happy november, lovelies!
well november 10th will mark the birthday of one of my favourite classic kiddie things: the wonderful sesame street's amazing 40th season on tv.
i'm a grand sesame street fan from back when i was a little kidlet. and while i haven't seen a new episode in many moons (we share our classic sesame streets with little rikrak!) ... all those colours + characters + songs! wow! they most certainly influenced the person & designer i became in wonderful, colourful ways!
i dare say there's never been a better handmade show on tv! so cheers to sesame street, and all of the wonderful things i learned from it!
---> like counting to 12 on a pinball machine.
---> and that C is for cookie.
---> and that, truth be told, i don't want to live on the moon. (gosh i love ernie!)
those are a couple of my faves. happy birthday, sesame street!
& yay to teaching our children how brilliant handmade edu-tainment can be!
tell us: what are your fave sesame street songs & moments & characters, please share!
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Grover is my all time favorite character! And you just can't beat "The Rubber Ducky Song", it's Ernie's greatest hit!
ReplyDeleteI think I must have started watching it when it first came out! My goodness!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI love Oscar the Grouch. And our *girls* loved him too. ;>
Oh man, that's a toughie. Ernie and his "Bert, Bert, I have a surprise for you Bert."
ReplyDeleteAll time fave is Cookie Monster. OMM NOM NOM NOM! My fave skits were the twiddle bugs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M36TyN2TXrY and The Count: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7hTkzEwFZ0
ReplyDeleteFavorite song: the pinball machine/counting song, and the "we all live in a capital I" song
ReplyDeleteFavorite character: Prairie Dawn. She's adorable.
Being an big fan of math I have always loved the Count.
ReplyDeleteI watched from the beginning & when I had my own kids the high light of my day was sometimes the guest artist on sesame street be it REM or Jimmy Buffet
ReplyDeleteFavourite character - Grover
Favourite skits - those martians
Favourite human on show - Savion Glover - I love a man who tap dances
Oh I LOVE Sesame Street too! I was so happy when it came out on DVD.
ReplyDeleteMy very favourite song was Capital I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=losBZCpzbi8
& my favourites muppets were Bert & Ernie. I love the skit with Berts newphew Brad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE5RUNGfL_w The shark part always makes me laugh.
I have to agree with sassypackrat and say Grover is my all time favorite although I have a special place in my heart for the Cookie Monster. I love the Rubber Ducky Song too!!!
ReplyDeleteI Grover's "near and far" skit - and most of all my husband's impression of it.
ReplyDeleteI'm a Grover fan, also. He's just so lovey and cutie!!
ReplyDeletemy favorite sesame street episode is where ernie sings the "dance myself to sleep" song & keeps burt awake. oh those boogy-woogy sheep! that show is amazing! it's how my kids learned that being grouchy is pretty silly. :)
ReplyDeleteAnother Grover fan here :) My favorite humans are Gordon and the sign language lady-Linda.
ReplyDeleteI still have moments in my head when something will relate to one of those inbetween random flashing segments and it starts playing in there. :)
just love reading your fun sesame street memories, nicies!
ReplyDeletekeep them coming!
40 years old.. makes me feel a little old but then again I guess it was 15 years old when I watched it..
ReplyDeleteI remember in middle school our class was on a tangent where everyone admitted to growing up on sesame street, except for one boy who was acting too cool for it.
He also had the worst grades in the class :/
Aah Sesame Street! I remember watching it as a toddler. My fave character has got to be Oscar, with Grover a close second. I don't like any of the cutsie new characters, and find Elmo particularly annoying.
ReplyDeleteFave song? "You take a W that's a ww and an E-T et! You put them all together and that spells WET! That's WET! W-E-T wet!" (Sing it!!)
aw - its been ages since I watched sesame street. I love bert and ernie - bert with his paperclip collection and ernie dancing himself to sleep while the boogiewoogie sheep dance bert out the door
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