Old School Vol. 2 idea thread

[minor muppetz]

Here is a thread to post your ideas for Old School Vol. 2.

I will make a few differnet ideas, to see what would be best or worst. Here is my idea (most episode numbers are selected at random):

Volume 2: 1969-1976

Disc 1:
episodes 2 and 285
Alphabet Classic Cuts:
The Sound of the Letter A
Kermit's B Sounds Lecture
Harvey Kneeslapper: Wanna C?
Typewriter Guy: D
What's My Letter?
Frances Fairy
Two G Sounds
Ernie and Bert: H on TV
I Stand Up Straight and Tall
This is my J
Kermit draws a K
La, La, La
Herbert Birdsfoot talks about M (and W)
Typewriter Guy: N
O-Orange
The King Banishes the Letter P
The Question Song
Harvey Kneeslapper and the mailman
Sammy the Snake
T is for Television
Lefty attempts to sell a U
The Villian in the Pantama Hat
The National Association of W Lovers
X Marks the Spot
Proffessor Hastings talks about the letter Y
The Zizzy Zoomers

Disc 2:
episodes 514 and 666
Seasons 1-5 Classic Cuts:
Song of Nine
Buddy and Jim play checkers
Mah Na Mah Na
Kermit's Bear Excersizes
Near and Far
Ernie stand son the ceiling and pours milk
Pick Your Pet
Somebody Come and Play
The Geefle and the Gonk
Grover thinks his shadow is a scary person following him
Ernie, Bert, and Herry compete for the chair
Mad
Candy Man
The Golden An
Kermit and Bob discuss frogs
Ernie loses Bert at the beach
Roosevelt Franklin counts
The Balad of Casey McPhee
Beat the Time with Grover
Sesame Street News: Cinderella at the ball
Herry and John John count to 20
The Count and Cookie Monster cooperate
Super Grover: Bus Stop
Let's Make a Face
Kermit demonstrates "next to"
Count it Higher
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Ernie and Cookie Monsters differences
Season 6 Classic Cuts (these could be wrong):
Subway
Some of Us Are Here
Four
The Counts Lullaby
The Nobel Ostrich

Disc 3:
season 7 premier
Season 7 Classic Cuts (again, these are guesses):
Proud of Me
Typewriter Guy: Y
The Count spends the night with Ernie and Bert (parts 1 and 2)
Sesame Street News: Pinnocchio
We All Sing with the Same Voice
Sing with Lilly Tomlin
Fonzie says "Aaaay!"
We Coulda
test pilot #1

[furryfella]

Sounds cool! disc3 Season7 Fur, Grover with the row boatHere is a thread to post your ideas for Old School Vol. 2.

I will make a few differnet ideas, to see what would be best or worst. Here is my idea (most episode numbers are selected at random):

Volume 2: 1969-1976

Disc 1:
episodes 2 and 285
Alphabet Classic Cuts:
The Sound of the Letter A
Kermit's B Sounds Lecture
Harvey Kneeslapper: Wanna C?
Typewriter Guy: D
What's My Letter?
Frances Fairy
Two G Sounds
Ernie and Bert: H on TV
I Stand Up Straight and Tall
This is my J
Kermit draws a K
La, La, La
Herbert Birdsfoot talks about M (and W)
Typewriter Guy: N
O-Orange
The King Banishes the Letter P
The Question Song
Harvey Kneeslapper and the mailman
Sammy the Snake
T is for Television
Lefty attempts to sell a U
The Villian in the Pantama Hat
The National Association of W Lovers
X Marks the Spot
Proffessor Hastings talks about the letter Y
The Zizzy Zoomers

Disc 2:
episodes 514 and 666
Seasons 1-5 Classic Cuts:
Song of Nine
Buddy and Jim play checkers
Mah Na Mah Na
Kermit's Bear Excersizes
Near and Far
Ernie stand son the ceiling and pours milk
Pick Your Pet
Somebody Come and Play
The Geefle and the Gonk
Grover thinks his shadow is a scary person following him
Ernie, Bert, and Herry compete for the chair
Mad
Candy Man
The Golden An
Kermit and Bob discuss frogs
Ernie loses Bert at the beach
Roosevelt Franklin counts
The Balad of Casey McPhee
Beat the Time with Grover
Sesame Street News: Cinderella at the ball
Herry and John John count to 20
The Count and Cookie Monster cooperate
Super Grover: Bus Stop
Let's Make a Face
Kermit demonstrates "next to"
Count it Higher
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Ernie and Cookie Monsters differences
Season 6 Classic Cuts (these could be wrong):
Subway
Some of Us Are Here
Four
The Counts Lullaby
The Nobel Ostrich

