Olivia Sings "Nice People"

From the end of the same Hawaiian-trip episode, Olivia sings about human friendliness being universal. Gotta love her harmony with Bob and Buffy at the end...

Olivia and Boogie Share Poi

A little-known scene from the cast's trip to Hawaii in the late 1970s; how many Gen-X viewers remember her going there along with Buffy, Cody, Big Bird and Oscar?

Hawaii episodes in the news

Thanks to a determined fan on the Muppet Central forums (hi, Mike!), I've stumbled across a newspaper article about the "cast trip to Hawaii" story arc...published just before the episodes themselves were broadcast. Google Archives makes the article a little hard to read (scrolling through 35 pages of a whole daily paper...ugh!), so I've captured the clipping as a PDF file. Enjoy!

Six more minutes of fame

Since I've mentioned Nona Beamer's appearances on Sesame Street recently, I thought it'd be appropriate to show them here. First, from Episode 1092, Bob and Maria join Nona as she teaches them a Hawaiian counting chant.







Second, from Episode 1094, a short and simple clip with Nona counting to ten in Hawaiian. (Can any native speakers out there explain the other words she's using before/after the count, please?)







Incidentally, my copies of the trip episodes have some scenes edited out; does anyone recall other scenes where Auntie Nona appeared with the human cast? Please let me know in the comments, if you can!