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Sesame Street: still funny after all these years
Rediscovering Sesame Street ranks among the joys of parenthood. Not all of it, of course, but the skits have impressed me anew in the last three years. They are just downright funny. (I can't understand why they still use those dated videos in other segments, but that’s another matter.)
This “Meal or no Meal” skit had me laughing out loud. Yes, perhaps I need to spend more time with adults, but hey, I’ll return to grown-up social interaction in a few years. For now, I’ll search for laughs amid the simple pleasures of Sesame Street. There are plenty of imitators these days, some of them pretty good, but too often they are, as the saying goes, too clever by a half. Not so here. The “Meal or no Meal” show is hosted by “Howie Eatswell.” That’s funny. And clever.
Now name your favorite Sesame Street skit.
Gretchen Day-Bryant has a son in high school and a daughter in middle school. She’s lived to tell about the struggles of juggling little kids and work...
Joy Oglesby has an infant daughter and a sister 13 years her junior, whom she babies to the now-adult...
Cindy Kent Fort Lauderdale mother of three. Her kids span in ages from teenager to 20s...
Rafael Olmeda and his wife welcomed their first son in Feb. 2009, and he's helping raise two teenage stepdaughters...
Lois Solomon lives in Boca Raton with her husband and three daughters...
Anne Vasquez is the Online Editor in charge of overseeing SunSentinel.com. She is the mother of a 5-year-old boy and a newborn daughter.
Georgia East is the parent of a five-year-old girl, who came into the world weighing 1 pound, 13 ounces...
Brittany Wallman is the mother of Creed, 13, and Lily, 6, and is married...
Chris Tiedje is the Social Media Coordinator, and father of two boys and a girl all under the age of seven.
Comments
You won't sleep after this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM
Posted by: Igor | September 3, 2009 1:40 PM
OK, not quite what I had in mind, but, yes, very funny.
Posted by: Matthew Strozier | September 3, 2009 1:48 PM
My fav Sesame Street moment...hm....has to be from a long time ago, when Mr. Snuffleupagus suddenly become visible to all the other folks...another one is the ad that Elmo did a few years back: whispering to the camer, "We know you're watching!" to the moms and dads! :)
Posted by: Rebecca B. Swets | September 4, 2009 3:59 PM
Sesame Street received a Lifetime Achievement Award at this years Emmys.
The tribute was excellent. It included a clips from their 40! years on there air.
Here is a video of from the Emmy broadcast.
If you watch it all the way to the end Cookie Monster has a surprise. :)
Sesame Street at the Emmys
Posted by: Sesame Street Toys | September 8, 2009 11:57 AM
Hmmmm....there were SOOOOOO many favorites, but I'd have to say that the most pivotal and memorable ones was when Mr. Hooper died...I think this was the first time that Sesame Street dealt with death...VERY moving...I'll NEVER forget that one.
Posted by: BigWill | November 10, 2009 2:16 AM