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Were some of your first friends named Grover, Mr. Hooper, and Bob? Do you remember the Ladybug Picnic? How about Pinball Number Count? Sesame Street Old School is a time capsule of the early days of the ground-breaking series you grew up on. Take a trip back in time with Bert, Ernie, Big Bird and Snuffleupagus. Sing along with classics like "C is for Cookie," "I Love Trash," and "Rubber Duckie." For the first time on DVD, the music, memories, and mayhem from Sesame Street's first five seasons can be enjoyed again and again!
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My toddler hates elmo, and loves "old school" sesame!
My son loves these DVDs!!! I have no idea how or why there is a warning label and message on the dvd saying it's not for todays kids!!? These old episodes are much more "appropriate" than the new ones. Elmo is awful! (As well as the several random characters who have surfaced and become the bulk of the show)
We love the old school sesame street. it teaches diversity, sharing, counting,the alphabet, and other things (like where milk comes from) wonderfully! I constantly hear my son giggling when this is on. (kermit the frog fighting the letter W was hysterical!)
I hope other mothers make the switch back to these epsiodes, and let sesame street know, we don't like its new "formula" for kids shows.
my only complaint is I wish there were more episodes on the dvd!
Big Bird would be pleased
Great purchase, start to end. The Amazon presentation and purchasing process was easy and rapid. The product arrived sooner than promised. The item is as described, a classic for the ages. Even Oscar would be happy about this purchase!
Better than current Show
My two year old became bored with the current Sesame Street Narrative. He loved Elmo for about 8 months but now is no longer interested.
However, He has been enthralled by the old school because the short and creative segments are trippy, and funny. Kermit, guy smiley, lots of bert and ernie and grover segments.
Also it seems there are no muppet characters on the current S.S. that are above 6 years old. Kermit was a perfect "adult" foil and interviewer.
Great stuff. Bob McGrath singing People of the Neighborhood is wonderful.
The Real Deal!
If you've ever sat watching new episodes of the oddly blandicized noughties version of Sesame Street with your little one and thought,"This SUCKS. Elmo must be a lobotomized munchkin.I thought Sesame used to be great.Has my memory cheated me?",rest assured,it hasn't. The two volumes of these compilation 'old school' prove that the Sesame Street that Generation Xers grew up with in the seventies and early 80s was responsible for some of the most inventive,funny,creative,hummable television ever created while still teaching kids the three 'r's.How poor our generation would have been if Jim Henson,God Rest His Soul,had given up on a career in puppetry and gone back to accounting school.
The key to Sesame's success as a learning aid was to copy the slick,colourful,humourous style of television advertising,and like the ads,use constant repetition of these vignettes to drive the message home. These small films gave rise to a wealth of creativity,with many artists drawn from all sorts of independant art styles employed to present numeracy and literacy in a catchy,entertaining way.Attention to the values of decency,equality and tolerence also lifted SS above the norm and made it a genuinely revolutionary cultural artefact of its time.
Sesame's brand of infectious humour and singable ditties had a way of permanently lodging into your heart and mind.I'm 42 and I can still hum my old favorites: the Pinball-inspired,'1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...'song,the 'Ladybug's Picnic'(complete with jokes about fire insurance!),'C is for Cookie','Rubber Duck' etc.Enormous fun and proof that the messages really took.Thankfully,all the best ones you remember are likely to be included on either one of the two volumes.
Yes,some of the info has dated,and there IS an advisory warning on the dvd that not all of the material may be suitable for modern tots.(For example,not sure I would let an under-6 catch public transport or go to the store by herself in these troubled times.)But as long as you watch WITH your toddler to act as a filter for the material(or fastforward thru' the handful of skits out of sync with modern attitudes)this is a great DVD you can genuinely ENJOY(not just watch) together. My 3 yr old niece,who rejects noughties-period SS as 'howwible') LOVES old school Sesame Street.
And if you don't crack a smile during the 'Rapunzel' skit("Horsey??? Where's my horsey???") you are officially dead.
It's a shame that modern Sesame lacks the verve and spirit of adventure of the show in its early incarnation.But thanks to dvd,we can now relive the show's glory days.If I believed in occultism,I'd try to bring Mr Henson back & get him to fix where it all went wrong.Starting with a firing squad for Elmo,the annoying little twerp. Ah,if only.
Not as great as I thought it would be:(
The product's description made it sound like there would be several episodes on each disk, but really its one to two episodes per disk. The quality of the film is pretty fuzzy & even somewhat blurry. The drawing that does the announcement is really annoying, luckily you can skip over him. I bought this for my young son, and while he likes it- I'm thinking I should have went with the newer episodes. I was really excited about buying the vintage episodes, but having seen them now I probably wouldn't buy them for a child, maybe an adult that would remember them the original time they aired.
