Who out there can say that Sesame Street, that is celebrating it's 40th birthday on November 10th, was not their utmost favourite television show growing up. I still remember watching it at Auntie Nita's Nursery School in Winnipeg during the early 70's. My schoolmates and I would watch it in between naptime and playtime howling (even though not really getting the gags meant for adults and parents-which was and is part of it's charm)
All those great memories and laughs: the Golden "AN," Grover as a lovable, yet incompetent waiter, as well as his alter-ego, Super Grover, Oscar the Grouch (and don't forget his pet worm, Slimey) Big Bird and his "imaginary friend" Snuffelupagus, The Count, Cookie Monster, Kermit the Frog and of course, Bert & Ernie (who can forget the time they went to the Egyptian pyramid and Ernie performed a song & dance with a look-a-like statue? Bert, condescendingly treating him as if he were insane was the funniest part)
Up here in Canada, it is now called Sesame Park. The Cookie Monster is now the "Carrot Monster?" Oscar no longer lives in the trash can (out of respect for the homeless, apparently) and Bert & Ernie are M.I.A. for the most part. It sure isn't the Sesame Street I remember.
Does anybody remember these?
Have I missed anything?
