8

8 is a number in the Arabic Numeral System—the most widely used numeral system in the world. The number 8 has been a sponsor of Sesame Street since the show's fourth week, starting with episode 0016.

The number 8 was also an animated character (voiced by Jerry Nelson) in the direct-to-video release What's the Name of That Song?

Songs about 8

• "Candy Man"
• "Eight Balls of Fur"
• "Eight Beautiful Notes"
• "Eight is Great"
• "Eight Song (Song of Eight)"
• "Jazz #8"
• "King of 8"
• "Pinball Number Count"

Skits about 8

• The Mad Painter #8
• Lefty the Salesman: Lefty tries to sell an 8
• The Number of the Day
• Suzie Kabloozie: Feff gives the previously-seen sketch a score of 8
• Ernie & Bert: The Sandbox Game

Trivia

• In the movie Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, Sid Sleaze wore a baseball jersey with a number 8 on the back.
• In Comedy Central's animated reality TV show, Drawn Together, there are eight, count 'em, eight housemates. And the eight Drawn Together housemates are, which include:
  1. Captain Hero, protector of the innocent
  2. Wooldoor Sockbat, a wacky and crazy whatchamacallit
  3. Princess Clara, a musical and innocent fairy tale princess
  4. Foxxy Love, a mystery-solving musician
  5. Toot Braunstein, an outdated, black-and-white heart-throb from the 1920's
  6. Xandir P. Wifflebottom, a video game adventurer
  7. Spanky Ham, a crass Internet-downloaded pig
  8. Ling-Ling, an Asian trading card battle monster

See also

• Numerical Characters

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