Happy birthday Sesame Street!

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On November 10, 1969, the long-running children's TV series made its debut with many of the same Muppet characters who are on the show today.

So, share your Sesamy Street memories, the lot of you :)

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Comments (15) on “Happy birthday Sesame Street!”

  1. *sings* It is I, Captain Vegetable.. with my carrots, and my celery.. eating crunchy vegetables is good for me… it's good for you, so eat them too, for teeth so strong your whole life long, eat celery and carrots by the bunch… three cheers for me, Captain Vegetable.. CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH!

    *walks away singing* My name is Eddie, I like spaghetti, and I eat it whenever I can….

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  2. 1969… waouh!

    I do not recall Sesame Street from my childhood… I definitely know some of the characters… so maybe I saw it when I was a child, maybe later… don't know. Strange. I do remember the Muppet Show very well though. *intrigued*

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  3. I remember being 14 and on LSD, we were at a house party and the guy had sattelite..
    we flip on the box and there's Oscar the Grouch speaking spanish…like a whole show of JUST HIM
    I was terrified and very upset…my boyfriend kept saying “you just don't get it” and all of a sudden I was convinced there was a much greater conspiracy going on…didn't get it? get what? I pleaded for him to explain, I pleaded with anyone to tell me what all of this meant.

    when I woke up in the morning I got my answer…much less than I expected..
    “just that tv shows play in different countries, you know?”

    and I mostly stopped doing drugs after that.

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  5. I remember:

    – when Mr Snufalupagus was seen for the first time
    – the trashcan tango
    – when Mr Hooper died
    – One of these things just doesn't belong here…
    – A really, really psychedelic sketch about a kid who gets lost and a yo-yo playing dude who helps him remember his way.

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  13. hum, let's see…

    -W…W…Willemena!
    -the chef carrying pies falling down the stairs
    -the count (ten, ten bananas, ah-ah-ah *thunder and lightning*)
    -the psychedelic “12” song with the pinball
    -Polly Darton: the various parts of her body saying good-bye, cause she's sooo sad to hear that you're departin'
    -10 bears in the bed and the little one said: “I'm crowded, roll over” Soooo they all rolled over and out fell out, 9 bears in the bed and the little one said…
    -the between song, with Grover with a monster on his leeeft side (rha-rha-rha…) a monster on his riiight (rha-rha-rha…)
    -doing the (prrr-prrr) pigeon…
    -rubber duck, you're the one!
    -I-ho, Kermit the Frog, here!
    -Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!
    -Guy Smiley
    -C is for cookie, that's good enough for me…

    This stroll down memory lane was brought to you by the number 5, the number 9 and by the letter H.
    :D

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  14. Other interesting moments:

    C is for cookie, that's good enough for me:

    Fun trivia: some classic Muppets have been canned over the years for interesting reasons. Don Music, the piano player who would bang his head against the piano in frustration, had to be discontinued when kids at home started doing the same. Harvey Kneeslapper was hung up because his signature laugh was too much of a strain on Frank Oz's vocal cords. Roosevelt Franklin, arguably one of the first breakthrough Sesame Street Muppets, had to go as he was considered to be a negative cultural stereotype. (He was the only African-American Muppet at the time, and was seen mostly in detention after school.) Some of these “banned” segments continued to air on the Canadian version for some time after they were removed from the US show.

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