Sesame Street Muppet Morsels

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Season 2 Classic Cuts

King of 8

The King of 8 was created by Jim Henson for Sesame Street.

Jerry Nelson was the opening voice-over.

Jim Henson performed the King of 8.

The guards were voiced by Jim Henson and Jerry Nelson.

Jim Henson also worked on a similar stop-motion sketch called Queen of Six.

The Jester at the end of this segment was also voiced by Jim Henson.

Over, Under, Around and Through

"Over, Under, Around and Through" was written by Joe Raposo.

The first Grover puppet was gray-green, instead of blue.

Grover was rebuilt from an earlier Henson monster named Gleep.

Frank Oz made a rule that Grover does not talk with contractions.

Grover first demonstrated "near" and "far" in the first season, and would demonstrate this concept a few years later.

Other songs that Grover has sung include I, Grover, What Do I Do When I'm Alone, Proud of Me, My Furry Little Shadow, and Monster in the Mirror.

It is common for Grover to get worn out after teaching a concept.

In 2004, Grover got his own video, A Celebration of Me, Grover!

S for Superman

Superman is one of the worlds most famous super heroes, along with Batman.

Superman has appeared in comics, on the radio, in a number of TV shows, and in five movies.

Superman has also appeared in another Sesame Street sketch, where he taught the letter D.

Listen My Brother: Count to 20

The name of this group is Listen My Brother.

Listen My Brother made many appearances on Sesame Street, starting with the first season. They have also taught the alphabet.

Pig Love Song

This song was written by Joe Raposo.

Joe Raposo also sung the vocals.

There are two differnet versiosn of this song, with the other version being animated.

Season Two Credits Crawl

Some of the animators who have worked on Sesame Street include Cliff Roberts, Tee Collins, Bud Luckey, and Mo Williams.

During the early years, it was common for human cast members to perform the voices of various Muppet characters, though they didn't do the actual performing.

In addition to Sesame Street, Joe Raposo also wrote songs for other Jim Henson productions, including The Frog Prince, The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence, The Great Muppet Caper, and The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show.

 

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episode 276

opening

This episode of Sesame Street was first broadcast on November 8, 1971.

Starting this season, the show begins teaching spanish, with the addition of three spanish-speaking characters: Luis, Rafael, and Maria.

In the thirty-third season, a regular daily feature, The Spanish Word of the Day, was added to Sesame Street.

The mexican version of Sesame Street is called Plaza Sesamo.

Luis is played by Emillio Degardo.

Mr. Macintosh was played by Chet O'Brien.

Chet O'Brien was a floor manager4 on Sesame Street.

Mr. Macintosh appeared on Sesame Street untill 1992.

Tom was played by Larry Block, and only appeared on Sesame Street for one season.

It is common for Muppets to drink using straws.

It is common for Ernie to eat Bert's food and drink Bert's drinks.

Some of Bert's interests include Pigeons, oatmeal, and collecting bottlecaps and paper clips.

Couldn't Ernie, or possibly Bert, have gotten a free refill?

Mr. Hooper originally did not have a first name. Later on, Mr. Hooper recieved a diploma for going to night school, and a first name was needed. The name Harold was decided on.

Rafael was played by Raul Julia.

Raul Julia would later become a big name star. His film credits include The Adams Family and The Adams Family Values, playing the role of Gomez Addams.

Note that Susna is visiting a Mrs. Robinson. Susan and Gordon were later given the last name of Robinson. Could Susan be visiting Gorodn's mother?

David was played by Northern Calloway.

Northern Calloway was the son of Cab Calloway.

Cab Calloway made a guets appearance on Sesame Street, singing Heigh Dee Ho Man with The Two-Headed Monster.

David would later take over Tom's job as Mr. Hooper's helper, and after Mr. Hooper died in 1982, David inherrited Hooper's Store.

Molly was played by Charolette Rae.

Charolette Rae later became famous as Edna Garrett on Diff'rent Strokes and it's spin-off, The Facts of Life.

Grover became a mailman in 2002.

Bob's last name is Johnson.

Maria is played by Sonia Manzano.

In addition to acting, Sonia Manzano is also a writer on Sesame Street.

Maria is the only human introduced in this episode to only have one scene in the episode.

An important M word: Muppet.

