Did you watch Sesame Street when you were little?

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I remember a character named Rafael on Sesame Street. I had no way of knowing then that one of my favorite tennis players would have the same first name.

Kermit the Frog was on Sesame Street? I never remembered him being on Sesame Street.

Ahhh... Sesame Street. Used to love that when I was little.

I remembered this one sketch that involved Cookie Monster walking into a library, and he's bewildered by the environment. Not knowing what to do, he repeatedly asks the librarian for cookies, making the librarian progressively angrier. Ironically, the librarian starts to scream at the top of his lungs at him. After some time to think about the situation, Cookie Monster finally understands that the library only sells books, and asks for a book about cookies. He then asks for a glass of milk, to which the librarian simply faints.

What was it in the 80s BigBird

Ernie and Bert were quite big in the early 80s

Kermit's role diminished after Jim Henson died in 1990
Kermit the frog is the only puppet to be awarded an honorary doctorate by Southampton College in 1996 so he's technically Dr Kermit the frog

Yes I watched Sesame Street.

It was probably how I learned most of my social and life skills.

I mostly remember the skits with 'The Baker.'

I enjoyed 'The Electric Company.' I was so taken with their novel, funny, and smart ways of teaching basic language skills!

I remember not long before Jim Henson's death there were sketches where Elmo would show up and interrupt Kermit, yelling "Yaaay! Elmo wants to play with Mr. Green Frog!". He'd then annoy the heck out of Kermit. Back then I thought Elmo was cute and funny, but after "Tickle Me Elmo", it was like ick.

As a kid I saw some funny sketches with Kermit on Sesame Street, such as where he's singing the alphabet with a little girl while the letters appear above them, but she keeps saying "Cookie Monster" and the letter changes to a picture of Cookie Monster while the girl giggles her face off.

And one where Kermit goes to a store that makes customary T-shirts, expecting his shirt that says "Kermit the Frog" on it to be ready. The Muppet clerk keeps bringing him a shirt where the word "frog" is mixed up. The shirts say things like "Kermit the Gorf" and "Kermit the Grof", and then creatures who actually *have* those names come in for their T-shirts, so they're not really misprints, and Kermit is bewildered. The clerk also keeps asking "may I help you?" to Kermit every time the previous customer leaves, which aggravates him and now he's yelling and screaming that he wants his Kermit the FROOOOOG T-SHIRT!! The clerk then tells him it won't be read for another week. Poor Kermit.

And of course, Kermit used to be a news reporter on Sesame Street, where he mostly interviewed fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters. Like Little Miss Muffet, who ate crunchy granola while sitting on her waterbed, and was a feminist who isn't afraid of spiders (but Kermit sure is!). That was about as 70's as it gets.

I still watch my favorite sketches on YouTube.

Oh man, I actually laughed out loud at that Family Guy cutaway gag, and I *hate* Family Guy.

But there's more to replacing the actor of a voice for a character than just being able to sound like them. You have to be able to act like the character too, and say more than just a few catchphrases.

I remember Grover's Monsterpiece Theatre with the Union Jack in the beginning. I actually had no idea that I was in Canada until I heard Oh Canada on the radio for the first time. I guess I told my mum we were in England when I was three or four because of that skit of Grover's.

No, I always found it creepy.

Don't watch Dave Chappelle's version of Sesame Street. It's pretty bad & I can only post vids of it in the Adult forum. I think I would learn more from it than watching the regular nowadays thou. Puppets are singing about drugs & STDs

I used to hear a rumor that the reason they changed Sesame Street into Sesame Park in Canada was because parents claimed Sesame Street made their kids think it was safe to play in the street. But I don't really know if that's true. All I know is that the new version would be as if every two minutes someone off camera said "Quick, do something Canadian before the kids with their incredibly short attention spans forget what country we're in!", and then the characters would start speaking French, playing hockey, eating maple syrup or even singing O Canada.