6 thoughts on “Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned on Sesame Street

  1. There are so many songs from Sesame Street that are ingrained in my brain. Let me count them in honor of this mountain of a television show:
    1- C is for Cookie. That was good enough for everyone.
    2- The 1,2,3,4,5 show and its funky crazy disco animation. Holy buckets that was an ear-worm and what substance were those animators on???
    3-It’s in a book. All I remember was a very simple song with books book-ended by a cat and dog statuette that would come to life and say “in a book!” vague but the tune is echoing in my head.
    4-Holy Hannah! Captain Vegetable with his carrot and his celery!
    5-One of these things belong together song. A perennial song and a perennial game.

    There are not enough honors in the world to shower on this show. It makes my heart glad to know it’s still chugging away.Report

    1. Rubber Ducky, you’re the one! You make bath time lots of fun!
      I was taking a walk. Walking with my (woofwoofwoofwoofwoofwoof).
      One. Two. Two little beds. One. Two. Two sleepy heads.
      I LOOOOOOVE trash!Report

    2. “1-2-3
      4-5-6
      7-8-9
      10-11-12

      Ladybugs came, to the ladybug picnic!”

      Another one I remember well from my childhood, and which I sometimes even feel a bit as an adult is the “Somebody come and play, somebody come and play today, somebody come and smile the smiles…” (That song really summed up what I felt as a child – I was often lonely, I lived on a street with few other children my own age, and even at that, i didn’t have a lot of schoolfriends)Report

  2. One thing I remember, among many, from the show was a song about how “everybody gets mad,” with the implication that it’s okay to get angry sometimes. That’s a hard lesson to learn, and I’m still learning it. But it’s a good lesson, too, and I’m glad the show at least tried to impart it.Report

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