Sesame Street - Buddy and Jim hang a picture

From 1969.The first Buddy and Jim sketch.

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  Comedy

[zacandtaylorrule]

I don't remember these guys at all. Were they only on in the first season?

[wattamack4]

Yup.

[raakone]

"Buddy and Jim"? They're kind of an Abbot and Costello. Except that they're stupider. Where there any more of these sketches?

~Ra'akone

[wattamack4]

Yes there were.

[Scott K]

thats fiona apple's dad

[MattNewman00]

I was thinking it was almost a Ralph and Ed dynamic from the Honeymooners.

[Phil Mann]

The fact that Jim is dumber than Buddy, but dignity blinds him to it, makes them more like Laurel and Hardy, rather than Abbott and Costello.

[jsilence418]

I remember them but jim is a lot dimmer than i remember!

[sps242]

I think these guys were on only in the first season. I barely remembered them, but remembered them nonetheless!

[ddanjou]

My parents say that they knew one these actors (I think Buddy), and that he had stopped the sketches because his kid was getting ribbed at school about his dumb father. That's love for you...

[BobChanceBand]

Ah yes, the sandwich sketch - "It's a triple decker peanut butter and jelly club sandwich!"

[Pocockable]

Do you remember the singer Kate? I remember her when I was three, and I recognized her in the photos on Wikipedia's Sesame Street episode guide. Also, do you remember a milk sketch when a man pours milk across a table instead of into a glass, and the other man says, "Oh, you can't do anything…"? It might have been on the Electric Company, but I'm not sure. I remember it when I was four.

[trishpip]

When I was a kid, Buddy and Jim were my favorite part of Sesame Street. In later years I would mention the duo and get blank looks - no one remembered them! Thanks for posting this memory. The shoe sketch and the sandwich sketch are the ones I remember most, even though I haven't really seen them since I was 4 years old. :)

[Pocockable]

Does anyone have any other Buddy and Jim sketches? Those are funny.