Disc 3:
season 7 premier
Season 7 Classic Cuts (again, these are guesses):
Proud of Me
Typewriter Guy: Y
The Count spends the night with Ernie and Bert (parts 1 and 2)
Sesame Street News: Pinnocchio
We All Sing with the Same Voice
Sing with Lilly Tomlin
Fonzie says "Aaaay!"
We Coulda
test pilot #1

[TotallySpiesFan]

Volume 2: 1969-1974

Disc 1:
episodes 33 and 256
Season 1 Classic Cuts:
Beautiful Day Monster eats Bert's cake; Ernie is wrongfully accused for eating it
Octopus's Garden
Burt Lancaster's Alphabet
Kermit's What-Happens-Next Machine
People in your Neighborhood: Postman and Fireman
Nancy the Nanny Goat
5 People in my Family
What Are Kids Called?
Everyone Likes Ice Cream
Season 2 Classic Cuts:
The Raisin Army (Henson)
Ernie thinks about borrowing Herbert Birdsfoot's vaccuum cleaner
Jughead's J Story
Has Anybody Seen My Dog?
Alphabet Song by Jim Nabors
The Family Song (with the AM family)
Secret Drawing: Mailman
Little Bird's Imagination Game
One of These Things (with Cookie Monster)
Rhinoceros Love Song

Disc 2:
episodes 355 and 514
Season 3 Classic Cuts:
Mad Painter #2
Mumford's Surprise Trick
Penny Candy Man #8
The Gonk & The Geefle
Little Miss Muffet Number
Ballad of Casey McPhee
Ten Turtles on the Telephone
Harvey Kneeslapper's Door Prank
Bathing Penguins
Ernie puts a pot on Bert's head because--
Sammy the Snake
Season 4 Classic Cuts:
The Count and Ingrid count to 20 in Spanish
Stockperson stacks 12 soup cans in the supermarket
Caveman Story: Exit sign
Sesame Street News: The Tortoise & The Hare
What if an anteater was a giraffe?
Proud (Little Jerry & The Monotones)
Mr. Tweek Tried To Sleep
Kangaroo Blues
Count it Higher

Disc 1:
episode 573
Season 5 Classic Cuts (again, these are guesses):
Everybody Run
Gospel Alphabet (Lena Horne and AMs)
How They Make Cheese
Bert's Brother Bart
Lions
Pageant: Let's Make a Face
Pixellated Farmer: 1-10
Draw the line from the dog to the bowl; underline the hen
Bad Bart's Surprise
Super Grover: Exit
Test Pilot #1 (from Summer 1969)

[minor muppetz]

I started wondering.... if for volume 2 Sesame Workshop decided to put in more episodes, how would you rather see it happen:

1. By having a three-disc set with one extra episode
2. By having the discs be double-sided
3. By having it be a four-disc set

I don't know how the price would be effected if any of that happened (then again, the secodn season of Rocky and Bullwinkle had four double-sided discs and twice as many epsidoes as seasons one and three, but the price was the same). If Sesame Workshop decides to have volume 2 include the next five seasons, I would want there to be double-sided discs to allow for more episodes from the first five seasons and the season 6-10 premiers. That could allow for either 11 episodes, or 10 episodes (if one side of a disc only has one episode), one from each season.

[Son of Enik]

I like the 4 Disc Set idea...let's put out as much as the old episodes as possible.

[BEAR]

I'd really like to see the sets continue on through the years though. I'd like to see such series highlights as Luis/Maria's Wedding, Hooper's Death and Miles adoption. While I love seeing the old episodes from before I was born, I'd also like the moments that I grew up with watching in the 80s.

[minor muppetz]

Maybe it would be a good idea for Sesame Workshop to release a set of the shows most historically-significant episodes, like the opening of the Fix-It Shop, Mr. Hooper's death being explained to Big Bird, Maria and Luis' wedding, Mr. Snuffleupagus no longer being called imaginary, the birth of Gabbi, and the reopening of Hooper's Store. I do wonder if Maria and Luis' wedding epsiodes and the birth of Gabbi should be released as part of a different set, featuring as many epsiodes concerning the wedding and birth of Gabbi as possible. For example, a Luis and Maria set should include the episode where they fall in love, the episode where they get engaged, the wedding episode, as many other related episodes that can fit. A birth of Gabbi set should include the epsiode where it's announced that Maria is pregnant, the epsidoe where Maria is driven to the hospital, the episode where Gabbi is born, and other related episodes that can fit on the set. Maybe some short documentaries about the planning of these episodes can also be included. Of course, for these kinds of sets to work, Maria, Luis, and maybe baby Gabbi would have to be on the cover, and it would probably be the first time that any human cast members have appeared on any kind of Sesame Street DVD covers.

