We parked the kids in front of the Sesame Street Old School DVDs this afternoon for an hour before dinner. Later, as we were preparing to go out for our post-prandial stroll, Archer started counting in a funny voice -- puckering up his lips like he was pretending to be a fish, and semi-growling in a low tone. It was only when he mentioned "a counting contest 1 to 10" and started holding up his fingers one by one (with his palm facing him, rather than out toward the listener) that I realized he was imitating Ernie in the slow counting sketch. There doesn't seem to be a YouTube, but maybe you remember it: Ernie counts in a theatrical manner and at a glacial pace, and every time Bert coughs or speaks or breathes, he starts over from the beginning. I couldn't contain myself when Archer looked at me and said, in his strange Ernie voice, "What're you laughing about, Mo -- what're you laughing about, Bert?" Followed, of course, by: "I need to start again. One!"
Of course, CG went over to the Sesame Side a couple of weeks ago, when she wouldn't stop inserting Cookie Monster into the alphabet. It was funny to Archer at first, but after a while he got annoyed and started chiding her: "Uh, Cady Gray -- Cookie Monster is not a letter. Do not say people in the alphabet."
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That Cookie Monster in the alphabet thing is the funniest damn thing I've ever "Cookie Monster" seen. I'm going to insert "Cookie Monster" in many a sentence from here on out. I wonder if that will affect my editing "Cookie Monster" work...
When they start marching around the house chanting "A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of buttah!", *then* they'll be true converts.
Do you know if there's a collection of old Electric Company's available? LetterMan rules!
Doc --
Uh, yahhhhh!
The Best of the Electric Company, Volumes 1 and 2.
We're the proud owners of both. "It's the plumber! I've come to fix the sink!"
I would love to identify, but I never liked Sesame Street as a child. I was more likely to turn the channel and look for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. If I couldn't find them, I would leave the television entirely for legos, linkin' logs, or my TMNT playset.
Yay! I hope I can get my own future children excited about old (for me that is early 80's) Sesame Street. I watched the latest version some in college, and was horrified to find that the last 20 minutes were devoted to "la la la la la la Elmo's World." (Even though I do appreciate that his fish's name is Dorothy)
My brother, sister, and I have ended up singing "Pero is pear/ and platano's banana/ pineapple is pina/ and apple is manZAAAAAna" several times in the last year or so.
I do love old school sesame street. Riiiiiiiiiiiight???
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