The Sesame "Best of" videos

[Pug Lover]

Referring to videos"Cookie Monster's Best Bites,The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street,The Best of Ernie & Bert"and"A Celebration of me ,Grover".

I like how each of these videos have their own kind of video presentation setting.
"Cookie Monster's Best Bites"has Cookie Monster trying to open his own bakery.

"The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street"has Kermit in a tuxedo seated with a bunch of anything muppets in a banquet hall,with Grover as host of the ceremony.

"The Best of Ernie & Bert"just has Gina babysitting Ernie's baby nephew while browsing through Bert and Ernie's family album.

"A Celebration of me Grover"is another banquet hall type setting with Grover,Ernie,Bert,Oscar,Cookie Monster and the whole SS muppet gang together.Including Grover's common resturant customer Fat Blue.It's kind of surprising that Kermit wasn't part of that gala.He was only seen briefly in some of the flashback segments.

 

[GonzoLeaper]

There's also the "Best of Elmo" video and "Big Bird Sings"- which is basically a best of Big Bird video (particularly focusing on his songs)

All these videos and more are reviewed pretty extensively in this thread. If you've seen some videos that haven't been reviewed yet, please feel free to add a review!

http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showthread.php?t=22585

 

[Mickey Moose]

"A Celebration of me Grover"is another banquet hall type setting with Grover,Ernie,Bert,Oscar,Cookie Monster and the whole SS muppet gang together.Including Grover's common resturant customer Fat Blue.It's kind of surprising that Kermit wasn't part of that gala.He was only seen briefly in some of the flashback segments.

They probably didn't have Kermit because at the time the video was made, Kermit was owned by Disney, so they couldn't use him(for new segments). Otherwise, I'm sure he would have been included in the presentation.

 

[Pug Lover]

There's also the "Best of Elmo" video and "Big Bird Sings"- which is basically a best of Big Bird video (particularly focusing on his songs)

All these videos and more are reviewed pretty extensively in this thread. If you've seen some videos that haven't been reviewed yet, please feel free to add a review!

http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showthread.php?t=22585

Thank you GonzoLeaper.This was indeed helpful.In fact in response to that thread,I bought myself"Big Bird's Story Time"on DVD.I think my favourite segment there was with the three little pigs and the big bad wolf.I love the way the wolf blows everything but the house down.Hilarious

 

[Drtooth]

You know what would be great? Collector style "Best of_____" DVD's. If they can't do box sets, an hour-hour and a half DVD packed with skits of a certain character. Sort of like what they have for SNL.

 

[minor muppetz]

best of character collections

Some special best of character collections with just inserts and no linking footage would be good. Maybe there could be a collecction similar to Disney's Treasures releases, focusing on every starring role for each character during a certain time fraim.

If not, then here are some good ideas of what I'd like to see in such releases:

The Ernie and Bert Collection
Rubber Duckie (All three versions featuring Ernie on screen, but if only one version can be used, then the original version seen in one of the test pilots and The Muppets: A Celebration of Thirty years)
Lefty sells a U
Bert and Ernie's 'what happens next?' game
Ernie and Bert share Jellybeans
Ernie and Bert share licorice
The Banana Sketch
Bert and Ernie at the beach: Bert is missing
Bert and Ernie at the movies: lady with Tall Hat
Ernie replaces bert's cowboy hat with a pan
Ernie's Barber Shop
Ernie doesn't think he's special
Feeling Good/ Feeling bad
Dance Myself to Sleep
Ernie and Bert go to the jungle
Ernie and Bert go to Egypt
Bert and Ernie go fishing: Here Fishy, Fishy, Fishy!
Bert and Ernie go fishing: Ernie catches more fish
Ernie and the mailman
Bert sneezes his nose off
Have You Ever Looked at a paperclip?
Doin' the Pigeon
Pigeons on Parade (assuming this was performed on the show and not just recorded for albums)
Ernie has Bert pretend that he's mad
I Gotta be Clean
D-U-C-K-I-E
Ernie and Bert share pizza and grape juice
Ernie writes an alphabet story
Pat Your Head, rub Your tummy
One and One Make two
Ernie eats Bert's ice cream
Ernie forgets something after his bath
The Count hires Ernie to answer his phone
Ernie paints a picture of Bert
Ernie has Bert wait outside the apartment
Ernie's A Machine
Things That I Remember
Plants Can grow High
The Difference Between Ernie and Cookie Monster
caveman days: Bert invents a window
Caveman Sherlock Hemlock invents a toothbrush
Journey To Ernie: Journey to Big Bird
Tall, Taller, Tallest
I Wish I Had a Friend to Play With Me
Bert shows Ernie his bottlecap collection
I'm Square
Ernie makes a grocery list
Ernie and Cookie Monster count zero cookies
Ernie pretends to be berniece
Ernie tries to get Ernestine to say his name
Bert attempts to give brad a bath
Ernie meets Bert's brother Bart
Best Friend Blues
Ernie makes a clay scultpure of Bert
Bert's Blanket
The Blackout
Bert pretends that a banana is a phone
Sleep


I'll post more ideas later.

