OT: Sesame Street Video Clip Archive now online

[Jon Cooke]

This is really off-topic, but I thought it was really neat. The Sesame Workshop folks have just launched a new website at http://video.sesameworkshop.org/ which showcases hundreds of classic Sesame Street skits from the beginning to today. Think an all-Sesame version of YouTube. Just clicking on the Cookie Monster or Grover icons will keep you entertained for hours. You can also search for keywords or characters. It's amazing. :cool:

[Joe H]

This is really off-topic, but I thought it was really neat. The Sesame Workshop folks have just launched a new website at http://video.sesameworkshop.org/ which showcases hundreds of classic Sesame Street skits from the beginning to today. Think an all-Sesame version of YouTube. Just clicking on the Cookie Monster or Grover icons will keep you entertained for hours. You can also search for keywords or characters. It's amazing. :cool:


I must say, it's the greatest internet video archive since the Siskel & Ebert archive, and minus the ads to boot!.

[Leviathan]

Interestingly there are a bunch of Kermit Sesame clips here. I wasn't aware SesameWorkshop could post those online.

[TnAdct1]

Sadly, there's a lot of great moments that the video clip archive is missing at the moment (i.e. Telephone Rock, ABCDEF-Cookie Monster) :(

[nickramer]

Sadly, there's a lot of great moments that the video clip archive is missing at the moment (i.e. Telephone Rock, ABCDEF-Cookie Monster) :(
Remember that this site is still on the Beta stage and I heard that more clips will be added every week and next year. Also, you can email them and request the clips you wanted to be on the site.

[FlapperPrower]

I really enjoyed Baker Number 3, I hope they put up all of the Baker Number skits.:D

[JPox]

Completely awesome!
I am guessing they aren't considering new DVD sets now?

[speedy fast]

Sadly, there's a lot of great moments that the video clip archive is missing at the moment (i.e. Telephone Rock, ABCDEF-Cookie Monster) :(

Both of those have been released on DVD. Telephone Rock is included in Old School Volume 2 (it's the first skit in the "season six classic cuts"), and an edited version was included in Rock & Roll! (I am not sure if that's out of print or just hard to find now).

ABCDEF-Cookie Monster is in Old School Volume 1, as part of episode 536, on disc 3. Or, if you get that set and want to see that sketch immediately, you can go to the chapter stop and click on "Kermit and Joey recite the Alphabet". It is also on the out-of-print video The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street.

This site is good. I've found many skits that I either haven't seen in a long time or have been wanting to see for years. And I've foudn a few Muppet skits that I haven't even heard of (such as the skit where Prairie Dawn invites Grover, Herry, and Cookie Monster to dinner). There are a lot of recurring number or letter series that this site only includes one sketch of. Only one baker film, one Jazz cartoon, one Typewriter cartoon, two Pinball Number Count cartoons, two Mad Painter films, no Teeny Little Superguy films. I really hope that all of the baker films get included, especially the one for the number 1 (the most rarely seen one, which is also the only one that hasn't been uploaded on You Tube). I think this site is a bit like www.in2tv.com, though it seems like it has more material.

It's great that a lot of currently rarely-seen characters can be foudn on this site, including Herbert Birdsfoot, Simon Soundman, Biff, Sully, Guy Smiley, and Forgetful Jones. I wish that there were skits with Roosevelt Franklin, Bruno, Don Music, Sam the Robot, and Professor Hastings included. It seems like there are hardly any celebrity sketches on there. There also seems to be zero Big Bird or Oscar skits from the first two decades of the show. I'm glad that there are skits form the first season, though the supply of first season skits seems small.

I have typed in individual letters and numbers, and didn't get any results. That's a shame, though I later typed in a number (spelled it out, instead of just typing a number), and got some results.

[speedy fast]

Completely awesome!
I am guessing they aren't considering new DVD sets now?

I hope that there will still be some collectible DVD sets in the future. I saw a thread at the Tough Pigs message board which reprinted an article about the ninth season hawiai episodes, which mention that Buffy St. Marie signed a release to allow for her segments from those episodes to be released on a future DVD set of classic episodes. And it seems like the site mostly just has segments that were repeated in multiple episodes, though there are also clips from Christmas Eve on Sesame Street and Elmo's World: Happy Holidays.

[Bugsmer]

Thanks, Jon. I've showed this to my family and they love it. I noticed that they haven't put Roosevelt Franklin or Sam the Robot yet, but they do have Farley and Betty Lou and Placido Pelegro...and this is only the beginning! Think of what it'll look like in a year's time.

[janiepooh34]

This is great, thanks for sharing!

[speedy fast]

Although nothing comes up if you search for Roosevelt Franklin, there are a few skits on here that feature him in the background (and usually if you type a characters name you'll find clips where that character only appears in the background). There is a news segment where Kermit asks people what makes them angry, and I think I saw Roosevelt make a walk-on appearance there. There's also a sketch where Ernie locks Bert out of the apartment, and when he finally lets Bert in, it turns out that he threw a surprise party for Bert, and several characters, including Roosevelt, appear.

[David Gerstein]

There also seems to be zero Big Bird or Oscar skits from the first two decades of the show.I did find Oscar's "I Hate Christmas" song, which is from 1978. It's incredibly funny—almost timed like a cartoon, and rather racy for Sesame Street ("I'll tell him where to put his toys"; no kidding!).

[nickramer]

I did find Oscar's "I Hate Christmas" song, which is from 1978. It's incredibly funny—almost timed like a cartoon, and rather racy for Sesame Street ("I'll tell him where to put his toys"; no kidding!).

That was from the 1978 Christmas special, "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street". There was also another risky gag that Ocsar did in that show. After leaving the subway, Big Bird tells Oscar another possible explanation on how Santa goes down the skinny chimneys. Oscar then responds, "You are, without a doubt, the most stupideous, most ignor- [at this point, a subway train passes through off screen, drowning Oscar's voice for few seconds, and then leaves]-est bird I ever met!" Then Oscar disappers in his trashcan, while Big Bird looks in the camera stunned.:D

[BloodyChamp]

The Yip Yip Aliens are one of the funniest works ever produced. I just saw their cameo in the Kermit the Frog interviews Old McDonald skit. That's the first cameo of theirs that I've seen and it's got to be one the most well timed, excellent, HILARIOUS cameos ever! Absolutely awesome stuff!

[Matthew Hunter]

I clicked on the Count and found a bit I haven't seen since I was a lil' tyke...called "Batty Bat". Fun!