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| 12 | Despite ostensibly being aimed at preschoolers, there are '''tons''' of things that [[ParentalBonus fly over the target audience's heads]] and make ''Series/SesameStreet'' enjoyable for all ages. |
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| 17 | [[folder: General]] |
| 18 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh8b4qh-jW0 This early skit]] where Kermit speaks about the letter B. Then Cookie Monster (unnamed at the time) emerges and starts consuming the letter piece by piece. The B turns into an R, then a P, to an F, to a I? A small L? Number 1?, so Kermit tries to keep up with the letter change. |
| 19 | ** Even though Kermit can't at the moment think of any words for the letter "P", in reference to the letter "F" is: [[AccidentalInnuendo "Now the letter 'F' starts a number of words I can think of."]] Including the word "frog", but he didn't mention that. |
| 20 | ** Also in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QloUMRs5ryI the longer version of this sketch]] is Kermit's humorous rant about the future Cookie Monster's manners which prompts the monster to apologize... with a big, slobbering, monster kiss on Kermit's face followed by Kermit's patent "Yeesh" face. |
| 21 | * A RunningGag in episode 64 (1970): Ernie, awaiting an important phone call from Bert, lets Cookie Monster use the phone to call his mother on the condition that he keeps the call short. It ends up being one of the ''longest'' telephone calls ever made. First, Cookie recounts his day at school, listing off the various items his classmates brought for Show and Tell, including a peanut butter sandwich, a xylophone, a postage stamp with a picture of UsefulNotes/MillardFillmore, ''chocolate-covered mushrooms'', and an ''orangutan''. Second, Cookie talks about winning a game of jump rope at recess, not missing until his 4,615th jump - and ''counting'' from 1 to 4,614. Next, Cookie asks his mom about her day, and an increasingly frustrated (and [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]]) Ernie offers him a cookie to end the call. Cookie eats the cookie, but ''doesn't'' get off the phone. When Cookie finally ends the call, Ernie chews him out for taking so long, to which Cookie declares he's ''not'' finished with the phone, and proceeds to devour the receiver, saying it's his lunch. Finally Bert calls, and Ernie is forced to speak into Cookie's open mouth to communicate with Bert. |
| 22 | ** On top of all that, there's the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, with Cookie referring to himself as "Tiny" and speaking perfect English, using "I" instead of "Me." |
| 23 | * At Luis and Maria's wedding, Big Bird cheers loudly, and Gina snaps his beak shut with both hands. |
| 24 | ** In the first scene of the episode, Maria tells Linda that she wants to shout about getting married from the rooftops at 6:30 in the morning. Linda encourages it, because in her words, "I am deaf." |
| 25 | ** While the priest conducts the ceremony, the wedding guests launch into a voice over song, sharing fond memories and their thoughts about the union. Elmo is the ring bearer, and his only contribution to the song is a panicked SurvivalMantra of ''"don't drop the rings."'' |
| 26 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAqGGpj0Ans Kermit's attempt at giving a lesson on emotions]] gets interrupted by Cookie Monster, who proceeds to eat the visual aid Kermit had prepared to demonstrate what "happy" looks like. Kermit then decides to demonstrate what "mad" is himself, and flips out and unleashes an ''epic'' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech upon Cookie Monster. Since this makes Cookie Monster cry, Kermit then decides to use him as an example of what "sad" looks like. After forgiving Cookie Monster, Kermit mentions that he doesn't need the "sad" visual aid anymore... so Cookie Monster happily scarfs it down. |
| 27 | --> '''Kermit:''' I think I'm going to have to talk about being mad again... '''''LISTEN, YOU DUMB STUPID ROTTEN MONSTER!!! HOW DARE YOU'''''... |
| 28 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7ozvoUg0N0 whole "bus stop" skit]] is a tour-de-force of ComedicSociopathy at its most savage. Oscar, representing the Department of Grouch Transportation, has a bus stop sign put in Kermit's living room, which results in several grouches intruding to wait for the bus, and then the bus driving through Kermit's house. |
| 29 | * In an early episode, the aftermath of Kermit's rectangle lecture visited by Cookie Monster. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfzZGGe8Dho "It's a wreck, and a it's a tangle! Ahahahaha."]] |
| 30 | * "Has Anybody Seen My Dog?" Grover brings the distraught Marty a cat, a monkey, a rabbit, and a fish - all Muppets - declaring each of them to be Marty's missing dog. Just when Marty and Grover have given up hope, Marty's dog comes back - an ''actual'' dog, not a Muppet. Grover turns to the viewer, perplexed, and says, "THAT'S a doggie?!" |
| 31 | * A hilarious TakeThat at both [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAEt9YNAc4A those who believe the Veggie Monster rumors and the media in general.]] A newsman sees Cookie Monster eating vegetables, and thinks that this means he is now the "Veggie Monster", believing in a FalseDichotomy that one can only like cookies ''or'' vegetables and not both. At one point, Cookie Monster even [[DisguisedInDrag disguises himself as a woman named Rosemary]] so he won't be caught eating veggies and mistaken for Veggie Monster again. |
| 32 | * After Grover pesters Kermit too many times to purchase earmuffs, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb03Ig6SB3g Kermit confesses he doesn't have any ears.]] |
| 33 | -->'''Kermit:''' FROGS DON'T HAVE EARS! [[HandWave We hear anyway.]] |
| 34 | * The skits that have dog-headed humans acting out various mundane activities: |
| 35 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-QiU1pPx-M Mechanic.]] |
| 36 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgQNx_aRZgk Home Cooking]], made funnier with the [[ThrowItIn right cook's subpar discipline]]. |
| 37 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94cYXJre8uk Barber.]] |
| 38 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrJnzBFzEEY Don Music banging his head on the piano while songwriting with Kermit the Frog.]] Want something more hilarious than banging his head on the piano? Check out the nonsensical lyrics and Don's over-the-top reactions to them. |
| 39 | ** "Up above the world so high, like a diamond in a pie" (even funnier, when Kermit later suggests "a cherry in a pie", Don asks what a cherry pie is doing in the ''sky''.) |
| 40 | ** "Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a kitty." (He also points out the unusual lyrics of the original song and asks why you would call anything macaroni, [[CaptainObvious except for macaroni.]]) |
| 41 | ** The Mary Had a Little Lamb one introduces a [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife yellow lamb and a blue canary]] in the failed rhyming attempts. Considering Big Bird is the color of a canary and [[Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird ended up being covered in blue paint at one point]], [[HilariousInHindsight it's even funnier]]. |
| 42 | * The entirety of the classic sketch "The Magic Apple" from ''Sesame Street''. Bob is narrating a book that is in turn being performed by Ernie and a couple of other muppets. [[NoFourthWall Fourth-wall violations]] abound. But this sketch gets especially funny when they trot out a very reluctant Bert in drag, who had to play the part of the princess in the script because no one else was around to do so. "You look great, Bert. You're beautiful!" |
| 43 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ9g62YE1N4 Forgetful Jones singing "Oklahoma" wrong (and Kermit's reaction each time)]]. |
| 44 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfXm5qFZnXQ Kermit's visit to the Wonderful World of T-Shirts]]. He wants a shirt with his name and species on it, but he keeps getting shirts for Kermit the "Gorf", "Forg", and "Grof". As it turns out, these shirts aren't misspelled; there actually ''are'' a trio of monsters named Kermit the Gorf/Forg/Grof. With each wrong order, Kermit gets more and more agitated... |
| 45 | -->'''Kermit''': ''I'M KERMIT THE FROG, AND I WANT MY KERMIT THE FROOOOOOOOOOG T-SHIRT!!!!''\ |
| 46 | '''Salesperson:''' Oh, well, no reason to get emotional.\ |
| 47 | '''Kermit:''' [[IResembleThatRemark I AM]] ''[[IResembleThatRemark NOT]]'' [[IResembleThatRemark GETTING EMOTIONAL!!]] |
| 48 | ::In the end, Kermit is told that his shirt isn't even ready yet, causing him to slowly turn towards the camera, then FaintInShock. |
| 49 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTqCVJW2qOw ABC Cookie Monster]]: Joey Calvan sings the alphabet song with Kermit, but every so often, giggling hysterically, she replaces one of the letters with "Cookie Monster". Kermit's reactions are priceless. After the fourth time (she switches "next time won't you sing with me?" to "next time Cookie Monster"), Kermit says, [[DeadpanSnarker "Next time Cookie Monster can do this with you.]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I'm leaving! Hmmmph!" and storms off.]] It becomes a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} when the little girl immediately says, "I love you!" and Kermit comes back on: "I love you, too." And she kisses him. You can actually hear the usually imperturbable Jim Henson [[{{Corpsing}} barely stop himself from cracking up]] as he says "You're just teasing me." |
| 50 | * Oscar was, on the day of Gabi's birth, the only one making regular contact with Luis. Oscar, doubting his honor as a grouch, refuses to tell a soul whether the baby has been born. Bob uses reverse psychology to assure Oscar that he is as grouchy as ever. It doesn't work. Pretty soon, David and Gordon are at their last hair and about to explode at Oscar. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTGb3YVIt8o Take a look at this]]! |
| 51 | * The Season 43 premiere features Alan hosting an important function for a cookie lovers' club. He tells Chris to take Cookie Monster far away from Sesame Street, "...maybe Canada..." |
| 52 | * When a woman complains about her friend (who turns out to be a Yip-Yip) living very far away, Telly says, "Like China?", prompting her to say, "Even farther", so he says, "Like New Jersey?". |
| 53 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shbgRyColvE Kermit, Cookie Monster and the Mystery Box]]. It's performed expertly and it is gut-bustingly hilarious seeing Kermit lose his temper, and CM performing WildMassGuessing. |
| 54 | ** Even better, Cookie Monster shows a hilariously uncharacteristic DeadpanSnarker side. |
| 55 | --->'''Cookie Monster:''' No cookie, no guessing game from clues. Arrivederci, frog! |
| 56 | ** The first few seconds has this gem: |
| 57 | ---> '''Cookie Monster:''' Is it cookie? |
| 58 | ---> '''Kermit:''' Uh, no, it is not a cookie. |
| 59 | ---> '''Cookie Monster:''' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Buh-bye]]. |
| 60 | * One episode from Season 37 has Cookie Monster doing his own version of "Elmo's World" called (naturally) "Cookie's World". It's an InternalHomage that goes close to SelfParody at some points. |
| 61 | * Kermit resolving a conflict between [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdIEm4AIWV0 Cookie Monster and Herry Monster over a bicycle]]. There are two funny things in this skit-- one is that apparently Cookie and Herry have never heard of sharing (they say, "Share?!" in puzzlement) and two, it turns out that they were planning to ''eat'' the bicycle instead of ride it. |
| 62 | * The first appearance of the Martians, where they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTc3PsW5ghQ attempt to communicate with a telephone]]. Literally with the telephone. |
| 63 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBNJ0BH3Dgs In this video]], Cookie Monster waxes philosophical about food while touring the Guggenheim Museum: |
| 64 | -->"Your stomach thinks all potatoes are mashed." |
| 65 | -->"Cookie dough is the sushi of deserts." |
| 66 | -->"What was the best thing ''before'' sliced bread?" |
| 67 | * For some underrated gems, check out the Alphabet Chat segments from the '70s. Hosted by Mr. Chatterly, a scholarly British man who discusses different letters in each episode (or tries to), they eventually devolve into chaos as other Muppets barge in and ruin everything. They basically are just the classic main four Muppeteers (Jerry Nelson as Chatterly and Henson, Oz, and Hunt as the various goofy passers-by) goofing around with each other and improvising, and they're almost always funny. The later, more tightly-scripted segments are also decent, but the chaos of the originals is always funny. |
| 68 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_8r_LxoyNE this episode]], when Telly is disguised as a banana, and two monkeys think he is a real banana, then he runs away, one of the monkeys says, "Hey, did you see that banana [[{{Pun}} split]]?" |
| 69 | * From [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1j6g7vK0tU Goodnight Natasha]], these two lines: |
| 70 | --> Goodnight to your beak. Uh, whoops! You're not a bird. |
| 71 | --> Goodnight to your mouth and your moustache above it. Oh, you do not have a moustache, do you? Well, I'd love it even if you did. |
| 72 | ** And just after the song: |
| 73 | --->'''Humphrey''': She's sleeping just like a baby. Oh, she is a baby! |
| 74 | * The News Flashes, with Kermit as a roving reporter covering various fairy tales and nursery rhymes, provide plenty of laughs in their subversions of the plots we expect. |
| 75 | ** During a [[https://youtu.be/UFOm-ngFbMg?t=3m32s Rapunzel]] News Flash from 1972 (with a ''heavily'' Brooklyn-accented Rapunzel), [[PrinceCharmless Prince Charming (who was anything but)]] yelled [[BigShutUp "OH, SHUT UP!"]] to Rapunzel after her wig fell off her head and he couldn't find his horse. This moment could also be as close as ''Sesame Street'' could get to swearing. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-fK8rYa45Q official Sesame Street YouTube clip]] [[{{Bowdlerise}} fades just as the Prince is about to yell]]. However, an "Old School" DVD release [[{{Recut}} retained the original ending, plus a few extra seconds which had never been aired before]]. |
