Today it was reported that most 10th graders in Washington state can not pass the Math state expectiations.
I blame a severe lack of the good Sesame Street stuff. Oh sure, it still comes around in rotation (at least some of it)… but the good stuff… not as often.
Some favourites:
- 1-20 indian man with 4 arms:
- The pinball machine we all wanted
- My Martian Cutie (Number 9)
- The Ladybug Picnic.. and for those of you studying kaballah.. IN HEBREW!
- Trippy basic addition and subtraction to 5
- The alligator king (7)
- The animated rock tribe ritual of passage unto the realm of 12 actually kind of disturbing in reflection.
- Early scary computer counts to 4
- Let’s sing a song of 10
- These featured a clumsy baker taking a dive with X number of pastries. See if you can identify the baker. This was the only time you saw this mainstay of Sesame Street on screen.
- Personally, I wish I could find “Let’s sing a song of 9” because it is the first appearance of Rowlf the Dog.
- The crazy number painter played by “The Jefferson’s” neighbor Paul Benedict was a favourite, but the shorts were killed in the 80’s because it was perceived that they encouraged graffiti. In this episode he tries to paint a “7”. In this short he runs into a random female (the second person in the elevator)… Bonus points if you can recognize this actress before she was discovered.
- And if you really want to understand me and where I get it… hands count to 11
Hopefully we can all count now.
Personally, I love these because they fire off synapses deep in my brain that have a warm nostalgic buzz to them.
Oh, and in case you really can’t figure it out…