Help Pick Clips for the 40th Anniversary DVD

[GelflingWaldo]

From MuppetNewsflash.com (http://www.muppetnewsflash.com/2009/04/help-sesame-street-choose-favorite.html):

Genius Products and Sesame Workshop have teamed with Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_84046611_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000356721&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=0EYTF4T5VNAZEGZSEX46&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=473088431&pf_rd_i=130) to let fans vote on their favorite classic Sesame Street clip for inclusion on an upcoming 40th anniversary DVD collection.

Fans who visit Amazon's voting page (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_84046611_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000356721&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=0EYTF4T5VNAZEGZSEX46&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=473088431&pf_rd_i=130) can choose their favorite moment from a slate of 10 classic clips. The winning "fans choice" segment will be featured on the upcoming Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days 2-disc DVD set slated for release in November 2009.

From April 1 to April 28, viewers can view all 10 classic Sesame Street clips and vote for their favorite. Clips included on the ballot include "The King of Eight," "The Alligator King," "What’s the Name of That Song?" "Caribbean Amphibian," "Elmo's Debut," "I Just Adore Four," and others. So surf over to Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_84046611_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000356721&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=0EYTF4T5VNAZEGZSEX46&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=473088431&pf_rd_i=130) and be sure to rock the vote (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_84046611_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000356721&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=0EYTF4T5VNAZEGZSEX46&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=473088431&pf_rd_i=130)!

:wisdom: Go to the Amazon Voting Page (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_84046611_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000356721&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=0EYTF4T5VNAZEGZSEX46&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=473088431&pf_rd_i=130)

[minor muppetz]

Tough Pigs posted a link to an article about this yesterday, yet when I clicked on Amazon, there was no sign of the votting. I also did a google search, and found quite a few online articles about this. I was suspicious since it was posted on april fools day (and I e-mailed the author of the article), but it's good to have found it.

However, out of those, as far as I know, the string reminder sketch is the only one that hasn't been commercially available in english.

But there are some things to consider:
Carribean Amphibian has been released on an out-of-print video but not any region 1 DVDs (it's been on some international DVD releases).
Out of the Pinball Number Count segments, do they have to consider the #12 segment? It's already been released oon video and DVD twice (granted, I don't have either release), and only the #2 and #4 segments have been released on other english DVDs. Then again, it'd be a shame for tis release to not include any pinball cartoons, and a pity that it's apparantly this or none (I'd be surprised if multiple pinball segments are to be considered). I would have chosen #5, the only one not on sesamestreet.org (interestingly, I think all of the nominated clips are available on the website). When I checked the results, this one was in the lead.
While Henson Ball has been released twice on DVD, accoridng to the clip provided the powder ending is to be included. Only the cherry version is on DVD (and Henson Ball is the one I voted for).
Elmo's Debut is not really his first appearance. When I first read that title, I was intrigued, wondering if that was really his first appearance, or the first appearance where he was referred to by name. Instead, it's the 1990s song Happy Tapping, made long after he'd been introduced (unless "Elmo's Debut" is an alternate title, referring to his tap-dancing debut). While it has been released twice on video and DVD, the clip provided is longer than on either release.
I was hoping that all of the street scenes from the "Big Bird's Number 4 Show" episode would be included, not just I Just Adore Four. But if it wins, maybe the whole thing will be released.
For those wodnering (and al you really have to do to know is click on the link), the cast version of What's the name of That Song? nominated is the original version. Since it was recently released on DVD, I was sort of hoping that the 1990s version would have been nominated.

And here is a listing of how many times each segment has been released on video and/ or DVD in america:
The Alligator King - 5
King of 8 - 3
Martian Beauty - 3
Pinball #12 - 2
Henson Ball - 2
I Just Adore Four - 2
Happy Tapping (AKA Elmo's Debut) - 2
What's the Name of That Song? - 1
Carribean Amphibean - 1
String Reminder - 0

[minor muppetz]

I wonder if there'll be any update voting? For example, once this deadline ends, I wonder if a new set of nominated clips will be up. It'd be interesting if fans could vote for a Sesame Street News clip, or a Monsterpiece Theater clip.

[zns]

It doesn't make sense why they can't add all of those clips. Plus, notice that the Pinball segment has the highest vote, not that I don't enjoy it, but most of us have seen that too many times already. But then again, that's just my opinion.

[minor muppetz]

One thing I thought of, regarding the fact that most of the nominated clips have been released on DVD (in many cases, twice) already, is that the winning clip obviously won't be the only clip making it to the release.