| 76 | ** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no1ilt3VjBY Hare and the Tortoise]] News Flash from 1973 opens with a hilarious IsThisThingOn joke at Kermit's expense as he tells a technician, "Yeah, Teddy, put $2 on Goody Two Shoes in the fourth... On Camera? No, on Goody Two Shoes- oh, ''I'm'' on camera!" As for the sketch itself, the tortoise trundles off slowly while the hare, true to the source material, relaxes by the starting line, planning to sprint to the finish after giving the tortoise a generous head start to make things more interesting. So Kermit goes to the finish line to cover the outcome... and is declared the winner instead! |
| 77 | ** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TemExNuY2Q Three Little Pigs]] News Flash from 1973 opens with another IsThisThingOn gag as Kermit asks an off-screen crew member "So Jeff, how's the wife?... She's on camera??... Oh, ''I'm'' on camera!" As for the sketch, the pig in the straw house laughs uproariously at the idea that the Big Bad Wolf might blow his house down, but when the Big Bad Wolf shows up and starts blowing a gale-force wind, everything '''but''' the straw house is blown away - including, inevitably, Kermit himself. |
| 78 | ** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRhgqZcpFdw Sleeping Beauty]] News Flash from 1973 doubles as an illustration of the concepts of "near" and "far" at first, but takes a turn for the hilarious when Prince Charming kisses Sleeping Beauty and she wakes up - and turns into a frog. She and Kermit take an almost immediate shine to each other and go off together as the prince looks under the bedclothes, evidently wondering where the beautiful sleeping princess went. |
| 79 | ** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_hoV9pCoXA Snow White]] News Flash from 1974 sees Kermit interviewing the Magic Mirror (face and voice provided by Jerry Nelson), who, before the queen's arrival, tells Kermit that she will ask who the fairest of them all is, and that his answer of Snow White always drives her up the wall. When the queen arrives, Kermit hides, but the queen decides to change the question to enforce an OverlyNarrowSuperlative on the mirror. It backfires: |
| 80 | --->'''Queen:''' ''[enters with a microphone, cackling to herself]'' Ah, Mirror, I'm gonna getcha this time! ''[cackles]'' Let's see, this mic working here? ''[blows on it a few times, then makes a few clicking noises into it]'' Testing, one two! Okay, okay. ''[into the mic as if it were a two-way radio]'' Mirror, Mirror, come in Mirror, over!\ |
| 81 | '''Mirror:''' ''[appearing in the glass]'' Mirror here.\ |
| 82 | '''Queen:''' ''[cackling]'' All right. Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?\ |
| 83 | '''Kermit:''' ''[peeking out of his "place of concealment" behind a curtain]'' Uh, well, uh, that's the question, folks, uh, we all know what's going to happen next, don't we? Mmm. ''[hides again]''\ |
| 84 | '''Queen:''' ''And...''\ |
| 85 | '''Kermit:''' ''[peers out again]'' Hold it! She's changing the question!\ |
| 86 | '''Queen:''' ''[cackles to herself]'' Who's the fairest of them all '''and''' is wearing a ''hat'', has two ''beautiful'' eyes, is ''green'', is in the ''same room'' with you right now, and is holding a ''microphone! [cackles]''\ |
| 87 | '''Kermit:''' Wow, this is certainly very clever of the witch, because, uh, the mirror cannot possibly answer "Snow White" because Snow White doesn't have all that stuff. ''[nods, and hides again]''\ |
| 88 | '''Mirror:''' Who's the fairest of them all... ''[the queen cackles]'' Is wearing a hat...\ |
| 89 | '''Queen:''' ''[indicating it with her mic]'' Right here, kid!\ |
| 90 | '''Mirror:''' Has two beautiful eyes...\ |
| 91 | '''Queen:''' ''[indicating them with her mic]'' Look at these, baby!\ |
| 92 | '''Mirror:''' Is green...\ |
| 93 | '''Queen:''' Mmm!\ |
| 94 | '''Mirror:''' Is in the same room with me right now...\ |
| 95 | '''Queen:''' Yeah!\ |
| 96 | '''Mirror:''' And is holding a microphone...\ |
| 97 | '''Queen:''' Lay it on me, baby! ''[Kermit peeks out of his hiding place]''\ |
| 98 | '''Mirror:''' Kermit the Frog! ''[Kermit and the queen are stunned]''\ |
| 99 | '''Kermit:''' Me?? Me? I'm the fairest? Oh really? Uh, well, uh, thank you! ''[the Mirror gets a knowing look and vanishes again]''\ |
| 100 | '''Queen:''' You know what?\ |
| 101 | '''Kermit:''' This is Kermit the Fair Frog here...\ |
| 102 | '''Queen:''' He ''is'' kinda cute!\ |
| 103 | '''Kermit:''' ... returning you to your regularly scheduled, uh, programme.\ |
| 104 | '''Queen:''' Those are sweet flippers, where'd you get them?\ |
| 105 | '''Kermit:''' Oh, thank you... |
| 106 | ** As a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuUxpEHTdL8 Cinderella]] News Flash from 1979 gets under way, Kermit is telling Cinderella and her stepsisters not to wave at the camera or "act stupid" when they get the cue that they're live. No prizes for guessing what happens when Kermit starts his "Hi-ho, this is Kermit the ''Frog'' of ''Sesame Street News''" spiel! And then Prince Charming shows up with the glass slipper, setting off a RunningGag in which he strikes suitably heroic poses that involve looking skyward, causing Kermit to repeatedly trail off mid-sentence and look in the same direction, visibly thinking "What ''is'' he looking at!?" As for the glass slipper, it doesn't fit the stepsisters ''or'' Cinderella - it fits their ''cow''. |
| 107 | --->'''Kermit:''' ''[sighing]'' These fairy tales are beginning to get me down. ''[to camera]'' Uh, this is Kermit the Frog, returning you to your regularly-scheduled shoe- er, show.\ |
| 108 | '''Prince Charming:''' ''[completely straight-faced]'' Funny, you look different than that night at the palace. ''[to the fourth wall]'' Dad will be [[{{Pun}} udderly]] surprised. ''[the cow nods]'' |
| 109 | ** In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Wl553wsVw Rumplestiltskin]] one, "Rumpelstiltskin" is actually his ''last'' name, with guesses for his first name including "Fred" and "Barry". |
| 110 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6F7iiiNJo Old Mother Hubbard]], Kermit points out the PainfulRhyme of "bone" and "none". Also, Lamont the dog can talk, and he ends up ordering food over the telephone. |
| 111 | ** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L60sNSVClY Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe]] sketch introduces the eponymous old woman's neighbours-- the Young Man Who Lived in a Glove, and the Young Woman Who Lived in a Hat (who also makes animal noises for no apparent reason). |
| 112 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MImD69J_pR0 this 1983 segment]], Dr. Nobel Price "invents" a [[RobotMe robotic double]] of Kermit named "Sherman the Hoppity Hop." The real Kermit is even more frustrated with Dr. Price than usual, and Sherman even copies Kermit's trademark scrunched-up frustrated face! The cherry on top is Sherman's voice being Richard Hunt doing a wacky robotic Kermit impression! |
| 113 | * While [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovoilDJethU this episode]] was mostly serious, there was a funny song about Telly and Baby Bear's friendship, especially these lyrics. |
| 114 | --> '''Baby Bear''': I'm [[Literature/ThroughTheLookingGlass Tweedle-Dee and you're Tweedle--]] |
| 115 | --> '''Telly''': Dum. Wait a minute, I want to be Tweedle-Dee! |
| 116 | * Whenever Ernie tries to make his and Bert's share of food or drink "equal" by eating or drinking some of Bert's. |
| 117 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDQb1AnYx_o This episode.]] |
| 118 | ** This conversation between Zoe and Telly. |
| 119 | ---> '''Telly''': Guess what I'm going to do today! |
| 120 | ---> '''Zoe''': You're gonna boing on your pogo stick? |
| 121 | ---> '''Telly''': No, I'm going to welcome people to Sesame Street ''while'' I'm boing-ing on my pogo stick. |
| 122 | ** Telly on "boing-y-ness": |
| 123 | ---> '''Telly''': You need to boing with just the right amount of boing-y-ness. |
| 124 | ---> '''Zoe''': 'Boing-y-ness'?! |
| 125 | ---> '''Telly''': Yeah. Not too boing-y, just boing-y enough. |
| 126 | ** This conversation. |
| 127 | ---> '''Oscar''': Why don't you borrow ''my'' pogo stick? |
| 128 | ---> '''Telly''': ''Your'' pogo stick?! |
| 129 | ---> '''Oscar''': Well, ya know what they say, don't you? "You give a pogo stick, you ''get'' a pogo stick". |
| 130 | ---> '''Telly''': I never knew they said that! |
| 131 | ---> '''Gordon''': Neither did I. |
| 132 | * In a 1973 skit, Cookie Monster wanders into Mike's Bakery looking for something yummy that rhymes with the word "buy." He apparently fails to notice the pie sitting on the counter and proceeds to eat first the letter "I" in Mike's nameplate and then Mike's ''tie''. Enter Guy Smiley, who announces he wants to buy the pie on the counter. Cookie Monster suddenly remembers what he'd like to eat that rhymes with "buy" - ''GUY'' - and begins chasing Guy Smiley around the bakery. |
| 133 | -->'''Mike:''' But what about the pie?!?\ |
| 134 | '''Cookie:''' ''[chasing Guy out of the store]'' Send me the bill. |
| 135 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ZC3p2bA-E The episode where Big Bird gets "C is For Cookie" in his head]]: |
| 136 | ** Eventually, he ''can'' stop singing it but doesn't ''want'' to. |
| 137 | ** Marilyn Horne sings ''opera'' of "C is For Cookie" (which leads to the Bird pulling off a "I am getting sick and tired of this" look as he sings with Telly and Rosita), which inspires a group of kids to dress up as ancient Egyptians and walk around the street singing "C is For Cookie", calling themselves "opera people". Susan basically sums this up. |
| 138 | ---> '''Susan''': Did I see a group of singing kids and monsters dressed up as Egyptians? |
| 139 | *** Followed by this line from Oscar the Grouch. |
| 140 | ----> '''Oscar''': Yeah, aren't they annoying? Hey, come back! |
| 141 | ** When the "opera people" parade past Oscar's can. |
| 142 | ---> '''Oscar''': Hey, that's really annoying. (they leave) Hey, come back here! I ''like'' being annoyed! |
| 143 | ** Big Bird's failed attempt at singing the alphabet. |
| 144 | ---> '''Big Bird''': A, B, C...is for cookie, that's good enough for me. |
| 145 | ** This BilingualBonus from Luis and Maria at the end, when Big Bird chooses to sing the song of his own accord. |
| 146 | ---> '''Luis''': El esta loco. [[note]]Translation: He's crazy.[[/note]] |
| 147 | ---> '''Maria''': Es increible. [[note]]Translation: It's incredible.[[/note]] |
| 148 | ** With "C is for Cookie" a main part of the episode's plot, one would expect Cookie Monster himself to make an appearance on the street. And he does, a few times. The second time, though, is a particular laugh-worthy moment: he tells Big Bird to quiet down so he can watch a Monsterpiece Theater sketch. Yes, ''Cookie Monster'' told Big Bird to stop singing '''his own signature song!''' |
| 149 | * Mr. Johnson brings a painting of a very elderly-looking woman to Grover's framing shop. |
| 150 | --> '''Grover''': What a sweet painting of your great-great grandmother. |
| 151 | --> '''Mr Johnson''': That's my ''wife''! |
| 152 | --> '''Grover''': ''(beat) ...ouch.'' |
| 153 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GmoCq6t1w4 The Watermelons and Cheese song]], about how when you answer the telephone, (unless you're [[AnthropomorphicFood a watermelon or a cheese yourself]]), don't say "[[NonSequitur watermelons and cheese]]". That's funny enough on its own, but also funny are Bert, Cookie Monster and the Count's phone answers. |
| 154 | --> '''Bert''': Hello. No, this isn't Ernie's duckie. |
| 155 | --> '''Cookie Monster''': Hello. You got cookie for me please? |
| 156 | --> '''Count''': Hello. You are caller number one. |
| 157 | |
| 158 | --> '''Bert''': Hello. Bernice, it's for you. |
| 159 | --> '''Cookie Monster''': Hi. Me get off now. Me eating cookies. |
| 160 | --> '''Count''': Hello, you are caller number two. |
| 161 | * That time Cookie Monster spent the night at Ernie's while Bert was visiting relatives. He has a nightmare in which he's in a bakery, surrounded by flying cookies which have eyes and mouths and can sing, and which he is unable to catch. The cookies then start dive-bombing and attacking him, and Cookie frantically tries to swat them away. Ernie awakens Cookie, reassures him it was all just a bad dream and offers him a plate of cookies to cheer him up. At this, Cookie freaks out and runs off, crashing through the bedroom wall and leaving a perfect ImpactSilhouette. |
| 162 | -->'''Ernie:''' Cookie Monster afraid of cookies?! I can't believe that.\ |
| 163 | '''Cookie Monster:''' ''[returning]'' Me no can believe it either. COOKIE!!! ''[starts devouring the cookies on Ernie's plate]'' |
| 164 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUaqlPcDRvA In this one]], Cookie Monster raps about how he wants to eat the cookie with the letter of the day ('R') frosted on it, but his rule is he's not allowed to eat it while singing--then, he eats it anyway because [[LoopholeAbuse there's no rule against]] eating it ''after'' singing. |
| 165 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmfHgClMhhA this one]], the letter's "K" and Cookie Monster claims that he has "turned over a new leaf, in fact he's turned over a whole tree." |
| 166 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w9UDG5UTDU this one]], the letter is "H" and he decides to hide the cookie (because hide starts with H), but hides it in his tummy. |
| 167 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1kqSrjJlqA this one]], the letter is "D" and he makes a sign saying "Don't" to remind him not to eat it. However, he gets so hungry that he eats the "n't" part of the sign and concludes that the sign now says, "Do" so he ''does'' eat the cookie. |
| 168 | ** Cookie Monster's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEFG2AvGDMo Letter of the Day segment for the Letter L]] from Season 33. Cookie Monster tries to sing to maintain self-control so as not to eat the cookie, singing famous Sesame Street songs at first but ultimately breaking out into Beethoven's Fifth Symphony before he quickly consumes the cookie! |
