
WhyteRaven74: I'm a Carribean amphibian (pops)

/not the original but still good


I loved this song!

This is another of my favorites: Cookie Monster - What is Friend? (new window) This is not the version I was looking for, there's another version that I keep seeing on "Play With Me Sesame" (yay for 2-year-olds!), but it'll do.

A great piece of wisdom in this song: "Maybe friend somebody you give up last cookie for."

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-05-27 11:29:29 PM  
Burden_In_My_Hand: "Maybe friend somebody you give up last cookie for."

I love Cookie Monster's wisdom. That and his fine grammatical skills ;)

 
I8B4U 2009-05-27 11:30:29 PM  
Might have missed these ones if they were posted already, but classics all the same.

Cowboy X

Capitol I

 
comoxgirl 2009-05-28 12:18:18 AM  
I can't seem to find the John Lennon singing, "All we are saying, is give peas a chance..."

I'm certain it's out there...

 
lazymojo 2009-05-28 01:04:41 AM  
I'm a little late to this party, but I remember a lot of these skits.... WOW.

Anybody ever see the one where a creepy neon face counts numbers? That literally TERRIFIED me when I was a kid. I couldn't even watch it with my parents in teh room without getting scared.

WTF were they thinking some times?

 
lazymojo 2009-05-28 01:09:41 AM  
FOUND IT!!!! GODDAMN, it still creeps me out. Rubber band count (new window)

 
lazymojo 2009-05-28 01:10:39 AM  
AND, I screwed up. Here: Link (new window)

 
lazymojo 2009-05-28 01:20:54 AM  
And don't forget Kermit the Gorf Tshirt: Here ya go (new window)

 
foxy_canuck 2009-05-28 01:32:49 AM  
In case anyone missed it above, the single greatest moment on Sesame Street, and saddest on TV.

Link (new window)

 
batou 2009-05-28 02:10:41 AM  
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12...

one of my favorite memories on the show.

snuffy was always a "wait, there he is..." moment

then there was BARKLEY! i always wanted a 5 foot tall orange and white dog!

DAMN THE GENTRIFICATION OF SESAME STREET!

not to forget the "YEP YEPs"

/are the classics on DVD/BLURAY?

 
eich 2009-05-28 02:19:44 AM  
img.photobucket.com

/obligatory?
//Hot like Connie D'Amico

 
eich 2009-05-28 02:21:41 AM  
pix.motivatedphotos.com

/Hot to the touch

 
lamenta3 2009-05-28 03:00:48 AM  
lazymojo: AND, I screwed up. Here: Link (new window)

Wow...that is creepy. I must have blocked that out from my childhood memories.

 
Hickory-smoked 2009-05-28 12:00:06 PM  
lamenta3: Wow...that is creepy. I must have blocked that out from my childhood memories.

I remember hiding in my bedroom until it was over.

 
A.M. Mogwai feeder 2009-05-28 12:50:13 PM  
This has been an incredible thread. 'Goin in the favorites!

/thanks, all.

 
Kerinus 2009-05-28 02:44:38 PM  
I always loved the one where Big Bird thought the alphabet was one huge word. Also, anything with Snuffy. And the movie where they went to China! Holy crap, huge memory rush.

/Still have that plush Snuffy...

 
th0th [TotalFark] 2009-05-28 03:04:17 PM  
the stugots: Ok, This is perhaps the Jacobs Ladder of kids shows:

Does anyone want to join me inn the church basement where my support group for this show meets, and we weep while talking about, 'The Soup', 'The Soup'...

obscure?


I just remember the black kid with Nigel, the boa constrictor. Also the kids flying their homemade spaceship which got ripped off in the movie, Explorers.

 
Ginnungagap42 [TotalFark] 2009-05-30 06:42:41 AM  
One of my favorites. E e See me (pops)

I always wondered if the queen ever saw her easter egg again.

 
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