My son grew up watching Sesame Street and I think it is one of the best if not the best children’s show around. It was educational, entertaining, did not “talk down” to the kids and best of all could be enjoyed by adults as well (unlike some purple dinosaur that I can think of!) I used to tape the episodes and enjoyed watching along with him, especially the great skits with celebrity guests. I can still remember the sketch featuring Itzhak Perlman (dressed as a grouch) in a grouch concerto with Oscar the Grouch. He kinda outgrew it several years back — I guess he found the alphabet and numbers focus too babyish — but recently found a renewed interest in the show Play With Me Sesame shown every afternoon on Playhouse Disney channel. Each episode mixes classic Sesame Street footage with newly created games and activities where the Muppets invite children to join in. He gets all excited when they show old sketches that he remembers, and I enjoy them too eg. the ones with Grover waiting tables and driving the Fat Blue character bonkers!
“Round and tasty on a bun, pickles, french fries, yum yum yum.
In a hurry to be fed, beady eyes and big blue head.”
That was an absolutely classic sketch and I can still remember the dialogue! The Bert and Ernie sketches are absolutely hilarious as well and my favourite is the one where Ernie is unable to sleep so he starts singing “Dance Myself to Sleep” followed by tap-dancing sheep and playing the bugle. (The lyrics in brackets are Bert’s exasperated comments) I came across this great list of 25 Favourite Memories of Sesame Street and going through the list brought back fond memories of the show for me.
