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* SpaceIsSleepy:

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* SpaceIsSleepy:SpaceIsIntrospective:
** "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" is a song with a slow, lullaby-like melody, in which Ernie mentions that he wants to go to the moon (as well as other weird places like the ocean), but would get homesick and so doesn't want to ''live'' there.


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** The song "We are All Earthlings" has the message that humans and animals should live in harmony because we're all "spinning around together on a planet of the sun".
** Telly once sings a slow, wistful song about what it would be like if he [[InterspeciesFriendship befriended one of the "yip-yip" aliens]].
** Another song about the yip-yip aliens involves a woman who is friends with one of them but is sad because he lives so far away.
* SpaceIsSleepy:
** During the song "I Think That it is Wonderful", which is a sentimental song about what characters love the most and sung at bedtime, Ernie says that seeing the stars is wonderful.

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* WraparoundBackground: Seen in the early 80s Muppet song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95W7cXehn6o Let's Go Driving]]".
* WrapUpSong:
** Starting in season 46, each episode of the show ends with the characters singing "Smarter, Stronger, Kinder" while the ending credits roll. The lyrics are about how much there is to learn on Sesame Street.
** The ''Journey to Ernie'' segments end with the "We Found Ernie" song as Big Bird celebrates finding Ernie.



* WraparoundBackground: Seen in the early 80s Muppet song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95W7cXehn6o Let's Go Driving]]".
* WrapUpSong:
** Starting in season 46, each episode of the show ends with the characters singing "Smarter, Stronger, Kinder" while the ending credits roll. The lyrics are about how much there is to learn on Sesame Street.
** The ''Journey to Ernie'' segments end with the "We Found Ernie" song as Big Bird celebrates finding Ernie.
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* SpaceIsSleepy:
** During the song "I Think That it is Wonderful", which is a sentimental song about what characters love the most and sung at bedtime, Ernie says that seeing the stars is wonderful.
** One song, titled "The Moon Shines", is about the moonlight shining on everything, as the singer is in bed waiting to fall asleep.
** In "Quiet or Loud", the moon is shown sleeping with a nightcap.
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* YourTomcatIsPregnant: Telly's hamster Chuckie, thereafter called Chuckie Sue.

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* YourTomcatIsPregnant: Telly's hamster Chuckie, thereafter called Chuckie being pregnant was the focus of Episode 3860, after the babies were born the hamster was renamed Chuckie Sue.
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** Another example of this was WORM-TV from the early 80's which broadcasted all things grouchy.
** And another was the radio station WCAN from Episode 3838; the "CAN" part alluding to Oscar the Grouch's trash can.
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** A 1986 sketch included Leo the Party Monster promising Telly that they were going to [[Music/{{Prince}} "party like it's 1999"]] at his party.
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* ShareTheSickness: In one cartoon skit, a little girl has a cold and, apparently not realising that spreading a disease doesn't mean you no longer have it, tries to give it to her dog Bozo to cure herself. He doesn't catch her cold, but apparently is already sick with an unrelated cold and doesn't want another one.
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** Including a controversy-inducing one from Grundgetta: "From now on, I am watching [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel Pox News]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBGG9TcBZOA Now there's a trashy news show!]]"

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** Including a controversy-inducing one from Grundgetta: "From now on, I am watching [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel Pox News]].News. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBGG9TcBZOA Now there's a trashy news show!]]"
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* TemptingFate: There was a series of animated sketches made in the 1970s that went like this: a character would proudly tell the viewer that they are dry while someone else is wet, only to get immediately splashed on or dragged into the water. "Now I'm wet too."
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** Cookie Monster and Grover sounded almost interchangeable at first, until Frank Oz decided to make Cookie a GutturalGrowler and pitch Grover's voice up.

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** Cookie Monster and Grover sounded almost interchangeable at first, until Frank Oz decided to make give Cookie a GutturalGrowler guttural voice and pitch Grover's voice up.

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* UnwantedAssistance: Baby Bear often tells to Goldilocks to stop helping.

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* UnwantedAssistance: Baby Bear often tells to Goldilocks to stop helping.



* WrapUpSong: The ''Journey to Ernie'' segments end with the "We Found Ernie" song as Big Bird celebrates finding Ernie.

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* WrapUpSong: WrapUpSong:
** Starting in season 46, each episode of the show ends with the characters singing "Smarter, Stronger, Kinder" while the ending credits roll. The lyrics are about how much there is to learn on Sesame Street.
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The ''Journey to Ernie'' segments end with the "We Found Ernie" song as Big Bird celebrates finding Ernie.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-etFPVRi4HA Cutie and the Beast]], the king decides that his daughter Cutie can only marry a prince. Grover, playing a beast, comes in and the king decides to let him marry his daughter (after an ordeal). When storyteller Bob points out that Grover is not a prince, the king says he knows but also knows that in stories like this the beast ends up being a prince. [[spoiler: Not only does Grover not turn into a prince, but after getting kissed, Cutie turns into a monster.]]