[Traveling Matt]

Indeed, why wouldn't all these clips be included? A two-disc set commemorating such a milestone seems a bit on the light side. This should be something that far surpasses the value of the Old School sets.

[minor muppetz]

Indeed, why wouldn't all these clips be included? A two-disc set commemorating such a checkpoint seems a bit on the light side. This should be something that far surpasses the value of the Old School sets.

There are a lot of classic momwents that haven't ever been released on video. Some of those (strung tied, Happy Tapping, Martian Beauty) may be a bit well-known, but I don't think are that well-known. Not enough that they have to be included on an anniversary release. It'd be a shame if this release were to have no Pinball Number Count at all. The DVD seems to be bigger than previous anniversary specials (especially since it seems that it'll be just clips... But then again, we don't know that there won't be any linking footage). That, in my mind, is one of the top ten best-known recurring segments.

I've noticed that the most-released semgnets up for nomination are all animated. Stuff like Rubber Duckie, C is for Cookie, and I Love Trash aren't nominated. I'm sure that they'll all be represented somehow, though I don't know which specific clips will be chosen.

I recall that back when somebody had contaxcted Sesame Workshop and recieved info on SW considering making Old School sets, it had been said that Sesame Workshop needs to renegociate residuals for everything that gets released on video. I guess it makes since that if voting is done that most nominated clips be things that SW has already released, as negotians have already been done. It'd be a shame if Sesame Workshop couldn't clear residuals for whatever the winning clip will be.

[minor muppetz]

I wonder if multiple votes are allowed, or if there's some way to detect computers that users already voted on. I have occassionaly checked to view the results, but the first choice is always selected once I look at the voting page. I like seeing what segments are in the lead, but if I wan tto keep checking, should I make sure the vote is on what I most want to see on the release?

And you know, the fact that hardly any of the clips that I would put on a wishlist are nominated is a good sign. Maybe those are definately considered.

It would be ironic if all of the clips were stuff that I either want to see the most, stuff that I haven't seen in a long time and want to see again, or stuff that I most want to see get an official DVD release (yes, even though they are available for free online).

[Drtooth]

I've noticed that the most-released semgnets up for nomination are all animated. Stuff like Rubber Duckie, C is for Cookie, and I Love Trash aren't nominated. I'm sure that they'll all be represented somehow, though I don't know which specific clips will be chosen.

Oh yeah... we'll likely see those (for the twelth thousandth time) on the release. I voted String Tied, since it's the only thing that hasn't been released on DVD yet. Caribbean Amphibian would be the second choice, but we need that classic Ernie Bert segment to get represented on the DVD.

I'm just disappointed they didn't have a skit request line... I want to see some pretty obscure stuff on this DVD, so I feel I get my money's worth (and not just wind up buying the same ol' stuff). I really want to see Surprise by the Proto-Monotones somewhere (in English with all the cut scenes in tact), or some of the Mo Willems or John R. Dilworth Noodles and Ned stuff... some of the 90's animations you still sometimes see, but haven't been released on DVD yet.

[minor muppetz]

I had thought that all of the nominated clips could be viewed at sesamestreet.org, but I checked and I couldn't find the string segment there. I guess not all of them are on the site. Also, it appears that the site has the cherry ending of Henson Ball, while the clip at amazon is the powder version.

I really want a lot of rarities mixed with many common classics not previously released. I feel that it's important to include Sesame Street News and Monsterpiece Theater, and I figure that they will be represented, but I wonder if there'll be multiple sketches of each or just one each (in my mind it'd be logical to include at least one per disc, though there aren't many News segments made between 1989 and 2009).

It would be wonderful if the set could fit in every recurring character, segment, and situation in some way. I don't know how possible that would be.

[zns]

The string bit with Ernie and Bert should be on there. I thought I saw it. If not, there's always Youtube.com.

[fleecenotfelt]

hey folks! don't know if anyone posted this already (my bad if it already as been), but there's a contest on amazon.com to pick a clip that will be included on the 40th anniversary dvd box set!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_84046611_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000356721

i'm personally voting for the henson rollercoaster ball thingy! loved that growing up!

[heralde]

That's really cool, thanks for posting! I voted for Kermit's Caribeann song since it's one of the few I haven't seen in a while. But it looks like the Bert and Ernie one is winning which is great too. :) :p :(

[minor muppetz]

I don't know if clicking "vote and view results" automatically gives votes to segments or not, or if Amazon can only allow one vote per computer for unregistered users, but if you want to check, I would suggest clicking on a clip you'd want to see on there (the first clip chosen, The Alligator King, always has a check unless you click on a different choice... So unless you want that to have it's sixth DVD release I'd suggest marking a clip you really want included if you desire to check what's in the lead). Last I checked the string tied sketch was in the lead.

