Ode to Sesame Street
February 8th, 2007
Everyone one I know of a certain age in Trinidad is obsessed with Sesame Street and can quote entire sketches extemporaneously and with very little prodding.
I always find it fascinating (and more than a little disappointing) when I quote what I feel to be seminal moments of my childhood and no one in the U.S. knows what the heck I’m talking about.
Such examples include:
- “I love you from the bottom of my chicken”
- “In a hurry to be fed. Beedy eyes and big blue head.”
- “I have a dog. His name is Pete. He has four feet.”
- “Redheads are called carrot-tops even though carrot-tops are green.”
- “A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter. I remember, I remember!”
- “Sparky, it was you all the time!” (imagine me an alligator, alligator!)*
- “How could I be so dumb. Plants need water, man.”
- And this one’s for you Wod-Dow — “Straw is light and easy to carry.”
If I’ve left anything out, do be a dear and add them to the list.
And for those of you who are going WTF right about now, I say: Where’s your sense of HISTORY, MAN?
*Note that this is a link to a fellow Trini’s blog. Can you say UBIQUITOUS?
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February 8th, 2007 at 6:20 am
‘Kids just love to bruussshhh!”Kids just love to brushhhh’
We really love to brush, our teeth, our teeth!
‘It is IIIIII, Captain Vegetable, with my carrot! and my celery!’
Eating crunchy vegetables is good for me… so I eat it whenever I can
Who were the singing pig trio? One walking on the big pink sign… just cant remember….
February 8th, 2007 at 9:54 am
The Oinker Sisters - I got a new way to walk
http://members.tripod.com/Tiny_dancer/walk.html
Don’t judge me.
The ‘i’ve lost my pet’ skit -
“like walllking backwards through yourr miiiind ”
“sometimes I imagine, that I would like to be…”
don’t judge me.
“yip yip yip, a-ha a-ha”
Weso would agree on that one
NNF recently brought up the Ernie & Bert skit in the temple. How it was always scary.
And let’s not forget….. just how trippy Sesame Street could have been
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYaArMDA1ZE
February 8th, 2007 at 9:59 am
ooohhh eyeliner ernie — I couldn’t watch that one by myself. probably still couldnt. here’s the clip on youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=9nSmWHHZpVE
February 8th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Oh snap I ain’t clickin dat. How bout the alligator king?
“..said the alligator king to his seven sons…. ‘i’m feelin… mighty down “
February 8th, 2007 at 10:28 am
ooooh i love this post
alligator king is on UTube too.
And I’m all about the “sometimes I imagine” and don’t forget “I have a little plant. I always give her water. Cos you see, she really likes her water…”
February 8th, 2007 at 11:47 am
“There’s a hole in the bucket, Dear liza, Dear liza .”
” Here’s the plan.Take the Golden AN, put it in the tan van, give it to Dan, who takes it to Fran……”
February 8th, 2007 at 11:48 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZpjH1WcWOM
February 8th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
That………. is metal.
February 8th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
lol, I think we remember the glory days of Sesame Street…pre-Elmo as it were.
One, two, three
Four, five, six,
Seven, eight, nine,
Ten, eleven, twelve
Ladybugs came,
To the Ladybugs picnic…
A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter…
Brings back memories.
April 20th, 2008 at 8:03 am
I sit with my boys(3 + 6) and take them through all the old Sesame ‘classics’ on YouTube. They absolutely love it. I had to play cookie monster in the library for them about 20 times! Trinis and Sesame Street - en twined forever!
April 24th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
yuh dun know!