Les Jones: Have You Some Sesame Street Trivia

December 27, 2007

A&E > Have You Some Sesame Street Trivia

So we got the kids the first volume of Sesame Street on DVD for Christmas. Here's some trivia about the first show.

Did you know Oscar the Grouch was originally orange?

Some of the original characters were Oscar, Big Bird, Kermit, Bert and Ernie. Elmo and some of the other mainstays didn't come along until later.
The first show had the "one of these things is not like the other" game and ended with the "this show was brought to you by the letters ... and the numbers ..." bit.
Carol Burnett was a guest star on the first show.
A juggling Jim Henson appears in the first episode.

Some things in the early episodes would never make it on kids TV today. In one counting cartoon the numbers are shown by flashers opening their trench coats to flash the numbers. No, really.

Bonus! - From reading Jim Henson's Wikipedia entry I discovered that his Kermit the Frog dates all the way back to the 1950s TV show "Sam and Friends."

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Comments

Gee, I always thought they escaped from Mad comics Spy vs Spy.

Posted by: Mike at December 27, 2007

Those aren't flashers, those are street sellers of genuine Rolexxxxxes.

Posted by: Alcibiades McZombie at December 27, 2007

Ah, so they might be "ya wanna buy a watch" guys? That's a little less creepy, at least.

Posted by: Les Jones at December 27, 2007

I remember the 1-10 flashers. I loved them! I also liked when they got to a number, they'd do NINE. Nine slithering snakes. Or am I confused with another bit?

Posted by: Kathy T. at December 28, 2007