[minor muppetz]

Here are a few ideas for different themed sets:

1969-1974 (again)
1974-1979
1979-1984
1984-1989
Hawiai Trip
Big Bird goes to camp
The Adoption of Miles
Maria and Luis' wedding
Birth of Gabbi
Historically-Significant Episodes

[Medbe Monster]

Disc 1

Episode 3
Episode 5
Episode 19
Episode 355

Bonus Features: The Pilots, and Facts.

Disc 2

Episode 26
Episode 124
Episode 871
Episode 3084

Bonus Features: Sesame Street Clips from Muppets: A Celebration of 30 years, Tutorial: How to make a puppet, and Interviews.

Disc 3
Episode 294
Episode 1839
Episode 2483
Episode 3656

Bonus Features: Behind the scenes pictures, Clips of MadTV Spoofing SS.

Disc 4
Episode 673
Episode 2096
Episode 2358
Episode 2485
Bonus Episode 4109

Bonus Features: Classic Clips: Intro's from the 90's, Ernie's ThunderStorm, The Nose Snatcher, Fuzzy and Blue, Frazzel's Song, The Rhyming Game with Ernie and Bert, Would you like to buy an O?, Ernie teaching Ernistine Names, The All Animal Orchestra, Elmo sings ABC-DEF-GHI, Forgetfull Jones in Okalahoma, The Word is No, Near and Far with FuzzyFace.


Clips of SS All Song Remakes:
I love Trash
Rubber Duckie
Letter L
It's not Easy bein Green
I don't want to live on the moon
Imagination

[minor muppetz]

I like your ideas, but I don't know how realistic they are. The only existing Old School set has only two episodes per disc. I don't know if Sesame Workshop would stretch the budget to four (though it would probably be possible). And the Old School sets are meant to represent the early years. I don't think anything from the 1990s would be included (I would be surprised if volume two includes anything from the 1980s).

[BEAR]

Medbe Monster, Sesame Workshop not going to have MadTV Sesame Street sketches on the Old School sets.

[Medbe Monster]

I know that, I was just posting what my dream SS Old School/Recent Episode Set would look like.

[muppet maniac]

Here are my ideas (and this would continue w/ the 1969-74 era) Of course they should put more episodes from 1969-74, like the ones seen on Muppet Wiki.

Anyway...

The cover art: It would have a "psychadelic" backdrop/design, with Big Bird, Ernie and Bert looking at a TV with an "H" on it, Oscar (in his trashcan, a shot from "I Love Trash"), Cookie Monster, The Count with some numbers, Grover, flowers showing Bob, Gordon, Susan, Mr. Hooper; Snuffy, and there are the cartoons: Wanda the Witch, Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes, Racecars/spies, and so on.

For bonus features, it would be like this: On the DVD menu, you will see numerous characters on the street. Click on these characters and you'll get...

*Big Bird (lamppost):
(on the lamppost)
-"There Goes the Neighborhood" (documentary/feature about the phenomenon of SS---leading to fan bases, and other cool things, even some parodies. Think of this as "When SESAME STREET Ruled the World")
-Puzzles
-"How to Draw Sesame Street Characters"

*Cookie Monster (in window of 123 SS):
(inside Cookie's room)
-Commercial announcing Sesame Street (1969) (TV set)
-Fun facts (shown within a showcase of numerous clips from those years; like the "Muppet Morsels")

*Ernie and Bert (behind the railway of 123 SS):
(click on them and you will be taken into their apartment)
-Photo Gallery (clicking on the frame picture of them)
-Index of E/B sketches (on the TV set)

*Oscar (in [where else?] his trashcan):
(menu would be...INSIDE the can!)
-Test Pilot #1 (1969)
-Trivia Game
-JukeBox (listen to old SS record albums)

*Grover (next to fire hydrant)
(when you click on him, he changes into Super Grover and flies off into the camera, leading to the menu)
(menu would be in the sky)
-Matching Game (match characters in windows of 123)
-Around the World with Sesame Street (45-minute feature)
-Retrospect (interview with the cast and crew, both past and present. You can access this by clicking on Little Bird)

[minor muppetz]

Here are my ideas (and this would continue w/ the 1969-74 era) Of course they should put more episodes from 1969-74, like the ones seen on Muppet Wiki.

Anyway...

The cover art: It would have a "psychadelic" backdrop/design, with Big Bird, Ernie and Bert looking at a TV with an "H" on it, Oscar (in his trashcan, a shot from "I Love Trash"), Cookie Monster, The Count with some numbers, Grover, flowers showing Bob, Gordon, Susan, Mr. Hooper; Snuffy, and there are the cartoons: Wanda the Witch, Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes, Racecars/spies, and so on.

