Sesame Street

[datasuspect]

just watched a show about sesame street on a&e.

funny, i can't remember many words, what happened yesterday, but when they showed titles and some skits/counting and alphabet sequences from early episodes (30 - 35 odd years ago) i could remember them instantly, like they were imprinted.

but then i remember watching this programming every day as a child.

[trotsky]

1. Remember this one?

OneTwoThreeFourFive,SixSevenEightNineTen,ElevenTwe-eh-eh-eh-eh-elve!

Yeah I saw that A&E special too (it's probably the same one, though I saw it months ago) and it was really good.

[datasuspect]

2. what struck me

was the funky patterns and garish colors they used in animated sequences along with the trippy music.

additionally, the choice to use non-white cast members was particularly revolutionary back then (this was in the beginning days of color television, i think). a lot of the people in the show looked like people who were around me.

i used to think the corner store guy (vince) in my old neighborhood was mr. hooper.

[obreaslan]

3. I liked the old "Milk" film they used to show....

If you remember, it was the short film that showed the whole process of how the milk gets from the cow to the crying baby at the end of the film.

It had the "Milk" song that played over the whole thing...

Milk, Mi-i-ilk, La La La La La Laaa La...

[datasuspect]

4. or the segment

which included a close up shot of a very young james earl jones saying the alphabet with pregnant pauses.

[trotsky]

5. With the milk truck!

Yes, remember it vividly. I have two young children now and we watch Sesame Street sometimes during supper - and it's fun to see them sometimes re-use clips I remember from my childhood.

"Everybody Eats" was the most recent. "... Because you know, it's so... that everybody, everybody... eats."

[redqueen]

8. One of my favorites.

I love singing that song. :)

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

15. You can hear lots of the old sesame street songs online

http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/music/

I played some of them for my two-year-old son today. He loves to play the Elmo's Keyboard-o-rama game too. Any time he sees me at the computer, he comes and sits on my lap asks to play the "Mommo Game" as he calls it. Lots of good games and coloring pages for little kids on the sesame street website.

I put a link to the Elmo game my son (25 months) likes. He can play it becasue it doesn't involve using the mouse at all, just the keyboard. He can hit almost any key of the keyboard and something will happen too.

http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/games/flash.php?contentId=9495524

[Left Is Write]

10. That was the first one that popped into my head.

[Crankie Avalon]

6. There was a scraggly guy in overalls and a bowler...

...who used to paint--very slowly--different numbers on doors and stuff while old-time instumental piano music would play.

Guy Smiley! Super Grover (Grover as a superhero, his skinny little legs wiggling behind him as he flew through the air)!

And young Maria...aye, Chihuaha!!! I was a pre-schooler and had no idea yet what I was feeling when she'd come on the screen...

[obreaslan]

7. That scraggly guy was Mr. Bently on "The Jeffersons" TV show...

Their English neighbor on that show. Small world. :)

[Lavender Brown]

9. Remember the segment where they show how crayons are made?

That was my favorite. :)

[Longgrain]

11. How about the guy who used to play the piano

He'd start singing a song like "Mary had a Little Lamb, It's fleece was white as...as...as...I GIVE UP!" Then he'd constantly bang his head against the keyboards...

I had a lot of busies on my forehead as a kid from imitating that guy...

[Catchawave]

12. "What's the Name of That Song?"

...is stuck in my head, always:silly:

[trotsky]

14. Oh, they still play that one on Sesame Street these days.

La-dee-da-dee-dum, la-dee-da-dee-dum, what's the name of that song? :)

[Catchawave]

16. Thanks, I forgot the words :)

But the tune is stuck in my head forEVER !

[mac56]

13. Does anyone remember the song "Roll and go"?

My best friend and I would sing it at the drop of a hat. Haven't thought of it for 20 years.

Roll and go
Go over the road
Where the goat explodes all the O's

And the crow flies low
Past the croakin' toad
And the boat floats over the ocean

But the wind did blow
And it started to snow
So the toad went home
To the telephone
He spoke to the goat
Who was eating a bowl
Of bone, potato, and soap

A rope did float
And hook the goat
And the boy climbed the stone made of O's

The O's turned to smoke
And started to float
Closer to the bulldozer

Which closed up the hole
So the cold wind could not blow
And the sun did show
So the roses would grow

And the whole world would know
That the boat, bulldozer, the toad and the crow
The boy and the rope, riding the goat
Were all O.K.!
O.K.?

[IHeart1993]

17. "Keep Christmas With You All Through The Year"

(from Christmas Eve on Sesame Street)

When Christmas time is over and presents put away, don't be sad
There'll be so much to treasure about this Christmas day and the fun we've had
So may happy feelings to celebrate with you
And, oh, the good time hurry by so fast,
But even when it's over there's something you can do to make Christmas last:

Keep Christmas with you
All through the year,
When Christmas is over,
You can keep it near.

Think of this Christmas day
When Christmas is far away.

Keep Christmas with you
All through the year,
When Christmas is over,
Save some Christmas cheer.
These precious moments,
Hold them very dear
And keep Christmas with you
All through the year.

Christmas means the spirit of giving
Peace and joy to you,

The goodness of loving,
The gladness of living;
These are Christmas too.

So, keep Christmas with you
All through the year,
When Christmas is over,
Save some Christmas cheer.
These precious moments,
Hold them very dear
And keep Christmas with you
All through the year.