Dave sez, "As part of Sesame's 40th anniversary, we have a 5-week poll in which Sesame Street fans can vote for their all-time favorite segment over the past 40 years. Each week for four weeks, fans will vote for their favorite video from a selection of pre-selected 40 videos. In the fifth and final week of voting, fans will choose from the 40 highest overall ranked videos from the previous 4 weeks. At the end of the 5th week, through out the 6th week, and onwards, we will feature the winning video and 39 ranked runner ups."
Vote - Best Sesame Ever (Thanks, Dave!)
Previously:
- Rube Goldberg Machine animation from Sesame Street - Boing Boing
- Beatles covers from the Muppet Show - Boing Boing
- Video: Philip Glass's Sesame Street pieces - Boing Boing
- Do the Right Thing recreated with Sesame Street toys - Boing Boing
- Boing Boing: S.A.M, the Sesame Street Robot (video)
- Model rockets that look like Sesame Street's Bert - video - Boing ...
- First Sesame Street Gordon dies - Boing Boing
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I loved the "Nope" aliens trying to figure out a phone. The animated segments from the 70's and 80's are beautiful. The pinball number song is still how I count to ten this day. And the music came from the Pointer sisters!
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Pinball_Number_Count
Anything not featuring Elmo. Man, I cannot stand Elmo. He teaches kids to talk in the third person and is a one man (muppet?) marketing menace. Henson wasn't above making a buck, but the "Tickle-Me-Elmo" craziness was a black mark on the Sesame Street legacy.
I LOVE Sesame Street! Especially the ones from my childhood--I can remember them all. I'm 28, so I pretty much grew up with those episodes filmed in the late 70's and 80's.
Which is why I was disappointed to learn that this 40th anniversary vote only considers the clips from the last 20 years!!?
I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation for this, but I was so sad when I couldn't vote for Kermit Talks About Knees.
Can't vote for the Pointer Sisters' number song. mgfarrely - don't forget 11 and 12! ;-)
Peace out, cub scout.
As stated in the entry, this is one week of a 5-week poll. This is the 90s poll, I expect the other decades will be forthcoming or have already passed.
I agree 100% with mgfarrelly. Yes on the aliens with the detached jaws, yes on the pinball number count, and a big fat NO on Elmo. Elmo is when Sesame Street jumped the shark. The other muppets may have sometimes displayed childlike behavior, but those were more like odd personality quirks used for comedic effect. But Elmo is nothing but a 3-year-old in muppet form and exists only to be irritating.
Anything involving Super Grover.
Absolutely need some Nope aliens. I don't remember the pinball video, just the song, but that was good. Definitely need the Mahnahmahnah clip. or was that the muppet show? hmmmm
I recall loving anything with Cookie Monster or Super Grover. And the rubber duckie song. I think I could still sing that one. And The Count! as long as he's counting! ah-ah-ahh!
Man, I can't wait till my nephews are old enough to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers!
The milk segment. That cow, rancher and truck could never get the milk to the store and the screaming baby soon enough. Giddy up! that baby is CRYING.
I was excited- until I realized these were the best of the NINETIES- I wanted to vote for Manuh Manuh! Still, I'm glad to see that Grover's still got it.
PEACE OUT, BOY SCOUT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXrU1GFqYEU
Matbe a best of from decade to deacsde or better yet from half decade to half decade. I recall with fond memeory the chef and his falling down the stairs after counting to ten. Probably couldn't show that in this climate
Elmo's Wikipedia entry says he's actually been on the show since the early 70's. So technically, he could pretty much ruin the entire voting process, NOOOOOO!
They sure had the best tunes. Not so much anymore.
I loved the Alligator king:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg71djeZfos
and the Lady bug picnic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlp1w-6XPHU
my vote:
http://drawnbymouse.com/?p=174
Elmo isn't just a sign that Sesame St. jumped the shark, he also signaled Congress jumping the shark. From Wikipedia:
"Elmo is the only non-human puppet ever to testify before the U.S. Congress. At the request and with the assistance of Rep. Duke Cunningham, he testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education in April 2002, urging support for increased funding in music education."
Ironically, if that video clip were up for voting, I might be inclined to vote for it sight unseen.
Cookie Disco: Cookie Monster does the Shaft Theme, dressed up as Isaac Hayes. Inevitably, he has a psychotic break and eats the stage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrA7vWTiCoM
I love Liam Neeson showing kids how great it is to be one of the small cogs in the machine.
Do what people tell you to for praise.
Capital.
i hope one of the segments when grover is serving the frustrated customer in the restaurant is one of the selections. pure hilarity.
My favourite Sesame Street segement doesn't have any muppets. But it does have lots and lots of crayons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMU-wXsgyR8
Any sesame st. 'best of' segment that doesn't include Stevie Wonder singing 'Superstition' is automatically not a best of segment.
hello, fellow fans of high weirdness. would it astound you to know that the "Mina-mina" music was originally composed for a 60s Italian soft-core porno filmed with Swedish women in a sauna cooling off in an icy lake? I'm crappin' you negative.
also:
onetwothreeFOUR! FIVE! sixseveneightNINE! TEN! eleven twe-eE-EE-EE-ELVE!
I just watched yesterday with my grandchildren, probably only the third or so time I've ever seen the show. So I'm no expert here but I thought the sketch with Anderson Cooper in Oscar's trash can interviewing Walter Cranky and Dan Rather Not was pretty damn funny, surely over the heads of the little ones.
Want to buy an M?...
does anyone remember the little videos that were scattered throughtout the show? i have been trying to find the one of the drinking glass with the little man on it that comes out and dances around... does anyone remember that? and then he climbs back into the lazy susan?! LOL... i want to see that so badly. it was late 80s early 90s... so sad :(