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35th Anniversary show The controversial 35th Anniversary episode, "The Street We Live On", featured "Dance Myself to Sleep" (expanded with a sequence of dancing celebrities) and brief clips of "Imagine That", Mr. Hooper and Teeny Little Super Guy. (The clips of "Imagine That" and Mr. Hooper...

WGBH Mixup and Irreplaceable Alan I missed the Curly dislikes porridge/Cookie's first cookie episode because WGBH in Boston showed "The Street We Live On" again instead! I'm sure it'll be repeated at some point. I'm pleasantly surprised that no one has been whining about a line in today's...

Michael Jeter and the 10 Bells The dedication at the end actually wasn't to Will Lee, who played Mr. Hooper; it was to the late Michael Jeter, who played Mr. Noodle's brother Mr. Noodle. That made sense because, if I'm not mistaken, there were no clips of Jeter in the special, whereas there...

Thoughts The most important fact about the special which has not yet been emphasized enough is that it aired on Monday morning as a regular episode of Sesame Street in the regular time slot. (WGBH again refrained from having a voiceover during "Mahna Mahna" on this occasion.) Presumably it...