One of my favorites as a child, and I felt like it was an event whenever it was shown. Interestingly, in this one Kermit never talks to the audience or refers to Sesame Street News (to do so would make Kermit’s ending line seem a bit weird), but still appears in his trench coat holding his microphone. Rather than parody a nursery rhyme Don Music parodies the Sesame Street theme song. I wonder how Kermit manages to go back in time to cover past events. Though I must wonder what Kermit fell into at the end of the sketch. Okay, first time I saw this one I thought it was a bit freaky, but later on I saw it as funny and as the classic that it is. I really like how shallow Prince Charming seems to be whenever he appears on Sesame Street News. The ballroom dancing seems like a precursor to “At the Dance”. My favorite of the three Cinderella sketches (though I don’t remember actually seeing either of the other two). It’s also one of the few times Grover appeared in a news segment. The night setting is particularly wonderful. One of the best Newsflash segments to not be based around a fairy tale or nursery rhyme, it’s particularly funny how nobody has time to answer Kermit’s question. It’s also one of the few news reports on the Three Little Pigs to actually involve counting. Having The Count interrupt Sesame Street News to count The Three Little Pigs and The Seven Dwarfs is a great way to represent two classic fairy tales in one sketch. Sleeping Beauty sure does look cuter as a frog than a princess! I like this one better than the other Sleeping Beauty sketch from around the same time. One of the few times you’ll hear somebody say “Shut up!” on Sesame Street. It’s hilarious how Prince Charming reacts to Rupunzel’s hair falling off, as well as the arguing between them at the very end. Okay, this order is actually as close to chronological as I could make it, because I don’t know the official chronological order of the segments. In honor of this upcoming release, I present my list of the top 15 Sesame Street News segments (because Sesame Street News is too special to be limited to just a top ten list), in no particular order. We’re just around the corner from the release of the upcoming Sesame Street DVD “Silly Storytime”, which will include four Sesame Street News segments.
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