Uploaded by request. From 1991, the beginning of the end.
Some of Big Bird and Snuffy's comments are quite amusing. Look, this new character actually makes *us* look smart by comparison!
This was performed live on a popular prime time network variety show, three days after the debut of the Sesame Street version. This is fairly similar to the one they did seven years later on The Muppet Show, but this version has live audience reactions instead of a laugh track.
Version Two (1969 prime time) is here: http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=dp3f5xzmb Gc
Version Three (1976 Muppet Show) is here:
http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=M7XOFf jiL-U
From Nov 27 1969, the very first version of this classic song, as performed by two Anything Muppet girls and an early version of Bip Bipadotta.
Version one (Sesame Street, 1969) is here:
http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=AYJuKX 2j-Cw
Version two (prime time, 1969) is here:
http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=dp3f5x zmbGc
From 1976, the third and most well known version. This is a better copy with no subtitles, complete with Kermit's introduction.
From 1977, one of my all-time favorite songs by Jeff Moss. Ernie has invited Cookie Monster over for breakfast, but the two of them have very different ideas about what to eat.
For years I couldn't remember all of the words to this song, but I'd find myself singing Ernie's first line when pouring a bowl of cereal.
For my 300th post on this channel, here's the classic skit from 1975 where Grover demonstrates the difference between near and far. This is one of those segments that people always seem to remember clearly, regardless of how many years ago they last saw it.
For my 200th post on this new channel, here's a true classic that many consider to be Joe Raposo's signature song. This version is from 1971, and features Bob (Bob McGrath), Luis (Emilio Delgado), Susan (Loretta Long) and some neighborhood kids.
The full credit roll from the 1980s featuring Woof-Woof chasing the kids, complete with the "funky chimes" funding credits and the PBS split logo at the end.
From a "street scene" in the 1990-91 season. Elmo and Telly talk with Maria (Sonia Manzano) and Linda (Linda Bove) about the things they love, and Oscar responds with a lip-sync rendition of his signature song from 1969.
From the objects Ernie is carrying, Bert is able to deduce that Ernie is planning to take a bath in his tubby. But why could Ernie possibly need a flashlight, an umbrella and Bert's bowling ball? From 1970.
A Muppet parody of the Iran-Contra scandal, from the 1988 prime time pledge drive special. Cookie Monster has been accused of stealing cookies from Susan and Gordon, and Robert MacNeil (of the MacNeil-Lehrer Report) investigates.
![Sesame Street - Elmo\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/Rpas0QjKY_A/2.jpg "Sesame Street - Elmo\")
