I HAVE to do it...Sesame Street Appreciation thread

[U2democrat]

I just love those furry monsters!! I love watching it with my 2 year old niece, brings back lots of good memories.

 

[bono_212]

mostly cause I"m in a Jim Henson/Puppet sort of mood right now...just bought my friend a Fraggle Rock Poster, and myself a Labyrinth one and my friends and i are watching the Labyrinth tonight


But back to Sesame Street! What child DIDN'T grow up to that? And did you see Stephen Colbert do the letter thing? Poor poor Z

 

[U2democrat]

YES!!!!!!!! OMG Stephen Colbert was awesome as the letter Z!!! You just wanted to give him a great big

 

[bono_212]

Whoever was A though, that was a terrible performance...so mean to Stephen

 

[U2democrat]

Here it is:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YK8fmQzl7O4

 

[Numb1075]

I love sesame street. just look at my location. I even went to sesame street over the summer (see pic thread)

I watch it w/ my son in the mornings before he goes to day care and I go to work. We both watch it and he learns a lot and we are both entertained.

 

[U2democrat]

It's changed SO much since I was a kid...but at it's core its still exactly the same. They can just do more with computers now.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

I watch it w/ my son in the mornings before he goes to day care and I go to work. We both watch it and he learns a lot and we are both entertained.

That is so sweet

 

[kellyahern]

http://www.toughpigs.com/anthgrover00.htm

A stills collection of some of the Grover waiter sketches .

"Hey, Charlie! Lunch time! Break out the good stuff!"

 

[bono_212]

aww I love the grover waiter


and I just remembered one thing I really loved...the dog...he had like hands or something and he would catch things...does anyone know what I'm talking about I thought I would be able to explain it better...but it was a real dog not a puppet

 

[U2democrat]

Grover is my mom's favorite...I love the little worm that lives with Oscar.

 

[Thora]

Awww, I absolutely loved Sesame Street as a child! I haven't seen it in eons, but it was my favourite show. My favourite characters were Big Bird, Snuffalupagus (sp?) and Grover.

 

[trevster2k]

My favs are these dudes!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKX0RN19zc0

Aliens discover phone

and these dudes!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STpvv3ZgCCU&mode=related&search=

Rhyming dudes, with one carazy guy


And this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaJK_TLjvnU&mode=related&search=

Ladybug picnic song

of course this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6NXDA3XAWQ

C is for cookie song

another classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvJyJI-9LqI

Alligator King song

I forgot this one too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvRE7jliGNQ

Cooperation

 

[kellyahern]

Elmo so wishes he was Grover .

and Bert http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF6t7gqVpqI

 

[fah]

Grover is

Another classic moment with R.E.M.

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

 

[Muggsy]

I loooooove sesame street

I remember I was always confused because we have a different version of Big Bird ( "Abelardo") on tv, but I had the books with the original one

 

[Carek1230]

I have fond memories of watching my son get so excited about the characters and sitting for hours mesmerized by the show. It's very entertaining and great programming cuz kids learn a lot.

 

[namkcuR]

I still can't get over the fact that they deepened Big Bird's voice. I think they deepened his voice anyway. I got freaked out the first time I heard Big Bird's deeper voice.

 

[pgv]

Man i used to love that, it was on all the time when i was a kid but its never on anymore i dont think.
Big bird was ALWAYS my favourite!

 

[Bonos_Lemon]

Just curious....which letter brought us this thread?

 

[bono_212]

This thread was brought to you by the letter U and the number 2

 

[Bonos_Lemon]

Now why didnt I think of that

 

[namkcuR]

Ok, this is driving me crazy. I am having this memory of a muppet character on sesame street when I used to watch it, some sixteen, seventeen years ago. The character was a blue-ish muppet with long, blonde, stringy blonde hair and sunglasses, and he would always be like a teacher or something like that and he would always sing instead of teach. I remember him singing that 'Raise Your Hand' song a lot. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about? I can't remember the damn thing's name and it's driving me nuts.

 

[kellyahern]

I guess a lot of the characters have different sounding voices now, since Jim Henson passed away and I don't think Frank Oz does the voices for Bert, Cookie Monster, or Grover anymore .

Slight OT but it does feature Kermit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrnsdNGgUk

Hilarious but slightly disturbing too

 

[fly so high!]

Sesame street

although it took along time for me to personally pro-nounce the letter "Z" right.I used to say "zee" which was how they said it on the show and in the states..........but had to be corrected at school 'cause in Oz it's "zed"

My son loves the show........................and Elmo is our favourite monster!!!