The greatness of Sesame Street

I love this skit about "the Golden An."

And my favourites were the number series bits where the baker always fell down the staircase, carrying the featured number's worth of pastries or baked goods.

 

"12

"12 pizza piiiiiieeeeesssss"!!!!!

 

When we had our first child, my wife asked me how long it had been since I'd seen Sesame Street.

When I told her we watched it semi-regularly in college, she laughed and wanted to know what else we were doing at the time...

It's a great show as long as muppets are on the screen. The live-action non-muppet sequences are fucking brutal.

Grover doesn't get enough screen time.

I'm not a huge Elmo fan, but Holy Shit do kids love him.

 

If you want to see Grover get more screen time, watch "Play With Me, Sesame" on Sprout (11 a.m., 1 p.m., and I think one other time).

After seeing "Elmo's World" on Sesame Street for the third time I came to the realization that EVERY song he sings at the end about that day's topic is to the tune of "Jingle Bells" it drives me nuts.

 

Not to mention, EStreet, that the entire script is virtually the same from one Elmo's World to the next. It gets maddening.

We like "Play With Me, Sesame" as well, in part because of the raucous Bert vs. Ernie segments.

rb

 

My mother, God lover her, allowed me to replicate that bit in her kitchen.

She also let me "be" the Swedish Chef once. When I was 34.

Somewhere, maybe The New Yorker, I remember reading an analysis of Sesame Street that referred to the Swedish Chef's "giddy nihilism."

Loved that and hated it, for being a better description ---- of anyone or anything ---- than I will ever write in my entire life.

 

Just a pick, but I think the Swedish Chef was a Muppet Show-only masterpiece.

RB

 

I drip of fail.

 

I asked this on another board, but ... What's the deal with Mr. Noodle, and his brother, Mr. Noodle?

Are they supposed to be mentally ill?

 

Mr. Noodle, his brother (and sister Miss Noodle, played by Kristin Chenoweth) are basically big kids. Think Tom Hanks in Big, only about Elmo's age. They need to learn stuff.

RB

 

Do you drip of fail all over your boots?

 

So the shorter answer is, yes, they are mentally ill.

And, knowing that, why does Elmo insist on asking one of them how to do stuff at the start of every episode? It's borderline cruel.

Also, today I was watching, and the Noodles had a sister who was black. Does that mean the two Mr. Noodles' mother was running around on their dad?