How The Alphabet Should Be

A while ago I finished reading the amazing book Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis.  It tells the whole story (and I mean the WHOLE story) of how Sesame Street made it to the air (yes, even when I read adult books they tend to be about kids stuff).  I loved reading about the history of all the characters I had grown up with like Big Bird, Grover, and Cookie Monster.  The book is a fantastic dose of nostalgia for anyone who watched Sesame Street as a child.

So now I am busy immersing myself in old episodes of Sesame Street by watching “Sesame Street Old School Volume One.”  It is definitely very very “old school.”  Big Bird in the first ever episode was actually pretty creepy.  But of course, some of my favorites were there from the very beginning like Bert and Ernie.

I’ve picked out a few sketches from the early shows that stand out as my favorites:

Here is a cartoon from the second season that we watched at work a little while ago…..be warned though, you will never get the song out of your head.

Here is a very funny Grover offering:

And my very very favorite clip of all is really short and sweet.  I remember reading about this exact sketch in Street Gang.  Apparently it was supposed to end with Kermit leaving in a huff, but Joey (the little girl) just spontaneously called out “I love you” and so Kermit came back in and said “I love you too.”  That is why I love the Muppets and Jim Henson.

Jen