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Post by mrjukebox on Nov 19, 2011 13:24:42 GMT -5
According to the article on Casey Kasem that was posted on Wikipedia,he voiced a few segments for "Sesame Street" that aired during the first season (1969-1970)-Several of those have been posted on You Tube including F for frog,T for TV,G for goat,& B for basket-That latter clip was briefly seen in the 1982 movie "ET"-If you get a chance,check them out-They're quite enjoyable.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Nov 19, 2011 15:53:43 GMT -5
I remember seeing the "B is for Basket" clip when the 20th century E.T. movie was released in 2002. I didn't pay attention to the 1982 showing, but the 2002 anniversary release really made it easy for me to remember from Sesame Street.
There was also another letter B clip shown briefly in that movie as well - one about a bee.
And I am forbidden from watching Sesame Street or any associated clips, thanks to a ban that my mother put on me back in 1984. I do admit I was heavily addicted to Bert vs. Ernie segments (since July 1984, in fact) and it took me 3 months for behavior problems linked to the show to reach its peak, resulting in the ban in October 1984. I also admit I sneaked the show in the early 2000s when I was on my own, but while I didn't get caught by anyone, it did come back to haunt me in the fall of 2003. I haven't had any desire to view the show or any associated segments since - to this day, and beyond.
So count me out on viewing those clips. Blame it on my mother.
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Post by bandit73 on Nov 19, 2011 20:28:53 GMT -5
I think a lot of people here have faced limits on their Sesame Street viewing. Back around 1983, when I was about 10, all the local TV stations kept preempting my favorite shows. So in frustration, I kept saying, "I'll go back to Sesame Street." My folks refused to allow it. For years afterward, they banned even the mere mention of Sesame Street in our household. But they did make an exception for the episode about Mr. Hooper's death, because I think they wanted to watch it.
To this day, the ban has not officially been lifted.
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Post by mkarns on Nov 19, 2011 23:17:07 GMT -5
There was never a ban on "Sesame Street" in my house when growing up; to the contrary, first me and my younger brother watched it, which led to much fighting over the TV when I was home from school on holidays and summer vacation and wanted to watch something else.
But more relevant to this board, between "Sesame Street", "Scooby Doo" and his many voiceover roles and promo spots (especially for NBC) in the late 70s and early 80s, I was probably subconsciously familiar with Casey's voice well before I started listening to him count down music.
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Nov 21, 2011 10:54:20 GMT -5
A ban on "Sesame Street"?!? I can't believe it.
I was allowed to watch the show when I was growing up (My mom apparently saw no problem with it). Of course, I grew out of it in time and I can't remember the last time I bothered watching an entire show.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Nov 21, 2011 14:16:27 GMT -5
A ban on "Sesame Street"?!? I can't believe it. The thing is, the show had content that was labeled controversial by my mother during the first decade-and-a-half of the run. My mother didn't have a problem with the show during the 1970s - it taught me how to read and taught me a lot of the basics that a lot of persons with autism cannot learn that well (and I am autistic, btw, and very high-functioning). But in the 1980s, the negatives overrided the positives. The issue my mother had with the show was my addiction to the show since PBS was introduced to my regional cable lineup - it strengthened my obsession greatly, and I would overdose on the show most days. My mother told me I had to trim my watching of such show to just one airing daily. Sesame Street was airing on CBC during that era as well, but PBS was good at excessive reruns of the show. Then, in July 1984, I was exposed to a segment where Bert and Ernie were in their beds and had balloons attached to their bedposts. Ernie wanted to give them their freedom, and then Ernie regretted his decision. Ernie annoyed Bert greatly, and even suggested to rent a helicopter, thus setting off Bert's temper to a very high magnitude. He was in the halls, angry, and broke a window, then knocked over a trash bucket, and his anger continued right to the end of the segment. I was laughing my head off over that segment, and when I knew the episode was going to reair, I had my VCR all fired up. Having replayed that tape repeatedly and giggling over such controversial segment (which, to me, was "comedy"), my mother was so angry, she took the tape away from me, and I wouldn't be surprised if she threw it away or destroyed it. That was the beginning of the end of my days of watching Sesame Street. Bert and Ernie were the issue at hand when my obsession over such show reached its peak in 1984. But that peak period lasted no more than 3 months. I vowed to continue watching the show until the day my mother put a stop to it. The demise of my watching the show came in October 1984, abrupt but peaceful, and my days of watching the show ended on a quiet note (and the 1984-85 season was only 6 weeks away). Guess you could say I knew it was coming. Maybe my mother wanted to ban the show because the content that I was giggling at was not laughable content to begin with (at least to some or many parents), plus wanted me to develop new interests in an effort to get me out of my addictions (which I couldn't do because of my autism). But that marked the first time I was willing to listen to my mother in my entire life. At least, until I moved out on my own a decade later, where I sneaked the show, assuming I would not be caught. After a while, while I didn't get caught by my mother or a third party, it did eventually come back to haunt me, and it was a creepy feeling. I discontinued watching the show completely just before Halloween 2003, and I have vowed to stick with my ban to this day and beyond. |
