Sesame Muppets on international versions of SS

[muppet maniac]

Let's see...there was..

*Big Bird on Sesamstrasse(old episodes)
*Ernie and Bert on Ulitza Sezam(never seen it, but I heard they were on it)
*Big Bird on Zhima Jie
*Elmo on Takalani Sesame
*Big Bird,Cookie Monster, and Elmo on the Japanese SS(which just came out)

Only these characters haven't crossed over yet:

Oscar the Grouch
The Count
Grover
Zoe

[TotallySpiesFan]

Four other Sesame Muppets were on Sesamstrasse. They were Little Bird, a brown wolf, a female grouch from Elmo in Grouchland, and a sheep.

[Aiya]

Here is the link to the international section of sesameworkshop.org http://sesameworkshop.org/international/portal.php There are character bios for each of the co-productions.

[balana]

I remember talking to my boyfriend about what it was like in Spain... There I think it was called 'Barrio Sesamo' and the full-body costumes (like Big Bird) had a female bird, a big hedgehog/porcupine, and this brown monster thing (I assume it's still the same these days). A few of the names I remember was that Kermit was Gustavo, Grover was Koko, Cookie Monster was Triki (I think), Oscar was still Oscar... I know Ernie and Bert were also on there, and the Count, but that's all I can remember right now.

[Daffyfan2003]

I didn't know the American Sesame Street characters crossed over to different counry's. Also, Da Niao looks exactly like Big Bird. That's strange. The only time I saw international Sesame Street characters on the American Sesame Street was during the New Year's special.

[MeepEeep]

Get ready for Sesame Street merchandise, modified with those big ol' Anime eyes! :zany:

You'd think they'd have a LoL smiley on here somewhere. Am I missing it?

[zanimum]

Does anyone know if they do actually modify the characters in illustrations for international projects?

BTW, this is pretty close to LOL :excited: , but Zoe would be a very appropriate addition to the smilie family.

[muppet maniac]

Get ready for Sesame Street merchandise, modified with those big ol' Anime eyes!

..where did you hear about this? :confused:

..unless you are referring to this:

http://www.sesame-street.jp/Goods/

[Pino]

I remember talking to my boyfriend about what it was like in Spain... There I think it was called 'Barrio Sesamo' and the full-body costumes (like Big Bird) had a female bird, a big hedgehog/porcupine, and this brown monster thing (I assume it's still the same these days). A few of the names I remember was that Kermit was Gustavo, Grover was Koko, Cookie Monster was Triki (I think), Oscar was still Oscar... I know Ernie and Bert were also on there, and the Count, but that's all I can remember right now.
No they had the pink porcupine (espinete) in the 80´s also with the brown monster Don Pimpon.... After that the disapeared from television and made a new version..... I believe they stated over 3 times... It isn´t broadcast anymore. They stoped in the late 90´s

[muppet maniac]

Just found out that Ernie and Bert are also on Sesamstrasse.

http://www.andreas-foerster.de/tv_arbeit/sesamstrasse/index.html

[Pino]

The where as a guest in the show because they celebrated their 30th birthday.
It was a once appearence

[goshposh]

does england have its own version of sesame street? or do they just show the us version?

[charlynoa]

Here is a link of the first puppeteer of "Samson" on the German Sesamstrasse.
He now is a puppet builder with his wife and they made a lot of great puppets.
www.fabula-filmpuppen.de

[Whatever]

Here is a link of the first puppeteer of "Samson" on the German Sesamstrasse.
He now is a puppet builder with his wife and they made a lot of great puppets.
www.fabula-filmpuppen.de
Cool!

[Whatever]

Ooh, es gibt Puppen fuer das Tigerentchenclub! Das ist so suess!

I should point out for you non-German speakers, click on the flag of Great Britain to read it in English.

[Whatever]

And check out the Swedish Chef puppet! This is such a neat webpage!
http://www.fabula-filmpuppen.de/Koch.htm

[MeepEeep]

..where did you hear about this? :confused:

..unless you are referring to this:

http://www.sesame-street.jp/Goods/

I was just joking a bit. The stereotype is that everything from Japan has big Anime eyes. So I thought, well then they might do that with the characters over there..because that's what they're used to. Or you know, the Sesame Street characters with huge Anime eyes, would just be kind of wacky.

[MeepEeep]

Here is a link of the first puppeteer of "Samson" on the German Sesamstrasse.
He now is a puppet builder with his wife and they made a lot of great puppets.
www.fabula-filmpuppen.de

Cool. You know what would be so funny, if they did like Muppets of the guys from Rammstein. LoL. Maybe they'd do a video as the Muppets, after all, they seem to be getting into the "The next video will be a big surprise!" kind of trend, with their videos.

