Michael Wermuth Jnr – Count on Elmo is the latest Sesame Street DVD, featuring an extended version of the season 44 episode where The Count is honored with a noble prize for counting. New footage taking place before the ceremony takes up the first half, with Elmo, Grover, Cookie Monster, and Abby Cadabby learning about a…
Ryan Dosier – Today Sesame Workshop and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment released their new compilation DVD, The Best of Elmo 3. The new collection features over two hours of content, split between the “feature” presentation and the delicious bonus features. The clips included almost entirely feature Elmo in many of his popular modern day appearances, from…
Ryan Dosier – Muppets Most Wanted will be released on Blu-ray and DVD tomorrow, and the release is absolutely worth your money. For those who don’t know, the release of the latest Muppet feature film is packaged as “The Unnecessarily Extended Edition” and comes packaged with a cut of the film that is 15 minutes longer than the…
Michael Wermuth – Alphabet Songs is the latest Sesame Street video release. It includes two segments for every letter of the alphabet, plus a number of segments about the alphabet in general. Although it’s titled “Alphabet Songs,” not every segment included is a song. Among the videos highlights include “Sing the Sesame Street Alphabet,” which bookends the…
Ryan Dosier – Tomorrow sees the release of The Great Muppet Caper and Muppet Treasure Island on a dual Blu-ray. The odd pairing doesn’t make much sense, but there’s no denying that putting two in one will probably sell more copies than individual releases. The release tactic is frustrating for Muppet fans, because we know both of these…
Michael Wermuth – “Fairytale Fun” is the latest Sesame Street DVD release, themed around fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Included are four street stories. First, Elmo and Zoe help Mother Goose (played by Samantha Bee) write some new poems. Next, after being read the story of “The Frog Prince”, Abby Cadabby thinks Oscar might really…
Michael Wermuth, Jr. – “Being Brave” is a recent Sesame Street DVD, themed around overcoming fear. This video has linking footage based on the popular book “The Monster at the End of the Book,” with Grover trying to get viewers to stop watching, because there is a monster at the end of the video. This…
Christopher O’Connor – Well, I finally gave in and bought the new Fraggle Rock 30th Anniversary Collector’s Edition DVD Box Set. A recent competition in the UK was giving away the box set, seven Manhattan Toys plush Fraggles, and a Fraggle Rock comic book signed by Lisa Henson. I didn’t win, but a week later the winner…
A SPECIAL SESAME STREET CHRISTMAS Available at Wal-Mart and on Amazon.com Ryan Dosier – Back in 1978, Sesame Street was pretty much at the heyday of its quality, with writers who understood how to balance humor with education and charm with wit. Need proof? Then look no further than 1978’s Christmas Eve on Sesame Street,…
SESAME STREET OLD SCHOOL: VOLUME 3 Available wherever DVDs are sold and on Amazon.com Ryan Dosier – Two of the best DVD sets released by Sesame Workshop in the last decade were Volumes 1 and 2 of the excellent Old School series, which showcased clips and episodes from Sesame Street‘s early, pre-Elmo days. Realeased in…
