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Manufacturer: Sesame Street
Starring: Sesame Street
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0891264001021
Format: Box set
Label: Sesame Street
Manufacturer: Sesame Street
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Sesame Street
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-10-24
Running Time: 440
Studio: Sesame Street
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Do you remember how to get to Sesame Street? Relive those memorable moments from your childhood with Sesame Street: Old School. The best of seasons one to five are all here for the first time ever on DVD. Included are the best episodes from these early years the original pilot as it aired and tons of extras. Do you remember the Ladybug Picnic? How about Wanda the Witch? Did you learn to count with Bill Cosby or James Earl Jones? Sing "Nasty Dan" with Johnny Cash? Sesame Street Old School has something for everyone whether you just have those adorable monsters (and one big bird) or you want to share the show with your children. Make Abracadabra Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich grab your rubber duckie and head on down to where the air is sweet.System Requirements:Run Time: 420 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY UPC: 891264001021 Manufacturer No: 89126400102
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Summary: Works for children in the 2000s too
Comment: Though some sources claim that these "old school" children's television programs are not as useful or relevant for today's youngsters as when today's parents were originally watching (including a disclaimer in this product itself), I can relate that my 2-and-1/2-year-old is fascinated by them and she has been watching the episodes repeatedly for the past month since we started showing them to her. So fear not - the children of the 2000s will find much to love and come back to in this package of vintage shows. I doubt you will be sorry that you bought it for your child, especially if you loved Sesame Street when you were your child's age.
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Summary: Love IT!
Comment: This DVD set is packed with classic skits that I remember as a kid. It makes me so happy to watch it with my 18 month old son and 6 month old daughter. I know they love it just as much as I do. My son does not like the new sesame street nearly as much. If the new shows are on, he will actuallay bring me the dvd, because he want's to watch the classics instead!
Sorry Elmo!
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Summary: Yay
Comment: I watched Sesame Street from the time I was really small and I always liked it. In fact, I can remember watching well past the "target age" of the show. However, in the last 14 years or so, I had become extremely disapointed with how much the show had been dumbed down, and the advent of a few new characters (especially Baby Bear) really messed things up. Baby Bear has the most annoying, whiny voice ever! While reading the reviews on here, I noted that several people had mentioned a speech impediment. The odd thing is that I'd never really noticed that, or cared. It was just his whole attitude that drove me up the wall. We don't having "streaming" TV (aka cable or sattelite) so my children haven't been growing up watching this as I did for which I am profoundly grateful. The show centering around Elmo is nothing like the show I remember and the few times my kids have seen it, they've wandered off within a few minutes! And they're all between 2 and 6. So I have few Sesame Street vids and they're rarely watched.
However, that being said, I was ecstatic when I discovered this at a friends house and got to borrow it. I hauled it home and prepared for a nice nostalgic journey (even if said episodes were aired over the decade before I was born), with the hopes that the kids would enjoy it as much as I. They loved it. They beg to watch it, and considering they know we only watch TV on the weekends, they don't usually ask. I also noted that several people mentioned the grainy quality and that their children wouldn't even watch it because of that. My children haven't had a problem with it, and have never mentioned it. Then again, that may be because we watch lots of old movies, including really old movies from the 30's (I mean, come on, what modern child actually likes watching the Marx Brothers? [besides mine that is]), so that may be a reason that they haven't noticed the quality. They've learned how to get around that aspect and enjoy the show for itself.
I too was a little disappointed at first when I found out there were only one episode from each season, but I quickly got over it. I enjoyed seeing how it evolved over those years (an orange Oscar?!) and I also really liked the little out takes. I was excited to see the little video of the boy fishing for the alphabet. That's one that's always stuck with me, and reminds me of my oldest now. If ever a whole collection is offered, it would be well worth it and I hope someday to be able to add it to our rather extensive collection. This is one of those rare instances where I would make an exception to the "NO TV" rule during the week.
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Summary: Okay
Comment: We enjoyed the nostalgia, however, expected more episodes. It's dated but still wholesome entertainment for our child.
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Summary: Psychedelic insanity from the 1970s
Comment: Like most Americans of my age, I grew up watching Sesame Street. It was considered a new invention to give children some rudimentary education and teach them something about the world while they moppeted and gamboled around the house doing kids stuff. Looking back at these videos, most of which I remembered very clearly when I watched them again as an adult, I wonder what these people did to my mind.
Sesame Street is now an obvious product of the counter culture. Watching some of the shorts and cartoons in it ... well, I can see why teenage pot-smoking reprobates enjoyed watching Sesame Street as much as kids in those days did. Heck, there were many, many prominent members of the counter culture featured prominently in the program. For example, I had a crush on Buffy St. Marie, American Indian Movement activist from the 60s, from listening to her sing nice songs on Sesame Street. I also had quite a few Stevie Wonder records because of his numerous appearances on Sesame Street. Other figures of the time also made occasional appearances; Johnny Cash and Jesse Jackson among others.
It's funny watching the kids from Sesame Street (which, in case you don't remember, is in the Ghetto) gamboling around Farmer Bob's Farm, figuring out where food comes from and such. One of the great cultural artifacts preserved in Sesame Street, besides the psychedelic art and the hipster haircuts and moustaches, is the uniforms that this era of working class people wear. I mean, I remember people dressing like that, but if they weren't anthropologically preserved in the Bell Jar of Sesame Street ... that might have been lost to history. Nobody knows how Scythian bartenders dressed and comported themselves either. Watching the series really brings me back; it also reminded me of Mr. Hooper who was probably my favorite old dude on Television, and that the "old school" cookie monster is actually pretty scary.
Is it good for kids? I think it is. If you're the type who wants your kid to wear a bicycle helmet when he walks around the house, you'll probably be horrified by it. I find it entertaining, educational, and profoundly nice. Sesame Street Old School also lacks any of the shrill sanctimony or paranoid preachiness that you see in modern kids shows. Kids can watch it and hardly know they're being taught stuff at all. I occasionally wonder that they didn't implant secret mind control engrams into my mind with some of those wacky psychedelic scenes, a la Manchurian Candidate, but over all this is great nostalgic fun.
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