Jim Henson's Red Book "In June 1965, 28-year-old Jim Henson started a written log of his activities in what became known as “The Red Book.” He noted what had happened up until that point (deemed “Ancient History”) and then recorded anything that he felt was worth recording as single line journal entries until the end of 1988." via
retroist.
posted by PhoBWanKenobi
on Mar 11, 2012 -
7 comments
Bert and Ernie recording their voices for TomTom. This is perhaps the funniest viral ad for a product that I've seen.
TomTom in-car navigation systems offer custom voices to read out directions, and their latest additions are from Sesame Street. This is the promotional video, showing what the recording session was like... [SLYTPB]
posted by Slap*Happy
on Nov 18, 2011 -
33 comments
In 1969,
Sesame Street put together an unaired pilot to test in front of children. The pilot contained the appearance of an actor playing Gordon different from the
other three actors who subsequently played that character. Sesame Workshop has no idea who this actor was and has exhausted all leads.
Do you know who the mystery Gordon is?
posted by mightygodking
on Nov 10, 2011 -
91 comments
"'
Being Elmo,' the crowd-pleasing [
documentary film] profile of the man behind Elmo, arguably the most-loved Muppet on 'Sesame Street,' has been melting hearts on the festival circuit since premiering at Sundance this year, where it won the Special Jury Prize. ... [It's the] story of how puppeteer
Kevin Clash came up through the ranks on sheer ambition and ingenuity to become one of the best in the business is an underdog tale of the best variety."
* However, could it be that there is
an Elmo backlash brewing?
[more inside]
posted by ericb
on Sep 28, 2011 -
107 comments
Sesame Street's Grover spoofs the original Old Spice ad. As great as this is, it's not the first time
Sesame Street has parodied something. They've also done
30 Rock,
Mad Men,
True Blood,
Law & Order: SVU,
Desperate Housewives,
CSI,
Highschool Musical,
Twin Peaks (during a parody of
Masterpiece, no less) and even
Casablanca and
Shaft.
posted by Effigy2000
on Oct 8, 2010 -
63 comments
There seems to be
a lot of bleeping going on lately. But now it's time, with the help of our friend Count von
Count Bleep (
wikipedia), to
bleep the number of times you can have a laugh with the
bleeping bleeps.
Start here and then go on:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5;
And more
bleeping fun with Ernie, Bert, Oscar, and the Cookie Monster:
1,
2,
3,
4.
[more inside]
posted by omegar
on Feb 25, 2008 -
20 comments
Scary Stuff: Count Floyd's Scary Little Christmas Promo,
Dr Cube's Posse,
A Scarier Skeleton by Jack Handey [mp3],
The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra Trailer [previously],
Shining,
Plan 9 From Outer Space - Best Lines,
Re-Enactment - Pan's Labyrinth,
[previously]
Scream in 30 Seconds and Re-Enacted by Bunnies,
Season of the Witch,
The Thing in Lego,
REM & Muppets - Furry Happy Monsters.
Happy Halloween everyone!
posted by McLir
on Oct 30, 2007 -
14 comments
Muppet Diplomacy - USNews and World Reports has a new must-read article:
"The White House has approved a classified new strategy, dubbed Muslim World Outreach, that for the first time states that the United States has a national security interest in influencing what happens within Islam. Because America is, as one official put it, "radioactive" in the Islamic world, the plan calls for working through third parties--moderate Muslim nations, foundations, and reform groups--to promote shared values of democracy, women's rights, and tolerance." This means surprising US-funded initiatives such as restoring historic Sufi (i.e. moderate, non-Wahhabist) mosques, saving 11th Century Uzbek Korans, and convincing Pakistani madrassah teachers to quietly add science and math to the curriculum. Oh, and it means we're funding secular and independent media, including
"in what boosters are calling Muppet Diplomacy", an Arabic version of
Sesame Street. Can cultural revitalization, increased educational access, nascent democratic movements, and adorable lil' Elmo--all paid for with US tax dollars--be an effective innoculant against the tentacles of Radical Islam?
Daniel Pipes,
The Progressive Muslims' Union, and
Reason magazine weigh in. See also a related
RAND Corporation report from March, 2004.
posted by Asparagirl
on Apr 28, 2005 -
28 comments
Sesame Seventies is an informational website about the three disco-related Muppets/Sesame Street records released in the 1970s. It makes for a good argument in favor of file-sharing, it reveals some of the stranger children's music of the past twenty or so years, and it's cute. (warning, some flash)
posted by pxe2000
on Jun 24, 2003 -
19 comments
Sesame Street's HIV positive Muppet The next season of the South African version of Sesame Street will feature a female muppet who has HIV.
We want to show that here is an HIV-positive member of our community who you can touch and interact with.
posted by Foaf
on Jul 11, 2002 -
34 comments