[minor muppetz]

Here is a listing of segments that I'd like to see included.

Disc 1: 1969-1989
Bert and Ernie: Appliance War
Kermit's Feelings Lecture
Henson #1
Chickety Chick
Poverty X
The People in Your Neighborhood -- postman and fireman
Jazz #8
Bert and Ernie: Sandbox Game
Everyone Likes Ice Cream
Susan: Alphabet
James Earl Jones: Alphabet
Mahna Mahna
Buddy and Jim: Ironing Board
Rubber Duckie
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
N-Nail
Professor Hastings: Letter Y Lecture
Henson Clay E
Sounds Film (CTW Archives mentions lists three different sound films in the first season, with no details, but it does say that the following must follow a sound film)
Ernie's Magical Sunglasses
Sing
Eleven Cheer
Prairie Dawn Invites 3 Monsters
Banana in Ernie's Ear, Part 1
Imagination Rain
Banana in Ernie's Ear, Part 2
Bill Cosby: Twins Count to 20
Banana in Ernie's Ear, Part 3
Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot: Help
Larry and Phyllis (one we don't know about)
Ernie's Missing Cookies
Roosevelt Franklin Spells His Name
Grover Demonstrates Surprise
Mad
George the Farmer: 5 is always 5
Cookie Monster and Herbert Birdsfoot: Cookie Puzzle
Bonanza cast: Adding Horses
Ernie and the Candy Salesman
Harvey Kneeslapper: Letter B Joke
Mumford: Levitation Act
Candy Man
Mad Painter #4
The Sound of the Letter A
Kermit and Bob Discuss Frogs
Ernie and Bert: String Reminder
Three on Lady's Lap
Wally and Ralph: Peanut Butter
The National Association of W Lovers
The Count and Cookie Monster Co-Operate
Everybody Eats
Julius and Jasper: Elbows
The Golden An
Gymnast: Above
Herry and John-John: 20
Nobody with Snuffleupagus
Grover: The Big Hamburger
Christopher Clumsy: Hole and Wall
I'm an Aardvark
Anything Muppets Draw Shapes
Count it Higher
Kermit and Grover: Heavy and Light
Five Feet High and Rising
The Geefle and the Gonk
Twiddlebugs in the Rain
The Anything-in-the-Whole-Wide-World Prize Game
Bein' Green with Lena Horn
The Addition Game
Tell a Joke
The King Banishes the Letter P
None Some All
Let's Make a Face
I'm Square
Big Bird's Fowards/Backwards Home Movies
G-Goose and Gander
Boy from Indiana
Typewriter: O-Owl
Pinball Number Count #5
Super Grover: Gate Exit
I Want a Monster to Be My friend
Thelma Thumb
Kermit and Grover: Earmuff Salesman
Ernie and the Cookie Bunny
Count Up to Nine
Marshall Grover: Front and Back
Biff and Sully's Chocolate Milk
Admiral Bird
Kermit: T-Shirt Shop
The Cursed Prince
Bert and Ernie: Brad's Bath
Grover Echos 1-10
How to Get to Yellowstone Park
David Disco Skates
Billy Jo Jive: Money Mystery
Fonzie: Same and Different
One and One Make Two
Sign Cartoon: Kiss Me
Proud of Me
Disco Frog
Ernie and Jason: AT Words
Ringmaster #2
David and Maria Imagine Gordon with Hair
Born to Add
Mystery Guest
Thinking of U
The Leslie Mostly Show: Mumford
Geometry of Circles
Letters Make Words: B (or any other segmnets, if others exist)
All By Myself
Me Lost me Cookie
If I Were
Wheels on My Feet
Deena and Pearl: Underwater
I Can Do It By Myself
Two-Headed Monster: Same and Different, Part 1
Cocanut Counting Man
Two-Headed Monster: Same and Different, Part 2
I Like to Sing
Two-Headed Monster: Same and Different, Part 3
Grover: Singing Telegrams
That Grouchy Face
We Coulda
Sesame Street News: Speaking Stick
Teeny Little Superguy: Sharing a Swing
I'm Sad Because I'm Happy
Monsterpiece Theater: Chariots of Fur
Home Run on the Range
Super Grover Fixes Computer
Google Bugle
Remembering Mr. Hooper
I Wish I Had a Friend to Play with Me
Kermit and Telly: Headwarmer Salesman
Big Bird Crosses the Street
Beginning, Middle, End
Caveman Days: Taking the Kid to School
Here is Your Life: 2102 Shady Lane
Kermit's Mystery Box
Opposite Stuff
You Say Hola, I Say Hola
Snuffy Jumps on Trampoline
U Really Got a Hold of Me
Sesame Street News: Old MacDonald and the Spaceship
The Batty Bat
Two-Headed Monster: Zoo or Playground
Detective Series: Knot in Snake
Excuse me Chair
When Bert's Not Here
Miami Mice: The Count
Big Bird and Snuffy: This Little Piggy...
Squeal of Fortune
Forgetful Jones Brushes Teeth
Letter I Candles
African Alphabet
Danny Devito: Bus Stop
Put Down the Duckie
Rock 'N Roll Readers
Kermit and Monster Fix-It Team
Write It Down
Baby Honker Hatches
The American Revolution: National Bird
Monsterpiece Theater: Ali Baba
Ask Oscar: Do grouches Have Discussions?
The Birdland Jump
How I Miss My X
Alone in the Swamp with You
The Picnic
They Can't Take That Away From Me
The Dentist of Seville
The Word is No
Gordon Preaches Rain
Beat the Time: Elmo
Leo the Party Monster: Party Line
Biff and Sully Get Angry
Bellhop #16
Number Creatures #20
Good Morning, Morning
Fay Ray: Animal Disguises
Jake the Snake
Above It All
Susan Surrandon and The Count: Countign Knocks
Ernie brings Bert a Surprise
High 12
Just the Way You Are

