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"Forty years of living on the Street."
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11-13-09, 07:23 AM (EST)
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"Forty years of living on the Street." |
With Sesame Street turning 40 (and giving the Count something higher than usual to target), let's go with a simple pair of questions. Two! Two questions!1. Who's your favorite character? 2. Who's the least? 
So help me, if this turns into a 'Bert & Ernie are gay' hate thread, I'm going to go garbage can on someone's rear.
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Estee 57126 desperate attention whore postings
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11-13-09, 07:24 AM (EST)
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1. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
1. Oscar. (Count the deaths from not-surprise.)2. Elmo. (But I did have the satisfaction of picking up his mangled body one holiday shopping day...)
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11-13-09, 08:40 AM (EST)
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2. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
I was definitely more of a Mr. Rogers' fan in my youth, but I will say this - before the rise of Elmo, Sesame Street was definitely a consistently good show.Love - Tie between Cookie Monster and the Martians (yiiiip yipyipyipyip) Loathe - Elmo, natch. Although I'm tickled by the fact that the fellow who plays his voice is a large black gentleman with a husky baritone. 
Because this is closer to how I look...
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11-13-09, 07:40 PM (EST)
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28. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
The guy was on Wait Wait don't tell me and a couple of times he switched from his voice to Elmo's so fast it sounded like the responses overlapped. Tres freaky.
The talk radio station my folks listened to a lot back in the day had a late afternoon drivetime host who happened to also be a large black man. He did not sound like it. He often showed up to speaking engagements and got some pretty shocked looks when people saw the person that went with the voice. He did worry one day if he'd been fired. On the show before his they did a segment on racism and people had called into complain that the station had no black people working for it.
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11-13-09, 09:29 AM (EST)
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4. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
1. Telly - There was something very endearing about him the way he always worried about things.2. Snuffleupagus - What a whiner. 
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11-13-09, 09:46 AM (EST)
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5. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
As has been observed in the past, this isn't my category, because I'll just bet that there's a difference between Sesame street characters and Muppets. Having guessed that I'll not say Kermit and Gonzo as best and Miss Piggy as least.But I think Sesame Street introduced "Conjunction Junction", and if so, I'll stretch the "Best" category to include the song writers of the show. If not, it's to the back of the line for me. Again.
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11-13-09, 10:13 AM (EST)
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8. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
LAST EDITED ON 11-13-09 AT 10:15 AM (EST)I'm no expert but I believe Conjunction Junction was part of the Schoolhouse Rock series that played between Saturday morning childrens television shows not Sesame Street. To this day I still sing the preamble of the Constituition.
edited in a missing word
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11-13-09, 12:01 PM (EST)
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19. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
I expect that you're right. I over-heard this (and a few other) songs from some show that the kids were watching, and thought it was brilliant, catchy, and very sophisticated, especially in light of the fact that the show was targeted (I think) to pre-schoolers.
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11-13-09, 07:45 PM (EST)
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29. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
In middle school for one of our required civics tests we had to be able to write out the preamble to the constitution.There were a lot of people in that class trying to hum under their breath or tapping something in the rhythm to remember all the words.
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11-13-09, 08:18 PM (EST)
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32. "Well if we are talking muppets then..." |
Faves - The Swedish Chef, and Pigs in SpaceLeast faves - Sam and Kermit. I know, sacrilege, but he was always trying to boss people around.  Arrrr Cap'n!
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11-13-09, 10:10 AM (EST)
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6. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
1-Grover. *waves to Slurpee*
2-The people.Mahna mahna!
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11-13-09, 10:10 AM (EST)
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7. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
Favorite: Cookie Monster, we have so much in common.Least: Big Bird, the only time I found him entertaining was when he was the only one who ever saw Snufflufagus(sp?) and everyone else thought Big Bird was imagining him.
A JSlice masterpiece
MPVLost is long gone right?
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11-13-09, 10:36 AM (EST)
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9. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
It was the whole 'becoming damned by proxy' issue.
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11-13-09, 10:54 AM (EST)
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10. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
LAST EDITED ON 11-13-09 AT 10:56 AM (EST)As somebody already well slightly beyond the Sesame Street target age in 1969, my impressions are from another perspective -- how my sister's kids reacted. LOVE - Kermit (hey, he was Charles Gibson's fav...) and Cookie Monster HATE - Big Bird scared the peewadna out of my niece every.single.time. (Now ask me about The Muppet Show -- THAT was entertainment!)
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11-13-09, 12:57 PM (EST)
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21. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
I've recently re-watched a bunch of the early Muppet Show on DVD. I had forgotten how truly weird some of that was. Enjoyable, but weird.
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11-13-09, 12:58 PM (EST)
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22. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
An-I-Mal!
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11-13-09, 01:09 PM (EST)
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23. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
The dance hall joke-offs were some of his best scenes.
