Fan Fiction: Sesame Street 40th Anniversary Special

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I have a feeling that others will make their own fan fiction stories for the 40th anniversary, and it's rumored that there won't be an actual 40th anniversary special. If there's not a special outside of the two-DVD set, then this is the next best thing. Maybe. This will be written more like an outline.

Opening Scene

Abby Cadabby flies around the street, observing all of her friends (passing Leela, Murray, and Ovejita, Luis and Maria, the Honkers, Grover, Alan and Chris, Telly and Baby Bear, Elmo and Zoe, Susan and Gordon, Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, The Count, Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus, and Oscar, Slimey, and Grundgetta), and realising that they had all been living on Sesame Street much longer than she has. Big Bird comments that some have been on the street for at least 40 years, and then an opening clip montage appears...

Opening Clip Montage
The montage starts off with the opening scene from the first episode, wth Gordont elling Sally "You've never seen a street like Sesame Street. Everything happens here. You're gonna love it!" An instrumental version of the theme song plays over the following clips...

• Kermit's living room gets flooded due to Grover's plumbing repair job.
• Cookie Monster eats Ernie's telephone (from first season four-part "long and short" bit)
• Grover slides down the rail of a flight of stairs (from Monsterpiece Theater: The 39 Stairs)
• Ernie pulls off Bert's nose and puts it on a clay sculpture
• Cookie Monster drives a train through the "Beat the Time" set
• A grouch drives a bus through Kermit's living room
• Herry brings carts into "The Addition Game" studio
• An airplane flies past Kermit (from a Miami Mice sketch)
• Grover brings a giant hamburger into the resturaunt
• Ernie and the Ernie statue sing and dance
• Fluffy sprays water onto Maria (from season 33 epsiode where Rosita helps Zoe learn spanish)
• The Count counts blocks of a block pyrimid
• The Honkers honk (from Honk Around the Clock)
• the cast dances in Ernie's bath tub (from "Do De Rubber Duck")
• Snuffy watches Big Bird jump on his trampoline
• Cookie Monster eats a truck (from "The Monsters Three Wishes")
• Biff and Sully break a dog house (clip shown in opening clip montage in "20 and Still Counting")
• Destiny's Child and the cast dance (from "A New Way to Walk")
• Harvey Kneeslapper slaps an X on his victim
• Don Music bangs his head on his piano (from... let's say the "Yankee Doodle" sketch)
• A police officer takes the phone booth that Littlke Jerry and the Monotones are in
• Super Grover lifts a telephone booth
• random shot of Bruno carrying Oscar's trash can
• random shot of Oscar traveling with his legs out the bottom of his trash can
• random clip of Elmo and Abby Cadabby

New Footage
Abby is amazed that the street has been around for 40 years ("At least 40 years!", interjects Susan). She wants to know more about what the street's been like before she moved (Bert questions what's so exciting about the street's history). The Count interjects that there have been many ways to count...

Clips

• opening sequene for the "baker films"
• opening sequence for the Jazz Numbers cartoons
• Ernie talks about what body parts he has two of (from the first test pilot)
• opening counting sequence from Ladybugs' Picnic
• The Two-Headed Monster brings in objects for "The How Many Game?"
• opening sequence from Pinball Number Count
• the beginning of the "King of 8"
• part of "Number Three Ball Film"
• the first count to 20 from the 20 cartoon with four-armed man
• Guy Smiley' studio audience gets counted at a resturaunt
• Kermit counts Twiddlebugs
• The Count counts sheep
  [*[the bellhop counts to 20
• opening counting sequence from The Alligator King
• Joe Hundrede Guy

New Sequence
Big Bird points out that the street has also taught many ways to say the alphabet, and to teach letters.

Clips

• Don Music and company sing The Alphabet Song
• Monsters look at and say "A!"
• Typewriter: L-lion
• Speech Balloon: N-nail
• Harvey Kneeslapper gives the mailman a letter (R) to deliver to his mother.
• Kermit asks Joey if she can sing the alphabet
• Letter of the Day: C
• Alphaboy: N
• Alphaquest: S
• Nora Jones sings "Don't Know Y"
• the cast says the alphabet and their names in alphabetical order (opening scene from episode 406)

New Sequence
Zoe comments that that clip must have been from before she moved to Sesame Street. Gordon also comments that he had hair back then, and Luis says that that clip reminds him of a lot of people who used to live on Sesame Street...

Clips

• Mr. Hooper asks Cookie Monster to make two plates of cookies match
• Olivia sings "I'ma Big Girl Now"
• Ruthie shows Prairie Dawn that she has Little Boy Blue's horn
• Linda signs "surprise"
• David disco skates

More to come...

 

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New Sequence
Maria tells Abby that while there have been neighbors who have come and gone in the last 40 years, many of those still on the street have changed. Mr. Snuffleupagus volunteers to make himself an example, talking about how everybody except Big Bird didn't believe in his existience at first.

Clips

• Big Bird meets Mr. Snuffleupagus, and tells the adults about him
• Big Bird take s apicture of Snuffy, but the adults see the image as a rug with a rope
• Snuffy fails to surprise Big Bird, but Bird tells him to stay there if he wants to surprise somebody... But he hides when the adults come, and jumps out afterwards, surprising Big Bird
• Big Bird tries curing Grover's hiccups by wearing scary costumes, and Grover thinks Snuffy is one of those costumes
• Big Bird tries to get the adults to look at Snuffy who is behind a fountain sprinkler which shoots up when the adults finally look behind him
• the adults finally see Snuffy

New Footage
Telly remarks that he used to be different as well. He says that when he first moved tot he street, he was obsessed with television.