For bonus features, it would be like this: On the DVD menu, you will see numerous characters on the street. Click on these characters and you'll get...

*Big Bird (lamppost):
(on the lamppost)
-"There Goes the Neighborhood" (documentary/feature about the phenomenon of SS---leading to fan bases, and other cool things, even some parodies. Think of this as "When SESAME STREET Ruled the World")
-Puzzles
-"How to Draw Sesame Street Characters"

*Cookie Monster (in window of 123 SS):
(inside Cookie's room)
-Commercial announcing Sesame Street (1969) (TV set)
-Fun facts (shown within a showcase of numerous clips from those years; like the "Muppet Morsels")

*Ernie and Bert (behind the railway of 123 SS):
(click on them and you will be taken into their apartment)
-Photo Gallery (clicking on the frame picture of them)
-Index of E/B sketches (on the TV set)

*Oscar (in [where else?] his trashcan):
(menu would be...INSIDE the can!)
-Test Pilot #1 (1969)
-Trivia Game
-JukeBox (listen to old SS record albums)

*Grover (next to fire hydrant)
(when you click on him, he changes into Super Grover and flies off into the camera, leading to the menu)
(menu would be in the sky)
-Matching Game (match characters in windows of 123)
-Around the World with Sesame Street (45-minute feature)
-Retrospect (interview with the cast and crew, both past and present. You can access this by clicking on Little Bird)

That is a neat idea. Maybe it would be good to make a special featurette on the various characters, including both main characters and secondary/ obscure characters. I am thinking something like the "Cast of Thousands" featurette on Looney Tunes: Golden Collection Vol. 4, which had people talking about the more obscure characters.

It would also be nice to have such rare specials as Out to Lunch (this special wasn't included in either of The Electric Company sets; I hope that Sesame Workshop has the distribution rights to this special), Julie on Sesame Street, The Grover Monster/ Jean Marsh Cartoon Special, and Sesame Street at Night?

[minor muppetz]

I wonder how willing Sesame Workshop would be to get the rights to clips of Sesame Street parodies from other programs. And even if it's for an adult collectors DVD, I still wonder how willing Sesame Workshop would be to show them. Most Sesame Street parodies are innappropiate for children.

[minor muppetz]

I had an April Fools Joke planned regarding the second volume, but due to me not being able to wait much longer and due to the fact that it is similar to the April Fools joke that I pulled last year, I thought I'd reveal it now.

I was going to make a gag post on April Fools Day saying that I contacted Sesane Workshop and got hired freelance to help compile the contents on Old School Volume 2. And there were a few different things that I had considered.

1. I had considered saying that volume two was going to have six episodes instead of five, and would include epsiodes from the first six seasons. They would have been episodes 2, 179, 330, 514, 665, and 666. I was going to say that bonus features would include classic sketches from the first six seasons (including Song of Nine, Jazz #8, Rollercoaster 1!2!3!, Mad, Sesame Street News: Cinderella, Kermit and Grover count blocks, Sherlock Hemlock looks for Bert at the beach, and others). The first test pilot would also be included.

2. I thought of somethign that was similar to number 1, but it would be a dual-layer disc, with features on the back sides. Features would have included: Test Pilot #1 (for disc 1), Julie on Sesame Street (for disc 2), and Out to Lunch (for disc 3), in addition to classic cuts from each season.

3. I thought about saying that the collection would be a four-disc set, with three extra episodes, plus classic cuts and the first test pilot. But it would still be the first five seasons. Episodes would have been episodes 2, 20, 121, 132, 277, 315, 487, and 665.

4. I thought about saying that it would be a four-disc, dual-layered set, with 12 episodes, a test pilot, classic cuts, and the Sesame Street Unpaved documentary. It would focus on the first eight seasons. The episodes would have been episodes 2, 79, 140, 200, 377, 330, 427, 591, 666, 718, 780, and the season 8 premier (I can't remember what that number is).

I was also going to say that Sesame Workshop was working on another collection of box sets, similar to Old School and Fun Packs. This one would be for multi-part episodes. The first set would be the hawiai episodes, and the secodn set would be the episodes where Big Bird went to camp.

Would have made a good april fools joke, eh?

[Rubber Duckie]

I believe 926 is the Season 8 premiere, minor muppetz.

[BEAR]

I wonder how willing Sesame Workshop would be to get the rights to clips of Sesame Street parodies from other programs. And even if it's for an adult collectors DVD, I still wonder how willing Sesame Workshop would be to show them. Most Sesame Street parodies are innappropiate for children.


