Sesame street little chrissy3/13/2024 However, mostly avoiding the issue isn’t necessarily the ideal way to go about doing that! In fact, there might be the fewest of any episode I’ve seen so far, so it seems like they were making some effort to stick as closely to the concept as they could. At the very least, however, there aren’t many street scenes at all in this one. Unfortunately, however, we’re still not at a point in the show’s history where the street scenes are actually held together with a plot (which continues to surprise me, as I expected them to do so far earlier, even if only to create more material to fill up so many episodes!) and so there is at least one musical number done in full daylight later in the episode, as well as one that does occur at night but in which everyone is at Hooper’s shop, which doesn’t exactly track with the fact that, by the end, everyone will be in the exact same position and doing the exact same thing they were doing at the start of the episode. Later on, such an episode would have likely stuck to this evening-on-Sesame-Street conceit throughout the entire episode, or at least during each of the street scenes. Apparently even a Grouch needs to be able to see around his place after Daylight Savings Time ends. And returning to the Count’s light-counting, I particularly love how one of the many lights that turns on this early autumn evening is coming from Oscar’s trash can. But we don’t get much of him at all in this episode, maybe because they were trying to ease him in as naturally as possible, without calling attention to the change. Everything is basically winding down for the evening, and it’s all so low-key, I almost didn’t notice that Gordon has once again been recast, only this time it’s finally Roscoe Orman, who has remained with the show to this very day. Maria is reading a book on the fire escape outside of her apartment window, David is sitting at an outside table, spending time with some of the kids on the street, Gordon and Susan are walking home from a presumably long day of work. Instead, here, we return to a much more sedate scene. This is actually a very different way to start a Sesame Street season, which usually opens up on a bright, energetic scene that reintroduces and plunges the audience into its bustling city environment. Despite that, as should surprise no one, nothing actually disastrous occurs, however I do wonder whether the hour’s framing device of the Count perching on the famous Sesame Street lamppost and counting all of the lights on Sesame Street going on in the early evening and off later at night was meant to be a sly little nod to it, due to the Count’s vampiric origins. The sixth season of Sesame Street debuted on November 4, 1974, with the ominously numbered episode 666 (which is available to watch on the Sesame Street: Old School Volume 2 DVD set).
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