| 169 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZtUxy3mnb0 For the Y segment,]] he locks the cookie in a suitcase, only to find out after lifting it up he notices the suitcase had no bottom, exposing the cookie. He then eats the cookie, and after he did, the suitcase falls. He then proceeds to eat the suitcase, but then gets stuck, and has to eat his way out. |
| 170 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2WhBtmpqCA Cookie Monster thinking the moon is a cookie]]. Highlights include: |
| 171 | ** Oscar calling Slimey a [[LiteralBookworm bookworm]] for taking many books out of the library. |
| 172 | ** Cookie Monster saying "Says who?" when Gordon tells him the moon is not a cookie. |
| 173 | ** Slimey saying that he doesn't know whether or not the moon is a cookie because he didn't taste it, and later saying that he wished he had. |
| 174 | ** Cookie Monster wondering if he could jump or climb a ladder to the moon. |
| 175 | * At the beginning of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZZLYY25VJM this episode]], Elmo says that Ruthie is selling new stuff. Then, we get this. |
| 176 | -->'''Ruthie''': Well, it's not exactly new, Elmo. You see, people give me their old stuff to sell when they don't need it anymore. |
| 177 | -->'''Elmo''': Oh, so it's old stuff, but Ruthie just got it, so it's new stuff. It's new old stuff. |
| 178 | ** In the same episode, Elmo saying, "Earth to Ruthie" when Ruthie is deep in thought. |
| 179 | * Several in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJKkF4Q1Kzw this episode]]. |
| 180 | ** The entire premise is that Telly learns that you can put all kinds of things on a sandwich and adds each thing to his sandwich, until he gets a [[DagwoodSandwich really tall "everything" sandwich.]] |
| 181 | ** Telly's utter bewilderment at foods that would seem normal together to most people (example: "Wow! You can put ''fudge sauce'' on ''vanilla ice cream''?!") |
| 182 | ** Telly worries that if he eats lettuce on his sandwich, he'd lean back, fall off his stool, roll down the street and crash into Lexine who's bouncing on her pogo stick and she'd fly through the air and land in Oscar's can. |
| 183 | * Speaking of sandwiches, there is [[https://youtu.be/1JxcJ2-MRAU?t=1m40s a scene in the 1998 video "Big Bird Gets Lost"]] As it begins Big Bird and Maria have gone to the store to buy Snuffy some new roller skates. When the salesman asks them what size they need and they are not sure, he tries to compare them to the only object he has on hand, which is a submarine sandwich. Cue the salesman cramming the sandwich into his mouth until it is shortened to the right size. |
| 184 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBPTd1gdWSM This 1969 sketch]] involving a proto-Grover who sounds like Cookie Monster, and a hippie puppeteered by Henson. In it, proto-Grover constantly demands to be first in line, and nothing else. The sketch was banned because proto-Grover was essentially partaking in civil disobedience. Just the very concept of civil disobedience on ''Sesame Street'' makes this sketch a classic. |
| 185 | * Maria's WackyCravings during pregnancy are satisfied by grouch cooking. Oscar is delighted and Luis is ''very'' [[{{Squick}} disgusted]]. |
| 186 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqGVoiRjG64 This skit]] focuses on a cat who hates the rain. A fairy offers him three wishes: first he wishes it would never rain again but [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor things dry up]] so he wishes he knows what's going on. The fairy explains that rain is important, so the cat wishes it would rain. The fairy then says this hilarious line. |
| 187 | -->'''Fairy''': "Those are the worst three wishes I'd ever gotten from anyone." |
| 188 | * During the episode where we see how Elmo, Big Bird and Prairie Dawn met when Elmo was an infant, Big Bird was three and Prairie Dawn was four, little Prairie Dawn greets her mother and the mom says, "Say hi to Mommy again!", to which Prairie literally says, "Hi to Mommy again!". |
| 189 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SR8oWmTz1I The ending to Prairie Dawn's pageant about heavy and light]]. Monty gets so tired of lugging around a boulder that he drops it on Prairie's piano. But that isn't what causes it to break, [[TheLastStraw Merry Monster's feather does]]. |
| 190 | * [[https://www.twitch.tv/videos/266790615 In this 1970's cartoon insert]], A Doctor has patient weighing in the opposite pattern of light and heavy with the chorus humming to ''Stars and Stripes Forever'', When it reached the boy with the king's crown weighing in heavy after previous tall heavy man, The doctor grabs the boy and shakes all of his belongings and weighs in light. |
| 191 | * From [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQDh35-ynKo this episode]]: |
| 192 | ** A woman mistaking her radio for a toaster. |
| 193 | --->'''Customer''': My toaster plays radio programs and it doesn't make good toast at all. |
| 194 | --->'''Maria''': This isn't a toaster, it's a radio. |
| 195 | --->'''Customer''': Oh. |
| 196 | ** In Elmo's story, there is an official position called the Royal Elmo and the sandwich maker is having a problem because "everybody wants a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but he only knows how to make jelly and peanut butter sandwiches." |
| 197 | ** "Sesame Street was brought to you by the royal letter S and the very royal number 18". |
| 198 | * When Oscar goes to the dump, he misses a call from his Aunt Crabella. Maria is near the telephone, but everytime the phone rings, she picks it up and Aunt Crabella hangs up. She tries again, and again, but still the same thing happens. When Oscar comes back, Maria complains about it, and Oscar points out that Aunt Crabella only calls to hang up on people. |
| 199 | -->'''Oscar''': Did my Aunt Crabella call? |
| 200 | -->'''Maria''': Yes, she called several times, but everytime she calls, she hangs up on me! |
| 201 | -->'''Oscar''': Well, of course she hangs up! My Aunt Crabella does not call to talk to me on the phone! |
| 202 | -->'''Maria''': She doesn't? |
| 203 | -->'''Oscar''': NO! Every time she calls, she can hang up! Boy, that makes me grouchy! |
| 204 | * When Ernie calls Elmo "little Elmo", Elmo calls Ernie "big Ernie". |
| 205 | * In one episode, Telly's uncle gives him a pogo stick he's too young for because he mistook his nephew (who's in ''daycare'') for a teen. |
| 206 | * Pretty much all of the Waiter Grover sketches, in particular: |
| 207 | ** Little Hamburger, Big Hamburger: Fat Blue orders a hamburger, and Grover offers him either a little or a big hamburger. He starts off with a little hamburger, but it is ''way'' too little. Against Grover's wishes, Fat Blue orders the big hamburger, which turns out to be HUMUNGOUS!!! During this skit, Mr. Johnson says that the little hamburger is too small to feed a flea. Grover jokingly says that he wouldn't know because he's never fed a flea before. |
| 208 | ** Grover's Waiter's Memory: Fat Blue orders a cheeseburger with french fries and a pickle, but Grover doesn't write that down, instead relies on his "Waiter's Memory" relying on making up a poem about it. ("Round and tasty on a bun / Pickles, french fries, yum yum yum! / In a hurry to be fed / Beady eyes and big blue head") Unfortunately, this system turns out to be flawed, as Grover brings out a grapefruit on a hamburger bun instead. When Mr. Johnson asks Grover to just bring him his meal, Grover refuses, stating that it is time for his lunch break. He decides to eat a cheeseburger with french fries and a pickle. |
| 209 | *** The sketch is even funnier when placed in the context of the episode's street scenes. Mr. Johnson originally went to Hooper's Store and ordered a cheeseburger there, only deciding to eat at Grover's restaurant because of the monster's assurance that the service had improved. After the events of the Waiter's Memory sketch, Mr. Johnson returns to Hooper's and asks for his cheeseburger, but Gina reveals she had given it to a different customer. The scene cuts to Grover nonchalantly eating the burger. |
| 210 | ** Grover the Singing and Dancing Waiter: At a Spanish restaurant, Grover offers Fat Blue four specials: Numero ''Uno'', Numero ''Dos'', Numero ''Tres'', and Numero ''Cuatro''. But each time he serves each tray, the guitarist plays, indicating it is time for him to dance, each time, causing the food to fall off the table. |
| 211 | --->''Graaaa-NAAAAAAAAA-DAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!''\ |
| 212 | Granada, Cadiz, Sevilla\ |
| 213 | Where butter is called ''mantequilla''\ |
| 214 | You are treated so fine\ |
| 215 | When you come here to dine\ |
| 216 | I'm always delighted to see ya!\ |
| 217 | ''¡OLÉOLÉOLÉOLÉOLÉOLÉOLÉOLÉOLÉOLÉOLÉOLÉOLÉOLÉOLÉOLÉOLÉOLÉ!'' (CRASH!!!) |
| 218 | *** Finally the guitarist takes a lunch break, and Grover promises Johnson it won't happen again. He then brings out a Numero Uno, intact... but it's an ''actual'' number 1, with a giant stack of ''papas'' (potatoes) on the side. |
| 219 | ---->'''Grover:''' ''Bon apetito''! That is Spanish for, "Enjoy!"\ |
| 220 | ''[Mr. Johnson faints.]'' |
| 221 | ** The inevitable FlyInTheSoup sketch: It starts with Mr. Johnson telling Grover there is a fly in the soup, but Grover looks next to the soup, under the soup, and on the soup and not in the soup. Mr. Johnson asks for another soup, and Grover gives him cream of mosquito! |
| 222 | ---->'''Grover''': I dunno, Charlie, we got a weirdo here, he comes here a lot. |
| 223 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WTW4vj_0dA Grover messing up with the pizza that Mr. Johnson ordered]]. Grover says the pizza will take a long time, even though the company is called Speedy Pizza. When Mr. Johnson points this out, Grover explains that they have to grow the ingredients. Also, when Mr. Johnson asks for "something on top", he puts something (namely a flowerpot) on top of ''himself'' and he runs off in the middle of Mr. Johnson's request for sausage and mushroom, and so thinks he ordered a pizza with "saw". |
| 224 | ** A 1989 skit finds Grover working at O'Brien's Fast Food Restaurant - so named because the pre-made food (O'Fish, O'Bread, O'Salad and O'Milk) shoots down a conveyor belt at lightning speed, and if you fail to catch it, you're out of luck (and you still have to pay for your meal anyway). After failing to catch his entire order, Johnson in exasperation asks if they have any ''slow'' food, and Grover says yes, but it has to be served by their slow waiter - a turtle named Tony (performed by Martin Robinson) who talks as slowly as he moves ("Beeeeee with yoooooou in a moment, siiiiiir"). Johnson finally gives up and yells he's going to Charlie's for lunch, and Grover follows him with the intention of waiting on him at Charlie's too. Cue Johnson fainting and Grover remarking, "He O'Fainted." |
| 225 | ** Also from 1989: Mr. Johnson stops into an airport restaurant for a fried-egg sandwich before catching a flight to South America. When Grover hears this, he gets excited and starts gushing about how much he's always wanted to visit South America, simply because of a map of the continent that just happens to be hanging on the wall in the restaurant, and forgets all about the sandwich. This causes Johnson to miss his flight, and after he furiously lashes out at Grover, Grover remarks that at least he can still look at the map. Johnson faints. |
| 226 | ** Johnson wanders into John's Bakery for a donut, only to find Grover working at the counter. Fat Blue is the only customer in the store, but Grover makes him take a number for service anyway - ''40'' - and makes him wait as he counts from one to 40. The skit has two different endings: |
| 227 | *** When Grover calls number 40, Johnson orders a jelly donut and asks that it be put in a bag. Grover then makes him take a number for the bag... number ''41''. HereWeGoAgain. When Johnson faints, Grover scolds him, telling him the floor is no place to take a nap. |
| 228 | *** In the alternate ending, when Grover calls number 39, a teacher appears and orders ''120'' donuts, a different one for each kid on her class field trip. Same result: Johnson faints. |
| 229 | ** Really, ''any'' Grover and Mr. Johnson sketch is absolutely hysterical. Particularly if you recall the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early sketches]], in which Grover was competent but Mr. Johnson was unreasonable - sure, it's just a case of CharacterizationMarchesOn, but it's funny to think that Grover's tormenting of his customer for all these decades was in revenge for the events of those first couple of sketches. |
| 230 | ** One exquisite moment is when Mr. Johnson [[BreakingTheFourthWall looks at the camera]] in absolute horror and exclaims, "Does he work ''everywhere?''" In yet another sketch, he actually asks Grover that question directly, and Grover gives him a BluntYes. |
| 231 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaSeuMptfQ4 In one skit where his customer is Simon the Soundman who orders a chicken sandwich]], he still gives out the wrong order as he always does with Mr. Johnson. First he brings out an elephant sandwich, then a telephone sandwich (when Simon sends it back, Grover can be heard telling Charlie the cook, "Wrong number on the telephone sandwich!"), then a guitar sandwich; Grover flinching when Simon "says" a few extra guitar chords to him - ''twice'' - is the icing on the cake. |
| 232 | ---> '''Simon the Soundman''': I don't know why my brother recommended this place, the service is terrible.\ |
| 233 | [...]\ |
| 234 | '''Grover''': ''[toward the kitchen as he brings out the guitar sandwich]'' You know this man eats with his raincoat on? He's really weird, Charlie... |
| 235 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TJznmLsZAs This skit]] has Mr Johnson at an Italian restaurant, where he orders spaghetti but Grover only serves him one piece. He asks for more and only gets one more piece of spaghetti. When he asks for more again, he gets one piece again, which is actually ''less'' spaghetti. And when Grover finally serves him enough, he gives him ''way'' too much spaghetti. |
| 236 | *** During the skit, Mr Johnson asks Grover if he works everywhere, to which Grover replies, "Well, yes, sir, I do.". |
| 237 | *** Grover and Mr Johnson on the single piece of spaghetti. |
| 238 | ----> '''Mr Johnson''': You call this lunch? |
