MLT Club Member David Herrick
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This film and song always makes me kind of weepy. You just no longer see kids being encouraged to explore their natural curiosity, even in a safe environment like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig40HFmPsZ8
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Yes, thank you, Rudolf!
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Gaaah! Not Barney! I watched that show with my daughter when she was very young. Cloying and saccharine, and not the least bit clever or amusing. The very antithesis of Sesame Street. But plenty of purple, yes. -
Indeed we are, Jacki. Yyyip-yip-yip-yip-yip-yip-yip. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
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Yes, the Martians! One of my favorite recurring sketches, and the very beginning of my interest in space exploration.
The most memorable one for me was the one where they kept consulting the bookbookbookbookbook to try to identify a telephone.
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Thanks, Matt. I was a slave to my passions, I guess.
The original version of the song is pretty similar to this one, so much so that I didn’t feel the need to post it. The Muppets were “human”, and the accompaniment was “bah-dee, bah-dee-bee” rather than “doo-doo, doo-doo-doo”.
We had a big discussion of “zee” vs. “zed” a few months ago in a thread titled “Brown Eyed Girls”, if you want to check that out.
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Ah, of course. A classic! Thanks for posting it, Matt.
This is the Muppet Show version, but the original dates from the first season of Sesame Street. When I was five years old I put on a little play while my grandparents were visiting, and I wanted my grandpa to sing this song with me. I even wrote out the “words” for him, but grew frustrated that he seemingly didn’t even KNOW the song! How could that have been possible?
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I just did a little digging, Gary, and I figured out the ambiguity. This was news to me, but apparently every county in New York state is gridded up into units of area called towns, irrespective of whether they correspond to any particular concentrations of population. The Albion in Oswego County is one of those fake towns.
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This is the music theory video I’ve been waiting for all my life!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvmzgVtZtUQ
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This one’s for you, Jacki, based on what you mentioned:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6vw4DoU_b8
I loved The Muppet Show too. Absolutely zany entertainment for all ages. And the quality of Jim Henson’s work on Sesame Street didn’t suffer a bit, so full of imaginative ideas was he. But I’ll bet he was happy to have an outlet where he didn’t have to worry about people pressuring him to include educational content in his sketches.
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Those are top-notch choices, Jung. The great thing about the Muppets is that each one had a really strong unique personality.
This one is rather obscure, and was only used a few times in the same type of sketch, but I find him (and the premise) hysterical:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M30g3In8ao
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Yes, that show succeeded on so many levels. The pandemonium of the Muppets was counterbalanced by introspective pieces about the importance of using your imagination, and catchy animated segments dealing with recognition of letters and numbers.
And perhaps most impressively, the writers threw in a lot of jokes that they knew would go over children’s heads, as a way of thanking parents for watching the show with their kids.
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Cookie Monster is a close second on my monster roster. I give Grover the edge, though, because his humor is a little more subtle, whereas Cookie Monster is more in-your-face. But you’ve got to love the pure gluttony!
People forget that the monsters on Sesame Street weren’t all cute and cuddly at first. This sketch from the first season terrified me at the time, although I can laugh at it now. The song dates from 1935.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2zq9APDeZM