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| | | (...) Yah -- they were cavemen, and they couldn't figure out how to leave the cave. The large wooden door leading out is large and quite conspicuous right behind them... As I recall, it wasn't very flattering towards royalty. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —James Brown
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| | | | | (...) Yup me too.... Ah, the good old days of Sesame Street, with skits they can't show anymore... Does anyone else remember the pineapples? He's with the pineapples, he's happy. :) James (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Jeremy Sproat
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| | | | | | (...) Arg. You can't be serious. Really?!? Arg. Those old skits were the best. Oh, well. I figured the show (and anything Muppet) would go all to hell after Jim Henson died. Frank Oz is a good director, and makes a nearly sexy piggie, but he really (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —James Brown
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| | | | | | | (...) Yup. At least one skit I know of for sure, (the Amazing Mumphert & the disappearing pineapple trick skit) was pulled quite a while ago because it <paraphrase warning> 'encouraged a lack of responsibility and a disregard for consequences' It's (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Storyteller Series (Re: Sesame Street King Ernie) —Joseph Gonzalez
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| | | | | | | (...) I was quite excited to see that they are finally releasing some of the episodes of the Storyteller series on video (saw a couple at amazon.com). I never had cable but my sister had taped part of the episode where the soldier catches "death" in (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | (...) Oh, yeah, the Creature Shop is so cool! Have you seen Farscape? I think the aliens in that show are *so* much better than those in Star Trek and Star Wars. Anyone remember "The Dark Crystal"? I love that movie! I heard Jim Henson's son is (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Jeremy Sproat
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| | | | | | (...) The show's starting to grow on me. Like a fungus... :-, I was *so* excited to see it at first, and was bitterly disappointed, but it's gotten much better IMO. But yeah, the aliens, and even just the on-face prosthetics, are way cool. I'd like (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Aha -- yeah! And then was there something about an EXIT sign?? --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Jeremy Sproat
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| | | | (...) What are you, the Royal Smart Person? ;-) Who was in that one---? I remember Ernie, but not Bert. And I think there were one or two anonymous Muppets. Were Guy Smiley or Hemlock Shemlock part of that skit as well? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Julie Krenz
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| | | | | (...) cave. (...) behind (...) Not to be picky, but...Sherlock Hemlock. Can't help it, I'm just crazy about Sesame Street. I guess I'm an AFOSS. More accurately AFOTM. My eyes would well up when ever that Apple commercial would come on. Oh, and that (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Christopher Lannan
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| | | | | (...) The LIFE magazine cover with Kermit sitting by himself after Jim henson passed really got me. I know they're not people in my head, but in my heart they are people, and always will be. Chris (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) LOL! I remember that! (...) I'm an AFOSS/AFOTM too -- especially the weird stuff like those unnamed alien monsters (two-headed, was it?) that went around going "yeppppp, yep yep yep yep yep, yep, yep... book...booOOOK...yepppp, yep yep yep yep (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —James Brown
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| | | | | | | (...) BBBBBBBBRRRRRRRINNNG! <to be accompanied by much loose-lipped head shaking> I loved that skit! (and many others) I guess that makes me a AFOSS/AFOTM as well. Mnah Mnah. James (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Julie Krenz
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| | | | | | (...) More (...) would (...) the (...) Those creatures are more like handtowels w/eyes. A fun way to wash my kids faces is to grab a washcloth and transform it into one of those creatures. Much less of a struggle when mom is chanting "yep yep"! It's (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —John Neal
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| | | | | <3822120f.591292318@lugnet.com> <FKp4x1.65x@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) This thread has been brought to you by the number 8.... (...) (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | (...) Man, I don't remotely remember what that show was, but that ditty shure rings a bell... (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) "We're gonna ZOO-OOM! We're gonna ZOOM, ZOOM, ZOOM-Ah, ZOOM! (repeat endlessly)" (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Aaron West
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| | | | | | | (...) little (...) 02134..." (...) endlessly)" It just ended here in Chattanooga TN on PBS, my 3 year old watches it. His favorite, my first time watching (I'm OLD!). Aaron (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Christopher Lannan
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| | | | | | | (...) little (...) 02134..." (...) endlessly)" I remember that they all wore blue and red horizontally striped shirts, and I think they crawled around on a set that was a bunch of boxes. when I was little I remember pretending that I was doing a (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Oops. Forgot the "We're gonna ZOOM ZOOM!" in the middle. Changes the whole rhythm. Steve (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Andrew Lynch
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| | | | | My god, I loved those monsters too... My favorite part of that skit was when something that they didn't expect would happen, ( like the phone ringing) they would pull their lower lip up over their head. That image still makes me smile. Thank God ( (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Peter Merryman
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| | | | | <3822120f.591292318@lugnet.com> <FKp4x1.65x@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You can chalk me up as an AFOSS/AFOTH (actually just a total AFOJH) as well. I proudly credit Jim Henson as my number (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —John Neal
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| | | | | <38221836.749B68AD@uswest.net> <38272f8e.12233921@lugnet.com> <FKwBFI.1En@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Holy Cow! It's *still* running, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —John Neal
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| | | | | <38221836.749B68AD@uswest.net> <38272f8e.12233921@lugnet.com> <38278802.91210334@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Okay, here goes from (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Sesame Street King Ernie (was: Re: Castle returns for 2000!) —Tamyra Teed
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| | | | (...) I just happened to catch Zoom on PBS tonight... the show sure has changed, you can now e-mail them at www.pbs.org... the theme is the same though! (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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