Big Bird and Kermit the Frog both have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

At first, Jim Henson did not want to license Sesame Street products, but his manager, Bernie Brillstein, talked him into it, explaining that profits from merchandicing could be used to finance bigger projects that Jim Henson wanted to work on.

Herbet Birdsfoot

Herbert Birdsfoot was performed by Jerry Nelson.

Herbert Birdsfoot first appeared on Sesame Street during the second season.

After the first season, it was decided to stop making new sketches with Kermit the Frog for Sesame Street, and Herbert was brought in to replace Kermit.

Old Kermit sketches from the first season were still shown during the second season, however, and Kermit was brought back for new sketches in the thrid season.

Herbert Birdsfoot's name comes from something called Birds-foot toil.

Molly, Rafael, and Tom only appeared on Sesame Street for the third season.

The Sesame Street set was rebuilt for the 1973 special Julie on Sesame Street, and for the movies Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland.

On the show itself, the cast has taken trips to Hawai and Puerto Rico.

Big Bird has taken trips to China and Japan, in the specials Big Bird in China and Big Bird in Japan.

A documentary about the various international versions of Sesame Street, The World According to Sesame Street, was released in 2006.

 

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More episode 276 morsels:

Cookie Monster, Luis, and M

In 2002, Cookie Monster began hosting The Letter of the Day on Sesame Street.

Prairie Dawn co-hosted the segments, starting in 2004.

In 2005, The Letter of the Day became a game show, The Letter of the Day Games.

Cookie Monster also sang a song about the letter M, Mmmmonster Meal, with Herry Monster.

One of the animated lines was voiced by Emillio Degardo.

Anything can be a character on Sesame Street: lines, food, objects, body parts, letters, numbers, animals, and people of all races, ethnics, and disabilities.

Sesame Street does not discriminate.

Muppet performers Caroll Spinney (Big Bird, Oscar) and Kevin Clash (Elmo) have both written autobiographies.

Some of the Muppets that have been made as toys the most have included Big Bird, Elmo, Ernie, and Cookie Monster.

In the early 1970s, Fisher Price released a set of Sesame Street toys in it's line of Little People. Included was a palyset of the street and the only toys ever made of the human cast.

Gordon, Susan, and Mr. Hooper were all made as toys.

Not only were these the only toys ever made of the Sesame Street humans, but this was also the only time that the Little People collection included toys based off the likenesses of real people.

Ernie and Bert

There have been many songs about feelings, including Mad, Sad, Proud, Feeling Good/ Feeling Bad, and Felines.

This is a rare moment for Ernie and Bert. Ernie does not try to trick Bert, Ernie and Bert do not try to share a meal with Ernie ending up getting more of the meal than Bert, Ernie does not try to get Bert to do an activity that he does not want to do, only for Ernie to end the activity once Bert starts to enjoy it, and Ernie does not keep Bert awake at night.

We never do know why Ernie does not feel special.

Just because you are not a Muppet does not mean that you are not special.

That goes for you people who are not cartoon characters.

2 in spanish

In addition to Rafael, Maria, and Luis, Sesame Street has another spanish-speakign character, Rosita, who was introduced in 1991.

This scene is very similar to the song I've Got Two.

In the 1960s, Jim Henson worked on a number of non-Muppet films.

One of these was the 1964 Oscar-nominated short, Time Piece.

Jim Henson not only starred in Time Piece, but also wrote, directed, produced, and storyboarded it. He also performed his own stunts.

Jim Henson also worked on two non-Muppet specials for Experiments in Television: Youth '68 and The Cube.

Jim Henson started a nightclub film which he didn't finish, titled Cyclia.

The first Sesame Street album has sold more copies than any other Sesame Street album.

Oscar's moving can

It must be amazing that oscar can walk with his legs sticking out of his can, since his can seems to be bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

Oscar often walks this way at Sesame Street Live shows.

Herv Velleriz, who played Tattoo on Fantasy island, often played Oscar in scenes where he travels with his legs out of the can.

Starting in the late 1970s, a full-body garbage man, Bruno, was created to carry Oscar's trash can with Oscar in it.

Bruno was created, designed, and performed by Caroll Spinney.

Behind Oscar's can, there is an opening inside Bruno that allowed for Caroll Spinney to put his arms through the hole and perform Oscar from inside Bruno. There was also an invisible wire used to move Bruno's mouth if needed.