| 239 | ----> '''Grover''': At this time of day, yes, sir. At night, I would call it dinner. |
| 240 | ** In one skit from 1980, there are just nine entries on the menu, numbered 1-9 - in order, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a hot dog, pastrami on rye, lentil soup, ''arroz con pollo''[[note]]rice with chicken[[/note]] (which Grover goes full LargeHam to recite), the "ever popular" chicken croquettes, tuna salad, egg salad, and the special of the day. Mr Johnson decides to order a number 9, the special of the day... and it turns out Grover was speaking literally when he said "Number 9 is the special of the day", as he brings out a tray with a 9 on it. Mr Johnson, however, tells Grover he doesn't want the 9 - it's medium rare, and he likes his 9s well done! |
| 241 | ** The Coffee Plant: In Jerry Nelson's final performance as Mr. Johnson (aired after Nelson's death), Johnson visits a coffee shop only to discover that the barista is Grover (in one of Frank Oz's final performances in that role), who promises him "the freshest cup of coffee INNNNNNN THEE WORLD!!!". The reason the coffee is so fresh: the store has its own bush of coffee beans for customers to pick and stalks of sugar cane from which sugar is made. It also has Gladys the cow, whom Grover has to milk to get the milk for Johnson's coffee. While a grumbling Johnson's back is turned and while Grover is milking Gladys, the cow drinks the coffee Grover has already made for Johnson... and it turns out caffeine makes her crazy, as she starts chasing Johnson around the store while Grover starts picking the beans to make more coffee. The scene ends with a hyped-up Gladys [[EatTheCamera Eating The Camera]]. |
| 242 | * In "Baby Bear's Baby Doll", Telly and Baby Bear argue over whether the dinosaur or the baby doll should be the driver of the toy bulldozer. Telly claims that babies are too young to drive but Baby Bear reasons that cars and trucks didn't exist in dinosaur times and "a baby is a human and humans can drive". |
| 243 | * One animated skit involves a letter U talking about words that begin with U and showing them to a dog. The dog says that he can't read because he's a dog, so the words are useless to them. |
| 244 | * One animated skit involves a dog stealing a boy's letter I, thinking it's a bone. Eventually, the boy writes out the word "ICICLE" so that they have one I each, and the dog starts gnawing on his "bone"... and says it tastes just like a letter I. |
| 245 | * One cartoon involves a witch turning a girl into various things and the girl insists she's still herself. |
| 246 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGHF2P_USE4 This 70s skit]] involves Cookie Monster and the Count cooperating, agreeing to count the three cores from the apples Cookie Monster ate. When the Count does his SignatureLaugh, Cookie Monster starts imitating it, and they keep at it for a while, and the result is ''hilarious''. |
| 247 | * In ''The Magical Wand Chase'', when the bird is in her human disguise, she says "Hi! I'm a person!" when Elmo, Abby, and Rosita encounter her. |
| 248 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL0doYVl3nM From this cartoon about size]]: |
| 249 | ** One very short man with very big feet stands on his tiptoes and says, "Now I'm big!", but is told, "No, you're still small." |
| 250 | ** Another very short guy (although taller than the big-footed one) is playing a regular-sized violin and calls it big. A regular-size man snatches it and says, "It's small." |
| 251 | ** A man is holding a bone up to a weenie dog and saying, "You're small." The dog stands on his hind legs and snatches the bone, to which the man says to himself, "He's big, this is small." and holds up a balloon. When it's blown up, a creature says, "Now it's big." and pops it. |
| 252 | ** A man says, "I'm big", but a bird says, "Uh-uh, small." and reveals that the man was on stilts. Then, a second bird comes and says, "I'm big, you're small!". The two begin making themselves taller and arguing about who's the biggest until the second one puffs himself up, winning. |
| 253 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYz32l2lXBo this skit]], the police are trying to arrest a big, bad wolf. They bring in a ''little'', bad wolf, a big, ''good'' wolf, and a big, bad ''chicken'' before finding the big, bad wolf, who is wearing a fake beard. |
| 254 | * In this [[https://youtu.be/jwoWBrT-FyU clip]], Oscar tries to mess around with The Count by asking him to count the number of the day, which is 0. The Count catches onto this, and has fun messing with Oscar, such as saying he has 0 horns. Oscar's increasingly annoyed behavior sells this. |
| 255 | * Harvey Kneeslapper is so wrapped up in his pranks, to the point of maniacally laughing while he's trying to talk, and his pranks are so horrendously corny and dumb, you're laughing ''at'' him, not ''with'' him. His bits often cross the line into AntiHumor. And it's even funnier when his pranks backfire. It helps that he was performed by Creator/FrankOz at his hammiest. |
| 256 | * During the final scene of "Baby Bear's Just Right Cafe", Mr. Johnson asks if he's still serving lunch. Baby Bear says yes, and that they hired a new employee... which is Grover. Cue Mr. Johnson '''fainting'''. |
| 257 | * The Kermit/Grover demonstration sketches are always good for laughs, especially on the rare occasions Kermit turns the tables on Grover for a bit of revenge for the many demonstrations his overexuberance has ruined. |
| 258 | ** "Short and Long" from 1973 starts with Kermit demonstrating "short" by singing a note for a short time, then telling Grover to sing a note for a long time - so long that he almost passes out from lack of oxygen when Kermit finally tells him to stop. Next, Kermit hops on one foot for a short time, and then tells Grover to hop on one foot for a long time - once more, so long that he falls over from the exertion. Grover insists that for the third iteration, ''he'' should demonstrate "short" while Kermit demonstrates "long". Kermit agrees, and tells Grover to tickle him for a short time, which he does... then Kermit starts tickling Grover for a long time! |
| 259 | ** The 1974 "Up and Down" sketch starts with Kermit at the bottom of a very long staircase, and when Grover insists on helping, Kermit tells him he can demonstrate "up" by climbing the staircase... which turns out to be ''much'' longer than he anticipated, forcing him to stop for breath several times before obeying Kermit's instructions to keep climbing. Finally, he gets to the top... and is stunned to find Kermit there waiting for him! Kermit innocently explains that he took the elevator, whereupon Grover faints and falls back down to the bottom of the staircase - leading to Kermit congratulating him for demonstrating "down". |
| 260 | ** "Light and Heavy" from 1975 sees Kermit dealing with Grover's intrusion (he insists his help will be "a Christmas favour") by taking the lead to demonstrate light by lifting one of Big Bird's feathers, then telling Grover to fetch an upright piano from off-screen. Grover's BigWhat when Kermit tells him to stop for a moment while holding the piano, followed by Kermit showing more concern for the piano when Grover staggers off screen and drops it, are the icing on the cake. The routine then repeats itself with Kermit lifting a ping-pong ball and Grover TemptingFate by predicting he'll have to lift "a huge boulder" - and, sure enough... and once again, Kermit is more concerned about the piano when Grover accidentally drops the boulder on it. Grover insists they demonstrate the opposite qualities for the third iteration, so Kermit fetches a giant submarine sandwich three times the size of his head before placating a miffed Grover by telling him to pick up a nearby helium balloon that is larger than his entire body. The demonstration over, Kermit tucks into the sandwich... then looks up in surprise to see Grover floating away with the balloon! |
| 261 | * In "Elmo the Engineer", Elmo doesn't want to put away his toys before bath time, and pretends that his arm is hurt. His father Louie sees through this, and gets Elmo to expose himself by saying he'll make him a snack, making him raise his arm. We then get this: |
| 262 | -->'''Louie''': Look at that, a miraculous recovery. |
| 263 | * During the Monster Foodie [[https://youtu.be/n3lLLHThcYc Truck]] segment involving pineapple pizza, Cookie Monster reveals he accidentally ate a pineapple for a snack. Gonger acts annoyed at first, but then he ''flips his lid'' when Cookie Monster brings out '''a pinecone and an apple''' as a substitute. |
| 264 | ** Pretty much every time Gonger gets frustrated with Cookie Monster for eating one of the ingredients or just messing up qualifies. |
| 265 | * "Let's Draw" has two notable moments of this: |
| 266 | ** Elmo and Abby ask Alan to be their model while they draw pictures of him holding some cups. While Abby creates a great drawing of him, Elmo only draws the cup. |
| 267 | ** Charlie says this when she compliments Abby's drawing, and gets confused looks: "I think the vertical line creates a visual rhythm that puts it all together." It's then followed up with Elmo's "I can't believe she said that" face before she says "And it has red in it! Yay red!". |
| 268 | * [[https://youtu.be/wFjK_mIiYBY This skit]] has Ernie and Bert going to the farm in a taxi driven by The Count. As it turns out, they're in the "On the Go" game show hosted by Guy Smiley, where they have to guess animal sounds. Bert correctly guesses Ernie making a pigeon sound without even trying. When he makes a quacking sound, Ernie had a hard time guessing even when he has Rubber Duckie in his hand. When Bert moos, Ernie guesses a duck, not a cow, and then Rubber Duckie '''starts mooing'''. |
| 269 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7RqaMFnc2g This skit]] where Grover tries to teach the viewers about exits, except he keeps getting run over by a crowd since he is standing in front of the exit door. He then moves out of the door's way to avoid getting trampled again...but the exit sign ''follows him'', so he once again gets run over by another exiting crowd, who then '''smash through the wall''' since the exit sign is above it. |
| 270 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgG6tXHru8c this skit]], Cookie Monster has to guess what Elmo is imagining he's doing. Cookie Monster always guesses "eating cookies" because whenever ''he'' imagines what Elmo is imagining, he always eats imaginary cookies. When offered a real one, he pretends he's not hungry from all the imaginary cookies, then comes back claiming he'll "save it for the afternoon", but it ''is'' afternoon, so he eats it then. |
| 271 | * All the stories about silly kings: |
| 272 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6dkvV9Ypa8 King Richard the Chicken-Hearted]], who ate only chicken. Richard calls Chicken a la King "Chicken a la ''Me''". He and his chef have apparently never heard of eating anything but chicken and inexplicably don't know what a meal is, even though they have the words "breakfast", "lunch", and "dinner" in their vocabulary. |
| 273 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDmalhWilo Wasteful the Fifth]], who deliberately wasted paper. |
| 274 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mS_r4NnvYo The King Who Couldn't See So Well]], who didn't realise he had bad eyesight and thought things just looked that way. |
| 275 | * The "Cowboy X" cartoon from 1971, with all voices provided by special guest Creator/JeanShepherd, sees the frontier town of Sniddler's Gulch living in fear of the title character, a boisterous outlaw who tags everything he can get near with his X-shaped branding iron.[[note]]Shepherd told his radio listeners that as much fun as he had making the short, the voice of Cowboy X was hard on his throat.[[/note]] The townsfolk evidently have never considered simply asking him to stop, as they react to a young boy's suggestion to do so by describing it as just crazy enough to work. And it does; Cowboy X immediately agrees to literally and figuratively re-brand as Cowboy O. The final line is the cherry on the sundae; you can almost hear the narrator rolling his eyes as he says... |
| 276 | -->'''Narrator:''' ''[over a shot of the town, now covered in Os]'' And the citizens of Sniddler's Gulch lived happily ever after, because they really weren't very smart. |
| 277 | * "Welcome Baby Chicks" has Elmo, Abby, Ernie, and Bert passing the time waiting for chicks to hatch by doing arts and crafts at Hooper's Store with Chris. When Abby gives Ernie glue, he accidentally drops it on Bert. He then accidentally sneezes feathers on him, and we get this exchange: |
| 278 | -->'''Ernie:''' Hey Chris. One of the chicks hatched. (laughs) |
| 279 | -->'''Bert:''' ERNIE! |
| 280 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anMadm6UG-E this sketch]], a barber is getting ready to give a hard-of-hearing man a trim, and asks how short he'd like his ''hair.'' Cue [[NoIndoorVoice Guy Smiley]] [[ThereWasADoor bursting through the wall]], complete with a marching band, to [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong sing a song]] about how awesome ''air'' is. After the song is over and the band leaves, the customer is upset, so the barber urges him to lean back in his ''chair''--and [[InadvertentEntranceCue guess what happens again]], this time through the ''other'' wall? Finally, after it seems like everything has calmed down, the customer asks if this happens often. "No", the barber replies, "actually, it's exceedingly ''rare.''" And [[HereWeGoAgain sure]] [[RuleOfThree enough...]] |
| 281 | ** What makes it even better is that whenever Guy Smiley enters, he screams "DID SOMEBODY SAY 'AIR?'"...and the gobsmacked barber and customer respond with [[LittleNo small nos]], as if they're too stunned by the entrance to react properly. |
| 282 | * Oscar's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URv7sViI8sc Little Red Riding Grouch]]" story. TheBigBadWolf's disgusted reactions to the titular character's [[WeirdWorldWeirdFood Grouch Foods]] are ''priceless'' (thanks to Richard Hunt [[LargeHam hamming it up]]). The title character [[GenreSavvy knowing the Wolf is not her grandmother]] and planning to ward him off with the Grouch Foods is also funny. |