Disc 2: 1989-2009
Monster in the Mirror
Elmo's Song
Whoopi Goldberg and Hoots: Pride
Monsterpeice Theater: Twin Beaks
Sesame Street News: They Live in Different Places
Don't Throw That Trash on the Ground
Guy Smiley's Audiences Lunch
Forgetful Jones and Daniella: Yes
Boy Brushes Teeth and Leaves water Running
Two-Headed Monster: Juice Carton
Grover: Taxi Driver
Prairie Dawn's Recylcing Pageant
Sneak Peek Previews: Siskel and Ebert
Bo Knows
Mysterious Theater: The Case of the Missing Cat
I Gotta Be Clean
The Trash Can
This Song is for the Birds
The Adventures of Prairie Dawn: Komquash
Fay Ray: Headphones
Lillian and Pride
I Can Sing When You Sing
Numberella
Gordona nd Linda: Surprise
Super Grover and Super Elmo
Mountain of Love
Simon Soundman: Call
Gonna Rock You to Sleep
The New Here is Your Life: Glass of Milk
Jim Carrey's Feet
Grover: Rival Waiter
Elephant Elevador Operador
The World Wide World of the World
Just Happy to be Me
Don't Touch Me
Ernie Catches Fish
Zork in California
Zoe Releases a Genie
When Oscar Met Slimey
Big Bird's Sun Poem
Bubble on my Snuffle
Rebecca Lobo and the Letter O
Fiesta/ Siesta
Sesame Street Open
Girl of the World
Grover the Photographer
Monsterpiece Theater: ABCD Blue
You Tickle Me
Worms in Space: 17
Ernie's Show and Tell: Rubber Duckies
Suzie Kabloozie: In My Head
Monsters in Day Care: Clean-Up
C is for Cookie
Share with Elmo and Zoe
Sing with the Dixie Chicks
Hero Guy
Bert and Ernie: Animal Patterns
Everybody be Yo'Self
Musical Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood
Number of the Day: 14
Letter of the Day: Q
Spanish Word of the Day: Si and No
Ray Ramona and Grover: Frusterated
Bert Chooses a Pigeon Hat
Global Grover: Alaska
Global Thingy: Race
Journey to Ernie: Beach
Animals in my Room
Don't Know Y
Six Feet Under
Joe Hundread Guy
Letter of the day Games: W
Oscar: Bein' Green
Murray and Kid exercise
Because We're Friends
Grover: 8 Trick
Abby Makes Elmo a Doll
Annie Get Your Gumbo
Meal or No Meal
Feist: 1234
Murray Has a Little Lamb: Karate School
Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures: Outer Space
Upcoming Season 40 Sketches

[Son of Enik]

I shall second minor muppetz list...but I would love to see some real oldies like "Goin' For a Ride", "Everyone Likes Ice Cream" and bits from the very early years.
All in all minor, great list!

[minor muppetz]

I shall second minor muppetz list...but I would love to see some real oldies like "Goin' For a Ride", "Everyone Likes Ice Cream" and bits from the very early years.
All in all minor, great list!

