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[scarfman]

capriuni posted on Sesame Street's fortieth anniversary (annotated with appropriate imbedded video).

I was nine in 1969. I remember seeing a prime time special about Sesame Street's debut, but for some reason (scheduling?) I couldn't watch it till we moved from Wilmette, Illinois to Omaha in 1971. I wanted to watch it for the Muppets. In 1972 or so they started selling facsimile Muppets in toy stores: Ernie, Bert, Cookie Monster, Oscar and Big Bird. I would record Muppet bits from the tv or from the soundtrack albums and stage puppet shows for my family. I made Kermit the Frog and Grover out of socks since I liked bits they were in too much to leave them out. I got storebought Grover and the Anything Muppet when they came out, and when The Muppet Show got big I also got Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fonzie and Rowlf (Animal was no use to me when they didn't make the rest of the band and I don't have five hands anyway). I continued doing these puppet shows for family, school and friends till about 1982. I still have all the puppets, though the lining in Anything Muppet's head that keeps him properly stiff deteriorated away in the 80s from a damp storage basement.

My favorite bits were always Ernie and Bert Henson and Oz, and I still know several bits off by heart.

"I'm looking for me, Bert!"

"Betcha can't hear that ol' radio hardly at all!"

"Good grief, the comedian's a bear!"

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[drake57.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing that special on Sesame Street, i wanted to see it for the muppets (being 12 i was a out of the age range for the show but hey, it had muppets!).
40 years, wow.

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

"No-a he isn't, he's-a wearing a hat and a necktie!"

I was a huge fan of Sesame Street right up until they stopped showing it on Channel 4, which was [google] 2001. So I'd have been 25.

(I think Channel 5 shows Elmo's World, and CBeebies occasionally shows Nor'n Ireland's Sesame Tree, but it's not the same. They don't have Bert and Ernie, and they don't have parodies of TV shows the target audience is only vaguely aware of.)

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Wow, you're five years younger than me?! :-)

Forget _Sesame Street_, I didn't see _Star Trek_ until the third season (though that was the original broadcast) when we moved from Manchester to Frankfort.