Alphabet Time - Classic Sesame Street

[ErnieandBert1]

Kind of creepy seeing segments from this time that didn't feature the core puppeteers.

[Garrettk41]

Actually, according to Muppet Wiki, Michael Earl Davis voices both of them.

[Garrettk41]

@Garrettk41 But that was a mistake, as Davis indicated on his myspace page. He was just the patient, Brian the other surgeon.

[tifahentai]

I saw this when I was little. I imitated what the doctor was doing, though I wasn't really operating on my friend back then I was just making a mess on the house. lol

[TonyDuMont]

I actually recall the "If you've got the time, we've got the beer" jingle on which this was based.

[DrTicktock]

Michael Earl is performing the patient on the table. He is also the announcer.

[copperline78]

I know i saw this because I remember the monster with the air bag LOL No clue it was a parody of course. Classic!

[tmoverbeck]

I'm sure I saw that at some point in my childhood. I doubt they'd get away with referencing a beer commercial these days.

[celticepona]

I remember this. ")

[thechise]

that surgeon almost looks like elmo with fuzzy eyebrows

[sawing14s]

Yeah ... I think that's a background grouch. (Note the live hands which all grouches have)

[MuppetDude]

From what I've seen, the red monster has been used for a grouch and monster (though his arms were built with sleeves, which most grouch puppets don't have). And it looks as if the green monster nurse is the original Grungetta puppet with different features (their mouths are the same).

[Larynxa]

Another stellar example of content done to appeal to the adults who were watching!

[AnnainCA]

I don't remember this clip, but it sort of reminds me of The Ten Commandments of Health. Does anyone have that song? I'd love to see it again.

[PrawnRR]

That's an odd little thing.

[itstheit]

Wow! That's great! I'm gonna go have me some cool, refreshing ALPHABET!

[videoguy100]

That's what I thought, too, and maybe during lunchtime at my workplace.

[ISNorden]

I never saw this one on the show itself, but it's a Sesame Street clip, all right: Most children's shows would parody a beer commercial to teach about milk, nutrition, or some obviously similar topic. Sesame Street's writers, though, didn't go for the obvious: "Alphabet Time" is original enough to entertain parents and teach children at the same time.

[MacLeaper]

Oh my goodness! That is definitely a parody of the "Miller Time" beer commercials- I find it really strange that Sesame Street would do a parody of this!