Just after posting this, I started thinking to myself..what a cover of the Sesame Street theme would sound like if Rammstein covered it. I think it'd be pretty cool.

[charlynoa]

@ MeepEeep: Wow, that's a great idea... and a bit... well... strange too.
Why don't you write a letter to their record label and tell them your idea?
Perhaps it becomes reality :excited:
Charly

[Pino]

I didn't know the American Sesame Street characters crossed over to different counry's. Also, Da Niao looks exactly like Big Bird. That's strange. The only time I saw international Sesame Street characters on the American Sesame Street was during the New Year's special.

What characters appear that show? Never heard about international muppets appear only abelardo...

The chines big bird a a different puppet though.. They couldn´t have a big bird unless the puppet wasn´t that goodlooking like bb. I have this information from a girl in hong kong.
http://www.geocities.com/sesameplanet2/Da-Niao.html

[muppet maniac]

Also, Da Niao looks exactly like Big Bird.

That's because Da Niao IS Big Bird.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------I was just joking a bit. The stereotype is that everything from Japan has big Anime eyes. So I thought, well then they might do that with the characters over there..because that's what they're used to. Or you know, the Sesame Street characters with huge Anime eyes, would just be kind of wacky.
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Ah well....I really wanted to see :p :( :grouchy: with Anime eyes.

Of course those three characters aren't in the Japanese version like Big Bird, Cookie, and Elmo are. But Sesame Street Partners Japan(SSPJ), which was formed by SW and other Japanese companies to make the local version, also owns the rights to the American SS over there.

[Drtooth]

Wasn't Abelardo Montoya (the Mexican Parrot equivellent to big Bird) once on US SS?

BTW, there has been quite a bit of Japanese SS merchandising before this new coporduction..... except for the Kubricks, you can't even tell it's from Japan (and only then because they're Kubricks)

[muppet maniac]

One more:

The red bird in episode #4088 was also on Plaza Sesamo and in Sesame English(which is not a co-production but more of a spin-off series)

[zanimum]

That's because Da Niao IS Big Bird.

No, according to the website their cousins. They just have very little variance in their genetics.

Abelardo was on the New Year's special (1996?), hosted by Elmo.

[muppet maniac]

Here's the revised list:

Sesamstrasse:
Big Bird(old episodes)
Ernie and Bert
Little Bird
Brown wolf,
Female grouch(EIG)
Sheep
..and there was also a green grouch(not Oscar, but another one pretending to be a superhero. I saw a pic of it somewhere once)

Plaza Sesamo:
Red bird
Brown bird

Sesame Park:
Brown Rooster

Ulitza Sezam:
Ernie and Bert

Zhima Jie:
Big Bird

Takalani Sesame:
Elmo

Japanese Sesame Street:
Big Bird
Cookie Monster
Elmo

Sesame English:
Brown rooster
Blue mouse(CinderElmo)
Red bird

[TotallySpiesFan]

There is also two more birds: a blue bird and a white bird.

[muppet maniac]

Also, I read on the German part of the Sesame Planet site and it said that Caroll Spinney brought Oscar along with him there(when Big Bird was in the old episodes of Sesamstrasse). But now that blurb has been scraped off.

There is also two more birds: a blue bird and a white bird.

Can you give me descriptions of what they look like?

[muppet_dk]

Here's the revised list:

Sesamstrasse:
Big Bird(old episodes)
Ernie and Bert
Little Bird
Brown wolf,
Female grouch(EIG)
Sheep
..and there was also a green grouch(not Oscar, but another one pretending to be a superhero. I saw a pic of it somewhere once)

Add a penguin to that list.
The super hero grouch is named super grouch.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v370/muppet_dk/Sesam_Strasse/sg2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v370/muppet_dk/Sesam_Strasse/sg1.jpg
The brown wolf is Willi Wolf and Piratenkapitän Wolfdietrich Säbelmeier
The female grouch is Grouchella http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v370/muppet_dk/Sesam_Strasse/grouch3.jpg

[TotallySpiesFan]

Also, I read on the German part of the Sesame Planet site and it said that Caroll Spinney brought Oscar along with him there(when Big Bird was in the old episodes of Sesamstrasse). But now that blurb has been scraped off.

There is also two more birds: a blue bird and a white bird.

Can you give me descriptions of what they look like?

The blue bird is the one who appears in the Sesame Street cover of the jigsaw puzzle, where Ernie, Bert and his friends feed the real-life pigs.

