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Sesame Street Video: Theater edition
Gwynne’s fantastic article The Babble List: The 50 Best Sesame Street Moments got me looking on YouTube for more… more… more!
Here are some Monsterpiece Theater bits related to live theater. Alistair Cookie (aka Cookie Monster) practically steals every one with his comments.
Monsterpiece Theater – Waiting for Elmo
This might be the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. A “Waiting for Godot” parody on Sesame Street. As Alistair Cookie puts it, “A play so modern, and so brilliant, it make absolutely no sense at all to anybody.”
Monsterpiece Theater – The Taming of the Shoe
“Classic play by William Shoespeare, famous podiatrist. (beat) Trust me.” Featuring lines like, “Fie. I will not be tied to any foot…I walk alone.”
Monsterpiece Theater – Hamlet
Includes an extra long intro where Cookie eats to the music, and slow pans across photos of Kermit and the gang.
“It don’t get classier den dis.” Prince Hamlet won’t give Elmo a straight answer! Starring a pre-public-jew-hating Mel Gibson.
Monsterpiece Theater – Monster of Venice
Speaking of Jews, here’s a Merchant of Venice parody, which thankfully does not feature anyone as Shylock. Grover takes over as the leader of a group of monsters who have not been invited to a party. Or, as Cookie puts it: “All about monsters in Venice. Guess that why not called Monster of Cleveland. Anyway, me digress.”
Monsterpiece Theater – Cyranose de Bergerac
“Tonight we present big big feature — facial feature. (snicker)”
Sesame Street – Monsterpiece Theater – The King and I
“About a king and the letter ‘I’.” Of course it is. This video could grow hair on Yul Brenner’s head.
Coming soon — Monsterpiece Theater, Movie Edition.
image: Muppet Wiki
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1 Comment
HDCS commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amGads, what’s not to love about Cookie Monster? And adding Prairie Dawn to the mix a few years back was a master stroke. I loved the recent segment with a faux game show where the question up for answering was “What’s Prairie Dawn’s problem?”. Indeed. What is her problem anyway? Excellent foil to Cookie Monster.
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