Season 27 (1995-1996)

Sesame Street
Premiere	November 20, 1995 (3396)
Finale	May 17, 1996 (3525)
Episodes	130

3525b — Lamb Chop and Shari Lewis visit Sesame Street.

Song — "Two Princes" (with the Spin Doctors)

3425f — Telly is blowing bubbles as the Count counts them.

3410 — Oscar's mom gets flung out of the Subway Station.

Starting this season and until season 30, each episode ended with a "Coming Soon on Sesame Street" teaser, offering a sneak preview of the next episode.

Sesame Street Season 27 aired from November 20, 1995 to May 17, 1996.

Overview

This season is considered to be the "experimental season" - it is "increasingly presenting its lessons in overlapping ways, to reach those whose learning may be more closely tied to musical or mathematical abilities than linguistic ones."^[1]

Show Format

Valeria Lovelace said about the show's new format for each episode, "lessons on one topic are to be clustered during an hour rather than spread out through the show as they have been. One show in January, for example, will portray the letter "D" in three consecutive segments: first it's marked out in candles, then it's depicted in a sand animation, and finally it's shown growing out of the ground. This will be followed by three segments on another topic, rain. First, Ernie and the Twiddlebugs go out in the rain, then there is a rain dance in clay animation, and finally rain and wind are rendered in Chinese calligraphy. In addition to being clustered, these segments are in tune with the new approach because they stress not only the visual and the verbal but also musical, interpersonal and spatial relationships"^[1]

Episodes

Episodes 3396 - 3525 (130 episodes)