Some characters are very oblivious to things that happen around them. Other characters constantly get things wrong. However, everyone makes mistakes.

Caroll Spinney was sick during a short period of time in the first season, and puppet builder Daniel Seagren filled in for him.

 

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More morsels for episode 276:

Grover the Waiter

This is the first sketch with Grover as a waiter.

Grover has had many jobs over the years, including elevador operador, door-to-door salesman, singing telegram deliverer, mailman, flight attendant, and taxi driver.

Grover's usual customer is called Fat Blue. Fat Blue is also the name of the type of Anything Muppet that he is made from.

Fat Blue is performed by Jerry Nelson.

Fat Blue has gone by many other names. Ina sketch from the early 1980s, he was named Mr. Johnson. In a volume of The Sesame Street Dictionary, he was called Mr. Smith. In another sketch, he's named Fred. And in A Celebration of Me, Grover!, he is called Mr. Blue.

Notice an apparant blooper in this sketch, in which Fat Blue mistakes what letter is missing.

In this sketch, Fat Blue is not the victim, but he would soon be the victim in most Grover the Waiter sketches.

Grover usually works for an unseen boss named Charlie.

20 cartoon

The numbers 0 through 21 have been sponsors on Sesame Street.

21 has only sponsored the show twice.

The number 0 was first a sponsor in 1986, which is also when the show began teaching numbers higher than 20.

Muppets who counted to 20 include Herry Monster, Cookie Monster, Grover, Herbert Birdsfoot, and The Count.

Most recurring counting segmnets do not have segments for the number 1, possibly because 1 did not start sponsoring the show untill the 1980s.

Susan and Bob are the only original cast members who are stil played by their original actors. Matt Robinson, who originally played Gordon, left the show in 1972. Will Lee, who played Mr. Hooper, died in 1982, and the character of Mr. Hooper died a year later.

Other Sesame Street cast members who are dead include Matt Robinson, Northern Calloway, Bill McCutchen (Uncle Wally), and Michael Jeter (Mr. Noodle's brother Mr. Noodle).

As the song shows, the four seasons are Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.

There have been five Sesame Street christmas specials: Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, A Special Sesame Street Christmas, Elmo Saves Christmas, Elmo's World: Happy Holidays, and A Sesame Street Christmas Carol.

Big Bird meets Snuffleupagus

Full-body characters are operated in a variety of different ways. Sometimes, the mouths move, sometimes, they don't.

Usually, full-body characters are performed by one person each, but sometimes, a secodn puppeteer controlls the face movements.

This is Mr. Snuffleupagus' first appearance.

Mr. Snuffleupagus looks different at first. His eyes are yellow, he has no eyebrows, and he has weird eyelashes. He also seems more like a zombie.

By the fourth season, he would start to look more like he looks today.

Jerry Nelson originally performed Mr. Snuffleupagus. In 1976, he hurt his back from the role so much that he quit performing the character.

For a few years, Jerry Nelson continued to perform the voice, while Richard Hunt and later Michael Earl Davis performed the character. In 1978, Jerry Nelson decided that he was a puppeteer and not a voice actor, and Michael Earl Davis, who was performing the character at the time, took over the voice.

In 1980, Martin Robinson took over the role, and continues to perform Mr. Snuffleupagus.

It takes two performers to perform Mr. Snuffleupagus. Bryant Young currently performs the back half, but the back has also been performed by Richard Hunt and Brian Meuhl.

The adults did not believe that Mr. Snuffleupagus was real untill 1985.

The reason why Mr. Snuffleup;agus became real was because of reorts of child abuse, and the producers feared that the fact that the adults didn't believe Big Bird would make kids afraid to tell their parents important things, fearing that their parents wouldn't believe them.

 

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Again with the episode 276 morsels:

The Great Cookie Thief

This sketch was later adapted into a book, Wanted: The Great Cookie Thief.

Cookie Monster has also had the alternate identity of Allistar Cookie in the Monsterpiece Theater segments.

The green cowboy in this sketch was performed by Jim Henson.

The lavendar cowboy was performed by Jerry Nelson.

The western setting was often used as a way to show people overcomming fear.

Other western characters on Sesame Street include Forgetful Jones, Rodeo Rosie, and Sinister Sam.

