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DVD Giveaway: So What is YOUR Favorite Sesame Street Moment?

August 29th, 2008 at 11:04 am

Sesame Street’s 39th Season started August 11th! On Thirteen, Sesame Street airs weekdays at 7am, and this season focuses on *MATH*. Celebrity guests this year include (announced so far!):

here

But the best bit of Sesame Street news:

Sesame Street’s new website has some amazing features: not the least of which is an enormous video archive of segments, skits, and songs that span nearly four (count ‘em *4*) decades, and more than 3,000 videos. (There’s a partial list here.) The videos are searchable by keyword or character, too.

We’ve found that not only is the new video player a huge and delightful time-sink, but it’s taken us down memory lane as well. Here are some of our favorites, both classics and more obscure skits and songs:

Classics:

C Is For Cookie! WATCH

Classic Bert and Ernie dynamic:
Banana in your ear Part I WATCH
Banana in your ear Part II WATCH

Rubber Duckie WATCH

we couldn’t find Mahna Mahna on the site, so here it is anyway:

Lesser-known bits:

The Count sings the near-klezmer “Batty Bat.” WATCH

Anderson Cooper reports for “GNN”–Grouch News Network. Includes appearances “Dan Rather-Not” and “Walter Cranky”. WATCH

The last segment of the Pinball counting videos–#12. (bonus trivia–Pointer Sisters did the music!) WATCH

Ernie sings ‘Grow High, Grow Low’ WATCH

The Oinker Sisters disco out with ‘New Way to Walk’ WATCH

Kermit sings a ‘zulu song’ (aka the alphabet song) WATCH

For you New Yorkers, a realistic portrayal of the Subway. WATCH

And to top it all off, we have a classic Old School Sesame Street DVD (Vol. 1) to give away. But we want something from you in return!

How to Enter:
We want to know what YOUR favorite Sesame Street sketches or songs are! Whether they’re obscure or wildly recognizable, old or new. We know it’s hard to choose. You can link to them or not. Enter by posting a comment below by September 1st, 2008.

Rules:
Please, only one comment per person per giveaway post (though you can say more than one favorite Sesame Street moment in your comment!). Duplicate comments will be discarded. We will choose one winner at random to win the DVD set.

Make sure the email address you put with your comment is valid (email address doesn’t display, only we can see it); that’s how we’ll contact you if you win.

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COMMENTS

194 comments

#194

10/23/08 :: 12:41 am
Meredith Troy Says:

My favorite Sesame Street song is the one about the TWO girls, & TWO dolls, & TWO kittycats & a little dollhouse! I love it so much, I watch it on DVD five times in a row to get my fix! I also love the one about the ‘alligator king’ & his favorite son. My third favorite is Ernie singing, “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon.” If I had these songs on CD, I’d put them on my ipod–seriously!!

#193

10/2/08 :: 8:58 am
tondra smith Says:

I would like to know how to get my grandson on sesame street. I grow up on sesame street it the best leaning station on TV THANK YOU.

#192

9/8/08 :: 5:52 pm
Natalie Says:

I have always loved Sesame Street. I hope it runs forever. Does anyone remember a game from the 80’s with Sherlock Hemlock. It was mystery based. I loved it so much, it would be great to find it so my daughter can enjoy it as much as I did. Anybody know what it was called?

#191

9/2/08 :: 5:16 pm
Kodi Says:

Both of my boys are constantly “firing” my husband and I because of the Donald “Grump” skit with Elmo and Oscar. It’s very funny…it’s all so clever. Thank you for a great show!

#190

9/1/08 :: 10:06 am
Michal Says:

I’ve always been fond of “Fuzzy and Blue”. Sure, it teaches colors, but more importantly, it teaches that sometimes a monster just needs to pick up a straw hat and cane, dance onstage, and see who joins in.

#189

9/1/08 :: 12:34 am
Adrienne Says:

I have so many favorites, but I really loved the music on Sesame Street. Anything by Joe Raposo: Would you like to buy an O, Sing, Run run everybody run, Ladybugs Picnic… too many good ones to be able to pick one.

#188

8/31/08 :: 7:47 pm
Elizabeth M. Says:

I always loved it when Grover was working as a waiter in the restaurant and he had to keep going back and forth and back and forth and he’d get so frustrated. That just cracked me up.

#187

8/31/08 :: 12:10 pm
Lisa Says:

My favorite moment was when the whole cast went to Hawaii and Snuffy went by helicopter because he couldn’t fit in the plane. Once there, Big Bird and Snuffy went looking for Mount Snufleupagus.

#186

8/30/08 :: 3:08 pm
michelle Says:

My favorite is from an episode of Elmo’s world. Elmo can’t get the window shade to open so he says “Elmo’s going to get a venetian blind”! Humor added just for us moms!

#185

8/30/08 :: 4:26 am
liz cohen Says:

I always loved the star appearances and the remakes of their songs to alphabet songs like Billy Idol’s Rebel L and Sheryl Crow’s I song. I loved the music stars contributing their stuff for kids and having a sense of humor about it as well. I also loved the classic Kermit It’s not Easy Being Green and Ernie’s song Why Are There So Many Songs About Rainbows. I loved it all, really. I’ve been a fan from Sesame’s inception when I was 4 through my children’s watching it the last 5 years. What a history!!

#184

8/28/08 :: 10:24 am
Elissa Says:

Just the other day, I was telling a friend about a segment featuring Danny DeVito as a curator for a garbage museum. Surveying Oscar’s sculptures for possible exhibition, he says “Oscar, this may be art, but it’s not trash.” It’s everything that I’ve always loved about the show, especially the way that it speaks to adults and children at the same time.