Episode 3396 -- Big Bird gets the Memory Flu
Episode 3397 -- Gina quits Hooper's to open up her daycare
Episode 3398 -- Big Bird helps Carlo and Gina
Episode 3399 -- Baby Bear's tie shrinks
Episode 3400 -- Big Bird sleeps over
Episode 3401 -- Snuffy visits Miles
Episode 3402 -- Hatching a Honker egg
Episode 3403 -- Zoe steals Elmo's joke
Episode 3404 -- Natasha is scared of the rain
Episode 3405 -- Wolfgang wants Ruthie's fish
Episode 3406 -- Snuffy's sore foot
Episode 3407 -- Telly wins a contest
Episode 3408 -- Big Bird wants to be the Alligator King
Episode 3409 -- Benny Rabbit's surprise birthday party
Episode 3410 -- Baby Bear draws a picture of Elmo
Episode 3411 -- Oscar buys the newsstand (repeat)
Episode 3412 -- Baby Bear and Telly's friendship (repeat)
Episode 3413 -- The Betty Lou Clinic (repeat)
Episode 3414 -- The Strange Squeaky Sound at the Furry Arms Hotel; Gordon tutors Carlo (repeat)
Episode 3415
Episode 3416 -- Telly does something original (repeat)
Episode 3417 -- Zoe's new bed (repeat)
Episode 3418 -- Telly makes his own breakfast (repeat)
Episode 3419 -- Elmo's mini golf game (repeat)
Episode 3420 -- Yes and No Man (repeat)
Episode 3421 -- Snuffy's birthday party
Episode 3422 -- Telly breaks Big Bird's toy car
Episode 3423 -- Walt Dizzy searches for "The Chicken King"
Episode 3424 -- The letter X wants to quit the alphabet
Episode 3425 -- Telly tries to blow bubbles
Episode 3426 -- Elmo witnesses as Linda breaks Ruthie's pitcher
Episode 3427 -- Following a butterfly
Episode 3428 -- The Bears have dinner with the Robinsons
Episode 3429 -- Elmo Takes Pictures With His Camera
Episode 3430 -- Elmo's crying game
Episode 3431 -- Big Bird and Gabi play airplanes
Episode 3432 -- Telly and the Slap-Happy Cap
Episode 3433 -- A day at Oscar's newsstand
Episode 3434 -- Big Bird has the birdy pox!
Episode 3435 -- Rosita and Elmo try farming
Episode 3436 -- Big Bird and Luis convince Hans that he's not an ugly duckling (repeat)
Episode 3437 -- Luis and Maria fix things (repeat)
Episode 3438 -- Telly and Oscar share a magic lamp (repeat)
Episode 3439 -- The Grand High Triangle Lover's Success Story (repeat)
Episode 3440 -- Betty Lou and her dolly (repeat)
Episode 3441 -- Elmo starts running
Episode 3442 -- Gabi gets sick on her birthday
Episode 3443 -- Telly and Baby Bear play catch
Episode 3444 -- Celina watches Barkley
Episode 3445 -- Baby Bear visits the Furry Arms hotel
Episode 3446 -- Hickory Dickory Dird
Episode 3447 -- Telly Monster, Stamp Putter-Onner
Episode 3448 -- The worm world music festival
Episode 3449 -- The Cloud Who Wanted to Leave the Sky
Episode 3450 -- Big Bird wants to be a dancer
Episode 3451 -- Zoe joins the band
Episode 3452 -- Alice dresses up
Episode 3453 -- Baby Bear wants to change his name
Episode 3454 -- Stinky gets repotted
Episode 3455 -- Telly learns rhythms
Episode 3456 -- Slimey's New Trick (repeat)
Episode 3457 -- Michael Tweeter at Birdland
Episode 3458 -- Rosita and Elmo learn patterns
Episode 3459 -- Oscar writes a story
Episode 3460 -- Oscar advertises his newsstand
Episode 3461 -- Gordon takes Telly and his friends to go hiking
Episode 3462 -- Prairie Dawn writes in a nest
Episode 3463 -- The Grouchiest "NO" on Sesame Street
Episode 3464 -- Telly and Rosita read
Episode 3465 -- Snuffy is having trouble with tap dancing
Episode 3466 -- Rosita at the Furry Arms
Episode 3467 -- Elmo and Rosita find a penny
Episode 3468 -- Mumford's sheep spell
Episode 3469 -- Big Bird the teacher
Episode 3470 -- Telly and Zoe write
Episode 3471 -- The Count visits day care
Episode 3472 -- Stinky meets Fern
Episode 3473 -- Oscar looks after Natasha
Episode 3474 -- Dreams
Episode 3475 -- Telly practices for a pageant
Episode 3476 -- The Amazing Mumford switches personas with a dog (repeat)
Episode 3477 -- Practicing for a marching band (repeat)
Episode 3478 -- Cyranose falls in love with Roxanne (repeat)
Episode 3479 -- The Count's Australian friend (repeat)
Episode 3480 -- Slimey's birthday (repeat)
Episode 3481 -- Kingston's day (repeat)
Episode 3482 -- Oscar can't get the Sesame Street theme song out of his head (repeat)
Episode 3483 -- Slimey's Errands (repeat)
Episode 3484 -- Big Bird finds a wand (repeat)
Episode 3485 -- Oscar and Telly meet Soh Daiko (repeat)
Episode 3486 -- Baby Bear and Goldilocks on Sally Messy Yuckyael
Episode 3487 -- Tarah sleeps over at Gabi's
Episode 3488 -- Goldilocks is sad
Episode 3489 -- Telly makes a list
Episode 3490 -- Rosita finds a button
Episode 3491 -- Zoe, Telly and Baby Bear re-enact the Three Little Pigs
Episode 3492 -- Gabi's day at day care
Episode 3493 -- Zoe and Big Bird play pirate
Episode 3494 -- Zoe and Oscar on being angry
Episode 3495 -- Maria and Luis take care of Barkley
Episode 3496 -- Telly's fear of sliding (repeat)
Episode 3497 -- Telly's list (repeat)
Episode 3498 -- Elmo pretends to be Lincoln (repeat)
Episode 3499 -- The Sesame Street Talent Show (repeat)
Episode 3500 -- Herry plays with Wolfgang (repeat)
Episode 3501 -- Zoe Gets a Library Card
Episode 3502 -- Biff has a bowling ball stuck on his hand (repeat)
Episode 3503 -- Linda's running record (repeat)
Episode 3504 -- Zoe plays with Davey and Joey
Episode 3505 -- Zoe wants a pet
Episode 3506 -- Stinky and Tarah at day care
Episode 3507 -- Martians visit, Bob fixes Telly's juice
Episode 3508 -- Baby Bear sleeps over at Gina's, Pt. 1
Episode 3509 -- Baby Bear sleeps over at Gina's, Pt. 2
Episode 3510 -- The world's loudest singer
Episode 3511 -- Big Bird goes fishing for Wolfgang
Episode 3512 -- Zoe wants to slide down a pole
Episode 3513 -- Magical Hide-and-Seek
Episode 3514 -- Sir John acts like a chicken
Episode 3515 -- Big Bird watches Barkley
Episode 3516 -- Zoe's pretend wedding
Episode 3517 -- Granny Bird might visit
Episode 3518 -- Renata Scottie employs Bob
Episode 3519 -- Grouches who love too much
Episode 3520 -- Baby Bear draws Gabi
Episode 3521 -- Big Bird gets a time out
Episode 3522 -- Grundgetta enters an ugly contest
Episode 3523 -- Sloppy learns to wiggle and crawl
Episode 3524 -- Maria, Luis and Gabi look after Alice
Episode 3525 -- Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop visit

Notes

This was the first season with the episodes ending with Big Bird announcing "Coming Soon on Sesame Street," after which a clip from the subsequent episode is shown, be it a sketch or the main plotline of said episode. After this, Big Bird says, "Toodleoo" and the funding credits are shown. The "coming soon" teasers were dropped in season 30.

This was the first season since Season 2 to have one letter and number as sponsors.

This was also the first season to give the sponsors twinkling sound effects at the end of each episode.

Starting with this season and lasting through Season 33 (2002), the main closing music at the end of episodes is a remix of the original Sesame Street opening theme from 1969 (replacing the calypso-flavored rendition heard at the end of episodes for the past two seasons). This version retains the sung verses by The Kids, features a new harmonica solo, and closes out with the ending from Toots Thielemans's original harmonica closing.