41 Favorite Sesame Street Segments

41 Favorite Sesame Street Segments (in No Particular Order)!

Michael Wermuth, Jr. - Well, Sesame Street’s 41st season just started, so what better way to kick off the 41st year than with a listing of my 41 favorite Sesame Street moments. Now, in the past I’ve made other lists of the favorite Sesame Street songs that haven’t been released on albums, that haven’t been released on DVD, my favorite segments from last decade, and the top five segments I didn’t know about until sesamestreet.org… But this isn’t about whether the segments are available on CD, DVD, or online, it’s my top 41 favorite segments from Sesame Street, in no particular order!

1.       Henson #1 (aka Baker #1)

2.       Grover asks Kermit, The Count, and Sully why the number 2 is their favorite numbers (and it isn’t any of theirs!)

3.       Rubber Duckie

4.       C is for Cookie

5.       Oscar, Bruno, and the adults go to the Cha-Cha Palace

6.       Kermit’s W Lecture

7.       Monsterpiece Theater: Chariots of Fur

8.       Pinball Number Count #2

9.       Prairie Dawn invites Grover, Herry, and Cookie Monster to dinner

10.   The Ten Commandments of Health

11.   Jazz #7

12.   Teeny Little Super Guy: Pets

13.   Kermit and Joey sing the alphabet

14.   Grover serves a burger

15.   Fuzzy and Blue (and Orange)

16.   Sesame Street News: Cookie Monster’s first day of school

17.   1,2,3,4 – with Feist

18.   That Grouchy Face – with James Taylor

19.   Jim Carrey: Happy and Sad feet

20.   Squeal of Fortune

21.   D-Dance

22.   Song About Elmo – with Adam Sandler

23.   Things That I Remember

24.   Kermit and Grover: Earmuff Salesman

25.   Ernie and Lefty: U/V Salesman

26.   Snuffy jumps on Big Bird’s trampoline

27.   Cookie Monster and the Count co-operate on eating and counting cookies

28.   Super Grover: Telephone Booth

29.   Bert’s Bust

30.   Bert and Ernie go to Egypt

31.   I Just Adore Four

32.   Typewriter: N-Nose

33.   Number Three Ball Film

34.   Mystery Guest

35.   Disco Frog

36.   Don’t Know Y – with Nora Jones

37.   Because We’re Friends

38.   Mumford’s Levitation Magic

39.   Ernie and Cookie Monster: Same and Different

40.   Mad Painter #3

41.   Super K Cereal

Honorable Mention: Every version of “What’s the Name of That Song?” The song is so good, and every version I’ve seen is great, whether it’s sung by Forgetful Jones, Bert and Ernie, or the entire cast (or really most of the then-current humans and some Muppet characters).

Well, that’s my list. I chose not to include anything from season 41, mainly because the season hasn’t been completely broadcast yet, but I have seen a few clips on sesamestreet.org and Sesame Street’s YouTube channel that I would have liked to have included (such as “Hot and Cold” with Katy Perry and “What I Am” with Will.I.Am).

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