I thought I did put Everyone Likes Ice Cream on the list, but looking at it, I clearly didn't (I guess it's an oversight). And there are a lot of stuff on that list I'd like to see on the set that I didn't include, but we can't have everything, and I tried to limit on same-ness. I thought that the set should include multip,e skits with some of the same old school characters (especially to emphasize that they were regular characters).

But maybe I did go a bit overboard on wishing for clips from the first two seasons...

[minor muppetz]

Man, looking at my list, there are quite a few things that woukd've gone on disc 2 that I forgot to include. Stuff like Things That I Remember, Let's Lay an Egg, Outrageous Makeover: Home Addition, A Cookie is a Sometimes Food, and Sleep! I also regret not listing any CGI Twiddlebugs sketches.

Man, and there are quite a few characters that, to my knowledge, I didn't list any sketches with. Characters like Little Bird, Rodeo Rosie, Sam the Robot, Aristotle, The Busby Twins, Shivers the Penguin, Monty, Barkly, Alice, Natasha, Ingrid, and Humphrey. Some of those I don't know of any exact sketches featuring them. But I probably also should have listed another Two-Headed Monster sketch or two (man, and I didn't list any of their word-sounding sketches... Shame on me!)

But back to the main topic, last night I dreamt that Amazon added more clips to vote for. I can't remember all of the clips, but I do recall the sketch where Jim Carrey showed emotions with his feet being one of the clips.

[dietrich]

What I want to see are sketches with the Big Four puppeteers together (Jim, Frank, Jerry and Richard). If anything I prefer it when they perform AMs. That way they could use different voices

[minor muppetz]

You know, for months since this project was announced (heck, evne before any such announcement, as I had been wishing for such a set... only a four-disc set focusing on different 10-year periods per disc), I had thought that the 1999 special Sesame Street Unpaved would make a good bonus feature. And that special includes some of the clips nominated, like What's the Name of That Song? Henson Ball (I can't remember which ending was shown in that speical), The Alligator King, and King of 8. It also had a Pinball Number Count segment, but I can't remember which one.

[minor muppetz]

If this set must include material found on the Old School sets, I'd prefer it to be some of the street scenes from the first episode (and maybe some inserts, like Henson #3, Jazz #2, Wanda the Witch, and Kermit's W lecture... Though I'd prefer different Henson and Jazz number segments), the cast reciting the alphabet, Big Bird's first meeting with Snuffy, and Barkley being renamed.

[minor muppetz]

Well, the voting should have ended by now. I clicked on the link, and it's written like it was when it was laucnhed (no updates to it being closed). I looked at the results, and it looks like Bert and Ernie: String Tied will be on this release.

So that's one, one sketch that we know will be included, and nine, nine sketches that we know will NOT be included. A-ha-ha!:batty:

[mbmfrog]

Dang I wanted to see the Aligator King short. :(

[minor muppetz]

Dang I wanted to see the Aligator King short. :(

You can see it at sesamestreet.org, and I think on youtube and Sesame Workshop's hulu chanel (not positive there). Or on the Amazon votign page (at least while it's up there). And you can see it if you find, buy and/ or rent copies of Old School Vol. 1, Sesame Street 25 Wonderful Years: A Musical Celebration, The Great Number Game, and/ or Elmo's Sing-Along Guessing Game. It has plenty of availability.

[minor muppetz]

This may not make much of a difference, or at least not now (I figure it's too late for Sesame Workshop to make any changes), but I've been thinking about what would be most important to include on this set, regardless of what we all think is important.

I'd be surprised if this set did not include anything with Big Bird, Oscar, Ernie, Bert, Kermit, Cookie Monster, Grover, Herry, Prairie Dawn, Elmo, Zoe, Telly, Baby Bear, Rosita, Snuffy, The Count, Abby Cadabby, Murray, Natasha, or Slimey. But regarding "old school" characters, I feel that it's important for the set to have at least one clip with the following characters: Roosevelt Franklin, Guy Smiley, Forgetful Jones, Biff and Sully, Don Music, Mr. Johnson, Sherlock Hemlock, Mumford, Martians, Honkers, Dingers, Twiddlebugs, and Two-Headed Monster. I feel like it's important for everybody to be included, but it probably would be hard to represent all the characters.

Of all the recurring Muppet sketches, I feel that it's most important to include Sesame Street News and Monsterpeice Theater. My instincts tell me there should be five or six News segments, and four or five Monsterpeice Theater segments, some on both discs (there aren't many News options for disc 2, if it focuses on seasons 21-40). I think one news report with Don Music and one report with Dr. Nobel Price are musts.

