![]() All except for David.ĭavid was played by Northern Calloway from 1971 until 1989, but he died in 1990. ![]() ![]() A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! A wonderful journey! That sort of reverent enthusiasm. You can find quotes from any of them proclaiming it as the best gig an actor could ever hope for. It only took a couple of rewatches before I Googled and rabbit-holed through the entire cast and was heartened that almost all of them were still alive, and that they also proudly spent the bulk of their careers as Sesame Street humans. This episode’s human actors were my childhood crew: Maria. I was four years old when this episode came out, which, according to the brain trust of the Children’s Television Workshop, is the ideal age for me to retain this stuff. I was transported back to a time I’d long forgotten. The one where the stoop kids rescue their toy jack with a horseshoe magnet. That funky, slinky “1-2-3-4-5 …” song with the pinball animation. John-John! Those purple, honking space sloths. When I first rewatched it, I was shocked by how much I remembered: Herry monster. The episode we’ve watched the most is from 1978, titled “Naming Barkley,” when the whole gang picks a name for that big dumb orange dog. ![]() But in the past six years, I’ve had three children and watched it 9 million times. I never thought I’d have a child, so I never thought I’d watch Sesame Street ever again. ![]()
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