Thread: A trip down the original Sesame Street - pre-Elmo and pre-PC!!

I wasn't a sesame street child though my neighbors were, so when playing at their house sometimes I saw it. I remember the Muppet Show more vividly, which came after it. The grumpy old men in the balcony, Beaker, the Swedish Chef etc.. And I don't mean the even later muppet movies. This was the corny show that had human guests on it which was weird watching them interact and yet.. almost normal.

Originally Posted by Isoterica

I wasn't a sesame street child though my neighbors were, so when playing at their house sometimes I saw it. I remember the Muppet Show more vividly, which came after it. The grumpy old men in the balcony, Beaker, the Swedish Chef etc..

Oh thank you Kristen. So why no Sesame Street? No family TV? Not allowed by the parents?

But thank you!!! The Muppet Show, oh yeah! Waldolf and Statler up in the peanut gallery. Oh man that takes me back. Never warmed to Kermit or Miss Piggy. But poor ol' Fozzie Bear and Gonzo.....they were my faves. Not withstanding the band with guys like Animal and the Doctor, oh yeah!!!!!

Originally Posted by Isoterica

And I don't mean the even later muppet movies. This was the corny show that had human guests on it which was weird watching them interact and yet.. almost normal.

Yeah, and I'll best honest I still draw similarities between people I meet and Jim Henson creations. I have a guy at work that reminds me of the American Eagle (new reader) and a regular client who is Beaker's offsider...you know the scientist with no eyes?

Originally Posted by stillshunter

Oh thank you Kristen. So why no Sesame Street? No family TV? Not allowed by the parents?

By the time I saw it at the neighbors house I already knew my alphabet and how to count, add, etc. Sesame Street just didn't do it for me. I thought it was kinda dumb LOL. I watched cartoons instead, Scooby Doo, the Jetsons, the Flintstones [could name a LOT].. Oh and hey Speed Racer rocked! Go Speed Racer Go!!!

Originally Posted by stillshunter

But thank you!!! The Muppet Show, oh yeah! Waldolf and Statler up in the peanut gallery. Oh man that takes me back. Never warmed to Kermit or Miss Piggy. But poor ol' Fozzie Bear and Gonzo.....they were my faves. Not withstanding the band with guys like Animal and the Doctor, oh yeah!!!!!


Yeah, and I'll best honest I still draw similarities between people I meet and Jim Henson creations. I have a guy at work that reminds me of the American Eagle (new reader) and a regular client who is Beaker's offsider...you know the scientist with no eyes?

Oh yeah there are a lot of people that remind me of muppets. There are a lot of people that look like their pets too ever notice that? :D

When I was small, and TV first came to Australia in 1956 (IIRC), we would go on vacation to relatives in Sydney, and only Mr Wilburs, who owned the shop a few doors down, had a TV, so my cousins and I were allowed to go to watch the Mickey Mouse Show with the Wilburs boys, on a Saturday afternoon. I was amazed by it all.

By the time we got our own TV in 1964 (Wagga Wagga, NSW) it was RinTinTin, and F-Troop all the way :) At 14 I wasn't really much interested in kid shows...much...

Originally Posted by Luke

Sue, this conversation shouldn't make you feel old.

Feeling old should make you feel old. (I think I'm gonna get slapped here)

But seriously, you're only as old as you think you are. I think I'm about 12 (with the aches and pains of man 6 times that age)

My body is a lot older than my chronological age. I look at my peers and wonder how I got to be like this. Genetics can be cruel. In my mind, I'm 30, but you know what they say, the mind may be willing, but the body... etc.

Originally Posted by kyteflyer

My body is a lot older than my chronological age. I look at my peers and wonder how I got to be like this. Genetics can be cruel. In my mind, I'm 30, but you know what they say, the mind may be willing, but the body... etc.

I reckon that's you being hard on yourself Sue.

Me? I'm a pre-teen stuck in the body of well-over teen, who still dresses like his in his teens (well the clothes I would have worn as a teen).
So really I think I'm a VW Golf R, when the body is actually an old Passat 1500 fastback, but to anyone with eyes it just looks like a derailed dodge'em car is creaking on by

Sue, I checked out your blog the other day.... sounds like you're fighting back against the genetics.... way to go!

On the subject of the Muppets, the TV show was great, the movies were crap. Kermit is scholcky and Miss Piggie the WORST. I do a fairly good one-man show re-creating Beaker and Dr. Bunson Honeydew. Statler and Waldorf is who I want to become. I was Animal post high school...probably more gonzo these days (with a hint of Foziie Bear).

Originally Posted by Luke

Sue, I checked out your blog the other day.... sounds like you're fighting back against the genetics.... way to go!

Thanks for that, Luke... the diabetes is only the tip of a very large iceberg. But its something I *can* do something about, in a way that my specialists have conniptions over :)

Originally Posted by Luke

I had an LP of Sesame Street and the tunes I remember with great joy are "I love Trash" (my fave), "C is for Cookie (that's good enough for me)" and the classic "Rubber Ducky".

"Anything dirty or dingy or dusty. Anything rotten or ragged or rusty! Yes, I love trash!"

Rubber Ducky of course is a classic.

I was the "Watch Rolf on the Jimmy Dean Show" generation.

Rowlf on The Jimmy Dean Show - YouTube

Color had not been invented yet, and the entire world was black and white.