#183

8/27/08 :: 6:41 pm
Simone Says:

My favorite song Ernie singing “Rubber Ducky” in Egypt at the pyramids. Classic Ernie and Bert sketch. I also love “W for Willamina”

#182

8/27/08 :: 10:32 am
Lucille Ebert Says:

I turned on the very first show for my (now 41 and 39 years old) children and it was so great that I called my husband at work to tell him about this unbelievable kid’s show that we were watching!

#181

8/26/08 :: 8:01 pm
Denise Says:

My favorite song is by far “Put down the Duckie” and my favorite moment is when Nathan Lane sang about the Nose.

#180

8/26/08 :: 2:06 pm
Alicia busby Says:

Though there are soooo many great moments, as kids, my brother and I would love to sing along with Cookie Monster when he ate the snow to get the train through and we would drive our Mom crazy running around the house singing “through, through, through, we’ll get the train through!” cause it was the only line of the song we could remember

#179

8/26/08 :: 1:30 pm
Mel H Says:

Dance Myself to Sleep is my favorite. In the recurring theme of Ernie preventing Bert from going to sleep, features the hilarious shot of sheep tap dancing and carrying Bert’s bed out the window. So funny and cute!

#178

8/26/08 :: 1:10 am
Randi Says:

One of my most memorable Sesame Street episodes was when Mr.Hooper died. I remember how sad Big Bird was. My dad sat with me and we watched it, and talked about people dying. I cried so much. I felt sad that Mr.Hooper was gone and felt sorry that Big Bird lost his friend. I never looked at Big Bird the same way - from then on he seemed so vulnerable to me. I love this show!

#177

8/25/08 :: 11:09 pm
Christy Orquera Says:

We love Ernie’s “RUBBER DUCK” episode when he’s singing “Rubber Duck, duck, duck” and all of the characters start joining him in the bathtub. Catchy little tune…we sing it at bathtime every night.

#176

8/25/08 :: 10:52 pm
Lisa Says:

Any time the count sings a song I think of my dad. He used to sing to me when I was a little girl, who am I kidding, I’m 28 and still make him sing to me! He does all the voices so well but I think he enjoys singing “Then there was one bat in the belfry…etc” It always makes me smile. I teach kindergarten and this year he is coming in to read them a book with voices!

#175

8/25/08 :: 8:50 pm
Samuel Pam Says:

Sesame Street premiered a month before I turned three. It was clearly perfect timing. My favorite song was Oscar singing “I Love Trash”. I still have two LPs from my childhood days and the 45 of I Love Trash. Sing Sing a Song is still a positive song for children of all ages. B is Bubble is still good. I was humming that one today when someone was blowing bubbles in Midtown. City Councilman Felder wanted to get rid of the pigeons a little while ago by starving them. I do not think Bert would approve. Finally how does Santa get down all those little chimneys?

#174

8/25/08 :: 7:51 pm
Patricia Compton Says:

I had Sesame Street albums. Still have them, actually!! Played them over and over again. My older sister and I still sing Oscar’s song “MAD!” “Real mad, very angry, very, very angry” when we were upset about something. And Eckhart Tolle would love the song “Nearly Missed That Rainbow”, a great song about being in the moment and appreciating what’s right in front of you. Big Bird’s “ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUWXYZ” - Who else but Joe Raposo would make that a word? He was the best Sesame Street composer and is so missed. These songs will always be in my heart. When I’m old and they roll me into the home I’ll be singing, “Sunny day, sweeping the clouds away on my way to where the air is sweet…” Thanks to Jim Henson, Joe Raposo and all the people that created such great learning experiences and memories for us all.

#173

8/25/08 :: 5:25 pm
Robert Daly Says:

Thanks to recent DVD releases and the wonderful new data-base on the Sesame Street website I am able to revisit the clips from Sesame Street that linger in my childhood memories: the perspective on life from the view of the Tweedlebugs or the Muppet News-Flash fairy tales or Bert and Ernie exploring the pyramid and discovering statues that closely resemble the two friends.

I can remember watching episode after episode just for the chance to see some of these segments, and if it ever came on running to find my brother so we could watch it together. We watched when Mr. Hooper died, and discussed it with our families. We videotaped when the adults found out that Snuffleupagus was real and replayed it hundreds of times, laughing at an editing mistake.

Yet, out of all the fantastic, educational, heart rendering, and hilarious episodes I must say that “Captain Vegetable” is the most outstanding in my memory and heart.
Three Cheers for me Captain Vegetable, crunch, crunch, crunch!

#172

8/25/08 :: 10:43 am
Nicole Says:

Hands down… the “you gotta put down the duckie if you want to play the saxaphone!” is the best sesame street song!

#171

8/25/08 :: 10:10 am
Ria Says:

I just love the goat who sings, “I get maaaaaad, I get Maaaaaad, I get maaaad, everybody gets mad!”
and then there is the ernie and bert with the sheep,”The story of berts’ blanket” or “Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep”
or the rhyming somg with the three guys singing and the crazy one “Cat… Hat.. Sat…”
ohhh so many so many

#170

8/24/08 :: 7:50 pm
Simone Says:

aaaah so much to choose from
1. Rapunzel in her brooklyn accent ” you want me to let down my what?” and prince charming getting frustrated more concerned about ‘where’s my horsie” Horsie?”
2. ernie and bert rhyming game when ernie leaves bert hanging and he goes ‘ hey there lamp, that’s a nice shade…you!”
3. do wop do wop hop sung by kermit with the sheep flinging themselves in the air.
4. “Plants need water man” nuff said.

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