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High Noon: Sesame Street Characters

Posted by DFO

Feb. 6, 2009 11:58 a.m. • 45 comments

At the Idaho State University, the Bengal newspaper asked readers to name their favorite “Sesame Street” character. As of this minute, Cookie Monster, Big Bird & Elmo are dead even, garnering 29% of the responses apiece. You can check it out here.

Question: How about you? Which “Sesame Street” character is your favorite?

45 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

JeanC on February 06 at 12:05 p.m.
Gotta be Kermit, tho I love Cookie Monster as a close 2nd.
poolman on February 06 at 12:14 p.m.
Kermit is actually a Muppet - not a Sesame Street character. Now, in “The Muppet Movie” - Big Bird did make a cameo appearance. He was on his way to New York (presumably Sesame Street) when he crossed paths with Kermit and Fozzy Bear, who were on their way to LA to do a singing gig.

I like Oscar the Grouch myself.
JeanC on February 06 at 12:32 p.m.
Kermit was on Sesame St in the 70s. He usually was paired off with Grover, playing the straight frog.
toadman on February 06 at 12:41 p.m.
Jean’s right.. just how young are you poolman? Should we call you “poolboy” ? Oh wait.. that might be bad… DOWN CindyH! DOWN!
toadman on February 06 at 12:42 p.m.
As muppets go, however, I always had an affinity for the Muppet Show Band (on The Muppet Show.. remember? Puppets on during prime time.. what an awesome time to grow up…)…specifically, Animal. Statler and Waldorf never failed to get a laugh from me, either.
Cindy_H on February 06 at 12:48 p.m.
Gover. In particular Super Grover. Elmo came along and stole all Gover’s screen time.
Elmo=Evil.
Nick_Adams on February 06 at 12:49 p.m.
1. Oscar the Grouch
2. Snuffleupugus
3. Ernie
4. Cookie Monster
5. Kermit
poolman on February 06 at 12:54 p.m.
Are you all telling me Kermit cut his chops on Sesame Street and then crossed over the Muppets? Who Knew
Cindy_H on February 06 at 12:54 p.m.
My favorite Muppet related memory: When my four-year-old asked me, “Who is Ernie and Bert’s mommy, and why does she leave them alone all the time?”
Boy! Explaining Ernie and Bert to a very bright four-year-old is difficult.
JeanieSpokane on February 06 at 1:14 p.m.
My neighbors (I mean ALL the neighbors) nicknamed my two sons Bert and Ernie and left it to them to figure out which one was which. It was said as one name, bertandernie. My SO still refers to them as Bert, or, Ernie - and again, no particular son gets a specific name. But your 4-year-old, Cindy (I am assuming Sam) is right. Bert and Ernie must have had a very bad Mommy. bertandernie, however, had a great Mommy - me. :)
marmitetoasty on February 06 at 2:03 p.m.
Bert and Ernie and then the grouch was me favourite…

Our Ben who is now 25 had a Bert top toy on his second crimbo, it was sent over by my X brother in law that had remarried a doodle after my sister and him broke up….. anyways, these characters were almost impossible to get over here back then, so it was a very special pressie…… it was my lads most favourite toy for years, a bit like when a kid carries a blankie…….. we had to take Bert everywhere and take photos of him doing things on holiday etc……. over the years Bert got very thread bare and I had to knit him a new jumper and a pair of trousers to try and stop the wear of his little body….. he lost his ears through to much hugs and loving and we found his unibrow one day down the back of the sofa……

Bert now sits in my bedroom on an old antique pine chest of draws with other treasures from my sons childhood……

We love Bert…..

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marmitetoasty on February 06 at 2:04 p.m.
bugger - top = soft…….. where the bloody hell did top come from lmfao

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JeanieSpokane on February 06 at 2:16 p.m.
How lovely, Marmite. I love all the animals and creatures that are so loved they have lost their fur, their stuffing, and ears and noses and eyes. Who needs that outer shell when it’s the spirit that counts. I gave my brother a stuffed teddy bear when he was little. He loved that thing. He drug it around every where, and he was always packed into every suitcase for every camping trip and every vacation. He took it to college with him and “Pickles” even spent the night on his Honeymoon - hardly recognizable with no ears, nose, eyes, or fur. Kind of a homely little shrunken brownish pile of cotton. When my brother went in to the hospital to have a kidney removed and went on dialysis, at age 47, I found a new one - Pickles II - who has been relegated to the settee in the fancy living room while the original Pickles has the comfort of the center of my brother’s bed. :)
Whippersnapper on February 06 at 2:22 p.m.
Grover.
Joker on February 06 at 2:29 p.m.
Cookie Monster
Escapee on February 06 at 8:11 p.m.
COOKIE!!!
mia on February 06 at 9:12 p.m.
Oscar the Grouch, for his tough exterior persona and soft heart underneath. Did any of you ever see the episode of Martha Stewart when she had Cookie Monster on her show to help her bake? It was hilarious. She accidentally said the word “cookie” and he went bananas in her wonderfully organized kitchen. It was pretty great.
Bob on February 06 at 9:17 p.m.
1. Morpheus the Mope
2. Buttalungus Prime
3. Jock
4. Sgt Deadly
5, Miss Skanky
6. Delbert the Plow
mia on February 06 at 9:58 p.m.
Here are links to the Cookie Monster and Martha Stewart episode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orxd5L5qFLI&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FYvxa9RKp0&feature=related
Bob on February 07 at 4:17 p.m.
Here is the script to my favorite Sesame Street scene featuring my favorite Sesame Street characters. First aired April 7, 1973.

(Miss Skanky)

HEY HEY Sgt Deadly, I have a math problem can you help me?

(Sgt Deadly)

Sure Missy!

(Delbert the Plow)

Can someone plaaaaaaaay with me?

(Morpheus the Mope)

Nobody plays with plows.

(Miss Skanky)

HEY HEY Sgt Deadly, here’s my math problem: If you have six hand grenades on your belt and I take two hand grenades to blow up Jock because he broke my bike, how many HEY HEY hand grenades would you have left?

(Buttalungus Prime)

ButtaLUNGUS!

(Delbert the Plow)

Can someone please plaaaaaaaaaay with me?

(Jock)

You can’t blow me up I’m a balloon!

(Sgt Deadly)

Missy, Sgt Deadly would have FOUR hand grenades left to blow up hippies with!

(Morpheus the Mope)

I think you mean “with which to blow up hippies”

(Buttalungus Prime)

BUTT BUTT BUTTALUNGUS!

(Miss Skanky)

HEY HEY I think you’re right Sgt Deadly. But I changed my mind. I won’t blow up Jock. I will instead go feed my goldfish, Miss Pinkytail.

(Delbert the Plow)

Blow me up. Nobody will plaaaaaaaaay with me.
hmoffsuite on February 07 at 4:25 p.m.
Great script, Bob. No kidding, big LOL. Good work.
Arch_Druid on February 08 at 10:16 p.m.
Wasn’t there a Dracula type guy in there at one time? He’d have been MY favorite. I didn’t watch all that much Sesame street even when I was a kid.
mia on February 08 at 11:18 p.m.
Arch-Druid, I think you would you be referring to the Count, Count Dracula! He loves/ed to count things! He was great!

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