The white bird is called a dove, who also appears in a SS sketch, "Let's Do It (Let's Lay an Egg)".

[Erine81981]

No thats Rosita the Monster. She's not a bird at all.

[muppet maniac]

The white bird is called a dove, who also appears in a SS sketch, "Let's Do It (Let's Lay an Egg)".

I just remembered---he was also on Plaza Sesamo.

[TotallySpiesFan]

I wasn't talking about Rosita. I was talking about the blue bird in the corn field.

[Pino]

was it a big bird too? Or a smaller muppet? :attitude:

[TotallySpiesFan]

A small blue Muppet bird.

[Pino]

does england have its own version of sesame street? or do they just show the us version?
The yhave a kinda of sesame production that is broadcast inbetween the disney hour.. They have two own puppets and the rest is the regular sesamestreet gang like bert and ernie, coockie and elmo.

[MrsPepper]

Wait, Bert and Ernie are in Japan, somehow. My friend is from Japan, and he knows Sesame Street. He has a Bert t-shirt. Are there two different versions, or something?

[Drtooth]

Errr... to the best of my knowledge, no. Most likely Ernie and Bert, like most other SS characters seen internationally are dubbed. The international dubbers claim the characters aren't American Ernie and Bert, dubbed, but they try to make them seem like they are part of the production. But they are dubbed.

[MrsPepper]

Errr... to the best of my knowledge, no. Most likely Ernie and Bert, like most other SS characters seen internationally are dubbed. The international dubbers claim the characters aren't American Ernie and Bert, dubbed, but they try to make them seem like they are part of the production. But they are dubbed.

Ah okay. So they dubb them in Japanese? That would be really interesting to see. Thanks for answering me, I had though my question would never be answered! :)

[Pino]

Maybe there will me alot of crossover in holland soon. This year they exist 30 years and there will be a great theatershow with a lot of the characters in it.. And if they r comming to the Netherlands, maybe they also will appear in Sesamstraat! For the whole info you can read it in the Sesame Times!

[muppet maniac]

Elmo, Narf, and the green female monster(not Phoebe, but the one with yellow pigtails---she was seen with Zoe in one of the Season 36 episodes) are on France's "5 Rue Sesame"

They also have a penguin on there, with a blue beak

[D'Snowth]

Errr... to the best of my knowledge, no. Most likely Ernie and Bert, like most other SS characters seen internationally are dubbed. The international dubbers claim the characters aren't American Ernie and Bert, dubbed, but they try to make them seem like they are part of the production. But they are dubbed.My brother (who is part Japanese) lives in Japan, and told me they air both the original version of our Sesame Street, and then a dubbed version. (This was a few years ago, so they might have changed since then).

And just for the record, here's a guide to what some of the characters are called in other countrys...

Ernie
Anees (Kuwait)
Epi (Spain)
Enrique (Mexico0)
Erling (Norway)
Arik (Isreal)
Ernie (Sweden)
Edi (Turkey)
Yenik (Russia)
Erik (Denmark)

Bert
Bader (Kuwait)
Blas (Spain)
Beto (Mexico)
Bernt (Norway)
Bentz (Isreal)
Bert (Sweden)
Bu..du... (Turkey)
Vlas (Russia)
Bent (Denmark)

Cookie
Ka'aki (Kuwait)
Triqui (Spain)
Lucas (Mexico)
Kakemonsteret (Norway)
Oogie (Isreal)
Kakmonstret (Sweden)
KurabiteCanavari (Turkey)
Korzhik (Russia)
Kage Monster (Denmark)

Kermit
Kamel (Kuwait)
Gustavo (Spain)
La Rana Rene (Mexico)
Kermit (Norway)
Kermit (Isreal)
Kermit (Sweden)
Kurbagacik (Turkey)
Kermit (Russia)
Kermit (Denmark)

Grover
Gargoor (Kuwait)
Coco (Spain)
Archibaldo (Mexico)
Gunnar (Norway)
Kruvi (Isreal)
Greven (Sweden)
Ac,ikgoz (Turkey)
Grover (Russia)
Guffer (Denmark)

Anyone know where Kuwait is?

[Pino]

Elmo, Narf, and the green female monster(not Phoebe, but the one with yellow pigtails---she was seen with Zoe in one of the Season 36 episodes) are on France's "5 Rue Sesame"

They also have a penguin on there, with a blue beak

you mean 1 rue sesame? But that hasn't aired since the late 80's!
What do you mean?:confused:

[Pino]

My brother (who is part Japanese) lives in Japan, and told me they air both the original version of our Sesame Street, and then a dubbed version. (This was a few years ago, so they might have changed since then).

