Play-Along Games and Songs

Play-Along Games & Songs is a 1986 Sesame Street video. It's a compilation of game and puzzle-themed skits, as well as songs which encourage viewer participation.

In the framing story, Big Bird leads a series of games with Elmo, Forgetful Jones, Oscar the Grouch and a couple of kids. He starts with a "keep the beat" game, imitating a cartoon penguin who's banging on the ground. They play a rhyme game, but Forgetful Jones has trouble coming up with a word that rhymes with "hop". Big Bird makes shapes in the air for the others to guess. The final game is the "Remember the Game Game", with Big Bird quizzing the others about what they remember.

The insert sketches include Herry Monster playing a game with a kid, and Guy Smiley playing "Beat the Time" with Cookie Monster. Cookie Monster also sings "One of These Things", and Gordon sings a play-along song, "I Heard My Dog Bark".

The video was originally released on VHS by Random House in 1986. It was first released on DVD by Sony Wonder in 2005. The most recent reissue, by Genius Products, was released in 2008.

Cast
Frame scenes:
 * Big Bird, Forgetful Jones, Elmo, Oscar the Grouch

Inserts:
 * Cookie Monster, Ernie, Lefty the Salesman, Herry Monster, Gordon, Susan, Bob, Uncle Wally, Grover, Guy Smiley, Frazzle, Bert, Anything Muppets

Performers:
 * Caroll Spinney as Big Bird
 * Frank Oz as Cookie Monster, Grover, Lefty, and Bert
 * Jerry Nelson as Herry Monster
 * Richard Hunt as Forgetful Jones
 * Kevin Clash as Elmo
 * Jim Henson as Ernie and Guy Smiley