Posted on 11/10/2004 4:32:31 PM PST by Mr. Mulliner
ping!
When my kids were small, they watched it and so did I. My favorite characters (maybe they used it in more than one episode) were the ZZ Top Muppets singing "The ZZ Blues." I guess the show offered some things for the moms' entertainment, too.
My kids, son especially, enjoyed watching that chef guy tripping and falling down the steps with "Ten coconut cream pies!" or whatever his tray was holding at the time of his signature pratfalls.
I hated it too.
Great jazzy song. Watch it every day. (Not by personal choice...)
LOL! I'll have to check that one out. We're mostly listening to Laurie Berkner's stuff and Philadelphia Chickens.
Our little one likes the "Elmo's world" segment, but I could do without that cartoon woman who shrieks like a cafeteria lady. I FFwd through the rest of the episode.
yep yep yep yep!!!!
"Put Down the Duckie" is the last song on the Silly Songs video. I have had that exact VCR video for 12 years and it is still entertaining babies at my house. Little ones love it.
My favorite bits were those with the Muppets, natch. Jim Henson (Kermit, Ernie, etc.) and Frank Oz (Oscar, Bert, Grover, Fozzie, Miss Piggy, etc.) deserve mention among the great comedy teams. Grover's turns as a waiter were always hilarious.
As much as I liked Sesame Street, the PBS show that I loved the most was The Electric Company. The talent on that show -- both on the screen and behind it -- was thick: Bill Cosby, a young Morgan Freeman (who says he hated every season save the first), Rita Moreno (still the only performer to win all four major awards), Hattie Winston (I'll Fly Away, Becker), Broadway actor Skip Hinnant, Jewish comedienne Judy Graubart, former child star Jim Boyd ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"), Irene Cara (Fame, won an Oscar for "What a Feeling!"). Writing the side-splitting skits for the show were Tom Whedon (Alice, Golden Girls), Thad Mumford (M*A*S*H), Paul Dooley, and others.
My fave of the Electric crew? That's easy. The Short Circus' asian cutie, June Angela.
There they are! They were the coolest!
Dude, that's a disturbing picture. How could you mess around with a childhood favorite of mine? At least it's not Barney the gay dinosaur. That dino is the reason dinos are extinct. They got sick and tired of that d*** song!
HEY YOU GUYYYYYYSSSSS!!!!
Who's the dummy writing this show?!
They were on today - with Big Bird and Maria. It was a weird flashback.
For my son's 1st birthday, he received a copy of Sesame Street's 25 Annivsary Celebration. There was this silly Batty Batty Bat song on it that I could never get out of my head. I would clean house singing Batty Batty Bat. But, my favorite memory is my little boy dancing around the den to En Vogue(sp?). I think the song was called Adventure. He was so so so CUTE!!!!!! He's nearly eleven now......(sigh).
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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