Dang, it’s been a long time since this blog has seen any vintage Sesame Street sketches! Here’s one that just got hosted on the official Sesame Street YouTube channel. From the very first season: Bert and Ernie do battle with dueling appliances!
This show certainly was darker and more violent in its early days. I doubt we’d ever see a sketch like this produced circa 2009....
Jimmy Kimmel Live! shared this educational clip from Sesame Street in which Ernie and Cookie Monster convey to little kids the intricate workings of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme…
I really need to post more vintage Sesame Street clips, especially the older Bert and Ernie skits. In this one, Ernie confronts his fear of thunderstorms… with hilarious consequences! By the way, this one mentions Olivia and David, who haven’t been on the show since the 1980s, so that makes this sketch a clear product of its time…
How long has it been since I posted a classic Sesame Street clip? Especially one starring Bert and Ernie? Undoubtedly, not nearly often enough…
This sketch, which also features Herry Monster, is probably one of the few where Bert actually turns the tables on Ernie and gets the last laugh!
Sad news out of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts: veteran character actor Paul Benedict, who was perhaps best known as British neighbor Harry Bentley on the classic sitcom The Jeffersons, has died at the age of 70.
If you grew up in the late Seventies and into the Eighties, Benedict was just about everywhere. His portrayal of Mr. Bentley was the biggest reason why a lot of people tuned in to The Jeffersons every week… ‘cuz Bentley was probably one of the funniest characters in television history.
Benedict also did quite a bit of film work. One of the earliest roles that I remember him from was Jeremiah Johnson, which was a drastic – and dramatic – departure from much of the rest of his resume. A lot of people will note that he was in This is Spinal Tap, where he uttered the immortal line “I ...
Look, I know that tomorrow is Election Day and many folks are feeling extremely anxious and even much worse. Personally, I’m sick of the whole damned thing. I’ve been an eager follower of politics all my life, but this is the first election ever that couldn’t be a more dreary dull bore. And on the eve of what I keep hearing is “the most important election in our country’s history” (except it’s really not) I’m now more thankful than ever that I don’t have a dog the McCain/Obama hunt (and I explained two days ago what I was doing regarding that).
So right now, I think most of us can agree: we need a good laugh.
I found this on YouTube not long ago and every time I watch it, it cracks me up hard! Someone took some clips of Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street and choreographed them to ...
Longtime readers of this blog know that I’m fond of posting classic clips from Sesame Street whenever I find them on YouTube. That should be a lot easier to do from now on ‘cuz Sesame Workshop (the outfit that used to be Childrens Television Workshop) is on YouTube and putting up officially-sanctioned Sesame Street videos! You can’t embed them in your own blog or site (yet, and let’s hope they consider allowing embedding eventually) but you can certainly link to ’em and watch them. Like, f’rinstance, the now-infamous “Sesame Street News” where Kermit the Frog reports on Prince Charming’s attempt to rescue Rapunzel.
I’m glad Sesame Workshop is doing this, and I hope they post many more in the weeks and months to come. Especially Bert and Ernie sketches. Can’t get enough of Bert and Ernie… 🙂...
It’s spring: the perfect time for a lazy afternoon of fishing down at the pond. Bert has his pole and Ernie… has his own methods.
Originally aired during Sesame Street in November 1982, here is the Bert and Ernie “Fish Call” sketch…
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted some vintage Sesame Street clips. Here’s a short one, but it’s ranks up there as one of the all-time greats: Ernie and a little blue “Anything Muppet” in “Four People Fooled!”
The very first episodes of Sesame Street are out on DVD. But they carry a warning label: “These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.” And this is not intended to be a joke either, according to this New York Times article. Seems that a lot of things have changed since Sesame Street‘s first broadcast 38 years ago this month. Among the items listed as unacceptable for today’s children: Cookie Monster smoking a pipe during “Monsterpiece Theater”, Oscar the Grouch is now seen as having untreated depression, and how there are too many “rural — agrarian, even — sequences” in the early episodes.
I have a question: how many of the “child experts”, who sit around all day finding stuff like this to nit-pick about, actually have children?...