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I was watching some very old Sesame Street clips on YouTube. Talk about some trippy kiddie flashbacks. Anyway, someone once said that each character represents a different aspect of a child's personality. Maybe so, but which one do, or did, you most relate to? You can answer for your adult self as well as your child self.

Bonus points for posting an actual skit.

Yes, this is kinda silly, but what the heck.

I'll start.

Ernie.

Oscar the grouch.

Grover

"Near....Far..."

Far? Far out!



f*cking fierce

I am so Elmo. I even sound like him when you tickle me.

I'd love to find that under MY tree. ;-)

I have the personality of Elmo...Like when the drawer almost shut on his hand, and he said, 'DRAW-WER!' However, I sometimes am a loner like Snuffleupagus.

I related to Snuffleupagus the most cause he's Greek, and being Greek was a big deal in my neighborhood.

As an adult I have to say I most resemble that one muppet who was a blue guy and he was really muscular and had a big schwanz and wore shorts and no shirt everywhere...I can't remember his name...I think they cancelled him after only one episode. But ya, I'm like him, except for the blue skin.

I'll say Snuffy. But for a different reason. ; )

Totally Ernie. And if the, erm, less than appropriate pictures of Bert and Ernie have any truth to them, that's kinda accurate too.

probably the count because I'm a math wiz when I get the formulas memorized and love doing math as long as I get the answer right.

100% Ernie


And I have been known to sing this in the shower before:

Rubber Duckie, you're the one
You make bath time so much fun
Rubber Duckie I'm awfully fond of you

Rubber Duckie,joy of joys
When I squeeze you you make noise
Rubber Duckie, you're my very best friend it's true

Oh, every day when I make my way to the tubby
I find a little fellow who's cute and yellow and chubby
Rubber dubber duckie.....

Rubber Duckie, you're the one
You make bath time so much fun
Rubber Duckie I'm awfully fond of
Rubber Duckie, I'd like a whole pond of
Rubber Duckie, I'm awfully fooooooooooond
of you!

According to this "Muppet Character Quiz", I'm Kermit.

While I will confess to having an attraction to flies (the blue jean zippered kind), being thought of as skinny, green complected and dating pigs is somewhat of a blow to my ego...

http://www.savethegoldfish.co.uk/fun/muppet.php

Great response chi-tdh... I'm more like Bert... just too damn organized and neat....

First instinct was cookie monster, because I loved him and his single minded determination.

But, after much thought and contemplation had to go with Grover. Fun loving and crazy!

These answers are awesome. I thought everyone was going to say Bert/Ernie due to the gay rumors.

Keep it up.

Probably Janice:



Not really, but I always loved Janice. She was soooo cool.

In reality I think I'm most like Kermit.

Definitely Kermit.

I'd say as a kid, I was Grover.
As an adult, I'm Ernie.

If I was any Muppet, I'm definitely the Swedish Chef.

Having taken the same quiz that Chi_tdh did, I came out as:

Elmo!

Sesame Street. No Muppet Show! That's too mature. ;-)

Aww...'cuz the quiz said I was Gonzo (!), even though I've always felt like Rolf deep down (or maybe Fozzie?).

Okay, The Street. Gonna go with Cookie Monster. Fun, sprinkled with an obsessive personality.

Did anybody else see that they released the first season of Sesame Street on DVD and labeled it "inappropriate" for today's kids? Said Big Bird was schizophrenic (only he could see Snuffy), Cookie Monster was a role model for addiction, and that Bert was abusive to Ernie. They also said that Elmo acts like he's on Prozac compared to the others, but I kind of agree with that.

Have we really gone that far 'round the bend that Sesame Street is considered a bad influence??

I also took the "Muppet Character Quiz" and came out as a Gonzo. I'm not surprised...you know, the giant appendage and all...LOL....just teasing

Well according to the character quiz from the link above, I'm Elmo.

RuggerATX saidSesame Street. No Muppet Show! That's too mature. ;-)

Well, it won't be the first time I've been accused of not reading for comprehension... but is probably a first for the phrase "too mature" being used in reference to me.

