Sesame Street: Vol. 2 – Old School
April 23, 2010 by admin · 5 Comments
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Can you dig it? Sesame Street: Old School Volume 2 picks up right where Volume 1 left off, including all the grooviest Sesame Street memories from 1974 to 1979! You’ll see cats like Don Music and Roosevelt Franklin, Guy Smiley and Fat Blue. Break out your boogie shoes for far out classics like “What’s the Name of That Song?” and “Telephone Rock!” Rediscover the Sesame Street of the 1970s — the place where you learned about letters, numbers, and loveable furry monsters. Catch you on the flip side!… More >>
We loved “Old School” Volume One, other than the amusing assertion they are always making that this material is “unfit for today’s preschooler.” Volume 2 contains a similar message, though I honestly can’t see why. I presume it may have something to do with “political correctness.” If, however, the producers are concerned about being PC, I would like to know why they choose the opening episode of this series to be Episode “666″? I’m not a numerologist, but it certainly freaked me out as the show opens with the words, “Sesame Street” and then “666″ appears under it with no explanation. At first I wondered if this had always been a part of the title and I hadn’t noticed it as a child. Then, I searched the inserts and found that this was merely the Episode # they had chosen from Season 6. Considering that in the broader American culture, this number along with Friday the 13th is held as tabu and generally avoided, I see no reason why they couldn’t have selected another episode or edited the opening scene or added some introductory words on what exactly we were seeing on the screen. If we have really progressed so much that this material is “old school” for “nostalgic purposes”, then I would have thought the editors would have a bit more taste, sensitivity, and care for others. I give it three stars for that reason. I was not warned about that little suprise or I would not have purchased it on principle. I’m not about making fun of someone else’s concern or weakness. To me, that’s the real “old school.” Buyers be forewarned.
Rating: 3 / 5
This item is definitely for the parents! My 20 month old loves Sesame Street but he was so bored with the Old School. So much has changed…for the better! I loved it because it was nostalgic but there wasn’t nearly enough Big Bird for my little guy.
Rating: 2 / 5
are they serious?!they put 60 minutes of material on 3 discs?!i suppose they’re hoping it will up the re-buy value for themselves seeing as each sdisc must only have some 20 minutes of stuff.what a rip.the first edition says it has 400 minutes or something,but that must be a typo because there are complaints about it being too short as well.why can’t they simply put out quality products that will make people rush to get it,instead of frustrating people so that they leave bad reviews and deter people from buying these sets?!
Rating: 1 / 5
If there is a Volume 3 coming in the future, please include the episodes of The Arizona Desert scene with the female narrator saying:”This is the desert. It’s very hot and dry.” And I also want the “Hooper’s Hamburgers” episode, when Mr. Hooper and David fails to sell their hamburgers to customers. And we also want the entire “Sesame Street Goes To Hawaii” episodes;including “The Big Trip” TV gameshow scene with Guy Smiley and Olivia phoning flight reservations at the airport (“One suffelupagus???”). We also want the Puerto Rico trip episodes with Esvaldo the Grouch in it. And the New Mexico trip episodes, and the Calexico episodes when the Sesame Street gang were building a house over there and singing “We’re going home!”
Rating: 5 / 5
I really enjoyed the episodes that were included in the set, but wanted so much more. There were a ton of nostalgia clips- I completely remember the “Jacks” clip. However, there’s only the first episode of each season and a few other stuff. Hope they release a Vol. 3 with more stuff from the 80′s.
Rating: 3 / 5