History Repeats Itself

This morning, Sesame Workshop's official YouTube channel featured several clips with George Washington as a main character (in honor of Presidents' Day, I assume). This cartoon, based roughly on a famous painting of Washington, has him explain the difference between "all", "some", and "none" to his soldiers on a boat.

Back in the early 70s, though, Grover taught a similar lesson to a group of anonymous monsters; they kept tipping and sinking Grover's rowboat by sitting at the same end at the same time. Déjà vu all over again? I'd suspect that the cartoonist had the Muppet sketch in the back of his brain as he worked, at least.

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...)

Too new to be a classic, but...

I still can't resist posting Sesame Street clips about hugs whenever I can find one! :-)

Papa Gives a Big Bear Hug (song)

Alphabetically speaking, she's OK!

I stumbled across this re-creation of a classic Sesame Street clip on YouTube tonight. According to the user who posted it: "Ever since my daughter saw the original, she wouldn't sing the alphabet without inserting random Cookie Monsters. We happen to have a Kermit puppet, so here you go... "

I'm glued...to the script!

While browsing around on Muppet Wiki recently, I came across this rough draft of Telly Monster's debut episode (#1257). The scanned-in script is a bit hard to read even at full size, but it's still worth checking out; Telly has changed a lot since he was introduced as a couch potato twenty-nine years ago! (Seeing the way CTW's editors and researchers thought back then is pretty cool, too...)

Alphabet Conversation

Here's another cute Muppet clip that should have been on the Old School DVDs, but didn't make the cut; enjoy!

Sesame Street - Alphabet Conversation