Classic Sesame Street Cover: "Up Goes The Castle"

Normally, a guided meditation on breath control is something adults expect to hear on a New Age yoga CD...not an old Sesame Street album.  Hearing this song, with its kid-friendly imagery and story, might change those people's minds though!  I discovered this fan-made performance while uploading my own clips to YouTube...if anyone can tell me which album the original version was on, I'd appreciate that a lot.  Thank you!

Miami Mice

A great parody Of Miami Vice.  Enjoy!!!!!  I am missing The Space Center.  If anybody has it please let me know.  Thanks!!!!

Bert and Ernie: the Rumor Officially Debunked!

If you've never heard the ugly rumor about Bert and Ernie's private life off-camera, you're one of the few lucky old-school viewers. Another web site has debunked the rumor in detail, but here's a scan of CTW's official statement so you can confirm the source yourselves...

The Magic Chain (a rare Bert/Ernie sketch)

Many thanks to NantoVision2 for posting this classic to YouTube; I liked this one so much as a girl that I sometimes acted it out with my mom. (Ernie's throwaway lines when he makes the square and the triangle are hilarious, too...)

Oh no, not THOSE rumors again!

One of my friends at the nursing home noticed that I had Sesame Street on TV again, so our conversation eventually brought up the way Bert and Ernie are being phased out of the show. When my friend asked, "Didn't they make Bert and Ernie gay?" she couldn't believe that the official answer (straight from Sesame Workshop staff) was "no". This 1993 press release should have settled the debate once and for all, in my opinion:

Bert and Ernie, who've been on Sesame Street for 25 years, do not portray a gay couple, and there are no plans for them to do so in the future. They are puppets, not humans. Like all the Muppets created for Sesame Street, they were designed to help educate preschoolers. Bert and Ernie are characters who help demonstrate to children that despite their differences, they can be good friends.

When I denied the "gay couple" rumor, my friend asked: "Well, what about that Muppet with HIV?" She was worried about her daughter growing up too fast, and said there were some things kids that age shouldn't see on TV. I explained that Kami was meant only for the South African production of Sesame Street, where some younger children were born with HIV--and that there were no plans to include that character in the American version. (If some new Muppet character were created to represent a major problem that affected mostly American preschoolers, you wouldn't expect to see that Muppet in a foreign production...especially not if people in the other country associated that same problem with homosexuality and drug addiction!)