I sort of feel like a full Elmo's World should be on there as well. I wouldn't be disapointed if EW was excluded altogether, but feel that it belongs, especially if footage from certain street stories are included. Other recurring Muppet sketches that I see as a must for the set include waiter Grover (this set should have 2-4, plus some additional Mr. Johnson sketches), Super Grover (I'm thinking 3), The Letter of the Day, The Number of the Day, Spanish Word of the Day, Murray Has a Little Lamb, Global Grover, and maybe Journey to Ernie, Hero Guy, and Monster Clubhouse.

For the non-Muppet inserts, I feel like it should have one sketch each for Jim Henson's season 1 number series, Jazz Numbers, The Mad Painter, The Bellhop, The Typewriter, Teeny Little Superguy, Bert and Ernie's great Adventures, and Pinball Number Count, and a few more for Fay Ray and Suzie Kabloozie.

Well, that's all I think for now.

[GelflingWaldo]

Just got some more details on this upcoming release from Sesame Workshop -- "Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days" will be released on DVD on November 10, 2009 (which is exactly 40 years, to the day, since Sesame Street debuted).

The 2-disc DVD set will include over five and a half hours of iconic moments, songs, and celebrity segments from the past 40 years; plus exclusive never-before-seen backstage footage.

[zns]

Just got some more details on this upcoming release from Sesame Workshop -- "Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days" will be released on DVD on November 10, 2009 (which is exactly 40 years, to the day, since Sesame Street debuted).

The 2-disc DVD set will include over five and a half hours of iconic moments, songs, and celebrity segments from the past 40 years; plus exclusive never-before-seen backstage footage.

Sounds like it's going to be great. I hope that someone on here can post a review of this here on Muppet Central, along with the new book by Louise Gikow. It's gonna be a great Christmas. :insatiable::batty::super:

[ploobis]

Hey Guys,

Check out what I found! I know it's not much info, But it's a great start! :insatiable: :wisdom: :super:

http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Sesame-Street-40-Years-of-Sunny-Days/12460

[minor muppetz]

It's great that there is an official release date. It's interesting that the season premier, the release of this, and the book are all coming out on november 10.

[minor muppetz]

Hmmmm... If it's five hours long, could each disc be two and a half hours, or might one dominate the other?

I wonder if I should look back at the wishlist I posted here, watch the ones that are on sesamestreet.org and check the legnth, then search youtube for some and check the legnth, and then for first season skits not on youtube check the CTW archives first seaosn show content, which lists run times for almost every skit, and then see if what I can find adds up to five hours or less (or more).

[mbmfrog]

It's great that there is an official release date. It's interesting that the season premier, the release of this, and the book are all coming out on november 10.

Wow, the only way it would be better if they actual planned a Television special for the night of Nov. 10th that we don't know about. :insatiable:

[Drtooth]

Wow, the only way it would be better if they actual planned a Television special for the night of Nov. 10th that we don't know about. :insatiable:

They're just gonna show the season opener again. I guess it's a budgetary thing. I blame PBS for it, myself. The only prime time specials they want are for pledge month, and they have to be some elderly friendly music program, some Celtic Music program where they don't actually sing any music that's actually Celtic, and a bunch of infomercials for a book that the writers donated for tax credits.

I'm really hoping that this collection isn't 90% already released footage.

[minor muppetz]

I'm really hoping that this collection isn't 90% already released footage.

Me, too! I'd rather it be 90 percent (man, how do you make that percent symbol?) material available on sesamestreet.org.

[minor muppetz]

Here is a listing of segments that I'd like to see included.

