The noises of everything keep Bert awake. 2009-2015: The episode number is written in chalk on a sidewalk. Naturally, we only see their cartoon eyes. This urban setting, multiracial human cast (plus guest stars, including Jesse Jackson and Bill Cosby) and multicolored Muppets added to the hip, inclusive feel. The clerk counts the sheep and the result is what you expect. That leaves Bert to deal with the sounds himself only to be annoyed by Ernie's snoring. Some of the Muppet characters looked and sounded very different, too. much to the consternation of whoever was currently trying to teach him valuable lessons (counting, sharing etc.) Ernie once sings "I Love My Toes" about how great toes are. Another noteworthy fact is that Sesame Street is or has been broadcast in more than 100 countries across the world. "Lovable, furry old Grover", a blue monster whose endless enthusiasm and good intentions repeatedly run up against a less-than-impressed universe (especially when he puts on a cape and helmet and, er, "flies" as Super-Grover); Various other fuzzy monsters, notably Telly, a neurotic worrywart with a strange enthusiasm for cheese, triangles, and, Abby Cadabby, a pink-and-purple "fairy-in-training" who—despite having a cell phone for a wand—is perpetually wowed by learning basic concepts about the human world ("That's so, Elmo, a cutesy-voiced red monster with a "psychological age" of three, Alex, a little boy with blue hair and a hoodie, who has a father in prison. Invoked when Elmo uses Abby's wand to make it so nobody can speak, only sing, and makes Baby Bear and Alan sing a song dedicated to porridge. One song is sung by a construction worker about building in the "Elmo's World" skit about building. Chicago the Lion was a recurring character who only appeared in the 1990s. She walks all the way to the store repeating the three items she has to get only to momentarily forget the third when she's actually in the store. After Forgetful turns on the faucet, fan, and radio to no avail he remembers that the right thing to turn on is the light. One skit is about Elmo and Abby's bedtimes. During one "Cookie's Crumby Pictures" segment, he dates a girl who gets his appetite for cookies. The Yip-Yip aliens, who spent their first years on Earth attempting to communicate with inanimate objects... like telephones and radios. This includes the princess he wanted to save; he annihilated himself in horror (possibly by accident) after that. Up to three letters of the day and two numbers of the day are reviewed and given sponsor credits. More recently, parts two through five have been cobbled together into an hour-long special for such occasions. Super Grover particularly is often accompanied by his classic theme. Sometimes, though, inserts with the original Oscar will be dubbed and used. Episode 4161: Telly and Chris are pursued by a giant boulder. He later gets his old pogo stick back after rejecting newer models of the iPogo (poking fun at the fact that Apple seems to release updated versions of products on a regular basis despite the older models working fine for most people). In "Elmo's Potty Time", Baby Bear explains that he calls pee "wee-wee" and poop "woo-woo". An early Ernie and Bert segment from 1969 featured this at the end: Ernie slowly drives Bert nuts by his counting, and then Bert just. Charlie, Rosita, and Elmo try to find a game that Zoe can play with just one arm. Now, the iconic series comes to HBO with 30-minute episodes, new preschool-relevant themes, new opening and closing songs, an updated set, and new segments, characters, and more. Snuffy often called Mr. Hooper's successor Mr. Hanford "Mr. Handfoot". Elmo's left eye sinks in when he's shocked. One cartoon skit is about a Native American boy telling two white boys Native Americans don't really speak in. Logically, Bert thinks Ernie ate the piece of cake, but Ernie makes up a story about a monster eating it, shaking off the crumbs, and putting the fork in Ernie's hand. "You've Got to Be Patient to Be a Patient" is a song all about this: it's about how you can't go out and play while sick, so you'll just have to be patient. In the two licensed games about bathrooms, "Elmo's Potty Time" and "Potty Plan", the characters who need to go to the bathroom directly say so. The song "We All Sing with the Same Voice" is about how people all look different, have different families, and come from different places, but we're all the same in many ways. Under Bert's advice, Ernie asks the lady to take off her hat. 3, the third of five planned digital-only collections of material previously available only in a physical format. Ernie sings "Rubber Duckie" in the bathtub. Prairie Dawn gets a cold in a 1997 episode. After the two cooperate and turn on the light we see that the two characters are a man and a monster. Similarly, a good number of Jerry Nelson's characters were phased out as his health problems started to worsen and forced him to limit himself to mostly just performing The Count. When Bert points out that he can no longer hear the faucet but that the radio is a problem Ernie drowns out the radio by tuning on the vacuum cleaner.