Sesame Street
First things first; I have wonderful memories of watching "Sesame Street" as a child. It's no longer shown in the UK, but if it was, I would make time to watch it. So I just wanted to find out if anybody here still likes it or has fond memories of it.
Sesame Street taught me a lot. It taught me my ABCs, my 123s, it taught me that you can choose friends who are completely different to you (Ernie and Bert), it taught me that if you spend your days in a dustbin, you're sure to end up cranky, and it taught me that big yellow birds are friendly.
My favourite characters were Ernie and Bert. I loved those little skits the best of all. But the other characters were all great. From what I've read now, the over-abundance of Elmo seems to be annoying some viewers, but when I watched it, I always found him quite cute - although, of course, he wasn't used so much back then. I also liked the pieces with Grover (when I watched in the 90s, he always seemed to have a run-in with a little fat blue man and unintenionally annoyed him.)
And then there was Big Bird, Snuffy (when I was watching, everyone could see Snuffy, although I've since come to learn that he was originally invisible to everyone else and that everyone believed that Snuffy was Big Bird's imaginary friend.) Then there's Oscar, the Count, the Telly Monster, the Bear Family, Kermit, Gordon.
I was over in America last summer and caught a few episodes. I still like it. It's a shame that Bert doesn't seem to be there any more, though, although it's still nice to see Ernie with his Rubber Duckie. And the "Trash Gordon" thing at the end is quite a nice touch.
"Sesame Street was brought to you today by the letter G and the number 7 and is a production of the Children's Television Workshop."
(I think I got that mainly right.)
P.S. Remember the THEME SONG!!!??? "Sunny Day, sweeping the clouds away. On my way to where the air is sweet...Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?"
Love that place! I want to go there!
First things first; I have wonderful memories of watching "Sesame Street" as a child. It's no longer shown in the UK, but if it was, I would make time to watch it. So I just wanted to find out if anybody here still likes it or has fond memories of it.
Sesame Street taught me a lot. It taught me my ABCs, my 123s, it taught me that you can choose friends who are completely different to you (Ernie and Bert), it taught me that if you spend your days in a dustbin, you're sure to end up cranky, and it taught me that big yellow birds are friendly.
My favourite characters were Ernie and Bert. I loved those little skits the best of all. But the other characters were all great. From what I've read now, the over-abundance of Elmo seems to be annoying some viewers, but when I watched it, I always found him quite cute - although, of course, he wasn't used so much back then. I also liked the pieces with Grover (when I watched in the 90s, he always seemed to have a run-in with a little fat blue man and unintenionally annoyed him.)
And then there was Big Bird, Snuffy (when I was watching, everyone could see Snuffy, although I've since come to learn that he was originally invisible to everyone else and that everyone believed that Snuffy was Big Bird's imaginary friend.) Then there's Oscar, the Count, the Telly Monster, the Bear Family, Kermit, Gordon.
I was over in America last summer and caught a few episodes. I still like it. It's a shame that Bert doesn't seem to be there any more, though, although it's still nice to see Ernie with his Rubber Duckie. And the "Trash Gordon" thing at the end is quite a nice touch.
"Sesame Street was brought to you today by the letter G and the number 7 and is a production of the Children's Television Workshop."
(I think I got that mainly right.)
P.S. Remember the THEME SONG!!!??? "Sunny Day, sweeping the clouds away. On my way to where the air is sweet...Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?"
Love that place! I want to go there!