So I went and found a Sesame Street character test. Whoever coded this had too much time on their hands...

and I feel like I've just been to a therapy session...

Under the Sesame Street character test, I came out as BERT because I am very organized, both concrete and abstract, and more introverted.

When I was a kid and watched Sesame Street, I related more to Big Bird because he was taller, had a big nose and was shaped more like a pear. (We'll leave out the part about his talking to an imaginary friend).

Ok, after taking the "test", I stand corrected! Like Obscene...I'm more aligned with Beaker I guess...go figure...debadebadbadee

Initially, I thought I was Grover and always associated mostly with him. According to the test, however, Elmo is the one that reflects my personality. Go figure.

I took the character quiz and got Gonzo.
Makes sense to me!

OW and I are brothers under the skin: we're both Beeker (at least according to the on line test.)

I am definitely Kermit.

The quiz says that I am Gonzo:

You are GONZO
You have a giant nose, a nose so big that some call it a deformity. You are a well balanced individual who enjoys a little bit of everything. Your varied lifestyle can sometimes cause dilemmas especially when your desire for a pleasant family life conflicts with your urge to party. You are constantly organising your time to ensure social events don't interfere with family time. You are a career person with goals and targets. Your goals often change as the wilder side of your personality tells you you're bored. You like stability and security but often worry that you are getting tied down. You are prone to making impulsive decisions that impact on your career and family life. As you age you find the focus of your life shifting from party animal to family builder.

http://www.savethegoldfish.co.uk/fun/muppet.php

You scored 32...

You are ELMO
You are cute and everyone loves you. You are a best friend that no one takes the chance of losing. You never hurt feelings and seldom have your own feelings hurt. Life is a breeze. You are witty and calm most of the time. Just keep clear of backstabbers, and you are worry free.

I'm Elmo too YAY *jumps up and down*

I always loved Elmo, he was the best one there. I was so jealous when the tickle me elmo came out and no one would get it for me.. Like being 14 was any reason not to have a tickle me elmo!

I don't remember many of the characters form Sesame Street, so I went on Wikipedia and searched the list of Sesame characters. After reading it I think I am Teeny Little Super Guy. The lyricrs are form Wikipedia...

Wikipedia(Announced): "Ladies and Gentlemen: The Teeny Little Super Guy."

Teeny Little Super Guy
Pops right up before your eye
He's no bigger than your thumb

"Snap your fingers, here I come
Now stop me if you've heard this one..."

Don't look in the sky
Don't look in the sea
He's inside of you and me

"Did I ever tell you about the time?..."

You can't tell a hero by his size

(Together)
"I'm just a Teeny Little Super Guy"
Just a Teeny Little Super Guy

Oh yeah!

I k now I am not that teeny at 6'3", But I am surprisingly gifted in many ways.

After watching the video on YouTube I thought it was funny. The guy ion the begging, who announces Teeny Little Super Guy, he sounds like the same guy in the intro of The Twilight Zone but older.





I love The Twilight Zone!

COOKIE!!!

cronker said

COOKIE!!!

This pretty much summed me up as a kid. I loved to eat then and I love to eat now. Granted that I was skinny then and I'm somewhat skinny now. I just have to get back in decent shape again.

cookie monster...DEFINITELY....i can be had for some chocolate chip cookies! LOL

I scored a GONZO on the muppet test. As for Sesame Street, I'd say Count. I wear glasses, tend to dress well, I'm a numbers person and I bite.

well never would have thought it but save the goldfish says im "Elmo" i guess thats a good thing since he was always my fav when i watched it as a kid!

Ha! According to the muppet quiz...I'm beaker. And, ironically, the description fits me perfectly. Is that a good thing?

I'm probably Bert or Grover.

ELMO!!!!! ME ELMO!!!!!!

Elmo definitely.

I live in my own world.

Dr. Teeth or Zoot. Those guys rocked.

If these two men were forged into one cynical old codger; I would be his ill-gotten lovechild.

