Dec 24 2008
2nd film on christmas
2nd film of Christmas
CHRISTMAS EVE ON SESAME STREET
When I was a kid “The Muppets” were in full swing and SESAME STREET was basically the only kid shows on television (There was also MR. ROGERS and MAGIC TREE) and the Sesame street gang were the Muppets that I wanted to watch. In 1978 The Sesame Street gang filmed an instant classic (in my opinion) and that is of CHRISTMAS EVE ON SESAME STREET. The plot is as follows OSCAR the jerk, I mean Grouch, poses the question to a naïve Big Bird of how does Santa Claus embank all the skinny chimneys on top of peoples residences when he’s so big and rotund (VERY VERY FAT). This film was shown for a long time during Christmas for at least eighteen years that I know of and then suddenly they stopped showing it all together. These were the Pre-ELMO days so I’m guessing when the small red high-pitched retard reared his head.
This movie has some politically incorrect skits where Oscar calls somebody stupid and a hilarious bit where Cookie Monster tries to write a letter and make a phone call to Santa Claus and he winds up eating a pencil, a typewriter (before home computers obviously) and a telephone. This episode actually features Mister Hooper (Character actor Will Lee) before he died and even today his “store” is actually named after him. See this movie, it’s forty five minutes, has great songs you can sing along with, is funny and just wonderful to watch all over the place.