Disc 1: 1969-1989
Bert and Ernie: Appliance War
Kermit's Feelings Lecture
Henson #1
Chickety Chick
Poverty X
The People in Your Neighborhood -- postman and fireman
Jazz #8
Bert and Ernie: Sandbox Game
Everyone Likes Ice Cream
Susan: Alphabet
James Earl Jones: Alphabet
Mahna Mahna
Buddy and Jim: Ironing Board
Rubber Duckie
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
N-Nail
Professor Hastings: Letter Y Lecture
Henson Clay E
Sounds Film (CTW Archives mentions lists three different sound films in the first season, with no details, but it does say that the following must follow a sound film)
Ernie's Magical Sunglasses
Sing
Eleven Cheer
Prairie Dawn Invites 3 Monsters
Banana in Ernie's Ear, Part 1
Imagination Rain
Banana in Ernie's Ear, Part 2
Bill Cosby: Twins Count to 20
Banana in Ernie's Ear, Part 3
Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot: Help
Larry and Phyllis (one we don't know about)
Ernie's Missing Cookies
Roosevelt Franklin Spells His Name
Grover Demonstrates Surprise
Mad
George the Farmer: 5 is always 5
Cookie Monster and Herbert Birdsfoot: Cookie Puzzle
Bonanza cast: Adding Horses
Ernie and the Candy Salesman
Harvey Kneeslapper: Letter B Joke
Mumford: Levitation Act
Candy Man
Mad Painter #4
The Sound of the Letter A
Kermit and Bob Discuss Frogs
Ernie and Bert: String Reminder
Three on Lady's Lap
Wally and Ralph: Peanut Butter
The National Association of W Lovers
The Count and Cookie Monster Co-Operate
Everybody Eats
Julius and Jasper: Elbows
The Golden An
Gymnast: Above
Herry and John-John: 20
Nobody with Snuffleupagus
Grover: The Big Hamburger
Christopher Clumsy: Hole and Wall
I'm an Aardvark
Anything Muppets Draw Shapes
Count it Higher
Kermit and Grover: Heavy and Light
Five Feet High and Rising
The Geefle and the Gonk
Twiddlebugs in the Rain
The Anything-in-the-Whole-Wide-World Prize Game
Bein' Green with Lena Horn
The Addition Game
Tell a Joke
The King Banishes the Letter P
None Some All
Let's Make a Face
I'm Square
Big Bird's Fowards/Backwards Home Movies
G-Goose and Gander
Boy from Indiana
Typewriter: O-Owl
Pinball Number Count #5
Super Grover: Gate Exit
I Want a Monster to Be My friend
Thelma Thumb
Kermit and Grover: Earmuff Salesman
Ernie and the Cookie Bunny
Count Up to Nine
Marshall Grover: Front and Back
Biff and Sully's Chocolate Milk
Admiral Bird
Kermit: T-Shirt Shop
The Cursed Prince
Bert and Ernie: Brad's Bath
Grover Echos 1-10
How to Get to Yellowstone Park
David Disco Skates
Billy Jo Jive: Money Mystery
Fonzie: Same and Different
One and One Make Two
Sign Cartoon: Kiss Me
Proud of Me
Disco Frog
Ernie and Jason: AT Words
Ringmaster #2
David and Maria Imagine Gordon with Hair
Born to Add
Mystery Guest
Thinking of U
The Leslie Mostly Show: Mumford
Geometry of Circles
Letters Make Words: B (or any other segmnets, if others exist)
All By Myself
Me Lost me Cookie
If I Were
Wheels on My Feet
Deena and Pearl: Underwater
I Can Do It By Myself
Two-Headed Monster: Same and Different, Part 1
Cocanut Counting Man
Two-Headed Monster: Same and Different, Part 2
I Like to Sing
Two-Headed Monster: Same and Different, Part 3
Grover: Singing Telegrams
That Grouchy Face
We Coulda
Sesame Street News: Speaking Stick
Teeny Little Superguy: Sharing a Swing
I'm Sad Because I'm Happy
Monsterpiece Theater: Chariots of Fur
Home Run on the Range
Super Grover Fixes Computer
Google Bugle
Remembering Mr. Hooper
I Wish I Had a Friend to Play with Me
Kermit and Telly: Headwarmer Salesman
Big Bird Crosses the Street
Beginning, Middle, End
Caveman Days: Taking the Kid to School
Here is Your Life: 2102 Shady Lane
Kermit's Mystery Box
Opposite Stuff
You Say Hola, I Say Hola
Snuffy Jumps on Trampoline
U Really Got a Hold of Me
Sesame Street News: Old MacDonald and the Spaceship
The Batty Bat
Two-Headed Monster: Zoo or Playground
Detective Series: Knot in Snake
Excuse me Chair
When Bert's Not Here
Miami Mice: The Count
Big Bird and Snuffy: This Little Piggy...
Squeal of Fortune
Forgetful Jones Brushes Teeth
Letter I Candles
African Alphabet
Danny Devito: Bus Stop
Put Down the Duckie
Rock 'N Roll Readers
Kermit and Monster Fix-It Team
Write It Down
Baby Honker Hatches
The American Revolution: National Bird
Monsterpiece Theater: Ali Baba
Ask Oscar: Do grouches Have Discussions?
The Birdland Jump
How I Miss My X
Alone in the Swamp with You
The Picnic
They Can't Take That Away From Me
The Dentist of Seville
The Word is No
Gordon Preaches Rain
Beat the Time: Elmo
Leo the Party Monster: Party Line
Biff and Sully Get Angry
Bellhop #16
Number Creatures #20
Good Morning, Morning
Fay Ray: Animal Disguises
Jake the Snake
Above It All
Susan Surrandon and The Count: Countign Knocks
Ernie brings Bert a Surprise
High 12
Just the Way You Are

