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8 years 4 months ago
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Wow, this thread brought back memories. Stuff I remember:
1.) "A loaf of bread, a bottle of milk, and a stick of butter . . . "
2.) The two-headed monster singing with Cab Calloway
3.) The Beetles ("Uuuuu, Thinking of U . . ."
4.) Mr. Hooper's death
5.) The short film where they showed how a saxophone is built. There was weird, avant-garde saxophone music in the background. A similar one was made about how they make paper.
6.) The counting one with a choir of kids singing the numbers as they flashed across the screen. They'd go up to a certain number and yell it several times ("NINE! NINE! NINE!" and then sing "TEN NINE EIGHT SEVEN SIX FIVE FOUR THREE TWO ONE!"
7.) Guy Smiley (I caught part of an old Sesame Street on Noggin one night, and I still think he's funny)
8.) The Count (my favorite muppet as a kid)
9.) Ernie's "I Don't Want To Live On The Moon" song (The Young Fresh Fellows actually covered this a few years ago)
10.) "B is for bubble! Bubble, bubble, bubble . . ."
11.) The "me and my M" song and cartoon ("Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm, as we mosey along . . ."
12.) A short film with a man trying to read a newspaper while walking down the street. Every now and again, he'd walk in front of a car or into some other perilous situation, and you'd hear a child's voice say, "Danger!" I think it ended with him falling down an open manhole.
The thing about having siblings much older than you are is that a lot of your childhood memories of shows like Sesame Street are tied in with the ways they'd make fun of them as teenagers. Hence, I can't think of the "Everybody sleeps" song without thinking of my sister changing the lyrics to "Everybody farts." And then, there's this little ditty they used to sing:
"Big Bird, Big Bird took a turd on Sesame Street!
It flew threw the air and landed at Gordon's feet!
Gordon said, 'Eww!' and kicked it off his shoe,
And it landed in the mouth of Sue!
Big Bird, Big Bird took a turd on Sesame Street . . ."
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a hopeless romantic and defender of the unloved, the geeky and the misunderstood. a friend to underdogs and misfits everywhere.
a hopeless romantic and defender of the unloved, the geeky and the misunderstood. a friend to underdogs and misfits everywhere.
