Poll
Question:
Who's your favorite Sesame Street character?
Option 1: Big Bird
votes: 0
Option 2: Bert
votes: 0
Option 3: Ernie
votes: 5
Option 4: Grover
votes: 1
Option 5: Elmo
votes: 1
Option 6: Oscar the Grouch
votes: 8
Option 7: Snuffleupagus
votes: 2
Option 8: Count
votes: 7
Option 9: Cookie Monster
votes: 9
Option 10: Abby Cadabby
votes: 0
Option 11: Kermit the Frog
votes: 2
Option 12: Other
votes: 1
Option 13: Option 13 skipped due to superstition
votes: 0
Option 14: I'm too old, boring, and/or European to bother with this
votes: 5
So Mitt likes Big Bird, huh. :hmm:
Elmo of course. :)
Cookie Monster. -_-
We didn't get all the characters during the time I watched here in Germany (early 80s), but of the ones we did, definitely Ernie.
Cookie Monster iirc.
Was Kermit on Sesame Street? I can't recall that.
Quote from: Tyr on October 05, 2012, 07:09:41 AM
Was Kermit on Sesame Street? I can't recall that.
Yes.
edit: well, maybe not for a certain generation, he was for mine--Sesame Street (1969–2001, 2009) (TV)
A toss-up between Kermit, Elmo and Big Bird. Went with Kermit because he is green.
The Count and Oscar are the only real options.
Yeah, Oscar was always my favorite.
The "Nog-Nog" aliens scared me as a kid. :(
I loved the Nog-Nogs!! Voted Ernie, though. :wub: I thought he was awesome.
We had this in Soviet Union instead:
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I indentify with Oscar, I am a bit of a Grouch.
Quote from: DGuller on October 05, 2012, 08:43:27 AM
We had this in Soviet Union instead:
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The fun part was working out who would be purged each episode. ;)
Definitely Cookie Monster. That was solidified when mom took me to see Sesame Street on Ice and he waved to me :lol:
When I first started watching, The Count scared me a bit. Didn't help that my brothers told me all kinds of gory stories about him.
The Count is awesome.
Cookie Monster and his Avenue Q version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shbgRyColvE
Cookie Monster.
Null vote, never so it as I'm of a certain age, so I'll go for the Banana Splits. :cool:
I liked the dog Barkley. In fact, I named my fish after the muppet when I was four or so. There were two other fish, one was named Fred and the third I forgot his name because the other two fish killed and ate him. :(
Quote from: Malthus on October 05, 2012, 08:56:14 AM
The fun part was working out who would be purged each episode. ;)
Well, when the pig and the rabbit grew up, they became Putin opponents. As a result, every channel they've been on has been closed or taken over by Putin on one pretext or another. :ph34r:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joshuabales.net%2Fwp%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fcookie_monster.jpg&hash=091a9905d57411e27b7e068e680059a1ba977804)
There can be only one.
Quote from: FunkMonk on October 05, 2012, 07:47:14 AM
Yeah, Oscar was always my favorite.
Given the online personas of most posters here, I'm surprised that he's not winning in a huge landslide.
Quote from: dps on October 05, 2012, 12:16:41 PM
Quote from: FunkMonk on October 05, 2012, 07:47:14 AM
Yeah, Oscar was always my favorite.
Given the online personas of most posters here, I'm surprised that he's not winning in a huge landslide.
I broke for the Count as I don't like hanging out in trashcans.
I liked the Count, but he always annoyed me by counting so slowly and interrupting everybody; Oscar was OK, but loved Cookie Monster, because those were awesome-looking cookies.
One! One more vote for the count! ah ah ah
Quote from: garbon on October 05, 2012, 12:21:39 PM
Quote from: dps on October 05, 2012, 12:16:41 PM
Quote from: FunkMonk on October 05, 2012, 07:47:14 AM
Yeah, Oscar was always my favorite.
Given the online personas of most posters here, I'm surprised that he's not winning in a huge landslide.
I broke for the Count as I don't like hanging out in trashcans.
The trash can was the main thing that I liked about Oscar. :D
Snuffleapagus....but only when he was invisible.
Quote from: FunkMonk on October 05, 2012, 12:32:40 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 05, 2012, 12:21:39 PM
Quote from: dps on October 05, 2012, 12:16:41 PM
Quote from: FunkMonk on October 05, 2012, 07:47:14 AM
Yeah, Oscar was always my favorite.
Given the online personas of most posters here, I'm surprised that he's not winning in a huge landslide.
I broke for the Count as I don't like hanging out in trashcans.
The trash can was the main thing that I liked about Oscar. :D
It is a very spacious(sp) trash can.
Quote from: Josephus on October 05, 2012, 12:53:16 PM
Snuffleapagus....but only when he was invisible.
I don't know why but I went to check when they made that switch.
Apparently they didn't like the idea of adults not believing Big Bird when he told them about Snuffleupagus, because it might discourage kids from reporting sexual abuse. Makes sense when it's stated that way.
Who's Abby Cadabby? :unsure:
German Seasame Street at my time was partially home produced, partially bought from U.S. (mostly puppet bits like Ernie & Bert, Kermit, Cookie Monster, the Count, Grover, some cartoons etc.).
The actual "Sesame Street" bits were dubbed when my older sisters were little (70s?), then during my days replaced by German muppets/actors, which is what I grew up on (early 80s):
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Kermit was cool but his laugh got on my nerves. Edge to Big Bird.
Quote from: merithyn on October 05, 2012, 01:00:11 PM
Who's Abby Cadabby? :unsure:
Fairy chick they introduced a few years ago. She seemed the most commonly used character from the glimpses I got during my nieces' visit this summer.
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Quote from: Barrister on October 05, 2012, 12:59:09 PM
Quote from: Josephus on October 05, 2012, 12:53:16 PM
Snuffleapagus....but only when he was invisible.
I don't know why but I went to check when they made that switch.
Apparently they didn't like the idea of adults not believing Big Bird when he told them about Snuffleupagus, because it might discourage kids from reporting sexual abuse. Makes sense when it's stated that way.
Interesting explanation. I was always curious about that.