Disc 2: 1989-2009
Monster in the Mirror
Elmo's Song
Whoopi Goldberg and Hoots: Pride
Monsterpeice Theater: Twin Beaks
Sesame Street News: They Live in Different Places
Don't Throw That Trash on the Ground
Guy Smiley's Audiences Lunch
Forgetful Jones and Daniella: Yes
Boy Brushes Teeth and Leaves water Running
Two-Headed Monster: Juice Carton
Grover: Taxi Driver
Prairie Dawn's Recylcing Pageant
Sneak Peek Previews: Siskel and Ebert
Bo Knows
Mysterious Theater: The Case of the Missing Cat
I Gotta Be Clean
The Trash Can
This Song is for the Birds
The Adventures of Prairie Dawn: Komquash
Fay Ray: Headphones
Lillian and Pride
I Can Sing When You Sing
Numberella
Gordona nd Linda: Surprise
Super Grover and Super Elmo
Mountain of Love
Simon Soundman: Call
Gonna Rock You to Sleep
The New Here is Your Life: Glass of Milk
Jim Carrey's Feet
Grover: Rival Waiter
Elephant Elevador Operador
The World Wide World of the World
Just Happy to be Me
Don't Touch Me
Ernie Catches Fish
Zork in California
Zoe Releases a Genie
When Oscar Met Slimey
Big Bird's Sun Poem
Bubble on my Snuffle
Rebecca Lobo and the Letter O
Fiesta/ Siesta
Sesame Street Open
Girl of the World
Grover the Photographer
Monsterpiece Theater: ABCD Blue
You Tickle Me
Worms in Space: 17
Ernie's Show and Tell: Rubber Duckies
Suzie Kabloozie: In My Head
Monsters in Day Care: Clean-Up
C is for Cookie
Share with Elmo and Zoe
Sing with the Dixie Chicks
Hero Guy
Bert and Ernie: Animal Patterns
Everybody be Yo'Self
Musical Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood
Number of the Day: 14
Letter of the Day: Q
Spanish Word of the Day: Si and No
Ray Ramona and Grover: Frusterated
Bert Chooses a Pigeon Hat
Global Grover: Alaska
Global Thingy: Race
Journey to Ernie: Beach
Animals in my Room
Don't Know Y
Six Feet Under
Joe Hundread Guy
Letter of the day Games: W
Oscar: Bein' Green
Murray and Kid exercise
Because We're Friends
Grover: 8 Trick
Abby Makes Elmo a Doll
Annie Get Your Gumbo
Meal or No Meal
Feist: 1234
Murray Has a Little Lamb: Karate School
Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures: Outer Space
Upcoming Season 40 Sketches

An official list of contents was announced today, and by my count only 18 of what I put in that wishlist will make it into the set (unless the chapter stops don't include everything, or if maybe there are easter eggs...).

[minor muppetz]

It's kind of interesting... For most of the choices that didn't win, we still got something on this set that was pretty much similar. Pinball #12 didn't win, but we still got a Pinball segment. The Alligator King and Martian Beauty didn't win, but we still got a Budd Luckey cartoon (though only one). King of 8 and Henson Ball didn't win, but we still got two Henson films (though I'd be shocked if we didn't get any baker films). We didn't get the original What's the Name of That Song? but we still got a version of the song. We didn't get Carribian Amphibean, but we did get a Kermit song from the late-1980s that had been released on The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street, but never on any full-english-language north american DVD.

It's only a little hard to determine what Big Bird and Elmo segments are there in place of I Just Adore Four and Elmo's Debut (aka Happy Tapping). I guess Elmo's Song is there in place of Elmo's Debut (pretty much everything else starring Elmo pairs him with a celebrity). And I can't think of what Big Bird segments could be a good substitute... There's no solo Big Bird songs, and no Big Bird clips from the 1970s.

And most interestingly, the remembering string sketch is only a bonus feature, "Fan Favorite". I wonder if all the main program clips were already planned... If that's the case, we could have gotten two Pinball segments, or two versions of What's te Name of That Song? And in fact we do have another season two Bert and Ernie segment on the set.

And I wonder if the voting was unfair competition. After all, one commercially unreleased segment vs. several that had been released commercially... If all the nominated clips were previously unreleased, I wonder if this one would have won. Or if the nominations were half-released sketch and half-unreleased.