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11-13-09, 10:55 AM (EST)
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11. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
1. (tie) Oscar the Grouch-Anyone who hates people enough to live in a trashcan has certainly earned my respectCookie Monster-Cookies are delicious. Plus, I love his googly eyes.
2. Prarie Dawn-I'm not sure if she's still on the show, but her goody two shoes act was annoying.
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11-13-09, 10:55 AM (EST)
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12. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
Sesame Street came too late for me to be a regular viewer, but at least we had Captain Kangaroo.When I did watch Oscar always made me chuckle the most. 
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11-13-09, 11:01 AM (EST)
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13. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
Another Captain fan! (Watch out for all those ping-pong balls!)About 12 years ago I was in Chicago, taking a baseball soujourn to The Friendly Confines -- and guess who was the Special Guest throwing out the first pitch? THE CAPTAIN himself! (No Mr. Greenjeans, however...) This was when Harey Carey was still doing Take Me Out to the Ballgame, so we missed hearing The Captain's singing voice.
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11-13-09, 07:49 PM (EST)
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30. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
Another Captain Kangaroo fan.It was on early in the morning where I was and I'd watch it with breakfast before school.
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11-13-09, 11:25 AM (EST)
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15. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
I didn't watch SS until my boys were growing up. I watched Captain Kangaroo - and really liked Mr. Green Jeans. LOL
Favorite: Grover. There was just something about him that I liked.
Least: Elmo. Frankly, his high pitched laugh and perky attitude got on my nerves.
Now, ask me about Muppets - I loved Gonzo the great! I wasn't all that keen on the Dr. - but loved his assistant Beaker. Or the Fraggels - I really liked Mookie. She reminded me of the serene/spiritual people I knew in real life. I also really liked Cotterpin - Doozers are so cute anyway, but she was always trying to buck against the status quo. And finally, I have to admit, I always wanted my dog to be like Sprocket. But I really disliked Jr. Gorg. He was such a weenie! LOL
For Estee: I loved the "hear fishy fishy fishy" with Bert and Ernie on the rowboat. LOL!
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11-13-09, 11:26 AM (EST)
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16. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
LAST EDITED ON 11-13-09 AT 11:39 AM (EST)Faves: Lefty the Letter Salesman. "Psssst... Yah wanna buy an H?" Hate: Harvey Kneeslapper. I learned the word 'annoying' from him.
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11-13-09, 11:41 AM (EST)
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17. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
LAST EDITED ON 11-13-09 AT 11:42 AM (EST)Harvey Kneeslapper I had to look him up, which resulted in this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_Sesame_Street Your reaction wasn't exactly an isolated one.
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11-13-09, 11:50 AM (EST)
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18. "I did not know this." |
From the Wikipedia entry for the Count (aka Count von Count):'The St. Paul Saints, an independent minor-league baseball team in St. Paul, Minnesota known for unique and sometimes over-the-top promotions, announced that it would give away 2,500 bobblehead dolls dressed as the Count at its May 23, 2009 game. However, instead of the Count's regular head, this doll's head featured Al Franken on one side and Norm Coleman on the other, and was called "Count von Re-Count"—referring to the extraordinarily prolonged recount and legal battle surrounding the 2008 U.S. Senate election between the two men.' Only Mike Veeck. (He gets it from his father.)
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11-13-09, 12:18 PM (EST)
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20. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
LAST EDITED ON 11-13-09 AT 12:19 PM (EST)I love some light Sesame talk for a Friday. 1. Cookie Monster was probably my fave. Special mention to the Martians, Biff & Sully, and Slimy the worm. 2. The Count. Man he would be annoying to hang out with. Imaging ordering a round of beers for your table. It would turn into a big production. ETA: I preferred my counting in Ladybug Picnic form. 
-A Tribetastic Creation
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11-13-09, 01:50 PM (EST)
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24. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
Favorite: Cookie MonsterLeast: Elmo 
Samboobree, brought to life by Arkie
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11-13-09, 05:38 PM (EST)
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26. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
*waves to Bert*
Love Ernie
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11-13-09, 06:53 PM (EST)
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27. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
Loved The Monster at the End of This Book featuring Grover. It was one of the "Little Golden Books". I wanted momma to read that one every night.
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31. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
When I in the service, one thing for guys to do to cure boredom in Japan (when you live there and can't speak the language, there ain't much to do) was to get stoned and watch Sesame Street on Japanese TV. It had just debuted (this was 1971) and none of us had ever seen anything like that before. We figured the writers had to be stoners.
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11-13-09, 09:51 PM (EST)
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33. "RE: Forty years of living on the Street." |
I never watched Sesame Street as a kid. Nor Captain Kangaroo or any of the other children's shows at the time. The first TV I ever watched as a kid was Little Rascals and Gilligan's Island because I could understand the facial expressions and the goofy actions of the characters (no captioning available back then).
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