We had a young Lieutenant in my platoon once who had just graduated from ROTC. He was very tall, very lanky, had a huge adams apple and bushy blond hair. We called him Big Bird. He was very good natured about it and turned out to be a fine officer. Even his radio call sign morphed into Big Bird.

As for me, sometimes I'm like Oscar the Grouch and sometimes I'm like Ernie, it just depends on when you catch me.

cronker said

COOKIE!!!

Me too... I always love cookie

I've never heard of this character, but this sounds about right.

Which Sesame Street Character Are You? (Many outcomes) created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Telly Monster This young worrier is famous for his emotional extremes. In other words, when he's happy, he's elated, when he's depressed, he's devastated. His favorite things in the world are triangles and tubas. He is very passionate about helping others. Has no rhythm. He's empathetic and a bit neurotic. He also tends to over think things.

This is by far the coolest thread I've seen in a while!! What a bunch of muppets -Ha!
I'm always calling myself Forgetful Jones cuz I'd lose my head if it wasn't attached...

Oh and Janice is definitely the 'coolest' muppet EVER!

Does anyone remember the sesame street techno that came out in the early 90's (maybe not.... it wasn't to big in USA) One of the 1st cds I ever had was a german version of rubber ducky to techno 'Quietsche Entchen'. -And it was BADASS!!!
Its prolly lurking around somewhere at my parents house... I think it was by Cosmix or something like that. If anyone can find it or has it (I'm not sure too many would want to!) PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!
XO

It was a tie breaker situation:

Which Sesame Street Character Are You? (Many outcomes) created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Grover His body is thin and flexible. Grover is maybe the most educational of all Sesame Street characters. Nevertheless, one of the most popular ones. The main reason for that is the fact that Grover never can do something right. Children learn from his failures. Excitable; caring; loveable; cute; compulsive; self-confident. Tends to rush right into things without analyzing the consequences. He tries hard to please people, but when he's pushed he gets emotional and quits. He doesn't take rejection well and he does things the long way. Cookie Monster 71% Grover 71% Elmo 71% Big Bird 71% Rosita 61% Abby Cadabby 57% Ernie 54% Bert 50% Zoe 50% Telly Monster 46% Count Von Count 43% Oscar the Grouch 43% Prairie Dawn 29%

So come watch me dance to the alphabet! Lol! We know you started this thread to put in the ABC video again!

Which Sesame Street Character Are You? (Many outcomes) created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Elmo Elmo is high-spirited, but has trouble keeping up with those older than he is. He's incurably friendly and loves to help little kids. Curious; optimistic; naive; simple; full of surprises. It's virtually impossible to make him mad! He strongly believes in the philosophy: "Give love and yo will receive love." He loves everything! Rosita 82% Elmo 82% Ernie 79% Big Bird 79% Cookie Monster 71% Zoe 64% Oscar the Grouch 54% Prairie Dawn 54% Abby Cadabby 54% Grover 54% Count Von Count 50% Telly Monster 46% Bert 29%

LOL, imagine that? I had to do a tiebreaker for Rosita though.

The Letter U.




or

Typewriter Guy


(if you do not get the semi-joke in this skit...)

But most likely:



...you want to talk about "Trippy Sesame Street Skits" This has always been my favorite. I call it:

"1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12"

Without question "Cookie Monster"

Notoriously known since childhood for my cookie cravings. My knees go weak slowly sinking my teeth into an oatmeal choclate chip cookie.

I identify with two characters:

1) The cookie monster (similar to the reasons 26mileman stated)

2) The bear with the speech impediment -- I had the same one as him until 5th grade

Nice post... I loved Elmo when I was a kid (way before the dawn of the tickle me Elmo). The quiz landed me as Ernie and Rosita as a close second... here's rosita and little richard - woooooo

oscar the Grouch

Did you know that cabbage is a good source of riboflavin...I didn't till Robert DeNiro told me so...

Amazing...

always more of a muppet show guy myself.

GONZO<<

have you seen the article that deems Sesame Street to not be suitable for kids... Where does the PC BS end and actual parentling begin. I think it is ridiculous.

