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Posted: **Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:42 pm**

"Sesame Street" is such a huge part of many of our lives. We watched it growing up and have fond memories of it. YouTube has a bunch of classic clips that we love.

This thread is to discuss and reminisce and to share stories and videos and memories.

Sky Syndrome mentioned Follow That Bird in a Disney Channel thread, and that kind of inspired me to make this thread. I love Follow That Bird. It is such a sad movie...I'm not saying that it stays sad throughout the whole movie, but even watching it now, I cry when the movie starts...I can't help it.
Here are some clips from the movie. The first one is pretty much the reason why I cry so hard. (Spoiler alert for those of you who haven't seen the movie!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9syXmIl ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7KtwiYPF6s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLW52Y_-JBg

Then there is Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is another "Sesame Street" movie that I grew up with. Here is a clip that made me cry growing up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c5-MwrAKOo (starting at 4:11)

And then, of course, there is the show, "Sesame Street". Here are some of my favorite songs from the show. The first one, of course, made me cry when I was little (and sometimes still does). Apparently "Seasame Street" just makes me cry. I can't help it.

"I Don't Want to Live on the Moon": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9OVTfgVJ8Y
"Caribbean Amphibean": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCDshh48ypg
"Monster in the Mirror": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maYnqbdo2jw
"Put Down the Duckie": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMAixgo_zJ4

And then there's a clip that Bobby has mentioned to me before but I don't remember seeing it. He says that Snuffy has a giant meatball, and it is about to roll over Elmo. Snuffy steps on the meatball to stop it from rolling over Elmo, and Snuffy says, "You know how the saying goes: Friends are better than meatballs," or something like that. I really want to watch it, but I haven't had luck finding it on YouTube.

And then there was a video I had called Five Sesame Street Stories...here is my favorite story from it:
"Big Bird Brings Spring to Sesame Street": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5qv_trZOSY
( continued here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OacuXgVwamQ )

So, do you all have special "Sesame Street" memories?

Posted: **Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:08 pm**

I never watched Sesame Street as a kid. It just always seemed to juvenile for my liking.

Though as a teenager I developed an obsession with the Count :"1 Bats AHAHAHA... 2 Bats AHAHAHA.... And so and so forth.

Posted: **Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:57 pm**

Posted: **Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:01 pm**

Grover: "This is near... and this is far... this is near... and this is far..."
To this day this clip still cracks me up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-HBMq9ggg

Posted: **Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:12 pm**

Barbossa wrote:Grover: "This is near... and this is far... this is near... and this is far..."
To this day this clip still cracks me up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-HBMq9ggg

I had forgotten about that one, but I do remember it now! I agree- it is really funny!

It is funnier than it probably was intended to be!

Most of what I posted already is songs, because my most fond memories of "Sesame Street" are songs, I guess, but I remember "Monsterpiece Theater" with Cookie Monster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4a0rEogx54

Here's one that I always loved, but I had forgotten all about it: "The Aliigator King": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg71djeZfos

It's amazing how clever and well-made these songs and skits are. I bet that a lot of kids don't appreciate the artistic greatness of "Sesame Street"!

I had also completely forgotten about this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFTjeaDl ... re=related

"Here Is Your Life": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zd2HPImNFM
(See- this is a great example. I didn't know who Frank Lloyd Wright was when I was litte, but I thought thast Frank Lloyd Left was genius!)

Posted: **Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:22 pm**

It wouldn't be a "Sesame Street" thread without mentioning a classic pair that many have enjoyed over the years. One's a bit aloof and carefree, while the other is a bit of a hard-ass who still puts up with him. They feature together in many shorts, and like many comedy duos, have a shorter fat one and a taller skinny one.

I am referring, of course, to that incomparable duo...

GROVER AND MR. JOHNSON!!!

Grover uses his "waiter's memory"

Fat Blue orders from Speedy Pizza

Grover Sings to Fat Blue

Grover, the Flight Attendant

Grover, the Movie Concession Stand Monster

Grover, the Baker

Outrageous Makeover Home Addition

Grover, the Fast Food Restaurant Waiter

Grover the Singing Telegram

Grover sells wigs to Fat Blue

Grover, the elevator operator - In and Out

Grover, the elevator operator - Front and Back

Grover, the Rhyming Waiter

The Picture Menu

More Spaghetti

Grover and a Fly in my Soup

Grover is out of food

Grover serves soup

Fat Blue wants a New Suit

Foul Ball

Grover, the Taxi Driver

Bell Service

Corn on Toast

Windy Day

Special of the Day

albert

Posted: **Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:26 pm**

Barbossa, that "Near and Far" clip cracked me up!! I used to have a Grover stuffed toy when I was a kid. I wonder what ever happened to him.

I always liked his "Super Grover" segments.

I have volume one (and hope to get volume two soon) of the Sesame Street Old School DVD's. They provide a glimpse of what the series and characters were like in the very beginning. For example, Oscar was originally orange instead of green and Big Bird originally had a slightly smaller head and was kinda goofy.

Posted: **Sat Nov 15, 2008 10:09 pm**

Those are some great ones, Albert!

Here's the original version of Monster in the Mirror", since I posted the celebrity version earlier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNMwRH5U ... re=related

I just found this- I LOVED this!!!
"Cereal Girl": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgIfdl6b ... re=related

"Hip to Be a Square": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe3Hh8nv ... re=related

Cookie Monster & messy baby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMnFbPBp ... re=related

"One of These Things Is Not Like the Other Things": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZIvgQ9i ... re=related
(I actually sometimes play this game these days.)

"People In Your Neighborhood": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNuulGN ... re=related

"Sing": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOFY52PA ... re=related
(I know this song, but this version is not the one I watched, since this was before I was born. Here's another version of "Sing": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab-Ne52c ... re=related But I don't remember that particular version, either... )

"Sing After Me" (Grover/Madeline Kahn): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQTaFHLE ... re=related

I'm having way too much fun with this thread. But I need to head to bed!

Posted: **Sat Nov 15, 2008 10:31 pm**

I love the C is For Cookie, I sing that all the time when I have cookies. I also remember the Count Von Count. Aside from that that's all I really remember aside from various character names. However my Grandma does have a tickle-me-elmo that's rather hilarious.

Posted: **Sun Nov 16, 2008 6:11 am**

Amy, you probably don't remember the clips of "Sing" because the most popular version (I think they even wrote it) is by the Carpenter's with the lovely voice of Karen Carpenter. That's probably the version you know.
I don't know however if the Carpenters ever appeared on Sesame Street.

This thread is so great!! I've always loved Sesame Street. Many of those clips are new to me though, since every country where Sesame Street airs has its own version of Sesame Street, so we have some of the same clips, but also different ones and some different characters.

Posted: **Sun Nov 16, 2008 8:14 am**

Dottie wrote:Amy, you probably don't remember the clips of "Sing" because the most popular version (I think they even wrote it) is by the Carpenter's with the lovely voice of Karen Carpenter. That's probably the version you know.

Oh, thanks, Dottie! I thought I knew it from "Sesame Street", so I wonder if there is a newer clip (meaning from the late '80s or early '90s) that used that song...but I'm sure I must've heard the Carpenters' version before, too.

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