Where have you gone, Joe Raposo?

[cinemaniax7]

What, is no one other than Ken willing to confess an appreciation for Big Bird? Well I, for one, enjoy Sesame Street. Especially the early, funny ones. Remastered DVDs of classic S.S. episodes and/or segments should be a priority for Sony or whoever owns the rights these days. And a Joe Raposo tribute DVD is definitely in order! The Street just hasn't been the same since his passing.

While we're passing out kudos for the S.S. songwriters, I'll be the first in line to purchase a tribute DVD featuring the work of Christopher Cerf. "Count It Higher" still rocks, and I'll always stop what I'm doing to watch Ernie's rendition of "Dance Myself to Sleep" with my six-year-old.

As for classic non-musical S.S. moments, as a child I enjoyed anything with Cookie Monster. And should it come as a surprise that a Jeopardy! fan should fondly remember the game show stylings of Guy Smiley?

[BryceI]

I was shocked and saddened when I realized that my Sesame Street-watching kids had never seen a Kermit the Frog News Flash, or the "yep-yep-yep-yep-Book-say" aliens.

[Ken Jennings]

It gets worse. Kids today actually think adults can see a Snuffle-upagus.

[jaclyn]

Ah... the Koozebanians. Good times, good times.

And let's not even talk about what they've done to the Count.

[Ken Jennings]

Ah... the Koozebanians. Good times, good times.

And let's not even talk about what they've done to the Count.

What did they do the Count? Diagnose him with OCD and put him in therapy?

[themanwho]

What did they do the Count? Diagnose him with OCD and put him in therapy?

No, he apparently doesn't like cookies anymore. Say's they're an "occasional food" now. Shameful.

-M

[Robert Hutchinson]

What did they do the Count? Diagnose him with OCD and put him in therapy?

No, he apparently doesn't like cookies anymore. Say's they're an "occasional food" now. Shameful.

Um . . . ("C is for centillion! That way too many cookies to eat.")

The beginning and end of my fond memories of Sesame Street: Grover.

[jaclyn]

Ah... the Koozebanians. Good times, good times.

And let's not even talk about what they've done to the Count.

What did they do the Count? Diagnose him with OCD and put him in therapy?

No... they got rid of the bats! He now has some silly thing with confetti. He's no longer "scary" at all. Bah.

[BryceI]

What did they do the Count? Diagnose him with OCD and put him in therapy?

No, he apparently doesn't like cookies anymore. Say's they're an "occasional food" now. Shameful.

Um . . . ("C is for centillion! That way too many cookies to eat.")

The beginning and end of my fond memories of Sesame Street: Grover.

Super Grover and Grover the waiter were the best!

[ajsnavely]

It gets worse. Kids today actually think adults can see a Snuffle-upagus.

When I was a youngun my Grandma got me a Sesame Street book that was printed just for me. She gives them all kinds of info on me and they work into a story (And I suppose they could stalk me too). The story she got me involved Snuffy and how the adults couldn't see him. I still read it every once in a while, and wish he was still imaginary.

I think one of my favorite moments though, well saddest actually, is when Mr. Hooper died, and they have to tell Big Bird. I still cry when ever I see that, but it was so wonderful that they dealt with this subject on the show. I am not a fan of the many of the things they have done recently (not that I watch anymore), but if they still address these subject that effect children so deeply, like death, with the same sensitivity and care, then I will always support them.

If they got rid of Elmo, I might even watch again. Oh and more pinball too.

[rigsby]

The Count still occasionally has bats, although he occasionally also has annoying video effect balloons. Eh.

Cookie Monster was better in scenes like the one in which he ate the letters "FOOD", followed by the salt and pepper shakers he had just used, and then, finally, the napkin he had also just used.

The yip-yip aliens were Martians. The Koozbanians were on the Muppet Show.

The good stuff is on YouTube. (My absolute personal favorite is the "Funky Shapes Dude"..."I know who a square is!") That was how I realized that it was Stockard Channing who appeared with Paul Benedict in the number painter scenes, and that the Pointer Sisters sang that funky pinball song.

[jaclyn]

The yip-yip aliens were Martians. The Koozbanians were on the Muppet Show.

Well flog me with a wet noodle. Usually I don't screw up my Muppet trivia. Turns out that the Koozebane story was the only time Kermit appeared as a reporter on the Muppet Show. Which is why my brain went Koozebane -> Kermit as reporter -> Sesame Street.

[cosmo2006]

I figured instead of starting a new thread, since there was already a Sesame Street thread going, I'd just reply here. This is in response to Ken's question about classic SS segments we'd like to see.

Here's one that may strike a memory with some people: it's a segment that doesn't have a name, but it consisted of Bob and Luis putting together a billboard of a train tunnel. Once it's together, a train appears at the end of the tunnel and zooms full-speed toward the screen!! I got to see it again when Noggin ran those "Sesame Street Unpaved" episodes a few years back, and it was as scary at age 25 as it was at 5!

[lolar2]

They had that TV special on Joe Raposo which aired just after Jim Henson died. That could be made into a DVD.

[marxychick1]

It gets worse. Kids today actually think adults can see a Snuffle-upagus.

I think one of my favorite moments though, well saddest actually, is when Mr. Hooper died, and they have to tell Big Bird. I still cry when ever I see that, but it was so wonderful that they dealt with this subject on the show. I am not a fan of the many of the things they have done recently (not that I watch anymore), but if they still address these subject that effect children so deeply, like death, with the same sensitivity and care, then I will always support them.

If they got rid of Elmo, I might even watch again. Oh and more pinball too.

They did a traveling Sesame Street museum exhibit that came here to Kansas City. I took my daughter, who was 2 at the time. The exhibit wasn't of great quality, and I wasn't highly impressed (neither was daughter), but they had a tv set up that played the "Mr. Hooper's death" speech, and I openly sobbed- in a hall full of kids who were there on a field trip. Not one of my finer moments, but I couldn't help it.

I'm with you on getting rid of Elmo, or at least dropping "Elmo's World."

As for classic segments I'd like to see on the upcoming boxed set, since most of my Sesame Street watching was done in the late '80s/early '90s, I have 4 words: "HEEEEERE FISHY FISHY FISHY!"