Do you really think Sesame Workshop would release a DVD with parodies of their own characters in a negative light (ex: Bert and Ernie in a sexual relationship, Kermit on drugs, Big Bird being set on fire by Gordon)? I don't think so.

[minor muppetz]

Do you really think Sesame Workshop would release a DVD with parodies of their own characters in a negative light (ex: Bert and Ernie in a sexual relationship, Kermit on drugs, Big Bird being set on fire by Gordon)? I don't think so.

No, I do not. I never said anything to support the idea, either. I jsut wondered alowed how likely it would be. I'd much rather see some official Sesame Street material on a collectors DVD set.

[BEAR]

No, I do not. I never said anything to support the idea, either. I jsut wondered alowed how likely it would be. I'd much rather see some official Sesame Street material on a collectors DVD set.


I see. No prob.

[Philip Kippel]

IMO, I think that the next SS Old School set should cover Seasons 6-10 (1974-1975).

They would contain the season premiere episodes of each of those seasons (0666, 0796, 0926, 1056 and 1186), plus these 54 additional sketches as Classic Cuts:

1) Telephone Rock
2) Danger
3) With Every Beat of My Heart
4) Count it Higher
5) The Opposite Song
6) Eight Balls of Fur
7) I Want a Monster to Be My Friend
8) Frazzle
9) Subway
10) Simon Soundman at Charlie's Restaurant
11) Count Up to Nine
12) This Frog
13) Six
14) Sesame Street News Flash: Don Music writes "Mary Had a Bicycle"
15) Sesame Street News Flash: Man in Snowstorm (3-part sketch)
16) Cookie Disco
17) Monster Disco In and Out
18) Two-Headed Monster: DANCE
19) Life in the Country, Life in the City
20) Tap Dancers Subtract
21) Pink Panther K for Karate
22) That's What Reading's All About
23) The Dirtiest Town in the West
24) The 10 Commandments of Health
25) Prairie Dawn's Pageant: Let's Make a Face
26) That Furry Blue Mommy of Mine
27) Beat the Time: Grover
28) Alphabet Chat: R
29) Monsterpiece Theater: Upstairs, Downstairs
30) Somebody Come and Play (Big Bird's version)
31) Different Ways (with Big Bird and Buffy)
32) Sinister Sam Looks for Doc Holiday
33) Super Grover: Fighting Over an Apple
34) Bob and Luis' Train Tunnel
35) Typewriter Guy: C
36) I Am Crying (cartoon)
37) Believe in Yourself
38) Counting the Floors
39) M in Space
40) A World Without Music w/Jose Feliciano
41) Mumford's Surprise Magic Trick
42) Yip-Yip Martians: Grandfather Clock
43) The King Banishes the Letter P
44) The Geefle and the Gonk
45) 1-2-3-4-5 (cartoon)
46) Letter B
47) Two is You and Me
48) Wonder Child w/Helen Reddy
49) Ernie & Bert Play Doctor
50) Season 6 Credit Crawl
51) Season 7 Credit Crawl
52) Season 8 Credit Crawl
53) Season 9 Credit Crawl
54) Season 10 Credit Crawl

Bonus Features:
-New Cast and Crew Interviews
-A Special Sesame Street Christmas
-Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (complete, unedited and unaltered)
-A Walking Tour of Sesame Street (10th Anniversary Special)

[TotallySpiesFan]

IMO, I think that the next SS Old School set should cover Seasons 6-10 (1974-1975).

They would contain the season premiere episodes of each of those seasons (0666, 0796, 0926, 1056 and 1186), plus these 54 additional sketches as Classic Cuts:

1) Telephone Rock
2) Danger (cartoon)
3) Letter B
4) Count it Higher
5) The Opposite Song
6) Eight Little Spiders (cartoon)
7) I Want a Monster to Be My Friend
8) Frazzle
9) Subway
10) Simon Soundman at Charlie's Restaurant
11) Count Up to Nine
12) This Frog
13) Six
14) Sesame Street News Flash: Don Music writes "Mary Had a Bicycle"
15) Sesame Street News Flash: Man in Snowstorm (3-part sketch)
16) Cookie Disco
17) Monster Disco In and Out
18) Two-Headed Monster: DANCE
19) Life in the Country, Life in the City
20) Tap Dancers Subtract
21) Pink Panther K for Karate
22) That's What Reading's All About
23) The Dirtiest Town in the West
24) The 10 Commandments of Health
25) Prairie Dawn's Pageant: Let's Make a Face
26) That Furry Blue Mommy of Mine
27) Beat the Time: Grover
28) Alphabet Chat: R
29) Secret Drawing: Fireman
30) Somebody Come and Play (Big Bird's version)
31) Different Ways (with Big Bird and Buffy)
32) Sinister Sam Looks for Doc Holiday
33) Super Grover: Fighting Over an Apple
34) Bob and Luis' Train Tunnel
35) Typewriter Guy: C
36) I Am Crying (cartoon)
37) Believe in Yourself
38) Counting the Floors
39) M in Space
40) A World Without Music w/Jose Feliciano
41) Mumford's Surprise Magic Trick
42) Yip-Yip Martians: Grandfather Clock
43) The King Banishes the Letter P
44) The Geefle and the Gonk
45) 1-2-3-4-5 (cartoon)
46) Pinball Number Count #10
47) Two is You and Me
48) Wonder Child w/Helen Reddy
49) Ernie & Bert Play Doctor
50) Season 6 Credit Crawl
51) Season 7 Credit Crawl
52) Season 8 Credit Crawl
53) Season 9 Credit Crawl
54) Season 10 Credit Crawl

