Sesame Street - Wait Right Here at the Bus Stop Sign

[MGHSHour2a]

pardon me, sir; as you can see, i'm going to the mall to buy some psx games, i got some money and doing fine.

[cstoczyn]

RIP Richard Hunt

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Long Live Jim Henson!!!!!!!

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RIP Jim Henson

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This Is From 1980-1981

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Man:(dumb): Well, I Never.

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Poor Man

[Chel093086]

This little song is incredibly catchy! I love Sesame Street

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@Chel093086 Me 2

[misssweetiepie10]

Too bad the fat blue did not make it. LOL

[panda374]

It's a beautiful day. T he zoo family should walk to the zoo. That is how I get to the zoo near me.

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@panda374 I C

[panda374]

Wow they found a rhyme for porcupine.

[cstoczyn]

@panda374 MMM HMM

[moatguy]

Poor bugger. He helps everyone and can't get to where he's going cause the bus is full. :(

[Garrettk41]

If Forgetful Jones were in this, here's how it'd probably go: Pardon me sir, I do regret, that I'm supposed to do from here- I forget! I'm going to see my girlfriend Clementine

Man: Well, wait right here at the bus stop sign

[cstoczyn]

@Garrettk41 LOL

[cstoczyn]

@Garrettk41 LOL

[bjordan102]

I seriously will give somebody 20 bucks if they can track down that Judy Collins Sesame Street video "A Song Without A Rhyme" with anything muppets! Can it be done??? :)

[UtubeLeeOh]

I live on memphis and MATA, the buses aint worth a crap. Fare almost $2 and u gotta walk 1/4 mile to a stop and wait 30min to an hour for a bus

[PrissPop]

james moore used to sing this song in school every day....

[Dekobee]

Hey! Herbert Birdsfoot makes a cameo in this song as "Shoeshine Man"!

[Dekobee]

The man who needs the shoeshine is named Herbert Birdsfoot.

[jefit]

Wonderful song, which I remember well. Who knew you could rhyme so many words with sign?

[tpirman1982]

Here's a verse I created!

Me: Pardon me, sir. I won't let you down. I wanna catch a bus down to Germantown. My girlfriend lives right there and she's oh, so fine!

Blue muppet: Well, wait right here at the bus stop sign!

Me: Ah.

All: Bus stop! Bus Stop! Standin' in line. Waitin' for the bus at the bus stop sign.

[tpirman1982]

@tpirman1982 Note: Germantown is an area in Quincy, Massachusetts.

[tpirman1982]

I ride the MBTA Buses. That's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

[thedirectorjenn]

I am so thrilled to have found this! When I was 2 years old (as my parents tell the tale) I wouldn't stop singing this song! That was in '87, in Germany. The English-speaking programs for kids came on insanely early (I've been an early-riser ever since) and I used to get up with my juice and cereal and watch Sesame Street and the like at about 5am. I had, of course, forgotten this song completely, but my parents never did. Thanks for the memories!

[fjccommish]

Lefty is Ernie's doppelganger.

[ShangoJamal]

Do you have any idea how long I have been trying to find this version???

Good Grief!! Thank U soooo much!!!

[twoonbiscayne]

THANK YOU for posting this! I was looking for this for ages and no one had tis version! Thisi s by far my favorite! Have you heard "Do you like flowers" with Biff & Sully and I think Judy Collins? It's be great to find that one!

[nikima99]

YES!! Finally!

I've been hoping that someone would have this video

[empress202]

i luv this! i've been lookin 4 it! thanks!

[eric262003]

I used to think Lefty, the purple guy was voiced by a young Kevin Clash.

[Garrettk41]

I don't believe so, but I can see why one might suppose that.

[JGCooney]

What was Frank's first female voice and when did he do it on Sesame Street?

I think it was after "Lulu's Back In Town"

as Lulu (Beautiful Day Monster). Am I right?

[Garrettk41]

Actually, his first female voice was as the little girl Gordon puts facial features on in the premiere episode.

[classicssmfan]

Does anyone else besides me think that the muppet going to the shoemaker could be related to Herbert Birdsfoot. Taking by the account that they were both played by Jerry Nelson, and they look a lot like each other.

[Garrettk41]

Yes, I was thinking that myself. That guy's a greyer, clean shaven version of Herbert.

[BuddyBoy600alt]

That Herbert puppet reminds me of Bennett Smurf from "What's My Part?"

[Garrettk41]

How so? And that's Snerf, by the way.

[BuddyBoy600alt]

Bennett Snerf was a parody of Bennett Cerf (Who surprisingly the father of Sesame Street writer and voice of How Now Brown Cow, Chrisstopher Cerf).

[Garrettk41]

That's very true. But how does the man going to visit the shoemaker remind you of Bennett?

