It's in color. That's nice.
It's in color. That's nice.
I bet you don't remember this. This is how the first show started. And after this little claymation segment aired, the normal scenes of kids playing started.
Gordon introduces Sally to Susan. Apparently Gordon and Sally were walking down the street. If that happened today, they'd throw Gordon in jail and call him a child abductor. Well, anyway, Sally is new in the neighborhood (and so are we all, this is the first episode, after all.) Gordon introduces Sally to his wife, Susan, and...
...Big Bird. Looks different, and acts dumber. First, Big Bird can't find Sally, then Gordon holds her up and then Big Bird thinks she's 8 feet tall. "I'm a very nervous bird!" he remarks.
Dots. These are sort of like the color dots at the beginning. There are several spots with the dots, some of them having the third dot be a ding sound. They're kind of like the Simpsons couch gags, only you get a whole bunch in one episode.
Extreme dieting. This kid gets only three peas for dinner. This shot is from a segment about the number 3, with the intro being pretty flashy, with the numbers 1-10 zooming towards the screen (Think the HBO intro, but way quicker.) Also, at the end, watch the guy holding three cakes fall down the stairs. Pretty funny if you're three or four.
The ugly truth where milk comes from. This segment has a stupid song about cows "See the cows under the sun giving milk for me." A guy and a guitar. It also has footage of cows hooked up to milking machines
Oscar is orange! And mean, too. "I like you kid," he says "because in the 30 or so seconds I've known you, you've never knocked on my can, never asked me to meet anyone, and never told anyone where I live, unlike *some* people I know!" and then, down goes the lid.
Hubert doesn't start with S! The first claymation segment ever, which pretty much disappeared after the first season. Skunk, Snake, and Soldiers all start with S. The snowman's name is Hubert, and That doesn't start with S!
The freakiest Muppet ever. Gordon introduces the Anything People (aka the Anything Muppets). There's five of them, and he attaches hair, nose and eyes to. There's a whole "family" of them, a mom, dad, sister, brother, and uncle.
Wanda the Witch had a very poorly-drawn pet weasel. She also lived somewhere west of Washington. One day, she tried to wash her wig, but the wind blew it away. Pretty much everything in this cartoon is made of Ws, like the weasel's fur; notice it's all Ws!
Kermit trying to talk about the letter W, but Cookie Monster comes and eats a line off it, so it becomes an N. Then he eats another one and it becomes a V. Then, Cookie Monster eats the rest of the W. The first appearance of Cookie Monster (who should be called the W monster.)
Carol Burnett! Her only line was "Boy, that Wanda the Witch sure was weird!" The first celebrity to appear on the show.
And, the end. BTW, yes, we'll come back, we have been for almost 40 years. The first show was brought to you by the letters W, S, E and the numbers 2 and 3. Sesame Street is a production of the Children's Television Workshop. (They changed the name to Sesame Workshop for some stupid reason.)