| 283 | * Sometimes, Oscar is tricked into helping, or accidentally helps, with the Letter or Number of the Day. For instance: |
| 284 | ** The Count once [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76f19BfPrfM tricks Oscar into saying, "no" 17 times]]. Also an unintentional funny comes when Oscar says he won't say the "n word". |
| 285 | ** When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6g2YHItl-U he doesn't want to help Telly with the letter B]], he ends up saying, "Beat it!", "Bye-bye", "Blah blah blah", "Stop bothering me", and "Bleh!". |
| 286 | * The three-short video series "What's That Snack?" (a game show where a Muppet's parent or friend has packed said Muppet a snack and another Muppet gives them three clues to guess what it is), especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvrG-TYvCos the first one]]. Elmo hosts the show, with the contestant being Cookie Monster. The first few times, Cookie Monster guesses a cookie as his snack, until he learns that the snack is a "crunchy and sweet" fruit that grows on trees. Cookie eventually fires off wrong answers left and right until he asks if he can phone a friend. He calls Ernie, who is also stumped as to what the snack is, and decides to eat an apple to help him think better. Ernie's apple, which is a crunchy and sweet fruit that he picked off a tree, turns out to be the right answer. What sells this is Cookie Monster's attitude throughout the video ([[ScrewThisImOuttaHere trying to leave]] upon discovering it's not a cookie, then having to be reminded constantly to focus on the clues), and Elmo's epic "WTF" look as Cookie guesses a carrot, eggplant, potato and radish as his snack. |
| 287 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvYxHXJuAiw The third entry]] also qualifies. Cookie Monster hosts the show, with Ernie as the contestant. Near the beginning, Cookie mentions that Bert packed Ernie's snack, and before he can give out the first clue, Ernie utters, with subtle contempt in his voice, "Oatmeal." (If Bert packed the snack, Ernie adds, it would most likely be oatmeal.) Cookie, though agreeing with this assessment, replies that the snack is not oatmeal. The snack in question turns out to be banana slices with almond butter. How does Ernie guess correctly? He treats a banana like a phone and does the old "banana in the ear" routine with Cookie. |
| 288 | * In the episode where Big Bird is angry about Granny Bird not visiting, while it concludes in an unfortunate way, it's kind of funny how he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ALH9HhwLk shouts]] {{Angrish}} that includes the words "basil" and "sassafras". |
| 289 | * The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTvhKZHAP8U ABC-DEF-GHI]]" song, in which Big Bird sees the alphabet and mistakes it for a humongous word, pronounced "ab-kuh-deff-gee-juh-kll-muh-nop-quir-stoov-wux-izz". |
| 290 | * Elmo ending his playdate with Zoe when the latter refuses to share her Zoemobile with him: |
| 291 | -->'''Zoe:''' W-w-w-w-wait! Where are you going?!\ |
| 292 | '''Elmo:''' ''(angrily)'' ''ALASKA!''\ |
| 293 | '''Zoe:''' [[InnocentlyInsensitive It's faster if you drive.]]\ |
| 294 | ''(Elmo makes a blank stare at her, [[AsideGlance turns to the audience with that look]], then screams in utter fury)'' |
| 295 | * On that note, literally ''every'' episode with Elmo at odds with Zoe's rock "Rocco". You can practically feel sorry for the poor monster who completely '''loses it''' whenever he is pushed too far by Rocco. |
| 296 | -->'''Zoe:''' Hi hi! I'm sorry I'm late, but Rocco had to go to the potty.\ |
| 297 | '''Elmo:''' ''(looks at the rock, then at Zoe again)'' [[FlatWhat What.]] |
| 298 | ** And then there's the memetic scene of him yelling at Zoe about Rocco after Zoe insists Rocco wants to eat a cookie. |
| 299 | --->'''Elmo:''' How?! How is Rocco going to eat that cookie, Zoe? Tell Elmo! Rocco doesn't have a mouth! Rocco's just a rock! Rocco's not alive! |
| 300 | * The sheer hamminess and outlandish design of the titular character in the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmjLqddPqZQ Captain Vegetable]]. |
| 301 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi_5xpSyiFM this video]], some cowboys are nervous because a cowboy named Bad Bart is coming to "give someone what he deserves". [[BaitAndSwitch As it turns out]], Bart only wanted to give the bartender some money due to forgetting to pay him earlier. |
| 302 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLGuXb59ICQ this]] "Noodles and Nedd" skit, Nedd is doing astronomy, but Noodles is hungry, so he tries increasingly goofier techniques to get Nedd's attention. First he simply points and meows, then he plays a bugle, then he plays bongos, then he plays a weird instrument that's two airhorns, a drum, and a curly bugle rolled into one, then he plays music from the radio while dancing in a grass skirt and a necklace, then finally he draws himself pointing at his bowl and holds the drawing in front of Nedd's telescope. |
| 303 | * Though it was shown on ''Series/PlayWithMeSesame'', it deserves a mention: Grover leads the viewer in "A Very Simple Dance", accompanied by Cookie Monster. Throughout the song, Grover claps his hands, flaps his arms and goes "wubba wubba wubba!", but all Cookie Monster does is lead the audience in pretending to eat a cookie ("Eat cookie! Yum yum yum!"). When Grover asks him to try something different, Cookie Monster obliges ("''Swallow'' cookie! Gulp gulp gulp!"). |
| 304 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0tJ-YdPRE0 this episode]], Oscar sprays something called "disappear-o" on Maria, that turns her invisible, and then Luis starts kissing her. A random bystander walks past and gives Luis a funny look. |
| 305 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0nJF-jcqrQ&t=1s this skit]], the Two-Headed Monster is eating some soup, but one of them begins eating without his spoon. When the second head berates him for it, the first says, "Oh, yes, of course!"... but then begins eating out of the first's bowl! |
| 306 | * During “Cardboard Castle”, Abby and Elmo are building a model city out of cardboard and paper. Abby creates a paper polar bear for the city and an ice rink for him. Elmo is pretty amenable until he finds out Abby named the bear “Polie” and incredulously shuts down for the end of the segment before walking away muttering, “Polie” in frustrated disappointment. |
| 307 | * During the Series/ElmosWorld segment for “Bye Bye Boos Boos”, Grover awkwardly misunderstands the topic of doctors to be ducks, prompting Elmo to look over at someone offscreen and point back towards Grover as if to say “Get a load of this guy.” |
| 308 | * In a Cookie Monster sketch, Cookie goes to a library and asks the librarian for various books, as well as a box of cookies. The librarian becomes extremely frustrated when he has to explain multiple times to Cookie that the library doesn't have any cookies, just books. Cookie eventually understands and decides to ask for a book about cookies... [[HereWeGoAgain and a glass of milk]]. |
| 309 | -->''[Librarian faints]''\ |
| 310 | '''Cookie:''' ...A book about cookies and a glass of juice? You got any carrots? How about rutabagas? You got any cantaloupe? |
| 311 | * In a Grover sketch, Grover is at a library, explaining it to the viewers. The librarian forces Grover to speak in progressively quieter tones until Grover can barely be heard. |
| 312 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gxtMa2KEGs this]] sketch, a professor (played by David's actor, Northern Calloway) tries to give a lecture about trees. At the end, he reiterates his point about them being good to lean on, tries leaning on the poster of a tree, but tears through the paper and falls over. |
| 313 | * The song "The Subway!" consists of a chorus about the affordability and convenience of this mode of transportation ... and verses of various passengers bitching about how crowded, hot, and unpleasant it is to actually ride. |
| 314 | * In [[https://youtu.be/tCHKIdup5Lo one sketch]], the Martians come across a computer whilst it's unattended, start pushing some of the buttons, and start singing a song of "yip"s to the sounds the computer begins to make. The ''really'' funny part, though, is that the Martians reappear in TheStinger for the episode, and the pink Martian has ''[[CargoShip developed a crush]]'' on the computer, placing a [[FlowersOfRomance rose]] on its keyboard and outright [[FantasticArousal stroking]] the keyboard. |
| 315 | * One recurring animated character is borderline illiterate: |
| 316 | ** He reads "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLTRrTnKkBQ Kiss Me]]" as "kuh-ih-ss-ss meh" (remarking, "What is this, a joke sign or something?!" or "kuh-izz me". Then, when he finally gets it right, he yells, "Kiss me!", proud that he read it properly, and a BigFriendlyDog runs up and kisses him. |
| 317 | ** He reads "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9uwVuXRnl0 One Way]]" as "oh-nay wah-ee". |
| 318 | ** After [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6H01Z2e4F0 reading]] a sign reading, "Bingo", he is mistaken for a winner of a bingo game and awarded a robot. |
| 319 | ** After unscrambling the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7mTzncqv9g GROW]]" sign, the plant he has grows uncontrollably into a vine that picks him up. |
| 320 | ** After reading, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJRjTwNHn_o DIRTY]]", a robot grabs him and [[ForcedBath washes him]]. |
| 321 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=023kkvmaD0I wet and dry]] skits. Basically, a character will note one or more other characters in some water and say, "I am dry, [he is/she is/they are] wet." Then, the wet character will get them wet in a comedic way and the speaker will say, "Now I'm wet too". |
| 322 | * From the "Hurricane" special, Bob manages to convince Oscar to take shelter from the aforementioned storm in his apartment. Unfortunately, he soon [[https://youtu.be/fbJtSFA2VXM?t=1551 regrets]] that decision. |
| 323 | --> '''Bob''': I hope this hurricane doesn't last long! |
| 324 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxSJd5USvGU Cat's Can]]", animated by Creator/DanHaskett. Unlike most sketches, this one doesn't seem to teach anything -- it's just a ZanyCartoon about a cat trying to open a can of food. |
| 325 | * From [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtevO5Q5N-A this]] "People in Your Neighborhood" sketch: |
| 326 | -->'''Bob:''' ''[to a bus driver]'' Excuse me sir, what is your job in the neighborhood?\ |
| 327 | '''Bus Driver:''' [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe You're kidding me.]]\ |
| 328 | '''Bob:''' No, really, what's your job?\ |
| 329 | '''Bus Driver:''' [[AskAStupidQuestion An elephant trainer.]] Look at me, I'm driving a bus! |
| 330 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo4VWFeuLA8 this skit]], Guy Smiley is hosting a game show called ''Say the Word'', in which a player must get a contestant to say a particular word before the timer runs out. In this particular instance, the word is "stop", so the player asks him what the opposite of "go" is, but the contestant doesn't know what "opposite" means. The player says, "Don't go," but the contestant [[ComicallyMissingThePoint says he isn't going anywhere]]. The player finally gets the contestant to say, "Stop" by tickling him. |
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| 333 | [[folder: Bert and Ernie]] |
| 334 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=logwI5wVdlI Ernie forces Bert to play the Rhyming Game.]] At one point Jim Henson messes up his line, making Ernie inexplicably ask "What what hmm?" but Frank Oz (as Bert) [[ThrowItIn just goes with it.]] |
| 335 | ** When Bert tries to get Ernie to rhyme the LeastRhymableWord "hippopotamus", Ernie makes up a word, "rip-a-cotta-puss". |
| 336 | ** When Bert wants to keep playing the game after it's over, he tries to start a game ''[[NotSoAboveItAll with a lamp]]'' by saying, "Hey there, lamp, that's a nice shade." |
| 337 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jebnwpvL1E This skit]] has this memorable exchange: |
| 338 | --> '''Ernie:''' [[FailedASpotCheck Bert, have you seen my waste paper basket?]]\ |
| 339 | '''Bert:''' (Wearing the basket on his head.) [[DeadpanSnarker Ask me that again and look into my eyes.]] |
| 340 | * A couple of gems from the very first month of the show alone, each with a typical LamePunReaction from Bert. Also of interest is how different Bert looked at this time, with his [[PerpetualFrowner Perpetual Frown]] even more pronounced and his hair looking unkempt. |
| 341 | ** Ernie declares that his favorite letter is X, because it's delicious. Every day for breakfast, he eats "bacon and X." |
| 342 | ** In the very first episode, Ernie, while taking a bath, mentions he's named his bathtub Rosie, because every bath leaves "a ring around Rosie." |
| 343 | ** Ernie names his football team the "Dirty Rugs" because they get "beaten" so often. |
| 344 | ** Ernie gets hysterical because there's a "B" buzzing around the house. Bert tells him that the letter B can't harm you, unlike the insect known as the bee, which ''can'' sting and makes a buzzing sound. In imitating the buzzing sound, Bert aggravates the B, which ends up stinging him on the nose, which swells to twice its normal size. |
| 345 | * In a 1974 sketch, we are introduced to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS7_-h882Ls Bert's identical twin brother Bart.]] As Bert needs to comb his hair and change his shoes before Bart arrives, he tells Ernie to stand by to answer the door. Ernie asks how he'll recognise Bart, and Bert says they're twins, so they look exactly alike. "No kidding!" says Ernie... so Bart has the same "pointy head", "bushy bush of black hair", "beady eyes", "cucumber-y nose", "sticky-out ears", "grumpy mouth", "no shoulders", and "floppy, soggy arms"[[note]]A poke at the Bert puppet being one of many in which the puppeteers controlled the arms with wires rather than with their own hands, as in the Ernie puppet's case.[[/note]] as Bert? An unamused Bert says they are "both handsome in the same way", then leaves Ernie on his own. Bart arrives seconds later, dressed in a ''very'' loud sport jacket and bow tie, and Ernie proceeds to enumerate the same features he insulted on Bert (shaking Bart's arm as he mentions it, causing Bart to give him a bewildered look), but gets a huge surprise when Bart opens his mouth - he may still be performed by Creator/FrankOz, but the similarities end there... |
