Classic Sesame Street: Takeoff/Inflight Lunch

[abehammy]

@DannyVids11 I listened closely and while it sounds like "crap", I think he says "rats"

[hoopersghost]

@DannyVids11: That's what it sounds like, all right...I wonder how that slipped past PBS' Standards and Practices board? They'd bleep out "crap" on a news program for adults even today, so it's strange that a character on Sesame Street got away with saying it.

[Muppephile]

@hoopersghost - he says "rats!", good grief, they have better scriptwriters than to just let a cuss into a show for preschoolers. Geeze...

[duderme]

@hoopersghost He actually said "drat"

[Melcat96]

Is that Maria in front of Big Bird?

[hoopersghost]

@Melcat96: Yup, I'd know her voice anywhere!

[Melcat96]

@hoopersghost Wow! She was young!

[americanidol434]

big bird needs two chairs to sit down! lol

[snowcelica]

LOL Oscar sure was one mean ol bastard back in the day!!! :)

[GameShowNetwork]

The plane scenes were shot in a real plane

[hoopersghost]

@josephamaker94 :  I understood the first entree (boeuf bourguignon), but not the others...how many airlines offered fancy French meals in coach class, back in the 70s? *LOL*

[alexeidarling]

@hoopersghost I think the third one is Salade Nicoise. Still not sure about the second one. But yeah...a bit fancy compared to what we get today (which is basically a bag of pretzels on most flights I've been on)

[Jobafan08]

"fly the unfriendly skies" sounds like united's motto for the 21st century :) looks like oscar was on to something, he would love air travel today! xD

[TVLubber]

"This is your pilot, Captain Cooney, speaking."

Obviously a reference to Joan Ganz Cooney.

[AFGSANFORD2]

It is wrong for airlines to charge you for food and now drinks, pillows and blankets! I'd rather take a train. I can't stop laughing when Oscar the Grouch orders food. Oscar is my favorite Sesame Street character.

[pinocchiofan]

1:34 i know Big Bird said "rats!" but it sounded like he said "crap!"

[rockingdylan]

how can big bird fit he's almost 9' tall i think

[PGMEagle]

that was nice back then when airlines didn't charge you for food :-)

[avonee1976]

I've flown to Hawaii and they did serve us full course meals. They actually weren't that bad, in fact, they were kinda good!

[GalacticCabaret2]

Funny, they take off in a 727 and land in a 737.

[hoopersghost]

Not as strange as you might think; a flight that long (coast-to-coast and then some) probably would have required a plane change back then.

[travelsonic]

Few aircraft could come close back then Id guess.

[airplanecrazy1989]

A. Today's planes can make that trip

B. If they did fly from Chicago to Honolulu, then there's no way they did it on a 737...

[MrLogoman007]

They flew from New York City. Sesame Street is in NYC, so it would have to be from JFK to Honolulu.

[hoopersghost]

You're right; several characters *have* placed Sesame Street in New York, so they probably took off from La Guardia back then.

[AWorldExposure]

@MrLogoman007 They might have switched somewheres, cause they took of in a 727, and landed in a 737. lol

[airplanecrazy1989]

Today's aircraft can do this trip. Continental flies Newark to Honolulu non stop. However a 737 cannot do Chicago to Honolulu...so if the cast did fly direct from CHicago to Hawaii, then the aircraft type is a mistake...Not even a 727 can do that trip.

[WunderDoob]

@GalacticCabaret2

That's because the 727 doesn't have the range to make it all the way to Hawaii from New York.

[MyNameIsMissyS]

Airline food? I seem to recall something like that. Now all I get to wash down my fear-of-air-travel drink with is a bag of peanuts...if that!

[hoopersghost]

I've flown across the Atlantic before and gotten actual meals then; they must restrict those to flights above a certain length.

[MrLogoman007]

I took a flight from Atlanta to Anchorage, and they gave us food. It was chicken, rice, vegetables, a wheat roll, and a brownie. Oh, and free sodas every hour or so. That was 2 years ago.

And on a flight from SLC to my hometown, we got a box with a drink, some crackers, a cheese spread, and stuff like that.

[jrcasselman]

I bring my own food as I hate the crap they serve on planes anyways. I have been told that on international flights the best thing to do is ask for a kosher meal as they are prepared in smaller quantities and taste better.

[GBPackerLuke6]

Yeah. Maybe that along with a book, a rubix cube, and a can of Copenhagen Long Cut.

[RooseveltFranklinFan]

Listen to Big Bird: "Looks like toy food."  Hilarious! Looks like Big Bird doesn't care for airline food either. Heh heh.