Bonus Features:
-New Cast and Crew Interviews
-A Walking Tour of Sesame Street (10th Anniversary Special)

[minor muppetz]

The last two posts look almost identical, as if the same person used two different user names and duplicated most of the same list.

Pinball Stewie, I would like to point out that Eight Balls of Fur is from later than the second five seasons. The "booklet" (if that's what you'd call it) that came with What's the Name of That Song? gives it a 1989 copyright date.

Both lists are great, though.

[Philip Kippel]

TotallySpiesFan just copied my list, which vexes me so.:mad:

Getting back on topic, since "Eight Balls of Fur" is a 1989 song, I've decided to replace it with another Classic Cut: "Lefty and the Golden AN".

Also, I meant to say "1974-1979" instead of 1974-1975.

[D'Snowth]

IMO, I think that the next SS Old School set should cover Seasons 6-10 (1974-1975).


That's what I was thinking, and to me that seems only logical... I mean after all, Volume 1 was covered Seasons 1-5 (1969-1974), so Volume 2 covering the next five seasons just seems to make more sense then them doing something like 1969-1975/76.

[Philip Kippel]

I've decided to make a couple of changes with my proposed list of Classic Cuts (the changes are in Bold text):

1) Telephone Rock
2) Danger
3) With Every Beat of My Heart
4) Count it Higher
5) The Opposite Song
6) Lefty and the Golden AN
7) I Want a Monster to Be My Friend
8) Frazzle
9) Subway
10) Simon Soundman at Charlie's Restaurant
11) Count Up to Nine
12) This Frog
13) Six
14) Sesame Street News Flash: Don Music writes "Mary Had a Bicycle"
15) Sesame Street News Flash: Man in Snowstorm (3-part sketch)
16) Cookie Disco
17) Monster Disco In and Out
18) Two-Headed Monster: DANCE
19) Life in the Country, Life in the City
20) Tap Dancers Subtract
21) Pink Panther K for Karate
22) That's What Reading's All About
23) The Dirtiest Town in the West
24) The 10 Commandments of Health
25) Prairie Dawn's Pageant: Let's Make a Face
26) That Furry Blue Mommy of Mine
27) Beat the Time: Grover
28) Alphabet Chat: R
29) Monsterpiece Theater: Upstairs, Downstairs
30) Somebody Come and Play (Big Bird's version)
31) Different Ways (with Big Bird and Buffy)
32) Sinister Sam Looks for Doc Holiday
33) Super Grover: Fighting Over an Apple
34) Bob and Luis' Train Tunnel
35) One Way
36) I Am Crying (cartoon)
37) Believe in Yourself
38) Counting the Floors
39) M in Space
40) A World Without Music w/Jose Feliciano
41) Mumford's Surprise Magic Trick
42) Yip-Yip Martians: Grandfather Clock
43) The King Banishes the Letter P
44) The Geefle and the Gonk
45) 1-2-3-4-5 (cartoon)
46) Letter B
47) Two is You and Me
48) Wonder Child w/Helen Reddy
49) Ernie & Bert Play Doctor
50) Season 6 Credit Crawl
51) Season 7 Credit Crawl
52) Season 8 Credit Crawl
53) Season 9 Credit Crawl
54) Season 10 Credit Crawl

[TotallySpiesFan]

Nice ideas, Phillip.

[minor muppetz]

It seems like on the first set that the DVD producers didn't want to show too much of the same type of skits for classic cuts. With the exception of the mystery drawing segments, none of the recurring segments that appeared in the episodes on the set were represented in the classic cuts (well, unless you count Kermit's interview with a kid about what sounds animals make as a Sesame Street News Flash segment, but I don't). And note that the classic cuts didn't include more than one of each recurring sketch (unless you count Ernie and Bert's skits as a recurring segment, but I guess that's debatable). I don't know if the second set will include more of the recurring sketches in the classic cuts feature (regardless of what seasons get represented) or if it will be more like on the first one.