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Nov 22, 2011 1:41:22 GMT -5
A ban on "Sesame Street"?!? I can't believe it. The thing is, the show had content that was labeled controversial by my mother during the first decade-and-a-half of the run. My mother didn't have a problem with the show during the 1970s - it taught me how to read and taught me a lot of the basics that a lot of persons with autism cannot learn that well (and I am autistic, btw, and very high-functioning). But in the 1980s, the negatives overrided the positives. The issue my mother had with the show was my addiction to the show since PBS was introduced to my regional cable lineup - it strengthened my obsession greatly, and I would overdose on the show most days. My mother told me I had to trim my watching of such show to just one airing daily. Sesame Street was airing on CBC during that era as well, but PBS was good at excessive reruns of the show. Then, in July 1984, I was exposed to a segment where Bert and Ernie were in their beds and had balloons attached to their bedposts. Ernie wanted to give them their freedom, and then Ernie regretted his decision. Ernie annoyed Bert greatly, and even suggested to rent a helicopter, thus setting off Bert's temper to a very high magnitude. He was in the halls, angry, and broke a window, then knocked over a trash bucket, and his anger continued right to the end of the segment. I was laughing my head off over that segment, and when I knew the episode was going to reair, I had my VCR all fired up. Having replayed that tape repeatedly and giggling over such controversial segment (which, to me, was "comedy"), my mother was so angry, she took the tape away from me, and I wouldn't be surprised if she threw it away or destroyed it. That was the beginning of the end of my days of watching Sesame Street. Bert and Ernie were the issue at hand when my obsession over such show reached its peak in 1984. But that peak period lasted no more than 3 months. I vowed to continue watching the show until the day my mother put a stop to it. The demise of my watching the show came in October 1984, abrupt but peaceful, and my days of watching the show ended on a quiet note (and the 1984-85 season was only 6 weeks away). Guess you could say I knew it was coming. Maybe my mother wanted to ban the show because the content that I was giggling at was not laughable content to begin with (at least to some or many parents), plus wanted me to develop new interests in an effort to get me out of my addictions (which I couldn't do because of my autism). But that marked the first time I was willing to listen to my mother in my entire life. At least, until I moved out on my own a decade later, where I sneaked the show, assuming I would not be caught. After a while, while I didn't get caught by my mother or a third party, it did eventually come back to haunt me, and it was a creepy feeling. I discontinued watching the show completely just before Halloween 2003, and I have vowed to stick with my ban to this day and beyond. In full disclosure, I have autism myself. I guess I wasn't as addicted to "Sesame Street" as you were. In addition to "Sesame", I also watched "Mr. Rogers" (R.I.P.), "Reading Rainbow" and "Square One" on PBS. Though I was never banned from "Sesame Street", I was banned from two TV programs in particular. I was banned from watching "You Can't Do That On Television" because I imitated the slime bit a bit too much ("I don't know". SLIME!). For a few years, I was also banned from watching "The Simpsons" (obviously for imitating certain words that should not be spoken by young kids) but by the mid-1990's I was watching "Simpsons" again (and also watching my language). I don't watch "Simpsons" as much these days but it wasn't because I got tired of them but because CBS counter-programmed by scheduling "The Amazing Race" and "Big Brother" up against "Simpsons" on Sundays. |
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Nov 23, 2011 14:20:00 GMT -5
Sesame Street was not the only show that was banned by my parents during my life cycle. Another show, a short-lived Canadian children's game show called 5-4-3-2-Run, was causing me to giggle and mimic certain quotes because of contestants having "blue goo" or green slime (also known as "green stream") poured on them for sitting in the wrong answer to a question. It was causing me development problems, plus I got a rise out of a (im-)possible answer to the subject of Dinosaurs, and one of the possible answers was Toronto-Saurus (which, obviously, had to do with a city and not a dinosaur). The contestant didn't sit in that wrong answer (and rightfully so). Other made-up possible answers included "Flip-Flop" (which was actually a type of footwear you can buy at Old Navy and now a current Price is Right pricing game) for the category "haircuts and hairstyles", "Dictaphone" for "musical instruments" (which the contestant stupidly chose to trade into), "Vitamin S" for the category "vitamins", and the other letters were C, A, K, and E (I can see why they used S as a possible answer, seeing it spelled a plural for a popular food served on birthdays), and "Ajax" for "Santa's Reindeer" (which was actually a cleansing powder, whereas Comet was both that and one of Santa's reindeer) and for "bowling terms", they had "Strike" and "Picket" - the latter being a made-up possible answer because of having to do with "picket lines" during a union's labor strike.