| 346 | -->'''Ernie:''' Why, you must be Bert's brother Bart!\ |
| 347 | '''Bart:''' ''[loud and brash]'' Yes, sir, Bart's the name, and selling's my game! ''[AnnoyingLaugh]'' But I really wanna tell you, you must be Ernie!\ |
| 348 | '''Ernie:''' ''[stunned]'' Mm-hmm...\ |
| 349 | '''Bart:''' Well Ernie, I just came into town by way of [[{{Pun}} Buffalo!]] But next time... I'll take the train! ''[AnnoyingLaugh]''\ |
| 350 | '''Ernie:''' Huh... I'm aghast!...\ |
| 351 | '''Bart:''' No, you're not aghast, you live here! ''I'm'' a guest! ''[AnnoyingLaugh]'' But seriously, where's ol' Bert anyway, uh? Uh? Uh?\ |
| 352 | '''Ernie:''' ''[stammering, pointing toward the bedroom]'' Uh, he, he's right, right...\ |
| 353 | '''Bart:''' Probably in there, huh? Okay, see you later, pal! ''[slaps Ernie on the back]''\ |
| 354 | '''Ernie:''' Oof!\ |
| 355 | '''Bart:''' Hee-hee! ''[heading toward the bedroom]'' Hey! Bert! Your ol' brother Bart's here, let's paint the town red!\ |
| 356 | '''Ernie:''' ''[to camera]'' Y'know, Bert and Bart are alike in a lot of ways... but in some ways, they're kind of different, too. ''[MusicalSting]'' |
| 357 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_2Ky_nU2ys This Bert and Ernie skit]] consists of Ernie putting a cooking pot on Bert's head. Bert asks Ernie why and he says that it was because he broke the cookie jar and put the cookies in the sugar bowl, the sugar in the flower pot, the flower in the milk bottle, the milk in the soda bottle, the soda in the fish bowl and the fish in Bert's cowboy hat. |
| 358 | -->'''Ernie:''' "Ride 'em cowboy, Bert!" |
| 359 | * Bert teaches his pigeon to play checkers. Ernie is suitably impressed, and says that a [[DancingBear pigeon that plays checkers has to be the smartest pigeon in the whole world.]] |
| 360 | -->'''Bert:''' She's really not that smart, Ernie. ''[...]'' Out of ten games we've played... she's only beaten me twice. |
| 361 | * This sketch involving Ernie and a paperboy. |
| 362 | -->'''Paperboy:''' Extra! Extra! Read all about it! "Four People Fooled!" |
| 363 | -->'''Ernie:''' Did you say "Four People Fooled?" |
| 364 | -->'''Paperboy:''' Read all about it Mister! |
| 365 | -->'''Ernie:''' Okay. (buys a newspaper and starts reading) I don't see anything in here about four people being fooled. |
| 366 | -->'''Paperboy:''' Extra! Extra! Read all about it! "FIVE People Fooled!" |
| 367 | -->'''Ernie:''' I think I just made the papers. (honks his nose) |
| 368 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Uv6vD4v1A Bert is It!]] For context, Ernie declares Bert to be "it" but Bert says he doesn't want to play tag, however, Ernie keeps running around and saying, "Bert is it!". |
| 369 | * In the song "But I Like You" Ernie and Bert take turns singing about things that they like, with the other one singing the same line after, to indicate agreement. Then Bert sings that he likes lentil soup, and Ernie doesn't even try to sing it. He just repeats the line in a deadpan monotone, as if he's so surprised and/or [[DoesNotLikeSpam disgusted]] that he can't muster any more enthusiasm than that. Watch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9AAJvQnUTQ&t=1m52s here]]. |
| 370 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2kouz-zbxg Bert and Ernie go to see a movie]] that makes Ernie emotional, disturbing the other theatergoers around him. And guess who gets punished for this! |
| 371 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHUOZWu7soY "Am I thirsty. Am I thirsty! AM I THIRRRRRRRRRRRSTY!"]] More specifically, Ernie got thirsty in the middle of the night and was hamming it up. This scene really shows off the comic brilliance of the Jim Henson/Frank Oz duo. |
| 372 | -->'''Ernie:''' ''[after Bert gets up to get him a ''third'' glass of water]'' Oh, Bert is the salt of the earth, isn't he? Salt... ohh, am I thirsty. |
| 373 | * Several of the Bert and Ernie nighttime sketches where they're going to sleep (or rather, Ernie keeping Bert from sleeping) are quite hilarious: |
| 374 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xONikEykMaU In one such sketch]], Ernie can't seem to fall asleep, so he tries CountingSheep, which is visualized to the audience. However, their bleating is so boring that Ernie then moves onto counting fire trucks, which Bert [[ImagineSpotting considers too loud]], and finally balloons. Ernie imagines blowing up a balloon, which gets so big that it explodes loudly, shaking Bert out of bed, [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screaming like a girl]]. |
| 375 | ---> '''Ernie:''' Um... one? |
| 376 | *** It comes back to haunt Ernie. In another [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAV71UHWSXM sketch]], the Count sleeps over at Ernie and Bert's place, but he isn't sleepy yet, so [[OhCrap Ernie suggests counting sheep]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wblWacel_9g The next morning,]] we learn the Count had a good night, but Ernie did not -- the Count's counting had kept Ernie awake ''all night long'', and now he is walking and counting [[SleepDeprivation like a zombie]]. |
| 377 | ---->'''Ernie:''' [[OverlyLongGag Forty-three thousand, eight hundred and ninety-one... forty-three thousand, eight hundred and ninety-two...]]\ |
| 378 | '''Bert:''' ''Ernie!''\ |
| 379 | '''Ernie:''' Forty-three thousand, eight hundred and ninety-three...\ |
| 380 | '''Bert:''' Ernie, I'm over here.\ |
| 381 | '''Ernie:''' Forty-three thousand, eight hundred and ninety-... four...\ |
| 382 | '''Bert:''' Ernie?\ |
| 383 | '''Ernie:''' Forty-three thousand, eight hundred and ninety-five...\ |
| 384 | '''Bert:''' ''(right into Ernie's ear)'' ERNIE!!\ |
| 385 | '''Ernie:''' ''(turns to Bert for a brief second)'' ... sheep... Forty-three thousand, eight hundred and ninety-... six? ''(wanders off again)'' Forty-three thousand, eight hundred and ninety-seven...\ |
| 386 | '''The Count:''' ''(to Bert)'' Could I sleep over again tonight, Bert?\ |
| 387 | '''Ernie:''' ''(off-screen)'' AHHHHHHHH! ''([[{{Fainting}} THUD]])'' |
| 388 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiMRDAAJTcg In another nighttime sketch]], Ernie accidentally left the faucet on after washing his hands before going to bed, which results in a DrippingDisturbance that keeps Bert awake. So Bert sends Ernie to turn it off. But instead of simply turning off the faucet, Ernie tries to drown out the dripping by turning on a radio that plays loud music (the music heard is quite hilarious in and of itself, and would alone make this scene funny). When that doesn't work, instead of turning off the radio, Ernie turns on an ''even louder'' vacuum cleaner to drown out the radio. |
| 389 | --->'''Bert:''' ''(yelling over the noise)'' WHY DID YOU TURN THE VACUUM CLEANER ON?!?\ |
| 390 | '''Ernie:''' ''(yelling over the noise)'' WHAT'S THAT, BERT? I CAN'T HEAR YA!\ |
| 391 | '''Bert:''' ''I SAID, "WHY DID YOU TURN THE VACUUM CLEANER ON?!?"'' |
| 392 | *** Finally, a frustrated Bert shuts off the racket and then finally settles down into bed for peace and quiet. But alas and alack, Ernie snores as he sleeps! |
| 393 | ----> '''Bert:''' ''(sadly)'' It's not fair. |
| 394 | ** In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYzbD5Hwvbk third nighttime sketch]], Ernie wants to know what time it is. But it's too dark to read the clock, so, unable or unwilling to wait until morning, he tries a new method: he leans his head out the window and sings loudly "O SOLE MIO, O SOLE YOU-O!" This wakes up the whole neighborhood who all yell at him to stop singing because it's 3:00 AM. Satisfied that he knows the time now, Ernie goes back to bed. The whole time, Bert, of course, is not amused. |
| 395 | *** While no one besides Bert and Ernie is shown on screen, it's implied his singing wakes up the usual human adult cast. Hearing these normally kind individuals yell at Ernie to shut up (and yes, one of them actually yells, [[BigShutUp "SHUT UP!"]], on this, a kids' show) is hilarious in its own right. |
| 396 | *** Even better, one of them says "Sounds like Ernie again", hinting that this is not the first time Ernie did this. |
| 397 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biAMh-xdvJc yet another nighttime sketch]], Ernie gets up and breaks into a song and dance routine, singing "Dance Myself to Sleep". Then he produces a group of background tap dancers called The Boogie Woogie Sheep, and starts playing a solo on the bugle. Bert's harrowed reactions raise the scene from silliness to plain hilarity, especially when Rubber Duckie starts playing a bugle solo-- and then the sheep ''pick up Bert's bed and dance out the door with it''. The song ends with both Bert and the sheep stuck outside as Ernie drifts off. |
| 398 | *** Steve Whitmire and Frank Oz rerecorded the song for the 1999 PC game ''Sesame Street Music Maker''. While there's no accompanying video, the recording itself is still funny, with more pained side comments from Bert ("Ernie, don't scat! If you're going to sing, at least sing the lyrics!") and even a ContinuityNod to the original version ("Oh no, not those sheep again! Those sheep don't like me!"). |
| 399 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tet721PTCQ a fifth nighttime sketch]], Ernie imagines what it's like if he was Bert and Bert was him, only to regret it when Bert now acts ''exactly'' like he does, keeping him from sleeping. It's absolutely hilarious seeing Bert act like Ernie down to his laugh, while Ernie is the one getting annoyed. |
| 400 | ** Bert isn't safe ''even when he's away from home''. In a 1984 sketch, a thirsty Ernie wants a drink of water, but Bert is staying overnight at Bart's, so Ernie ''telephones'' Bert to tell him he's thirsty (only after realizing it would take less time than writing Bert a letter, which, with the time needed for the letter to reach Bert and for Bert's response to reach Ernie, would take days). After getting his drink of water, Ernie next has trouble falling asleep, so he telephones Bert again. Bert suggests counting sheep. Ernie starts counting sheep, ''but without hanging up the phone first''. Even funnier is that the skit follows the NewhartPhonecall trope until the ''very end''. |
| 401 | --->'''Ernie:''' ''[snuggling in bed]'' One sheep... two sheep... what's that, Bert? No, I didn't forget to hang up the phone, Bert. Three sheep... what do you mean, "Why you?", Bert? Four sheep... oh, this telephone is wonderful. It's almost like having Bert right here.\ |
| 402 | '''Bert:''' ''[over the phone]'' ERNIE!\ |
| 403 | '''Ernie:''' Five sheep... |
| 404 | ** In another sketch, Bert's spending the night alone while Ernie is staying overnight at the Count's, and is thrilled that he'll actually have some peace and quiet for a change. That's not to be: the bedroom is invaded once again by sheep, with Jerry Nelson performing the ringleader, who explain to Bert in song ("Bert's Blanket" - to boot, a brilliant Music/PhilSpector pastiche) where the wool to make his blanket comes from (Ernie makes a cameo as the rancher who shears the wool off the sheep). Bert gets in the spirit this time and adds a second verse about how the wool is made into a blanket and sold in a store. He then invites the sheep to stay the night, only for the sheep to all crowd into ''his'' bed instead of using Ernie's empty bed. |
| 405 | * Bert is trying to read ''[[Literature/TheBonfireOfTheVanities Bonfire of the Oatmeal]]'' while Ernie (in one of Steve Whitmire's first performances in the role) irritates him with a continuous monologue about how irritating some loud sounds, such as a fire engine's siren or a dog barking, can be when you're trying to do something as relaxing as reading a book. When Bert finally loses his temper, Ernie apologizes and decides to listen to some rock and roll music - which is also loud, but he'll be listening to it with headphones, so he won't annoy Bert. The music doesn't annoy Bert, but Ernie's humming/scatting and drumming on the table to the music ''does.'' Bert yells at Ernie again, and Ernie asks Bert to be quiet because he can't hear his music when Bert yells. Cue Bert fainting as Ernie starts singing and drumming again. |
| 406 | ** ''Series/FraggleRock'' fans get an added bonus here as Ernie's dog imitation sounds almost exactly like Sprocket, a character originated by Steve Whitmire. |
| 407 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W6IwDJepgI This skit]]. |
| 408 | --> ''(Shows Ernie and Bert in their living room and a green capital Q is on the desk)''. |
| 409 | --> '''Ernie''': Hi, Bert! |
| 410 | --> '''Bert''': Oh, hi, Ernie. |
| 411 | --> '''Ernie''': This is a nice letter Q that I have here. |
| 412 | --> '''Bert''': Oh, that's what it is. Yeah, yeah, it's nice. |
| 413 | --> '''Ernie''': See, it's big and round there-- |
| 414 | --> '''Bert''': Yeah. |
| 415 | --> '''Ernie''': And it's got this little squiggly tail right there. |
| 416 | --> '''Bert''': There. ''(points)'' |
| 417 | --> '''Ernie''': That's how you can tell it's a Q. |
| 418 | --> '''Bert''': Yeah, it's nice. |
| 419 | --> '''Ernie''': You know what I have? |
| 420 | --> '''Bert''': What? |
| 421 | --> '''Ernie''': I have a very exciting game that we can play with this letter Q. |
| 422 | --> '''Bert''': Not me. |
| 423 | --> '''Ernie''': Do you want to play an exciting game, Bert? |
| 424 | --> '''Bert''': No, not me. |
| 425 | --> '''Ernie''': But this is a very neat game, Bert. We can practice learning our numbers and at the same time we can learn about the letter Q. |
| 426 | --> '''Bert''': Ernie, you always trick me in these games. Always. |
| 427 | --> '''Ernie''': ''(shaking his head)'' No, no, nuh-not this time, Bert. See, this is how the game is played. You see, I say "One, Q" and then I point to the letter Q. And then you say "Two, Q" and then point to the letter Q. And then it goes on like that and that's all there is to it. |
| 428 | --> '''Bert''': That's all, really? |
| 429 | --> '''Ernie''': It's your kind of game, Bert. |
| 430 | --> '''Bert''': That does sound kind of fun, actually. Do you start or do I start? |
| 431 | --> '''Ernie''': I start. |
| 432 | --> '''Bert''': Okay. |
| 433 | --> '''Ernie''': One, Q. |
| 434 | --> '''Bert''': Uh, two, Q. |