Grover has sometimes assumed the identity of Marshall Grover, with assistance from Fred the Wonder Horse.

A Sesame Street country album, titled Sesame Country, was released.

There was also a Sesame Street video called Elmo's World: Wild Wild West.

Three of These Things

This is Kermit's first appearance in new Sesame Street material since the first season.

Three of These Things is a variation of One of These Things. This variation was made so that people could be used in the song without saying "one of these things just doesn't belong", so as to not sound like they are discriminating.

Other songs that Kermit has sung on Sesame Street include A Song from Kermit, This Frog, I Love My Elbows, and The Frogs in the Glen.

His most famous Sesame Street song is probably Bein' Green.

Jim Henson performed Kermit untill his death in 1990. Steve Whitmire has been performing Kermit ever since.

The Chicken or the Egg

The Chicken or the Egg was written and performed by Joe Raposo.

Other songs that Joe Raposos wrote and sung on the show include Everybody Sleeps, I'm an Aardvark, Being a Pig, and Somebody Come and Play.

In the song Everyone Likes Ice Cream, Joe Raposos performed the voice of Cookie Monster.

Songwriter Christopher Cerf frequently performed voices of singers, most notably Chris, of the band Chris and the Alphabeats.

The People in Your Neighborhood

The People in Your Neighborhood was written by Jeff Moss.

There have been many different versions of this song over the years, starting in the first season.

The original version featured a postman and a fireman. Other types of people who have been in this song include a garbage man, a grocer, and a cheese.

Bob has probably sang this song more times than any other character.

Ben Stiller sang this song with Telly Monster in 1998.

In The Sesame Street Special, Bob was joined by celebrities Marlina Navatralovis (a tennis player), Barbara Walters (a news reporter) , and Ralph Nadir (a consumer advocate).

It is apparantly rare for Bert to get any sleep.

Though Ernie thinks that counting sheep is boring, in a later segment, when The Count spent the night, Ernie encouraged The Count to count sheep.

Seems like Ernie's imagination could be heard by others. If that's true, then how does the cast know that Mr. Snuffleupagus is real when they finally see him?

Ernie and Bert have had different bathrooms over the years.

Ernie and Bert have also sang in their bedroom. Songs include Dance Myself to Sleep, Imagination, I Don't Want to Live on the Moon, But I Like You, Things That I Remember, and Sleep.

Ernie and Bert are the only Sesame Street Muppets, excluding Kermit, to have appeared twice on The Muppet Show.

 

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And now morsels for the rest of episode 276:

Tom and Kids

A variety of people have helped out at Hooper's Store, including Tom, David, Gina, Carlo, and Gabbi.

David took over ownership of Hooper's Store after Mr. Hooper died.

Mr. Handford later took over ownership from David, and currently, Alan owns Hooper's Store.

Brushin' Blues was performed by Joe Raposo.

Grover has put teeth in Kermit's mouth on two different occassions.

Cookie Monster doesn't have teeth, but he has no trouble eating things.

Big Bird has made guest appearnaces on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Flip Wilson Show, Hollywood Squares, The Today Show, Hee Haw, and other shows.

Long and Short Ladders

Kermit and Grover have appeared together many times.

Some demonstratiosn that they have done include Heavy and Light, Long and Short, and Here and There.

Grover has often come to Kermit's home as a door-to-door salesman, usually selling Kermit things that he does not have the body parts for, prompting Grover to give Kermit ears, a nose, teeth, or hair.

In 1998, Kermit had his own video, The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street. In that video, Grover presented Kermit with the "frog of the year" award.

Mr. Snuffleupagus returns

Mr. Snuffleupagus' first name is Aloysious. Big Bird often calls him Snuffy.

For the record, Mr. Snuffleupagus was never imaginary. He just wasn't ever there when the adults were, or when he was around the adults, they weren't looking at him.

 

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Season 3 Classic Cuts (excluding ones I don't know much about)

C is for Cookie

C is for Cookie was written by Joe Raposo for The Muppet Alphabet Album.

All of the songs form that album originated there, and most of them were performed on the show in the third season, usually using the same audio tracks.

Besides cookies, Cookie Monster also eats healthy food. He sang a song called Healthy Food, and Hoots the Owl sang a song to him, called Cookies are a Sometimes Food.