That game show was causing me behavior problems and caused me to mimic certain quotes or content. Thankfully that game show was axed in 1990 after 2 seasons. So good riddance to that.
The only show I watched most of my life that had no controversial or questionable content was The Price is Right. But now, Sesame Street is the only banned show still at large, and I am awaiting for the show to go off the air. Bert and Ernie were just a bad influence to me.
Seriously, if I can't watch Sesame Street anymore, what's the point of it being on the air? But I gave up watching Sesame Street not just because of "coming back to haunt me" in the fall of 2003, but a lot of classic segments were likely on the way out, thus making the show significantly less enjoyable. Plus 26 episodes (one for every letter in the alphabet) in a season as opposed to 130 in any season during the 1980s puts the show in rerun-abuse mode - far worse than GSN's rerun abuse of Card Sharks and Match Game.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Nov 26, 2011 8:28:38 GMT -5
But they did make an exception for the episode about Mr. Hooper's death, because I think they wanted to watch it. Which aired 28 years ago this past Thursday, oddly enough. |
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Nov 26, 2011 13:16:32 GMT -5
Sesame Street was not the only show that was banned by my parents during my life cycle. Another show, a short-lived Canadian children's game show called 5-4-3-2-Run, was causing me to giggle and mimic certain quotes because of contestants having "blue goo" or green slime (also known as "green stream") poured on them for sitting in the wrong answer to a question. But now, Sesame Street is the only banned show still at large, and I am awaiting for the show to go off the air. "5-4-3-2-Run" apparently was the Canadian version of "You Can't Do That On Television" with the description you gave me here. As for "Sesame Street". Good luck with that. I assume the show is still popular with school-age viewers. |
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jan 7, 2012 17:09:03 GMT -5
I discovered on IMDB recently that Casey voiced another segment from Sesame Street that wasn't mentioned as yet. He voiced the blue man in the "Q for Quarter" segment. I sort of do remember the segment (seeing I was a die-hard fan of Sesame Street some 30-odd years ago), and the voice does sound similar to Shaggy from the Scooby-Doo cartoons.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jun 29, 2022 8:27:01 GMT -5
Actually, "5-4-3-2-Run" was a game show - it was said to be Canada's answer to Nickelodeon's "Double Dare".
According to Muppet Wiki, there was another segment that Casey narrated, and that was the "C for Clipper" segment. I believe it aired before I got into the show around 1977. I realize that, when I first got into "Sesame Street", it was during Season 7 of the Canadian broadcasts, and I may have identified numbers before letters. I even recall seeing a street scene in which The Amazing Mumford made Sesame Street disappear, placing the magician and his companions in a staticky void. Typically, during that time, a new season of Canadian broadcasts of "Sesame Street" would only air for four months and launch in early February.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 30, 2022 9:37:52 GMT -5
Casey & Olan Soule were the voices of Robin & Batman respectively on "Super Friends"-They appear in a segment from Season 1 of "Sesame Street".
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 30, 2022 9:41:26 GMT -5
The Batman & Robin segment of "Sesame Street" dealt with the words "up","through",& "around".
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jun 30, 2022 10:04:14 GMT -5
According to Muppet wiki, Batman and Robin also appeared in two other cartoon segments - one teaching about the dangers of jaywalking (featuring the Joker), and another teaching about clean and dirty (featuring the Penguin).
The Joker was also voiced by Casey Kasem, if I read correctly.
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