On my way to where the air is sweet.

[constance]

Damn it, I had a post planned for last night and everything. A HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SESAME STREET post, with a top five list of my favorite moments:

1. Monsterpiece Theater's Waiting for Elmo - although most of Monsterpiece Theatre is awesome; I mean, Twin Beaks? The 400 Blows? AWESOME I SAY.

2. The Count's Batty Bat Song

3. Anything with Teeny Little Super Guy, the sheer weirdness of which captivates me.

4. Anything with Savion Glover. I mean, it says something that I even find him irresistible in the clip I'm linking to. (Although I liked Snuffy better when only Big Bird saw him.)

5. The Ladysmith Black Mombazo alphabet song

In making this list, I realized that most of these clips come from an era when I was long past their target demographic and didn't really have an excuse to, like, get up in the morning and watch, but what can I say? I was working nights in New Orleans, and would wake up just in time for the 11:00 encore showing while I ate breakfast/lunch. But that doesn't mean I don't love the stuff I remember from my childhood, the pinball counting song and OMG Bert and Ernie, and so much more. One of These Things Is Not Like the Others!

I thought about it and put it all together, and then forgot to post, missed my first NaBloPoMo post, missed the chance to say that even though Sesame Street and I are getting old, at least we're getting old together. I'm saying it now, though, because even though it's a day late, it's worth saying.

Americans on my friendslist, do you have any favorite Sesame Street moments?

Comments

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

The Typewriter! Noonee noonee noonee nooooo... X! Xylophone! Noonee noonee noonee nooooo...

[tofty.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing*

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

*resurrects you so I can sing the Ladybug Picnic to you*

[tofty.livejournal.com]

*languishes and listens*

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8vUTm64h0)

[tofty.livejournal.com]

As tilney said: I didn't even know I still remembered that! *bounces*

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Oh, the alphabet song is lovely!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? It's one of the things I love most about SS that I love for itself and not just because it's part of a bigger something that I love. If, er, that makes any sense at all.

[tilney.livejournal.com]

Saviooooon. I spent a significant amount of my childhood immersed in the opposition between 'near' and 'far' as demonstrated by Grover and by the little movies that showed you how things are made (I was crazy about them, and I think they're the reason why I love 'How it's made' today).

AAAH and also that small catepillar that Oscar owned. And Teeny Little Super Guy! I didn't even know I still remember him!

Thanks for the trip down the memory lane.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Wasn't Oscar's worm called Slimey? I think he was, and I loved him toooooo! But Savion. Saaaaavioooon. *licks*

[tilney.livejournal.com]

Slimey. That piece of stripey stocking had personality! Saviooooooo. I forgot about him for a while when I grew up and then out of the blue I saw him tap dancing at the Oscars. What a blast from the past that was.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

A few years back, my college roommate and I planned a trip to New York just to see him in Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk. It didn't work out, because we were poor, but it's one of the great regrets of my life that we didn't do it.

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

My two big SSt. memories are Follow That Bird, which IIRC I saw twice in the theatre and Mr. Hooper's death. Cheery, no?

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Oh, Mr. Hooper. I miss that old guy. :/

[octoberstory.livejournal.com]

Anything with Statler and Waldorf!

Also, yes, the pinball counting song. Onetwothreefourfiiiiiive, sixseveneightnineteeeeeen, ELEVENTWEEEEELVE!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Were they on SS? I considered them more a Muppet Show fixture, but of course there was more overlap than just Kermit, as I recall.

ELEVENTWE-E-E-E-E-ELVE!