| 435 | --> '''Ernie''': Three, Q. |
| 436 | --> '''Bert''': Four, Q. |
| 437 | --> '''Ernie''': Five, Q. |
| 438 | --> '''Bert''': Six, Q. |
| 439 | --> '''Ernie''': Seven, Q. |
| 440 | --> '''Bert''': Eight, Q. |
| 441 | --> '''Ernie''': Nine, Q. |
| 442 | --> '''Bert''': Ten, Q. |
| 443 | --> '''Ernie''': What's that, Bert? ''(puts his hand to his ear)'' |
| 444 | --> '''Bert''': Ten, Q. |
| 445 | --> '''Ernie''': I couldn't hear you, Bert. |
| 446 | --> '''Bert''': Ten, Q, ten, Q, ten, Q! |
| 447 | --> '''Ernie''': You're welcome, you're welcome, you're welcome, Bert! ''(chuckles)'' |
| 448 | --> '''Bert''': I don't get it. |
| 449 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf0nL8lOWbQ this skit]], Ernie has collected some ice cubes and put them on top of the electric blanket (in a box) to warm them up. When he opens it up, they (obviously) have melted, but he thinks they ran away, then when Bert says that it's impossible, Ernie says that Bert is right because "they don't even have suitcases". He then suggests they were stolen and when he sees the water, he thinks a ''fish'' stole them. When Bert explains that the ice cubes melted, Ernie thinks a fish ''melted'' them. |
| 450 | * In this [[https://youtu.be/bynLaD37-_k Share The Laughter]] video, Ernie and Bert are challenged to come up with a joke. Ernie however, didn't tell Bert until it was time. Ernie then says he'll tell the joke while Bert will help out. However, it's a knock knock joke and he has Bert start. Bert realized he was duped and is not happy. |
| 451 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmdOe1hjW-s this sketch]], Ernie and Bert build a snowman, but Ernie thinks the snowman is [[{{Snowlems}} sentient]] and will get hungry or cold. When Bert says that snowmen can't get hungry, Ernie replies, "[[InsaneTrollLogic But you got hungry.]]" |
| 452 | * The entirety of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUusX1Js6R0 Bert and Ernie Fish Call]]. Here Bert and Ernie go fishing in a classic example of ''Sesame Street'''s brilliant humor, especially when Ernie's rather unorthodox method of catching fish proves to be far more successful than Bert's more traditional approach. |
| 453 | ** [[NoIndoorVoice "Heeeeree FISHY! FISHY! FISHY! FISHY!]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Heeeeeeeereeee FISHY! FISHY! FISHY! FISHY!"]] |
| 454 | ** And then when Bert tries this method himself, he keeps trying to raise his voice louder and louder, until he successfully catches... a shark! |
| 455 | --->'''Shark:''' You called? ''(laughs just like Ernie)'' |
| 456 | --->''(Bert faints)'' |
| 457 | --->'''Ernie:''' That's one for you, Bert! ''(both he and the shark laugh in unison)'' |
| 458 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCsNhG771aU When Ernie wonders why he scared Bert and Bert replies that he didn't think Ernie was there]], Ernie wonders if [[MindScrew he's not there.]] |
| 459 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APoUQ-7MM3M this skit]], Bert asks Ernie to put a vase away. He imagines that if he put it on the small shelf, [[PricelessMingVase it would break]] and then goes on, imagining that Bert would throw him out of the house and it'd be too cold. This makes him cry, and Bert asks what the matter is. Ernie says that he'd been imagining what would happen if he put the vase on the small shelf. Ernie is told to imagine what would happen if he put it on the ''big'' shelf and imagines Bert throwing a party for not breaking the vase, and then thanks him for doing it when he didn't really. |
| 460 | -->'''Bert''': He's gone bananas, right? |
| 461 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te70C_4getQ Normally the martians are seen as]] NightmareFuel, and they are for Ernie, but... |
| 462 | --> '''Ernie:''' Bert! BERT! The Martians are here, Bert! What'll we do, Bert?! |
| 463 | --> '''Bert:''' ''(completely deadpan)'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Ask them if they want any oatmeal.]] |
| 464 | ** And then the Martians wiggle off to the kitchen to get some oatmeal. |
| 465 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSnrcWXVxL0 this]] skit, Ernie thinks his banana and Bert's orange could be friends, and Bert says that they couldn't. Ernie thinks Bert means they look too different to be friends and starts ranting about how ''they'' look different but are friends. Bert tries to tell Ernie that no, he only meant they couldn't be friends because they're just fruit, but then gets so caught up in comparing the fruit's similarities and differences that he temporarily forgets they're not sentient and is shocked when Ernie eats his banana. |
| 466 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U0nJ9e9pUk The Listening Game from the album "Havin' Fun with Ernie & Bert".]] Ernie blindfolds Bert and has him guess what certain sounds are. First Bert guesses a ticking alarm clock, and the sound it makes when Ernie winds it. Then Bert guesses a vacuum cleaner, and then a ping pong ball. When Bert guesses that Ernie is opening the cookie jar and eating a cookie, Cookie Monster comes into the apartment (from somewhere outside). Bert guesses that Cookie Monster had eaten the cookies, the ping pong ball, the vacuum cleaner, the alarm clock, run out the door, ridden away on his motorcycle, and crashed into a truckload of chickens. |
| 467 | -->'''Ernie:''' Why, that's fantastic! How did you know that, Bert?\ |
| 468 | '''Bert:''' Easy. He ate my blindfold too. |
| 469 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR3z2mvtwW4&t=48s this]] sketch, Bert shows Ernie a "4" and asks what it is. Ernie claims it's a pie, prompting Bert to say, "If this is a banana cream pie, then what is ''this''?" and whip out an actual banana cream pie. Ernie claims it's a "4", so Bert [[PieInTheFace throws the pie in Ernie's face]]. Ernie then reveals that he ''wanted'' Bert to pie him. |
| 470 | -->'''Ernie''': "I knew what it was all along, but who'd want to be hit in the face with a '4'?" |
| 471 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i44WC60yew this early sketch]], Ernie had eaten one of two pieces of chocolate cake when he learns that Bert was saving them for dessert. To cover his tracks, Ernie makes up a phony story that a monster came in, took the slice of cake, shook the crumbs off onto a separate plate, ate the cake, wiped his mouth with the napkin, gave Ernie said napkin and the fork, and left. Bert naturally doesn't buy the lie and dismisses Ernie's claim that "it could've happened". But after Bert leaves the room, a monster comes in and eats the other piece of cake, ''doing the exact same things Ernie said in his story'', before leaving. When Bert comes back to see the remaining slice gone, Ernie tries to explain what just happened, but Bert decides not to talk about it and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere walks off]], leaving Ernie sobbing. |
| 472 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIR8ykXHNGs a sketch from 1970,]] Ernie flags down an ice cream van and tells the driver (Jerry Nelson) about the ice cream cone he's been thinking about all day: chocolate, strawberry, peach, vanilla, banana, pistachio, peppermint, lemon, orange, butterscotch. After getting Ernie to repeat the order, the ice cream man returns with the cone, chuckling "You didn't think I'd remember [...] did you? But I did!" However, Ernie is aghast; he was reciting the flavours from top to bottom, but the cone has been put together from bottom to top. The ice cream man doesn't see what the fuss is about, but when Ernie persists, he has a... creative solution: |
| 473 | -->'''Ice cream man:''' ''[impatiently]'' All right. I'll tell you what. If you wanted the cone to be a ''[Ernie points at each scoop as the flavours are recited]'' chocolate, strawberry, peach, vanilla, banana, pistachio, peppermint, lemon, orange, butterscotch, and I made it instead into a ''[again, Ernie points at each scoop as the flavours are recited]'' butterscotch, orange, lemon, peppermint, pistachio, banana, vanilla, peach, strawberry, chocolate cone, it's ''very'' easy to fix.\ |
| 474 | '''Ernie:''' Hmm. Well, how is it easy to fix when ''[points at the bottom scoop]'' you put the chocolate down here, and I wanted it on the top, ''[points]'' up here?\ |
| 475 | '''Ice cream man:''' Simple. Just eat the same cone ''standing on your head! [sweeps off, leaving Ernie stunned]'' |
| 476 | [[/folder]] |
| 477 | |
| 478 | [[folder: Parodies and Guests]] |
| 479 | * While the 1991 version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM6ya7wTb58 Monster in the Mirror]] didn't add much besides making the song a CelebrityEdition, it adds this hilarious bit at the end, courtesy of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. |
| 480 | -->'''Bart''': Hey, wubba man!\ |
| 481 | '''Homer''': [[RunningGag BART]]!\ |
| 482 | '''Bart''': AH! |
| 483 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5121VjLwqZM ''LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL LETTERS UNIT'']]... Especially the jokes and BreakingTheFourthWall involving the "Chung Chung" noise[[note]]That sound cue that plays during transitions between scenes (with a black screen showing the date, time & place thereof)[[/note]]. |
| 484 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8TioFHubWFtW1NT7VC1WG8mH_zmZK4aM Crumby Pictures]] shorts, in which Cookie Monster parodies movies, such as ''Film/JamesBond'', ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', ''Film/TheKarateKid'', ''Film/TheHungerGames'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'', and ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. |
| 485 | ** ''The Hungry Games: Catching Fur'' has Cookie (as Cookiness Evereat) exclaiming, "Being strong heroine of entire franchise hard work!" and Peeta as... an actual pita. Plus, this part at the end: |
| 486 | --->'''Cookie''': [[TemptingFate And thankfully, me no have to ever, EVER play that again!]]\ |
| 487 | '''Finnicky''': You know they're making a third one, right?\ |
| 488 | (small beat)\ |
| 489 | '''Cookie''': [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!]] |
| 490 | ** ''The Spy Who Loved Cookies'' spoofs the title songs of ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' and ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', with the singer of the former evoking Music/ShirleyBassey pretty well. Plus, every time Cookie Monster (as Double-Stuffed 7) doesn't listen to the instructions of his superior (who he refers to as "Bossy English Lady"), resulting in him getting hit by falling chickens. |
| 491 | ** ''Star S'mores'' has a lot of references to the ''Star Wars'' trilogy, including a multi-layered meta joke with Grover playing the part of Yoda (here, he is called "Groda"). Also, "use the force" is turned into "use the four", which is just counting to four. The funniest thing happens to be the main plot. It involves Cookie Monster (as Flan Solo) looking for a strategy to control himself around his cookie partner, Chewie, and all the parts where he tries to eat him are hilarious, especially the first time: |
| 492 | --->'''Cookie''': Me can't have cookie for partner.\ |
| 493 | '''Luke Piewalker''': Why not?\ |
| 494 | '''Cookie''': This why not. COOKIE!!! (attacks Chewie) Hey, he not "Chewie", he crunchy! |
| 495 | ** ''The Twilight Saga: Breaking Cookie'' is a TakeThat to the ''Twilight'' films. It's also one of the few instances where someone other than Cookie gets voracious: his otherwise-stoic girlfriend Belly. |
| 496 | ** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHPn5d7wRtk The Aveggies-Age of Bon Bon]]'' has Captain Americauliflower and the Mighty Corn lament becoming absolutely useless after Cookie (as Dr. Brownie) eats their {{Iconic Item}}s (followed by getting creamed), and Cookie arguing with Zuccineye over the latter's usefulness to the team. Plus, after Cookie [[HulkOut Hulks Out]] and gobbles Bon Bon's Chocolate Ship, he ''still'' has enough room for veggie shawarma. |
| 497 | ** In the Harry Potter parody, the reason why the GiantSpider traps Cookie-Monster-As-Harry in a web is because ''he wasn't listening to the instructions properly''. |
| 498 | --->'''Spider''': "NO! You weren't listening carefully!" |
| 499 | * All of the "Monsterpiece Theater" sketches are a riot, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFLbKtcwtZY the very first one]] (spoofing ''Series/UpstairsDownstairs'') may just be the funniest of all. |
| 500 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksL_7WrhWOc "Waiting for Elmo"]], parodying, of all things, ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot''. Especially when the tree itself has enough of it and just leaves the set. |
| 501 | --->'''Tree:''' Okay, that does it. I've been standing out here waiting for this play to make some sense, I don't get it! It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen! I'm outta here! ''[starts to inexplicably move]'' Why couldn't they do ''Oklahoma''? I understand ''Oklahoma''! ''[starts singing the main theme of ''Oklahoma''!]'' |
| 502 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUzEKIthRC0 Cyranose de Bergerac]], the queen is looking for a rhyme to end her poem "the greatest flower I know is the rose, that I see with my eyes and I smell with my--". The answer is obviously "nose", but the servants suggested "toes" and "bellybutton". |
| 503 | --->'''Queen''': That doesn't even rhyme! |
| 504 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqZJyXSI7_g "Little Red Riding Cookie"]]. Particularly the fact that Cookie Monster views it as a melodrama masterpiece. Not to mention how hilarious the Grandma is. |
| 505 | ** Cookie Monster retells ''Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM3JemzKmfc Prairie Dawn's head in place of the prairie]]. There's some nice touches that really make it work - Cookie Monster's [[YouNoTakeCandle usual omission of the word 'the']], the slow zoom out, and the first sounds out of Prairie's mouth being exasperated sighs, followed by a tired declaration that this is really silly. |
