Talk:History of Sesame Street/Archive 1

Questions[edit]

This needs some into on start date, pre-history and the first season. DJ Clayworth 17:45, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Yes, I'm working on it.- user:zanimum

In November of 1983 Sesame Street aired an episode about death, In the show Big Bird tries to find Mr. Hooper to give him a portrait drawing, Maria tells Big Bird "Mr. Hooper died." Big Bird innocently responds "I'll give it to him when he comes back." Then Susan regretfully tells Big Bird "When people die, they don't come back." Parents (Many of who are original viewers of Sesame Street) praised the episode as being honest and opening to children about death. Actor Will Lee who played Mr.Hooper since Sesame Street's first episode in 1969 died on December 7,1982 of Cancer/Heart Attack.

In February 1996, the original Ernie and Bert puppets were stolen from a museum in Germany. In addition to a large man hunt, Snuffy was shown pleading on German national television for their eventual safe return. Were they ever found ??

http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showthread.php?t=7614

"Finally, the adults become frustrated with all this nonsense about Snuffleupagus, and warn Big Bird to bid "Snuffy" farewell. Big Bird summons Snuffy, and the two embrace for an emotional farewell in Big Bird's nest area. One of Snuffy's tears falls on Big Bird while they hug, reinforcing Big Bird's belief that Snuffy is indeed real, as he felt the water from the tears. As the two embrace, the adults enter the room and see the unusual creature. Snuffy introduced himself, and Big Bird asked for an apology."

I'm pretty sure the scene with Snuffy crying was in a separate episode from the one where the other characters saw Snuffy for the first time. The book Sesame Street Unpaved includes a plot synopsis of the latter episode with script extracts. (Elmo actually prevented Snuffy from escaping before the adults could see him.)

Gildir 14:15, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More questions[edit]

Does anyone have specific information about differences between the first and second iterations of sesame street? For example, in the original episode, at the end of each show, a voice over was heard over the rolling credits claiming that Today's Episode of Sesame Street was "brought to you by the letter "h" and the number "5". Each show included an animated sequence of counting numbers up to the number of the day with a song that played in the background.

For example, on a day when 5 was the sponsoring number, the song would begin: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5! 5! 5! 5! Let's play the song of five. How many is five?" Objects were shown in clusters of five. At the end of the sequence, a baker dressed in a white baker's uniform would enter a room and attempt to walk down a set of stairs holding five coconut custard pies. He would then stumble and fall down the stairs, and be shown wearing the desserts he had just proudly presented.

It is interesting to note that the early episodes covered only the numbers one through ten. At some point perhaps in the early 1970s, (and this is of particular importance, for I believe it is not documented anywhere), the show went off the air at WNET. During this time, they revamped the set, prepared new episodes, and added characters such as Count Dracula. The new show would introduce educational shorts that taught children how to count up to 20. However, to my chagrin, my friend the baker was never seen again. It was probably impractical to do the bit which required the destructions of so many pies.

In the gap between the old and new versions of the Sesame Street show, in New York, WNET filled the morning time slot (9 to 10 am?) with animated shorts that were absolutely amazing. For many years I have been trying to hunt down additional information about these shows. Does anyone know the producers and creators of these animated shorts? They were often set to music but with very few if any text. They were very Eric Carle-like in their appearance, but not as structured. They probably had an element of psychedelia as well. If anyone knows something about the animated programs that were broadcast during this transition period, and can add some information about the specific dates that the original show was off the air, I sure would appreciate including this in the history section for this topic.

Thank you!

--Jonezen 18:24, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Jumped the Shark" has clearly "Jumped the Shark"[edit]

If people are using it in reference to Sesame Street. -- MarkJaroski 09:21, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Questions on the hurricane[edit]

Did it have a name, or was it just an unnamed hurricane? How strong was it? (the damage appears to be about Category 2) CrazyC83 22:47, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:25, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Expansion/improvement[edit]

In the ongoing improvement of the main Sesame Street article, I thought I'd start by expanding this article. I figured this was as good a place to start as any. When this part is completed, I'll create a summary on the main article and go from there. Of course, it's made this already-too-long article even longer, but I can see that changing the more research I gather about SS. Most of the information on this article is unreferenced, as the tag states, so I suspect much of this information will be deleted. (I also suspect that the majority of the information here is OR.) In addition, the structure of this article may be changed to focus on more general historical landmarks of the show, since I'm not sure a discussion divided by decade is the best and most interesting way to go. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 17:38, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Other WP projects and RL concerns have distracted my attention away from this article, so not much work has been done on it in the past several months. The edits I've made today were done after a great deal of thought. I deleted a portion of the "Inaugural season" section, because as I state above, it was mostly made up of unsourced information. Both the Unpaved and Davis books describe the show's first episode, but I'm not sure that its inclusion is appropriate. This isn't an episode guide. The "compromise" I made was to include a mention of it in the notes, to refer the reader back to Davis' description. If anyone disagrees with what I've done, please discuss. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 20:23, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]