Talk:Sesame Street News Flash

Sesame Street Sports
Hey, was the original "Tortoise and the Hare" segment (with Kermit in the snappy sports jacket and starting with him planning a bet) really classified as a Sesame Street News Flash, or was it from a different one-time category? (I mean, they say it's "Sesame Street Sports.") Does it even start with the "News Flash" logo and theme music or whatever? -- Wile e2005
 * The early "News Flash" sketches didn't have the logo or theme music yet... It developed slowly into the News Flash that we know. If you look at the Tough Pigs Anthology, those first three sketches didn't have a logo or theme music. There's an obvious development from the "Tortoise and the Hare" to "The big cow jump" to the Three Little Pigs. That's why we consider the early sketches like "Tortoise and the Hare" a News Flash -- it wasn't at the time, but it was part of that development. -- Danny Toughpigs 23:08, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I suppose so, but the "hey Diddle Diddle" and "Aladdin" one look recent, the two earliest ones there seem to be the first Three Pigs (from 1971) and the Cinderella Midnight Escape (the one that ends with the glass slipper getting destroyed). I can tell because Kermit had a brown fedora hat before switching to the gray one. It has the announcer scripted on them, and I am sure those two featured the title card. (I'm a member of the Closing Logo Group) The first three skits transcripted don't have the announcer scripted, but I am sure the logo was in the segments except for the Tortoise and Hare one (they must have cut them from the lines) to save time; they were posted once a month. -- Wile E2005

Speaking Stick
Does the Dr Nobel Price sketch with Warren Wolf have Kermit in it at all? -- Scott Scarecroe 15:04, 11 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Actually, no. But it has the same Sesame Street News Flash intro, so I figured it was a part of the series... -- Jog 09:14, 12 February 2006 (UTC)Jog


 * Okay, that's what I was going to ask: if it used the same logo and music. Huh; so no Kermit. Weird! Are there other News Flash segments without Kermit?


 * Season 36 had a take-off from SSNF with Prairie Dawn hosting Nursery Rhyme News or something like that. They did at least a few of them and it was very reminiscent. -- Scott Scarecroe 15:26, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

The Mystery Muppeteer
Does anybody know who the puppeteer (the one in the middle) in the behind the scenes shot of the "first/last in line" sketch is? All I know is that he's the same one who played Mary in the Rhymies, and Squeaky in the Elves and Shoemaker sketch. I'm pretty sure it isn't Caroll, or John Lovelady. -- MuppetDude 17:18, 15 February 2006 (UTC)