Anyone know where Kuwait is?

Its true.. there where 2 versions.. They started with the dubbed version but because it was too expensive and no one watched it. The network canceled the show.. In the same time another network started with their own version.. this one was a succes... I think the 1st network made the wrong bet ;)

And Kuwait is near the iraq border. That was the reason That golfwar 1 started arround the 90's.. Because Kuweit had a lot of oil and Iraq attaced them for it.

[muppet maniac]

you mean 1 rue sesame? But that hasn't aired since the late 80's!
What do you mean?

Well recently France got a new co-production of SS entitled "5 Rue Sesame".

Its true.. there where 2 versions.. They started with the dubbed version but because it was too expensive and no one watched it. The network canceled the show.. In the same time another network started with their own version.. this one was a succes... I think the 1st network made the wrong bet

No no no no...that's not what happened. THIS is actually what happened:

1971: Sesame Street was first seen on Japanese television(via NHK). Since then, it has become a huge success with merchandising(way better than over here), exhibits, a Sesame Place theme park, and even attractions at Universal Studios in Osaka. The show aired on Saturday mornings at 9(or 8 cant remember which)and in the evening on Sundays, giving older viewers a chance to learn a few English words/phrases. The program was broadcast in both English and dubbed in Japanese. I remember a few years ago during my stay there(around the mid 90s)that it was in English and at the end of the show, they had a segment called "Sunny Day Club", which fans(kids, adults, etc)send in their drawings and SS songs play in the background with a lady's voiceover heard(in Japanese of course she even spoke in some parts of an episode)...one kid even drew a picture of Guy Smiley(!) Occasionally they showed a few SS clips-one was "The Adventures of Prairie Dawn" and the other I think I will talk about later...In 2003-2004, Mr. Donuts had some promotion going on, and Sesame BB(some online program) and Sesame Mobile launched. But then, in March of 2004, NHK(not sure if they wanted to, or maybe some dude forced them to)canceled the show...for good. Sony lost the rights to SS merchandise, therefore all the SSW stores had to be closed down. And in April, someone(SW?) wanted to make a local adaption of the show---but NHK refused to become involved with it. SW teamed up with some Japanese companies and formed Sesame Street Partners Japan(SSPJ for short)to bring it existence...and in October of the same year, Japan's first co-production of SS was launched on TV Tokyo. The only three original characters on there were Big Bird, Elmo, and Cookie Monster, who were joined by four new Muppets: Mojabo, a cross between Stinky the Plant and Telly; a purple female monster Teena, small yellow bird named Arthur, and a blue frog named Pierre. And instead of the familiar brownstone buildings and doors, it was a complete Japanese neighborhood. The new version wasn't such a success as the original. Ratings were decreasing, and while Ernie, Bert, and Grover were seen in archived footage and on merchandise(although not REALLY part of the show like big bird,elmo, and cookie), several other favorites like Oscar, Zoe, and The Count were nowhere to be found. I guess this is similar to the time when Scrappy Doo joined Scooby and the gang, and later Daphne, Fred, and Velma were eased out. But, the good thing was: SSPJ also had the rights to the American show in Japan. Basically whatever new stuff is going to be out-be it merch, events, anything, they will manage all that. And finally, just as expected, the "all that" came. In 2005, Sanrio put out an Oscar the Grouch t-shirt, Count letter set(saw it on auctionsyahoo once), stuff with the characters in 35th art form(memo pads, spiral notebooks, folders, stickers...), mini figures sold in slot machines; a Sesame Street Live show toured in August of the same year; SSPJ opened up an online store on their website-source for vintage US items and even has a special staff talk w/ rare(and cool)SS photos. Sesame BB is still up and running, and so are the stuff at USJ(which SSPJ has nothing to do with because it was added there in 2003, a year earlier) and I was looking on auctions and saw black and white plush of Big Bird(hand puppet), Elmo(puppet/doll/mini doll), Cookie Monster(puppet), and Oscar(mini dolls) Right now, the Japanese version has finished its 52 episode run, and who knows what will happen...

And that's pretty much the end

[Pino]

wow.. was I miss informed then... thanks for clearing this up!
I thought that is was a simple network battle ;)

[zanimum]

you mean 1 rue sesame? But that hasn't aired since the late 80's!
What do you mean?:confused:

Roxie Marie, from the mid-1990s Sesame Street, is also a new character on "5, Rue Sesame".