I see good and bad things about whether the set focuses on 1969-1974 again or if it focuses on 1974-1979. And the bad things aren't really that bad. I'll make a list of pros for what decade the next set focuses on:

1969-1974 Pros:
*the episodes will probably be more random (though I wouldn't be surprised if some more historically significant episodes are included), and hopefully we would be able to see some episodes that weren't shown on Noggin.
*there are a lot of great early skits that weren't on the first set (but then again, we would still see early segments on a set of 1974-1979 episodes).
*we can still get to see some rare early characters like the monster family, Miguel, and Professor Hastings.
*Maybe we'll see more of Sam the Robot (though he was on the show for one other season)

1974-1979 Pros:
*we would get to see Roscoe Orman as Gordon.
*we would see Olivia, Buffy, and other characters who were added to the cast during this time period.
*If it focuses on this time period, then we'll probably get the premiers for each of those seasons. So we will get to see more of Roosevelt Franklin, Prairie Dawn, The Count, and Herry Monster, and we'll get to see Sully, Chris and the Alphabeats, Rodeo Rosie, and Fred the Wonder Horse.

[Philip Kippel]

Another idea:

If there were to be another volume of SS Old School to focus on 1969-1974 (Seasons 1-5), maybe they could mark it as Volume 1 1/2. That way, volume 2 can focus on 1974-1979 (Seasons 6-10).

[minor muppetz]

By the way, the song that you had listed as "Life in the Country, Life in the City" is actually titled "City-Country Song".

[Philip Kippel]

Here's another update to my Vol. 2 Classic Cuts list, grouped by season:

Season 6 Classic Cuts:
-Telephone Rock
-Count it Higher
-Lefty and the Golden AN
-Sinister Sam Looks for Doc Holiday
-A World Without Music w/Jose Feliciano
-Yip-Yip Martians: Grandfather Clock
-Subway
-Simon Soundman at Charlie's Restaurant
-The Geefle and the Gonk
-Beat the Time: Grover
-Country-City Song
-Somebody Come and Play (Big Bird's version)
-Caveman Days: Sherlock Hemlock Invents Paper
-Mumford's Surprise Magic Trick
-Sesame Street News Flash: Don Music writes "Mary Had a Bicycle"
-Season 6 Credit Crawl


Season 7 Classic Cuts:
-I Want a Monster to Be My Friend
-One of These Things (with Sam the Robot)
-An Orange Sings "Carmen"
-Simon Soundman Goes On a Trip
-Frazzle
-1-2-3-4-5 (cartoon)
-A Cowboy Shouts Across a Canyon
-Season 7 Credit Crawl


Season 8 Classic Cuts:
-Pink Panther K for Karate
-Different Ways (with Big Bird and Buffy)
-Ernie & Bert Play Doctor
-Monster Disco In and Out
-I Am Crying (cartoon)
-Monsterpiece Theater: Upstairs, Downstairs
-Tap Dancers Subtract
-Super Grover: Fighting Over an Apple
-Season 8 Credit Crawl


Season 9 Classic Cuts:
-One Way
-Count Up to Nine
-M in Space
-Counting the Floors
-Six
-That Furry Blue Mommy of Mine
-Alphabet Chat: R
-Letter B
-Two is You and Me
-The Opposite Song
-Cookie Disco
-That's What Reading's All About
-This Frog
-Season 9 Credit Crawl


Season 10 Classic Cuts:
-With Every Beat of My Heart
-The 10 Commandments of Health
-Two-Headed Monster: DANCE
-Wonder Child w/Helen Reddy
-The Dirtiest Town in the West
-The Wonderful World of T-Shirts
-Season 10 Credit Crawl

[anytimepally]

Another idea:

If there were to be another volume of SS Old School to focus on 1969-1974 (Seasons 1-5)

I really think we need one.. if we don't, we won't see "Mad," "Proud," many of The Amazing Mumford's appearances, the song "High, Middle, Low," and many more news flashes that I'd really like to have



Season 6 Classic Cuts:
-Mumford's Surprise Magic Trick




this was before Season 6.. it's probably Mumford's first appearance, because his voice was different and the magic word was "peanut butter" rather than the "a-la peanut butter sandwiches" he employs later

[minor muppetz]

I really think we need one.. if we don't, we won't see "Mad," "Proud," many of The Amazing Mumford's appearances, the song "High, Middle, Low," and many more news flashes that I'd really like to have



We could still have those, in the later episdoes they were included in, though I would muich prefer to have more epsidoes from the first five seasons, and see those skits as classic cuts (unless they are in the episodes included). Or they could be released on other Sesame Street DVDs (not neccessarily in the Old School series). Of course, if Old School is just meant to be releases of season premiers, then we probably won't get the skits you mentioned in the sets (I know that most of those sketches aren't in any season premiers, though I don't know what is in the one season premier between 1969 and 1989 that wasn't included in Sesame Street Unpaved).