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* WrongGenreSavvy: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-etFPVRi4HA Cutie and the Beast]], the king decides that his daughter Cutie can only marry a prince. Grover, playing a beast, comes in and the king decides to let him marry his daughter (after an ordeal). When storyteller Bob points out that Grover is not a prince, the king says he knows but also knows that in stories like this the beast ends up being a prince. [[spoiler: Not [[spoiler:Not only does Grover not turn into a prince, but after getting kissed, Cutie turns into a monster.]]
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* UpsideDownBlueprints: In Episode 836, Big Bird builds a snowman, but has it standing on its head. When Maria sees it, she asks him if he looked at a picture of a snowman in a book when he built it, and he tells her he did. However, he held the book upside down when he did it. When Maria builds the snowman right-side-up, big Bird tells her that he liked the snowman better when it was upside down.
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-->'''Ernie:''' Well, at least now we can be sad together!\\
''[They start [[CryIntoChest crying into each other's chests.]]]''

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** ''[[Series/GameOfThrones Game Of Chairs]]'', a parody sketch in which they play musical chairs.

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** ''[[Series/GameOfThrones Game Of Chairs]]'', a parody sketch in which they play musical chairs. The writers snuck in a ''ton'' of references to the events from the source material, including some genuine BlackComedy:
--> '''Grover Bluejoy:''' Oh, do not [[OffWithHisHead lose your head]] over that, Neddy baby!
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Three Amigos is a disambiguation


%%* ThreeAmigos: Telly, Elmo, and Baby Bear; Abby, Rosita, and Zoe. For a time, they would hang out together in cliques.
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* WokenUpAtAnUngodlyHour:
** A RunningGag is Ernie waking up his roommate Bert in the middle of the night, usually because he's worried about something, has an unusual request or question, can't sleep, or [[CloudCuckoolander wants to play one of his strange games]]. In one skit, he wakes up the neighbours too by singing, just so that one of them would say what the time was because he was curious.
** In one episode, Oscar is staying the night with Maria and Luis, but he keeps waking them up at night with his SickeninglySweet nightmares, putting them in a grumpy mood.
** In the song "Born to Add", two people yell out addition equations in the middle of the night on the street. This wakes the neighbours, who complain, and even have them arrested.
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike:
** In Episode 3139, Gordon and Susan need a place to spend the night since their apartment is being painted, and they can't spend the night at Angela's apartment since her baby has the chicken pox. Big Bird suggests Hawaii, the park, and his nest, the first of which Susan and Gordon turn down for being too far away, and the latter two Big Bird turns down because it might snow in the former, and some dogs and cats might escape from a pet shop truck if it goes over a bump in the latter. He eventually suggests the Furry Arms Hotel, which is unfortunately overcrowded with a flock of basketball-playing chickens. When Humphrey and Ingrid try to come up with somewhere else Gordon and Susan can stay, they too suggest Hawaii, the park, and Big Bird's nest, but turn down the latter two options for the same reasons as Big Bird.
** In the 38th season finale, when Oscar visits Maria's bathroom as a reporter for Grouch News Network, he remarks that the only way to get the elephant out of her bathtub is to offer him peanuts. Seconds later, Bob shows up (in his only new appearance that season) with a sack of peanuts.
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* ThemeTuneRollCall: Didn't happen in the show itself, but it ''did'' happen in a special rap on [[Series/TheTonightShow]] to celebrate Sesame Street's 50th anniversary, with Black Thought listing off most of the cast's names in what Elmo entitles "The Sesame Breakdown":

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* ThemeTuneRollCall: Didn't happen in the show itself, but it ''did'' happen in a special rap on [[Series/TheTonightShow]] ''Series/TheTonightShow'' to celebrate Sesame Street's 50th anniversary, with Black Thought listing off most of the cast's names in what Elmo entitles "The Sesame Breakdown":
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* ThemeTuneRollCall: Didn't happen in the show itself, but it ''did'' happen in a special rap on the Tonight show to celebrate Sesame Street's 50th anniversary, with Black Thought listing off most of the cast's names in what Elmo entitles "The Sesame Breakdown":

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* ThemeTuneRollCall: Didn't happen in the show itself, but it ''did'' happen in a special rap on the Tonight show [[Series/TheTonightShow]] to celebrate Sesame Street's 50th anniversary, with Black Thought listing off most of the cast's names in what Elmo entitles "The Sesame Breakdown":
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Barkley, Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Guy Smiley\\
Natasha, The Two-headed Monster, Yip Yips and Slimey''\\

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Barkley, Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Guy Smiley\\
Natasha,
Smiley''\\
''Natasha,
The Two-headed Monster, Yip Yips and Slimey''\\Slimey''

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* ThemeTuneRollCall: Didn't happen in the show itself, but it ''did'' happen in a special rap on the Tonight show to celebrate Sesame Street's 50th anniversary.

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* ThemeTuneRollCall: Didn't happen in the show itself, but it ''did'' happen in a special rap on the Tonight show to celebrate Sesame Street's 50th anniversary.anniversary, with Black Thought listing off most of the cast's names in what Elmo entitles "The Sesame Breakdown":
-->''Grover, Bert and Ernie, Zoe, Elmo, Rosita\\
Gordon, Susan, Bob, Linda, Luis, Maria\\
Betty Lou, Little Jerry, Julia, Gabi\\
Snuffy, Telly, Biff and Sully, Abby Cadabby\\
Amazing Mumford, Praire Dawn, Count von Count\\
Herry Monster, Baby Bear, Oscar the Grouch\\
Frazzle, Gladys, Don Music, Hoots is an owl\\
Forgetful Jones and Lefty tryin' to sell you a vowel\\
Barkley, Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Guy Smiley\\
Natasha, The Two-headed Monster, Yip Yips and Slimey''\\

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