Cookie Monster once appeared in a public service announcement, promoting healthy eating.

Opera singer Marylin Horne sang this song on Sesame Street in 1993.

Cookie Monster sang a new version of this song in 1998.

In one episode, Big Bird got this song stuck in his head.

Ladybug Picnic

Ladybug Picnic was aimated by Bud Luckey.

Bud Luckey animated many segments during this season. Many of them were counting films.

For all of Bud Luckeys cartoons, Bud Luckey wrote the music, while Donald Hadley wrote the lyrics. Bud Luckey also provided the singing.

Some of Bud Luckeys other contributions include That's About the Size of It, The Alligator King, and Ten Tiny Turtles.

The Amazing Mumfords Trick

The Amazing Mumford is performed by Jerry Nelson.

The Amazing Mumford is also called Mumford the Magician.

The Amazing Mumford still makes occassional appearances in new episodes.

Mumford recently appeared in a made-for-video production called A Magical Halloween Adventure.

The Amazing Mumford is based on W.C. Fields.

Another fictional magician based on W.C. Fields is Merlin the Magic Mouse, who was created by Warner Brothers in 1967.

The Alligator King

The Alligator King is another segment by Bud Luckey.

Many of Bud Luckey's segments were rerecorded, with vocals by the Muppet performers, on The Count Counts album.

Bud Luckey animated a series of counting segments, for the numbers 2 through 6, which featured a fiddle player named Donnie Budd.

Bud Luckey currently works at Pixar. Pixar animated a few segments for Sesame Street in 1990.

Karen Prell, who was a Muppet performer on Sesame Street from 1980-1981, is currently a Pixar animator.

Would You Like to Buy an O?

Would You Like to Buy an O? was originally recorded for The Muppet Alphabet Album.

The Salesman was performed by Frank Oz.

The Salesman first appeared on Sesame Street in 1969.

Caroll Spinney, who performs Big Bird and Oscar, performed The salemsna in a few segments.

In a few skits, The Salemsna was paired with his boss, and in these segments, he was given the name Lefty.

The Salesman has also tried to sell an 8, a U, a snowman, and air.

Harvey Kneeslapper

Harvey Kneeslapper was performed by Frank Oz.

Most of his jokes had to do with words that were also numbers or letters, and him slapping those letters or numbers on other characters.

Harvey Kneeslapper stoped appearing in new material because his laughing was hard on Frank Oz' voice (and because he was a one-note joker).

J Friends

J Friends was first heard in The Muppet Alphabet Album.

The ornage Anything Muppet is performed by Jerry Nelson.

The blue anything muppet was performed by Jim Henson.

The purple anything muppet was performed by Fran Brill.

The green anything muppet was performed by Frank Oz.

Martian Beauty

Martian Beauty was animated by Bud Luckey.

Bud Luckey designed Woody from the Toy Story movies.

Most of Bud Luckey's countign cartoons began with the segments number being counted up to, and usually ended with that number appearing on-screen.

 

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episode 406

This epsiode first aired on November 27, 1972.

Sesame Street has celebrated it's 10th, 20th, 25th, 30th, and 35th anniversaries.

Whenever Mr. Snuffleupagus is on the set but not being used, he is hung on hooks so that he won't get in the way of things.

alphabet sequence

A very clever way to teach the alphabet is to find words that begin with each letter.

The alphabet has been recited by Big Bird, Elmo, Ernie, Bert, Kermit the Frog, Grover, Herbert Birdsfoot, Roosevelt Franklin, and many others over the years.

This is Hal Millers first appearance as Gordon.

Note that Luis and Maria are both together in thiss cene, but they weren't a couple at this point. They are only next to eahc other in this scene because the alphabet required them to.

Roosevelt Franklin was voiced by Matt Robinson. Although Robinson no longer plays Gordon at this point, he does voice Roosevelt in this scene.

Willy wears a yellow feather in his hat. Willy was played by Kermit Love, who built the original Big Bird.

In 1993, Sesame Street would finally have somebody whose name begins with Z, Zoe.

What a way to follow a big alphabet sequence, by showing a D cartoon.

D stands for words such as David, Dinger, Duckie, and dance.

Harvey Kneeslapper once used the letter D for a practical joke.