[minor muppetz]

Here is a new updated list, focusing on seasons that I think/ know thye are from:

Season 6:
Drive, Drive, Drive Your Car
Typewriter Guy: N-nose
Some of us are Here
Telephone Rock
Carmen-singing orange
Headball
The People in Your Neighborhood (the version seen in the timeline sequence from The Street We Live On)
Billy Jo Jive (I don't know the plots of any individual sketches)
The Addition Game
Cookie Monster and The Count: three apples

Season 7:
Grover attempts to sell Kermit a set of earmuffs
The Cookie Bunny
The Alphabet with Judy Collins and Snuffy
The Geefle and the Gonk
We Coulda
a caveman mistakes a dinosaur for a rock
Proud of Me

Season 8:
Pinball Number Count #7
One and One Make Two
Somebody Come and Play (with Big Bird)
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Sing After Me
Bert teaches Berniece how to play checkers
boy who hates frogs
a cat tries to open a can of cat food

Season 9:
Ernie wears socks on his ears
Willie Wimple: Land Pollution
Cookie Disco
Mystery Guest
With Every Beat of my Heart
Night Bright-style graphics spell words that end with "en"

Season 10:
Two-Headed Monster: Feet
Super Grover: Super Grover helps a girl tell her friend that she can't visit him
Cast of Charactors (I'v eread that this is the title of the 1-20 cartoon featuring a cameo by an animated Cookie Monster)
Pigeons on Parade
The Opposite Song

[anytimepally]

Season 7:
The Cookie Bunny
We Coulda


these are two of my favorites! :)

[minor muppetz]

I might be ahead of myself, but I thought I'd add what classic cuts I'd like for seasons 11-20.

Season 11:
Born to Add
Believe in Yourself
Cookie Monster (in voice-over) talks to a baby eating a cookie
Sesame Street News: The Princess and the Cookie
Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco

Season 12:
Wheels on my Feet
Ernie brings home a surprise
You're Alive
I Can Do It By Myself
Deena and Pearl pretend to be underwater
a boy thinks that his dogs shadow is an alligator
That Grouchy Face
The Easy Rhthym Rappin' Alphabet

Season 13:
Detective Grover
Ernie and Bert go to the jungle
Sesame Street News: microphone
If I Were
Cocanut Counting Man
Name That Sound

Season 14:
Share
Teeny Little Super Guy: Egg Beater
Proud to Be a Cow
Two-Headed Monster and cardboard cut-out
Telly attempts to sell Kermit a headwarmer
Honk Around the Clock

Season 15:
I Don't Want to Live on the Moon
Grover attempts to sell Kermit sunglasses
Listen to the Bells
D-U-C-K-I-E
Grover the Singing Telegram Delivery Monster

Season 16:
Mr. Snuffleupagus jumps on Big Bird's trampoline
Hola Means Hello
On Vacation with Guy Smiley
Ernie thinks that he sees Mr. Snuffleupagus
Don't Waste Water

Season 17:
Kermit and the Two-Headed Monster talk about co-operating
Monsterpeice Theater: The 39 Stairs
Kermit and Elmo talk about quiet and loud
Sweet Little Baby
High 12

Season 18:
Monsterpiece Theater: The Taming of the Shoe
Ernie counts all the fruits in his bowl
Beat the Time: Elmo
Rock 'N Roll Readers
Miami Mice: The Count needs to be at the space station
It's Hip to be a Square
Do De Rubber Duck

Season 19:
Fay Ray: Animal Disguises
I Wonder About the World Above Up There
The Word is No
U Really Got a Hold of Me
Have You Ever Looked at a Paper Clip?
Scratch My Back
Squeal of Fortune

Season 20:
I Love My Elbows
Best Friends Blues
Chip and Dip help a boy read a sign that spells "CAT"
Super Grover: Computer
Oscar's Junk Band

[Philip Kippel]

this was before Season 6.. it's probably Mumford's first appearance, because his voice was different and the magic word was "peanut butter" rather than the "a-la peanut butter sandwiches" he employs later

Well, then, let's take that out and put "Danger" with Little Jerry and the Monotones back in.

[minor muppetz]

I just learned a mistake that I made. I listed a Willie Wimple sketch for volume 2, focusing on 1974-1979, but I recently learned that the Willie Wimple sketches were made in 1972. All this time I thought they were from the late 1970s.