| 506 | ** The most recent segment taped and broadcast, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU1qqxXUJXY The Horse Whisperer]], is a strong contender for the funniest of all. After Cookie introduces the film, a cow instead enters and whispers its sound, then a chicken, both of which result in Cookie saying "Cut! Wait, that not The Horse Whisperer, that The Cow/Chicken Whisperer!" Then, the correct animal (a horse) enters the scene, but whispers "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" This leads to Cookie [[AsideGlance looking at the camera]] as if to say [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe "Are you freaking kidding me?!"]] before complaining that the horse is sounding like a rooster, before the horse next whispers "Quack, quack, quack!" (the sound of a duck). It takes Cookie nearly losing his patience before the horse finally remembers to whisper its own correct sound ("Neigh, neigh"). Special mention goes to the end of the sketch, where the cow licks Cookie and the host exclaims "Cow saliva! Nothing worse!" |
| 507 | * Grover and Madeline Kahn performing "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsCOTsE4atQ Sing After Me]]" in which Kahn twice vocalizes the "Fiddle-diddle-dee" line. When she starts to do it a third time, Grover turns to her as if to say, "Don't you dare!" Kahn proceeds to vocalize the line anyway after Grover sings his part. |
| 508 | * In one episode, Telly receives a visit from his Fairy Godmonster, played by Creator/AndreaMartin. Telly, misunderstanding her intentions, says, "And you're going to turn me from a puppet into a real live boy!" |
| 509 | * Cookie Monster and Sir Creator/IanMcKellen demonstrate the word "resistance"(specifically, resisting one's own impulses and urges). Sir Ian demonstrates with a [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings gold]] [[ActorAllusion ring]][[note]]complete with a chime when he pulls it out similar to the one from the films[[/note]], but Cookie is "not really a jewelry kind of guy", so the lesson falls a little flat. So Ian pulls out a cookie. ''That'' gets the point across. He also mentions resisting the attraction... like a [[Film/XMenFilmSeries magnet]]. |
| 510 | * [[https://youtu.be/dhWUFXvaZjo "Game of Chairs"]], which imagines the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' SuccessionCrisis as a round of musical chairs and is filled with ParentalBonus GallowsHumor references to the series' many dark and morbid moments. |
| 511 | -->'''Robb''': (''after surviving the first round'') Can we hurry this up? I've a wedding to get to. |
| 512 | -->'''Grover''': (''after Joffrey gets eliminated'') I'm sorry, it looks like you choked, Joffrey. |
| 513 | -->'''Robb''': (''after Grover accidentally wins the Game'') I cannot think of a more horrible ending than this. |
| 514 | -->'''Cersei''': (''after losing the game'') I'm telling my brother! |
| 515 | -->'''Grover''': (''After Ned's BigNo in response to Grover winning'') Do not lose your head over this Neddy baby! |
| 516 | -->'''Grover''': (''after sending Tyrion to fetch a cushion for the throne.'') And bring a sweater! I think Winter is Coming. |
| 517 | ** "The monster is blue and full of errors". The fact that Melisandre shows up from nowhere (and leaves just as spontaneously) is not lost on Ned. |
| 518 | * Robert [=DeNiro=] teaches Elmo [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqHfser_9_s how to act]]. Hilarity and surprises ensue. He even gives {{Shout Out}}s to some of his previous roles: |
| 519 | -->'''[=DeNiro=]:''' I can be a [[Film/TaxiDriver New York City taxi driver]], [[Film/RagingBull an out-of-shape boxer]], or a cabbage. |
| 520 | * Katy Perry once did a parody of her song "Hot 'n' Cold" with Elmo. The line "You're hot and you're cold" was demonstrated with Katy chasing Elmo through a desert and the arctic respectively. |
| 521 | * From ''[[Franchise/StrangerThings Sharing Things]]'': |
| 522 | ** The opening title has Oscar the Grouch telling the audience they should just skip this part, which is a well-known option when playing a television series on Netflix. |
| 523 | ** For a bit of irony, Barb is the only one of the older teens to be featured. |
| 524 | ** Another bit of irony is that Dustin is the only character with teeth. This includes the Cookie-Gorgon (Cookie Monster as the Demogorgon), who is based on a creature with a face that's nothing but teeth. |
| 525 | ** Hopper is a rabbit and Eleven and Eight are talking numbers. |
| 526 | ** In the winter sports game, Grover is hit by a snowball and says, "I told you, Eugene, not while I'm on camera!". |
| 527 | ** One of Elmo's songs in the egg-counting game is so nonsensical it's hilarious. |
| 528 | ---> ''(to the tune of the Chicken Dance)'' "Elmo wants to be a chicken, Elmo wants to be a chicken, Elmo wants to be a duck. Cluck, cluck, click, cluck." |
| 529 | * [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2luo0u Spider Monster.]] There's absolutely no educational value in this sketch (aside from Mr. Johnson describing a pulley system). It's just a massive TakeThat towards the disastrous ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark'', satirizing the dangerous stunts, the amount of times it opened and closed, the poor reception, and it even takes a stab at [[Music/{{U2}} co-creator Bono]] by having a Muppet monster named after him. Add to that the fact that it's a Grover and Mr. Johnson sketch (and Frank Oz is performing Grover in one of his occasional return performances), and this sketch feels like a family-friendly episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. In other words: ''the funniest Sesame Street sketch ever.'' |
| 530 | * In Season 37, Cookie Monster is eating fruit. Nothing too out of the ordinary until Matt Lauer from [=NBCs=] ''Today'' comes in and starts reporting that Cookie Monster is eating fruit, and asks if the rumors that's he giving up cookies and becoming Fruit Monster are true. Cookie Monster, on his part, [[GenreSavvy questions where Lauer even came from in the first place]] when the latter appears onscreen, then refutes the rumor, stating he eats his fruit first, then has cookies for dessert. He even gives a scathing TakeThat towards the news media, accusing them of blowing things way out of proportion. In fact, the entire segment is a TakeThat towards the 2005 rumors that Cookie Monster would become "Veggie Monster" and be recolored green. The segment ends with Cookie Monster eating Lauer's microphone, as Lauer laments that it will come out of his paycheck. |
| 531 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qTIGg3I5y8 "Share It Maybe"]], another Music/CarlyRaeJepsen parody. |
| 532 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGMB7Rn8KGE Pre-School Musical]], a parody of ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', ends with the cast belting out the word "musical" with an [[IncrediblyLongNote Incredibly Long Riff]] while the announcer shills [[CashCowFranchise two sequels,]] [[OnIce an ice show,]] [[ScreenToStageAdaptation a Broadway adaptation,]] [[OverlyLongGag and an amateur production]]. |
| 533 | ** ''[[HamToHamCombat Melodic arguing]]''. John Tartaglia clearly had a great time. |
| 534 | * "[[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike I am on a horse...]] Moo! ... [[VerbalBackspace cow]]." Not to mention [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkd5dJIVjgM everything before it.]] |
| 535 | * Cookie Monster listening to a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RfI-14UV-M game pitch.]] [[Creator/DoubleFine Tim Schaefer]] pitches a project about zombies, boring Cookie Monster to death. |
| 536 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jpz_55EdM Jack Black defines Octagon]] is both this, and MemeticMutation. Here, Creator/JackBlack tries to define the word "Octagon" to the viewers. However, he forgets to bring one. Cue Elmo with a stop sign. But [[IdiotBall Jack is completely unaware of the octagon right in front of him]]. |
| 537 | --> '''Jack''': If I stop, how can I find an Octagon? How Elmo, HOW?! |
| 538 | * Oscar getting a dreamy look on his face like a swooning fangirl when guest stars [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H75eQX006jA sing songs that]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uQa4dvrg1E meet his tastes]]. Of course, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHC3M7KL2ns him being annoyed]] is equally as funny. |
| 539 | * This one is more unintentional than anything...but the way Elmo says "paper towel roll" during Creator/HaileeSteinfeld's guest number ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hBlSbh4BY I Wonder, What If, Let's Try]]'' is just priceless. |
| 540 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CduAEx0FAdk Mr. Johnson becomes an unwilling participant]] on Grover's reality show "[[Series/ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition Outrageous Makeover: Home Addition]]". Grover's construction team adds extra doors, one by one, until there are four doors. At Mr. Johnson's insistence, the construction crew removes the doors -- [[ExactWords including the original door]], trapping everyone inside Mr. Johnson's house. Cue Mr. Johnson bursting into tears. |
| 541 | -->'''Grover:''' Stevie! Tell the crew we'll be spending the night! [...] You have a hot tub? ''[to the cameraman]'' Are you getting the crying? I think there's value here. |
| 542 | * From 1980, there's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb2ySy95q2U Alphabet Time]]", a parody of the Miller Time commercials from the '70s. What other preschool show can get away with spoofing a beer commercial? |
| 543 | [[/folder]] |
| 544 | |
| 545 | [[folder: Movies, Specials and other Official Media]] |
| 546 | |
| 547 | * The Count's song from the 1975 ''Bert and Ernie Sing-Along'' album as well as the TV adaptation: "One bat hanging in the steeple/One bat flies in through the door/That makes two bats in my belfry/Wonderful! [[KarmaHoudini But wait... there's more!]]/Two bats hanging in the steeple, etc." ...and then the rest goes on [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin just as you'd expect]]. Until he gets thrown in the shower. |
| 548 | * In ''Series/ChristmasEveOnSesameStreet'' during a discussion of Santa Claus: |
| 549 | -->'''Kermit:''' Who knows more about Santa Claus than anybody? |
| 550 | -->'''Patty:''' The elves! |
| 551 | -->'''Big Bird:''' Uh, Mrs. Claus? |
| 552 | -->'''Patty:''' ''[[Film/MiracleOnThirtyFourthStreet Macys!]]'' |
| 553 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOBL492A2oI Cookie Monster eating a typewriter.]] |
| 554 | ** The ending with Big Bird (who spent the entire special worrying about how Santa would fit down the chimney) sputtering silently after Oscar asks him how the Easter Bunny is able to hide so many eggs in one night is priceless. Cue an [[FirstNameUltimatum "OSCAR!"]] from the humans. |
| 555 | * From the licensed games: |
| 556 | ** In "Elmo's Potty Time", the characters say silly things if you idle. |
| 557 | --->'''Clown''': "I really need to go to the bathroom and that's no joke!" |
| 558 | --->'''Elmo, Zoe, or Baby Bear''': "Can you read the story really, really loudly so I can still hear it while I'm in the bathroom?" |
| 559 | --->'''Baby Bear''': ''(in his spacesuit)'' "*fake static noise* Let's play for awhile! I can go to the bathroom later!" |
| 560 | ** One licensed game based on an "Abby's Flying Fairy School" sketch in which Blogg is put to sleep like Sleeping Beauty. When you have to select which mouth to wake Blogg with, Abby says some funny comments: |
| 561 | --->Mouths can burp, especially Blogg's mouth, but I don't think that's loud enough to wake him. |
| 562 | --->Mouths can whistle, and that whistle might wake up a dog, but I don't think it's loud enough to wake Blogg. |
| 563 | --->Mouths can eat, but it's too hard to make a loud sound with your mouth full. |
| 564 | --->Mouths can sing, but that mouth is singing too softly. |
| 565 | * At the end of ''Film/DontEatThePictures'', after the gang finally leaves the Metropolitan Museum after being locked in all night, and Cookie Monster is forced to not eat any of the pictures or statues on display, he is now famished. Because he behaved himself, Bob takes Cookie Monster to a nearby hot dog stand and offers to treat him to anything that he wants. |
| 566 | -->'''Bob:''' You can have hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream bars, anything. You name it. |
| 567 | -->'''Cookie Monster:''' Ok. Me want to eat hot dog... [[ExtremeOmnivore STAND!]] ''(proceeds to do just that)'' |
| 568 | * From the special ''Elmo's Playdate'': |
| 569 | ** The RunningGag of Grover having trouble using his new phone, causing weird things to happen like the screen turning upside down, him accidentally muting the volume and, as the punchline, accidentally changing his background to outer space. |
| 570 | ** Rosita's reaction when Elmo leaves for the bathroom. |
| 571 | * In one installment of "Abby's Flying Fairy School", Mrs. Sparklenose delivers this ItMakesSenseInContext line with the calm inflection that only a SeenItAll preschool teacher can muster: |
| 572 | --> Settle down now; this isn't the first time a chicken has gone hurtling through the roof of this classroom and I'm sure it won't be the last. |
| 573 | * From [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLMljB8Jl0o Elmo's Potty Time]], some kids list synonyms for pee and poop, which causes some [[ToiletHumour childish laughs]] when they shout out words like "doodie". One especially funny part is when they shout out, "''I really need to urinate!''". |
| 574 | * A PBS Kids promo for the show features Big Bird tossing a frisbee to Cookie Monster, who eats it. The look on Big Bird's face after Cookie does that just sells it. |
| 575 | * At the Season 18 wrap party, Bob [=McGrath=] performed a special version of "The People in Your Neighborhood" with conman, hooker, and mugger Muppets. Bob stayed perfectly in character throughout. [[https://youtu.be/7DwdFzQ4ch4?t=1438 It must be seen to be believed.]] |
| 576 | * "The Street We Live On" [[https://www.tumblr.com/cartoon-lizard/689521681992187904 had a bit where Bert enters Elmo's World]], looking for Ernie. Elmo informs him Ernie's busy playing hide-and-seek with Big Bird (referencing another recurring segment at the time, "Journey to Ernie"). Bert thanks him for the info, then questions where he is. "You're in Elmo's World!" "Ohh. *{{Beat}}* How do I get ''out'' of Elmo's World?" [[LampshadeHanging Elmo replies that he doesn't know.]] "Ohhhkayyy..." |
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