![]() Maria says that Big Bird has wandered away from her, plus their song is not over yet. During the middle of the song, Big Bird runs off, noticing a gumball machine. She breaks into song - "Stickin' Together" - and Big Bird joins in with her. ![]() Maria asks Big Bird if he can remember what to do when shopping. Once they arrive at the ABCD-Mart, Maria and Big Bird pass by some sheep (and then they run off) and then Little Bo Peep, who is out looking for her sheep. This leads to Maria singing "555-1234", with Gabi, Telly, and some kids joining in, while Oscar refuses to sing along. Big Bird and Maria decide to go there to get a new trash can for Maria and a new set of skates for Snuffy.Īs Big Bird and Maria head to the bus stop, she instructs him to stick together with her when shopping and if Big Bird becomes lost, he should find a store employee or call her number - 555-1234. Suddenly, Big Bird discovers in a newspaper that there are Snuffleupagus-sized skates at the ABCD-Mart. Big Bird is worried that there will be no skating party and Snuffy is downtrodden that he'll be the only one not skating. Oscar the Grouch states that maybe next time Snuffy can crash into his trash can.īig Bird brings the broken items to the Fix-It Shop, but Maria claims that both items are beyond repair. Maria says the trash can he dented is hers. However, he loses control and crashes into an aluminum trash can, denting it in the process, and also breaking his skates. He says he is having a skating party for his birthday, and Big Bird is one of his invited guests. ![]() Snuffy is rollerskating around Sesame Street. Sesame Street's Kids' Guide to Life is designed to smooth the sometimes bumpy road to growing up. Look for a special message from Francis McDormand to parents at the end. ![]() Now that he's lost, will he remember what to do and where to go for help? Will Maria find him before Snuffy's party?īig Bird Gets Lost has great new music, including a sing-along song that helps kids learn their phone numbers. ![]() But 30 years on, the perils here are overwhelming: their hair is in their eyes! They're playing electrical instruments! And, my God, one is playing the drums without any protective clothing! Frankly, it's astonishing I managed to grow up unscathed.When Big Bird and Maria go to the ABCD-Mart to buy some skates for Snuffy's birthday party, Big Bird forgets all about sticking together and takes off after a runaway skate. My favourite segment was the 1979 one when the Muppet band the Beetles, suitably mop-topped, if a little fuzzier of face than the originals, sang their poignant ballad Letter B (sample lyric: "When I find I can't remember/What comes after A and before C/ My mother always whispers, 'Letter B'," and yes, I am quoting from memory). The clearly depressed Oscar the Grouch is another problem: "We might not be able to create a character like Oscar today," said Parente, which is possibly one of the most depressing sentences I have read in my life.įor those of us reared on Sesame Street, the degree to which the show is embedded in our psyche is hard to overstate. His alter ego, Alistair Cookie, used to smoke a pipe before eating it, which, Sesame Street producer Carol-Lynn Parente explained to the New York Times, "modelled the wrong behaviour", and so Alistair was, tragically, dropped, and he now probably munches down on pipes in bitterness in illegal pipe dens. Children dancing in the street! Grown men reading storybooks to kids - for no apparent reason!Ĭookie Monster is the number one problem, not because he is a monster, but because he eats cookies (encourages obesity), and when his addiction takes a special stranglehold, the plate (might hurt). It's not the psychedelic nature of the programme in its 70s incarnation that worries, but the behaviour it might encourage. ![]()
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