Classic Sesame Street - Sesame Street NEWS FLASH - The First Day of School (with Closed Caption)

This must be the first episode of Sesame Street to be closed captioned for the hearing impared.

Yeah, the captions back then gave a basic idea of what they are saying, but it's not physically accurate what they said.

Heh, you can see the 1974-1984 News Flash title card at the beginning of the sketch, compared to the "normal" version here. That proves a long-held suspicion I had; they replaced the logo at the beginning with the 1986 version for reruns in the early 1990s (many pre-1984 Sesame Street News sketches have been getting that "update" since the late 1980s)

I remember the Sesame Street News Flash logo had a thunder cloud with yellow stars, a blue lightning bolt, and a flashing red text that reads "NEWS FLASH."

On this particular sketch? That version of the logo you mentioned was used in the 1984-1986 News Flash segments; this one is from 1980-1981.

kermit acts as if he never meet cookie

C'mon! Did you never see "The Muppet Show"? The whole premise of that show -- and, likewise, with this News Flash skit -- is that the Muppets are acting...acting, as in a variety-show-type skit.

You got that right.

That was the way of the closed captions back in the days. As of Season 39, the CC is better.

That was because the closed captionings used to be very simplified for very young kids. "Arthur" has a second closed captioning track like that, too. I guess with Season 39, the National Captioning Institute thought it would work better if it were nearly word-for-word.