This Way to Sesame Street - Bert and Ernie explain the Street

[gottalovenaivety]

ha ha see big bird hilarious

[nellie2581]

Very nice

[avalanchesuperstar]

Big bird had down syndrome

[cmatos0917]

When big bird learned about marijuana

[VideogameKitty99]

@cmatos0917 LOLZ

[TECfan1]

haha poor big bird looked retarded.

[MissMarilyn00]

This is what happens when giant birds learn about vodka....

[SuperKrafty101]

big bird sounds...kinda...retarded :p

[MBAce3514]

Big Bird! WTF! Seriously?! O.o

[InsightVidya]

big bird was terrifying

[MaStormy]

this COULD NOT be big bird...what is he smokin??

[Revenantspecter]

@MaStormy If you listen at 1:36 it sounds like he says big turd.

[RickyRocker821]

r.i.p gordan

[Davidmagicman105]

big birds a fucking retard good thing they straightend his ass up

[Davidmagicman105]

big bird looks like hammerd shit

[Davidmagicman105]

NO LITTLE CARTOONS AND SONGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!BWAH

[MarwaSmiley93]

Did the Sesame Street theme song have words to it in 1969? Are they the same woeds as now?

[zvermilyer3]

@MarwaSmiley93

Yes and yes.

[MarwaSmiley93]

@zvermilyer3 Oh,OK



[tittyj2020]

Big Birs got a hair cut with a weed wacker and somebody sold him some crack

[kll510]

wow Big Bird was weird back then.

[ErinLovegood]

@kll510 you weren't kidding nyah!!!!!!!!!!! 

[yaziyo]

Sally promptly moved back to her old place.

[glades20]

Gorden with hair, Mr hooper's still alive, Oscar is orange, and Big Bird is freaky looking. I'm glad I wasnt around til 1979, this would've disturbed me abit. lol

[planetrockford]

@glades20 If Mr Hooper is alive he must be around 150

[glades20]

@planetrockford No, I meant he was alive back then. I was speaking for the time. I remember the episode of when Mr. Hooper died. It was a sad moment of my childhood.

[planetrockford]

@glades20 I got you Glades, nice thought.

[1993DJC]

I just realised Sesame Street is a street. I always saw it as a town or suburb.

[planetrockford]

@1993DJC The clue was in the title lol

[1993DJC]

@planetrockford Sesame?

[planetrockford]

@1993DJC Yep lol

[greatonisionfan]

when everything started

[MrSkooty5]

I wonder...Was BIG Bird Drunk OR High??? This bird would give children NIGHTMARES!!!!

[ZachxZeroxInsane]

Big Bird was trippin, or drunk, or high, or something...

[theSKYisBLUEnotBLACK]

OMG LOL, "I almost laid an egg on Sesame Street" XD too funneh man

[pictureisup1]

How old is Sally today. I was 3 years old when that first aired.

Wow!

[FSXaddict5]

big bird lookin drunk

[DylanBStringer91]

Big Bird Looks Messed Up!!!

[squirm13]

I use to love this show, its true big bird was different in the pilot.

[sallyunraveled]

Did Big Bird have some sort of head injury?

[mametchi1234]

big bird sure looked different back then....

[WWEChampion16]

Big Bird's voice doesn't sound the same in Sesame Street's debut.

[benvolieo]

wow big bird looks kinda odd..? his head is sorta flat and he sounds different.

[MrMrLaricca]

@benvolieo i heard the guy that did big bird then, did big bird for decades. in this first episode i heard that the guy that does big bird was 16 at the time or something like that.

[wabankik]

Wow,While This was Happening Roscoe was out Being Willie Dynomite and Fighting with The Cops,How Did He ever get Gordons Job?

[pooka5472]

Matt Robinson left the series in 1972 for undisclosed reasons and was replaced by Hal Miller. Miller himself left in 1974 for undisclosed reasons and was replaced by Roscoe Orman. Orman had actually been with the series from almost the very beginning, playing Hardhead Henry Harris in the Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School sketches.

[superAJ71]

I don't like that original portrayal of Big Bird. Nevertheless, did these Ernie & Bert pilots ever get released? I'd like to see it in its entirety.

Come on, Sesame Workshop, how about the complete first season for SS-40!

[Marbles471]

@superAJ71

Releasing complete seasons of Sesame Street isn't very practical---since from 1969 to 1998, every season had 130 episodes.

[superAJ71]

Oh, I know. Even if they were to use double-layer DVD's, that would still be quite a bit; it would have to be released in installments and not as a huge box set. But, I guess I was just wishfully thinking out loud.

[ep360]

Sally is Holly Robison Peete.

[MIKECNW]

I'm not sure about that.

There's a website called hooperfan which has old SS photos and a transcpipt of a 1971 book called All About Sesame Street which says nothing about Matt's daughter playing Holly.

However, it does mantions she and her brother doing a scene.

[PimpThe478]

1969 looks like a cool time to be in

[jerhouck]

1:33 big bird 1:40.

[1990babyface]

Wow. I've always wondered how does he move. That's kinda cool/wierd. I was always scared of Big Bird when I was a toddler. Now I'm 19 & still trip out on him. How do you know that about Big Bird?

[1990babyface]

How do they move Big Bird like that? Is he a robot? When I was little I used to think he was actually real. But how ?

[1990babyface]

Is that Rev. Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street?

[pooka5472]

Nope, that's Matt Robinson, the first Gordon.

[fumetti]

Hot Holly Robinson's dad!

[1990babyface]

What? OMG Look at Big Bird. Wasn't Luther Vandross on this frist or second episode of Sesame Street. Big Bird reminds me of Bullwinkle. He sounds & acts just like him.

[hoopersghost]

*nods* Big Bird was originally supposed to be a "bumbling adult" character before they changed him to a "bright and curious kid" character...I'm betting that they designed the costume with the bigger head after that. (Back in Season 1, he looked like a plucked chicken!)

[antsamthompson9]

I have the first episode on the Old School Vol. 1 DVD.

[brightbite]

Is it just me, or does he sound kind of like Barnie? (Big Bird came first, of course.)

[jojomon91]

Where did you get these shorts? There interesting to watch. I wonder if you have the first episode of Sesame Street.

[Jbrangwynne53]

This vid, and the last I two posted, come from original video collection of YouTube user ISNorden. Back in 2006 and 2007, she was like THE user if you were looking for rare Old School Sesame material. You name it, she had it. Unfortunately, by orders of the Sesame Workshop, she had to take all of her videos down. On the bright side, most of her vids have popped up back on YouTube, thanks to fellow Sesame users like MarshalGrover, jonnytbirdzback, and myself =)

[Jbrangwynne53]

BTW, I do have the first episode of Sesame Street ...on DVD that is: On Sesame Street: Old School Vol. 1. I don't think I'll be able to post it. And even if I am able to, It's probably already on YouTube.

[jojomon91]

Interesting to tell me man. Thanks for posting this up.

[Jbrangwynne53]

You're welcome, man =)

[hoopersghost]

@Jbrangwynne53 : Sesame Workshop didn't order the clips taken down; according to some correspondence ISNorden sent, another YouTube user threatened to contact some friends at SW's legal department. (I'll explain the rest in personal messages if you need to know more.)