We requested the old Sesame Street episodes from NetFl*x (we don't have cable so NetFl*x is our solution). The one we got included Episode #1.
It opens with a little animated guy telling us that this is for nostalgia purposes only and is perhaps not appropriate viewing for today's preschoolers.
Huh? What could possibly have been in Sesame Street in 1968 that would be inappropriate? Well, besides the orange and gold clothes?
Opening scene: Gordon (the Same Gordon) walks a "new girl" around Sesame Street. No mention of her parents is made for the entire hour.
Next scene: two kids build a very rickety bridge with 2 boards and 2 saw horses and proceed to walk across it (and almost fall) about 8 times.
It was alarming and refreshing all at once.
Until Oscar popped out of his trash can and was... ORANGE. It took some time to explain that grouches are orange until around age 8 when they begin to turn green.
On a side note... Gordon and Maria have aged very gracefully. Bob? Not so much.
March 16, 2008
Sunny Days. Speaking the clouds away.
Posted by The Curly Redhead at 12:19 AM
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Huh. I always thought it was "sweeping the clouds away". I'm always amused by how people can listen to the same sounds but hear something different.
Sunny day
Sweepin' the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet
Can you tell me how to get
How to get to Sesame Street
Come and play
Everything's A-okay
Friendly neighbors there
That's where we meet
Can you tell me how to get
How to get to Sesame Street
It's a magic carpet ride
Every door will open wide
To happy people like you
Happy people like
What a beautiful
Sunny day
Sweepin' the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet
Can you tell me how to get
How to get to Sesame Street...
How to get to Sesame Street
How to get to...
I thought it was "chasing the clouds away". Nowhere close
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