 

[minor muppetz]

Here is my idea for a Cookie Monster collection:

The Cookie Monster Collection
Kermit and Cookie Monster demonstrate Happy, Sad, and Mad
Letter of the Day: X
Cookie Monster eats Bert's bacon and Ernie's X
Share
Monsterpiece Theatre: Twin Beaks
The First and Last Cookie
The Ballad of Casey McPhee
Letter of the Day: C
C is for Cookie (season 30 version)
Monsterpiece theatre: The Old Man and The C
Beat the Time: Cookie Monster
Breakfast Time
Letter of the Day: L
Cookie Monster and Lexine talk about the letter L
Up and Down
The Count and Cookie Monster count and eat cookies
Sesame Street news: Little Red Cookie Hood
Cookies are a Sometimes Food
Healthy Food (original version)
Hey Food
What's My part?: Nose
Monsterpiece Theater: Little House on Prarie
Ernie presents the Letter A
Cookie Monster and Herry Monster share a bicycle
Cookie Monster uses Ernie's phone
Me Gotta Be Blue
Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco
We'll Do It Together (assuming this was on the show and not just on albums)
Monsterpiece Theatre: One Flew over the Cukoos Nest
Me Gonna Munch You, Munch You, Munch You
The Monsters three wishes
Mumford's disapearing cookie act
The Cookie Bunny
Cookie Monster's First Cookie
Cookie Disco

 

[minor muppetz]

The Grover Collection
Near and Far (original version)
Kermit instructs Grover to get in the box
Grover the waiter: Alphabet Soup
Grover the elevador operador: Five people at a Time
Two G Sounds
Monsterpiece Theatre: Upstairs, Downstairs
Proud of Me
Grover counts John John's penny
Grover the singing telegram deliverer
Super Grover: Computer
Thirty-Two Cracks in the Sidewalk
I Stand Up Straight and Tall
Monsterpiece theater: The King and I
Global Grover: Austrailia
I Whistle a Happy Tune
Grover the waiter: Hamburger
Monsterpiece Theater: The Taming of the Shoe
Grover in Singing in the rain
grover the plumber
Monster in the Mirror (celebrity version)
Super Grover: Haircut
Grover the taxi driver
Grover the baker
spanish word of the day: Libro
Grover the flight attendant: somethign warm
Grover's bath tips
Marshall grover (any sketch)
Fuzzy and Blue (and Orange)
Me
Grover has 20 seconds to say an S word
Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot talk about the letter M
Grover the sunglasses salesman
Super Grover and Super Baby
Grover traisn Elmo to deliver singing telegrams
Global Grover: Alaska
Spanish word of the day: Nino and Nina
My Fury Little Shadow
Grover the waiter: Simon soundman
Kermit and Grover demonstrate heavy and light
Grover the earmuff salesman
Just Because
Super Grover trians Super Elmo
Global Grover: France
Spanish word of the day: Esqualia
Grover the waiter: O'Briens resturaunt
Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot count to 20
near and far (1970s version)

 

[minor muppetz]

The Monster Collection
Fur
Group of Monsters: A!
We're all Monsters
Monsterpiece Theater: Me, Claudius
Circles
Letter of the Day: G
Zoe see's a group of G's
Monsterpiece Theater: Chariots of Fur
I Want a Monster to be My friend
Kermit's Milk Lecture
Two Headed Monster at shoe store
Telly's Lunch
Letter of the Day: F
Four Fury Friends (assuming this was on the show and not just albums)
Furry Happy Monsters
Kermit lectures on tall and short
Letter of the day: M
Mmmmonster meal
M is for Monster
telly sells Kermit a headwarmer
Grover the waiter vs. another waiter
Two Headed Monster: Cheese
Monsters in Day Care
Heavy and Light
Grover the nose warmer salesman
Ernie eats Bert's cake
Elmo's Song
Monster Clubhouse
Herry and John John count to 20
Five Monsters in my Family
Super Grover and Super Baby
You Tickle Me
Monsterpiece Theater: guys and Dolls
Two Headed Monster: Honk
Grover the waiter: poetic memory
Baby Talk: X
Rosita
Two heads are better than one
Share (with Elmo and Zoe)
Elmo's World: Food

 

[minor muppetz]

The Anything Muppet Collection
Goin' For a Ride
The People in Your Neighborhood (original version)
Everyone Likes Ice Cream
Has Anybody Seen My Dog?
Five People In My Family
My Favorite Letter
Sesame Street News: Peter Piper's family
Mah Na Mah Na
Clap, Clap, Clap
The Alphabet Song with Lena Horne
Sesame Street News: J Mine
That's Not Homer
The Crying Game
Fat Cat
J Friends
Big Round Nose
Sesame Street News: The Elves and The Shoemaker
Subway
Born to Add