Dee, Dee, Dee

Dee, Dee, Dee was written for The Muppet Alphabet Album in 1971.

Note that in this skit, Cookie Monster does stuff that Grover could have easily done.

During the early years, Ernie's voice sounded a bit dumber.

Ernie has also sung a song about the letter L, La, La, La.

A lot of animated segments are hard to describe.

Every letter of the alphabet is special in it's own way.

Oscar and Grover have once recited the alphabet together.

 

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More episode 406 morsels:

Cookie Monster and Mr. Hooper

Cookie Monster once ran Hooper's Store for David. David told Cookie Monster not to eat the cookies in the store, so Cookie Monster ate everything else -- including the entire store!

When Will Lee died in 1982, it was decided to also have Mr. Hooper die, instead of replace him with another actor or have it said that Mr. Hooper moved away.

It was decided that the epsidoe where Hooper's death was explained to Big Bird would be aired on Thanksgiving, 1983, so that parents would be home and able to watch the show with their kids, and explain things further.

Since then, there have been a number of additional episodes where Big Bird talked about Mr. Hooper.

D animals/ jobs/ activities

Another D animal that begins with D is dog.

Another D job, not mentioned, is director.

Just don't get a D in school.

Simon's Song

The blue guy in this song is named Simon Soundman.

Simon Soundman was performed by Jerry Nelson.

Simon Soundman is best known for making sounds of objects, instead of actually saying the names.

In his first appearance, Simon had brown hair, instead of black.

In one sketch, Simon Soundman was Grover's customer at Charlie's Resturaunt. He also mentioned that his brother usually eats there, suggesting that he and Fat Blue (who looks very similar) are brothers.

Other people who are two people: Grover and Kermit, Ernie and Bert, Biff and Sully, Buddy and Jim, Larry and Phyllis, Wally and Ralph, Cookie Monster and Prairie Dawn, Noodles and Nedd, and Jasper and Julius.

Jasper and Julius were created by animator Cliff Roberts.

Cliff Roberts also illustrated the Sesame Street comic strip, using his own characters, including Jasper and Julius, instead of the Mupepts or humans.

Song of Two

The opening sequence for these counting films were remade in 2005 as the new opening fro the Number of the Day segments, for all numbers from 1 through 10.

In those segments, a kid would count untill a number comes out of the jack-in-the-box.

In the first few weeks of Sesame Street, two of these films would usually premier on the monday of those weeks. The exceptiosn were the filsm for ten and one.

The ten film was first shown in episode 21, while the one film was first seen in episode 86.

In one of the test pilots, Ernie talked about what body parts he had two of. When Bert corrected him that people don't have two noses, Ernie took Bert's nose off his face.

 

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Additional 406 morsels:

Bob, Bert, Ernie and kids

Ernie and Bert were the only Muppets who appeared in the test pilots.

The Muppets and animation segments tested the best with test audiences.

Sesame Workshop once produced an episode that taught kids about divorce, but it never aired.

The Wonderful World of Pigeons is probably a reference to The Wonderful World of Disney.

Other things that everybody does, or should do: watch Sesame Street, buy Sesame Street DVDs, sing Sesame Street songs, and read Sesame Street books.

Everybody Eats

Everybody Eats was written by Joe Raposo.

Joe Raposo also sung vocals on this song.

A similar song, Everybody Eats, was also written for the show.

In 2006, Suzie Kabloozy sang a new version, called Every Kitty Sleeps.

This segment, and Everybody Eats, later had some scenes replaced.

Teeth Job Interview

The social worker in this sketch was performed by Frank Oz.

The pair of teeth was performed by Jerry Nelson.

There have been numerous body parts that have either been removed from other characters or have been alive.

The game show What's My Part? features talking body parts as contestants.

Some Muppets do not have eyes, and some don't have noses.

One of These Things

Here is another edition of One of These Things, as played by Susan and Grover.

Susan has probably sung this song more times than any other character.

Other characters who have played this song include Cookie Monster, Bob, and David.

Some versions of this song encourage viewers to find multiple things that don't belong.

Peacock Feathers

Although this epsidoe is sponsored by 2, this sketch features the number 20.

In the early years, there would be a lot of number skecthes that are not the sponsored numbers.

10 buses

Ten is another number with a skit in this episode despite not being the number that sponsors this episode.