What Are Your Memories of Sesame Street?

Shane R

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I grew up close enough to the Canadian border that we could get CBC on our antenna. My dad made me watch the French version of Sesame Street in hope that I would pick up some French. I got to watch the American show too. When I was 7 or 8 we went to Sesame Street on ice.
 
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I saw this thread title and immediately thought “Elmo loves his goldfish, his crayon too.” Sesame Street always annoyed me but my siblings watched it. It is so liberal now I don’t like when my son sees it, but the baby has such adorable Elmo overalls.
 
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I saw this thread title and immediately thought “Elmo loves his goldfish, his crayon too.” Sesame Street always annoyed me but my siblings watched it. It is so liberal now I don’t like when my son sees it, but the baby has such adorable Elmo overalls.
No...Elmo was cute. Prairie Dawn was annoying
 
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I grew up watching Sesame Street. In fact, the PBS station in my community was broke so all they could afford to show during the day was reruns of SS, five hours at a time. Because of this over-saturation (and plenty of help from MommaHomie), I entered kindergarden knowing how to read.

Here are some other thoughts:

The whole urban/diversity thing that they were focusing on sometimes didn't translate very well in white-bread central Illinois, where I grew up. I remember I used to get extremely annoyed when they would show clips in Spanish. Neither I nor any kids in my city (at the time) spoke a word of Spanish.

I also remember the deaf woman (Linda). There was an episode when she spoke, and to my wee little ears her speaking sounded more like someone moaning & screaming. I was scared and turned the TV off! :eek:

Here are some clips to get you in the mood:



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We all live in a capital I - in the middle of the desert, in the center of the sky ...

That little guy who said the alphabet with Grover: A B C D E F Cookiemonster ...

"Hi ho - Kermit the frog here" doing his breaking news reporter act ...

I could go on all night. :D AND ... evidently DVDs of "vintage Sesame Street" are soon to be released, if they haven't been already! :clap: I'm seriously thinking of snapping them up so I can show my nieces and nephews what the real Sesame Street was like - you know, before that annoying little red guy took over the place ...

I loved the Kermit news reports!

And yeah, indeed the same way about that wretched Elmo
 
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