November 18, 2007
The Medium
Sweeping the Clouds Away
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN

Sunny days! The earliest episodes of “Sesame Street” are available on digital video! Break out some Keebler products, fire up the DVD player and prepare for the exquisite pleasure-pain of top-shelf nostalgia.

Just don’t bring the children. According to an earnest warning on Volumes 1 and 2, “Sesame Street: Old School” is adults-only: “These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.”

Say what? At a recent all-ages home screening, a hush fell over the room. “What did they do to us?” asked one Gen-X mother of two, finally. The show rolled, and the sweet trauma came flooding back. What they did to us was hard-core. Man, was that scene rough. The masonry on the dingy brownstone at 123 Sesame Street, where the closeted Ernie and Bert shared a dismal basement apartment, was deteriorating. Cookie Monster was on a fast track to diabetes. Oscar’s depression was untreated. Prozacky Elmo didn’t exist.

Nothing in the children’s entertainment of today, candy-colored animation hopped up on computer tricks, can prepare young or old for this frightening glimpse of simpler times. Back then — as on the very first episode, which aired on PBS Nov. 10, 1969 — a pretty, lonely girl like Sally might find herself befriended by an older male stranger who held her hand and took her home. Granted, Gordon just wanted Sally to meet his wife and have some milk and cookies, but . . . well, he could have wanted anything. As it was, he fed her milk and cookies. The milk looks dangerously whole.

Live-action cows also charge the 1969 screen — cows eating common grass, not grain improved with hormones. Cows are milked by plain old farmers, who use their unsanitary hands and fill one bucket at a time. Elsewhere, two brothers risk concussion while whaling on each other with allergenic feather pillows. Overweight layabouts, lacking touch-screen iPods and headphones, jockey for airtime with their deafening transistor radios. And one of those radios plays a late-’60s news report — something about a “senior American official” and “two billion in credit over the next five years” — that conjures a bleak economic climate, with war debt and stagflation in the offing.

The old “Sesame Street” is not for the faint of heart, and certainly not for softies born since 1998, when the chipper “Elmo’s World” started. Anyone who considers bull markets normal, extracurricular activities sacrosanct and New York a tidy, governable place — well, the original “Sesame Street” might hurt your feelings.

I asked Carol-Lynn Parente, the executive producer of “Sesame Street,” how exactly the first episodes were unsuitable for toddlers in 2007. She told me about Alistair Cookie and the parody “Monsterpiece Theater.” Alistair Cookie, played by Cookie Monster, used to appear with a pipe, which he later gobbled. According to Parente, “That modeled the wrong behavior” — smoking, eating pipes — “so we reshot those scenes without the pipe, and then we dropped the parody altogether.”

Which brought Parente to a feature of “Sesame Street” that had not been reconstructed: the chronically mood-disordered Oscar the Grouch. On the first episode, Oscar seems irredeemably miserable — hypersensitive, sarcastic, misanthropic. (Bert, too, is described as grouchy; none of the characters, in fact, is especially sunshiney except maybe Ernie, who also seems slow.) “We might not be able to create a character like Oscar now,” she said.

Snuffleupagus is visible only to Big Bird; since 1985, all the characters can see him, as Big Bird’s old protestations that he was not hallucinating came to seem a little creepy, not to mention somewhat strained. As for Cookie Monster, he can be seen in the old-school episodes in his former inglorious incarnation: a blue, googly-eyed cookievore with a signature gobble (“om nom nom nom”). Originally designed by Jim Henson for use in commercials for General Foods International and Frito-Lay, Cookie Monster was never a righteous figure. His controversial conversion to a more diverse diet wouldn’t come until 2005, and in the early seasons he comes across a Child’s First Addict.

The biggest surprise of the early episodes is the rural — agrarian, even — sequences. Episode 1 spends a stoned time warp in the company of backlighted cows, while they mill around and chew cud. This pastoral scene rolls to an industrial voiceover explaining dairy farms, and the sleepy chords of Joe Raposo’s aimless masterpiece, “Hey Cow, I See You Now.” Chewing the grass so green/Making the milk/Waiting for milking time/Waiting for giving time/Mmmmm.