Clips

• scenes from Telly's first appearance

New Footage
Telly remarks that he quickly changed, but he does occasisonally watch television as well, as do the rest of the street. In fact, there is a lot of programming to watch and a lot more channels.

Clips

• Sesame Street News: Little Miss Muffet
• Miami Mice: The Count needs a ride
• The Triangle Game
• Monsterpeice Theater: Little House on Prairie
• Squeal of Fortune
• Six Feet Under
• The Letter of the Day Games: W
• Meal or No Meal

New Footage
Big Bird comments that Sesame Street wouldn't be Sesame Street without singing, and everybody agrees.

Clips

• Rubber Duckie (season two version)
• What's the Name of That Song? (original)
• Proud of Me
• Elmo's Song
• Do Op Hop
• Fat Cat
• Me Lost Me Cookie
• Adding, Adding, Adding
• Because We're Friends
• Two Heads are Better Than One
• Fur (original)
• I Just Adore Four
• The Batty Bat
• C is for Cookie (orignal)
• One of These Things (first episode)
• I Love Trash
• I Wonder About the World Above Up There

More to come...

 

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New Sequence
Bert doesn't realise what's so special aboiut Sesame Street's history... But Ernie reminds him of their great times.

Clips

• Ernie tells Bert that he calls his bath tub Rosie
• Bert tellls Ernie that he has abanana in his ear
• Bert convinces Ernie to stop eating cookies in bed
• Ernie makes Bert an ice cream soda
• Ernie calls out "Here fishy fishy fishy!"
• Ernie and Bert play a "heavy and light" game
• Bert and Ernie play a patterns game
• Ernie and Bert sing "Sleep!"

New Sequence
Bert realises that Sesame Street is exciting after all, but Oscar doesn't like all of the cuteness.

Clips

• the cast sings "You Tickle Me"
• Grover tells John-John that he loves him
• Elmo asks a baby how he wears a hat (from Elmo's World: Hats)
• Ellmo and Whoopi Goldberg like their fur, skin, and hair
• Herry and Maya Angelou play a handclapping game
• Zoe and Grover hug for a short and a long time
• Forgetful Jones sings "Remember, I Love You"

New Footage
Maria informs Oscar that there are things on the street that Oscar should like as well.

Clips

• The Word is No!
• Ernie counts a fire engine
• Cookie Monster chases Guy Smiley after realising that something yummy that rhymes with buy is Guy
• Cookie Monster watches film footage of a baby making amess with a cookie
• Ernie cleasn out the toybox
• Ernie brings home a puppy

 

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New Sequence
Oscar didn't pay any attention to that last clip montage, instead focusing on his trash. Chris tells Oscar that we all should be more concerned about the environment, and there'll be more concern this year. Telly reminds Chris that there has been a lot of environmental concerns in the past on Sesame Street.

Clips

• Telly thinks Mr. Handford will get the good citizens award for putting recycling bins in front of Hooper's Store
• a boy brushes his teeth and leaves the water running when it's not needed, draining the lake
• Stand by Your Can
• In the Trash Can with Bruno and the Trashmen
• Don't Throw That Trash on the Ground
• Monsterpeice Theater: Conservations with my Father
• The Garden Song
• Bye Bye Garbage
• Willie Wimple: Water Pollution
• Old Bottles, New Bottles film
• Oscar gets the good citizens award

New Sequence
Grover remembers that he has got to go to work, and tells Abby that he has worked many jobs in the past.

Clips

• Grover tells Mr. Johnson "Hello, I am Grover. I am your waiter, and I forgot my name tag..."
• Kermit tells Grover "Don't tell me you're a salesman!"
• Mr. Johnson orders a hot dog from Grover at a baseball game
• Grover sells newspapers
• Grover works as a taxi driver
• Grover delivers a singing telegram to Mr. Johnson
• Grover counts people getting on his elevador
• Grover tries to take a picture of Mr. Johnson

New Sequence
Grover points out that although he's had many jobs, none of stopped him from his work as Super-Grover.

Clips

• Super Grover tries to change into his heros costume
• Grover helps a girl move boxes
• Super Grover tries to help a boy find a bus stop
• Super Grover teaches Super Elmo how to be a hero
• Super Grover and Super Baby demonstrate "big" and "little"

Stil more to come...

 

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New Sequence
Abby remarks that she likes all of the street's history that she's learned, and remembers when she moved to the street...

Clips
Scenes from Abby Cadabby's first appearance.

New Sequence
She comments that meeting everybody and living on the street is so magic... and the memories are great as well.

Clip Montage
A montage of brief clips plays over an instrumental version of Madrigal Alphabet (without the alphabet being sung).

• Mumford accidently turns Grover into a rabbit
• Cookie Monster eats cookies (from the sketch where Ernie and Cookie Monster count zero cookies)
• Maria and Luis get married
• Gabbi is born
• a clip from the Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures opening
• scenes from the Murray Has a Little Lamb opening
• clip from the Teeny Little Superguy opening
• Don Music plays the piano (form the "Mary Had a Little Lamb" sketch)
• brief clip from I Wish I Had a Friend to Play with Me
• Two-Headed Monster shares a pillow
• Ernie and Ernestine sit in Ernie's chair
• clip from the beginning of "A Song From Kermit"
• Roosevelt Franklin singing in the classroom
• Elmo rides his tricycle
• Zoe drives her zoemobile
• Oscar tucks Slimey in bed

New Sequence
Everybody agrees that times have been great on the street, and the entire cast sings "Sing".

The End.