[BuddyBoy600alt]

Bennett Snerf wore those cartooney glasses (Pupil eyes on Glasses). Those glasses were not just used on Hebert Birdsfoot and Bennett Snerf. But they were also used on:

Mr. Bill Smith (The Rembering Game)

A Father (Let's Go Driving in the Car)

Mr. Essex (The Muppets Rhymes at School)

Don Music

Derick (Sounds of our Lives)

and the Tall Orange Father (In the first scene of the song, "It soon gets done.")

[BuddyBoy600alt]

Also, The School Game Hostess, and the Dentist (Who are the People in your neighborhood?)

[Garrettk41]

Very true. Those glasses were used quite frequntly. But that's about the only similarity. The man really looks like Herbert Birdsfoot, though, only greyer and without a mustache.

[BuddyBoy600alt]

Exactly.

[MarshalGrover]

Let me see if I can get the cast down

Jim Henson: The Waiting Guy

Frank Oz: Zoo Mother, the Last Guy at the end

Jerry Nelson: Zoo Father, Shoeshine Man

Richard Hunt: Library Kid, School Kid

Kathy Mullen: Dinner Wife

Brian Muelh: Dinner Husband, Plane Woman

Mike Earl Davis: Lefty

Karen Prell: Zoo Daughter?

[jonnytbirdzback]

That'd be my guess too!

[cstoczyn]

@jonnytbirdzback Me 2

[Jbrangwynne53]

Actually, I think Kathy might have performed the Zoo Daughter. But, that's just me.

[BuddyBoy600alt]

I think so.

[MrMetalmanRock]

No, that can't be Karen Prell as the Zoo Daughter. It's Kathryn Mullen. You can tell because she sounds like Cotterpin Doozer from Fraggle Rock.

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@MrMetalmanRock O I C

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@MrMetalmanRock She Is, Huh?

[MrMetalmanRock]

@cstoczyn

Yup.

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@MrMetalmanRock Thanks

[Garrettk41]

This might sound strange, but I'm unsure who does the man going to the restaurant with his wife. He has the boom of Frank Oz, yet there's a twang in there that I've never heard Frank use that I can recall. And I also don't know who voices the girl going to the zoo with her parents.

[jonnytbirdzback]

At first, I thought that guy was Frank Oz. But I also hear a Brian Muehl in him too. And the parents of the who who wants to go to the zoo is played by Frank Oz (Mom) and Jerry Nelson (Dad).

[Garrettk41]

I know that. I meant the girl herself.

[JesseL85719]

@jonnytbirdzback And Kathryn Mullen and Karen Prell play Sally and sue!

[JesseL85719]

@jonnytbirdzback Sorry If I was confused >> I thought Sally and Sue would be in this.

[hanfordlemoore]

Thanks for posting this. This song's been lingering in my head for 20 years now. Amazing to find it here and discover how closely my memory matches it.

[Garrettk41]

The baseball Muppet looks like the additional member of the Monotones on the song "A Body Full of Rhythm". Who voices him here?

[jonnytbirdzback]

I could be wrong but it sounds like Bob Payne.

[MarshalGrover]

The baseball kid is Mike Earl Davis.

[jonnytbirdzback]

That could be a possibility.

[redfox409]

Why take the bus to the zoo? I walk there.

[MarshalGrover]

Maybe they're not as close to the zoo as you.

[Smartboy8877]

@MarshalGrover

I was thinking of making a response very similar to this one!

[cstoczyn]

@MarshalGrover O I C

[SMSTERN2]

I love this-i haven't sen this since 1981. i really wish they would re-run all the good old things!

[Garrettk41]

All right! I was waiting for this one. It's really rare, which makes its being posted all the more special. To me, this is a lot more memorable than the B-U-S-S-T-O-P spells Bus Stop one.

[cjdunn]

Well if this isn't a toe tappin' song you need to check your pulse.

[muppetfan33]

The geeky muppet with the glasses kind of reminded me of Jim Boyd from The Electric Company.

[bubblebear83]

I remembered this I watch this when I was young. Yeah, that was sad.

[grecomic]

I do too remember this one! Especially the little girl who wants to see a porcupine.

[zymaymyn]

I do three remember this one! I saw this at least a few times when I was little.

[MarshalGrover]

I believe the woman at 0:49 is Kathy Mullen and the elderly one at 2:06 is Brian Muehl (she sounds like his Grundgetta)

[coyote374]

@MarshalGrover People please, You don't need to catch the bus to go to the zoo. Can't you just walk there? I do.

[MarshalGrover]

Man, there's probably a hundred more of these Muppet bits I've never heard of.

[classicssmfan]

I think so too. If you ask me they just might end up on the Sesame Video Player someday.

[efil4own1]

THANKS! I was waiting for this one!!!!