Oh, what’s that? Right, the trance of early “Sesame Street” and its country-time sequences. In spite of the show’s devotion to its “target child,” the “4-year-old inner-city black youngster” (as The New York Times explained in 1979), the first episodes join kids cavorting in amber waves of grain — black children, mostly, who must be pressed into service as the face of America’s farms uniquely on “Sesame Street.”

In East Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant in 1978, 95 percent of households with kids ages 2 to 5 watched “Sesame Street.” The figure was even higher in Washington. Nationwide, though, the number wasn’t much lower, and was largely determined by the whims of the PBS affiliates: 80 percent in houses with young children. The so-called inner city became anywhere that “Sesame Street” played, because the Children’s Television Workshop declared the inner city not a grim sociological reality but a full-color fantasy — an eccentric scene, framed by a box and far removed from real farmland and city streets alike.

The concept of the “inner city” — or “slums,” as The Times bluntly put it in its first review of “Sesame Street” — was therefore transformed into a kind of Xanadu on the show: a bright, no-clouds, clear-air place where people bopped around with monsters and didn’t worry too much about money, cleanliness or projecting false cheer. The Upper West Side, hardly a burned-out ghetto, was said to be the model.

People on “Sesame Street” had limited possibilities and fixed identities, and (the best part) you weren’t expected to change much. The harshness of existence was a given, and no one was proposing that numbers and letters would lead you “out” of your inner city to Elysian suburbs. Instead, “Sesame Street” suggested that learning might merely make our days more bearable, more interesting, funnier. It encouraged us, above all, to be nice to our neighbors and to cultivate the safer pleasures that take the edge off — taking baths, eating cookies, reading. Don’t tell the kids.

the count- for one, he's a vampire, and vampires are simply awesome. for another, he's a snazzy dresser. and we're both pretty analytical ;)

Who the hell is this? My results came out to be this person. The description about her suits me, but I don't know her so I'll say Grover, cuz I liked Super Grover.
I must say, this Abby Cadabby is really cute though.

Which Sesame Street Character Are You? (Many outcomes) created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Abby Cadabby You are Abby Cadabby! The newest addition to the Sesame Street crew, you are unique and stand out from the crowd. You tend to be on the girly side, but that doesn't fool anyone! Not only are you opinionated, but you enjoy educating yourself about the world around you. Although shy at first, you make friends fast and love to play. You have a tendency to "disappear" when a conflict arises, but you are brave enough to return and calmly approach your fears when ready. Abby Cadabby 68% Grover 64% Zoe 61% Elmo 61% Bert 57% Big Bird 57% Count Von Count 54% Cookie Monster 50% Telly Monster 50% Rosita 50% Ernie 46% Prairie Dawn 39% Oscar the Grouch 36%

Dunno which one I would be...

But i would like for u gentlemen to picture Miss Donatella Versace...


Now...


Picture...


Janice.

Okay...


NOW

just because it's spot on and funny:

ha.. I love miss Piggy!

YOU SOOOOO ROCK FOR THAT DJBens77. I was looking for that picture. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!

DJBens77 saidha.. I love miss Piggy!

OMG that is FUNNY AS HELL!!!!!!

Cookie Monster for me!

cookie cookie cookie starts with C!!!

RBY71 saidI am so Elmo. I even sound like him when you tickle me.

that's the cutest thing anyone can say.

I would think I'm the Count but the test said I'm Elmo

But who i really love is the cookie monster

Why is this topic under Spirituality? It should be under "All Things Gay."

But I'll play along.

I'd have to say Miss. Piggy. Because my feet in high heels have that swollen fat foot look just like my home girl Miss Piggy's does.

I'm the cookie monster

Where are those cookies !!!

Well, I run like Grover, but am probably most like that old-school muppet favourite, Don Music. Man, I have had plenty of smashing-my-head-on-the-piano-out-of-frustration moments the past couple of months....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Ugqh471IE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M30g3In8ao&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roewb-FxHM0&feature=related

And the survey says: