Of course as I mentioned, Caroll Spinney could actually rollerskate as Big Bird, but here he also had Bruno rollerskate, just as well too! Oscar would hope that Bruno would slip and fall down, as being the miserable grouch he is, Oscar enjoys that kind of thing. One memorable scene Bruno did was in the 'Big Bird's Birthday' special from 1991 (which I saw as a kid when it aired), where the gang goes rollerskating as part of Big Bird's party. He would appear on the show from 1979 to 1993. This allowed for Oscar to travel around in said can without the need to do the approach of Oscar's feet sticking out from the bottom of his can. Here is Bob's uncle Wally, a traveling salesman who often brought along his seal Wolfgang (more on him later.) He first began appearing in 1983, and then left in 1992.īruno the Trashman, as I already mentioned, was a unique concept where Caroll Spinney would perform both Bruno AND Oscar the Grouch in his can.

There was an infamous episode from 1993 where Gina gets a nasty anonymous phone call for hanging out with an African-American friend, which leads Savion to explain to Telly that there are 'just some really stupid people in the world who can't stand to see it when people of different races are friends.' Pretty strong to use 'stupid' for describing racist people, but I can agree, even at such a young age I saw no real difference in people despite the skin color, and I was friendly with and would play with African-American kids even back in kindergarten! Perhaps 'Sesame Street' helped me see people that way, with its' wide diversity. Of course, keeping with the timeframe he appeared on the show, he loved to tap-dance and belt out clean kid-friendly old-school rap numbers (not unlike Will Smith.) Savion was good friends with Gina, who was a late teen/early young adult at this time. Then there's Savion, a hip teenage boy who joined the show in 1989 and remained part of the cast until 1995. There's Lillian, who appeared on the show in 1990-1993, running a home-based daycare center, where Maria would often leave her daughter Gabi while working at the Fix-It Shop. He remained on the show until 1998, when in the show's 30th season, Alan took over running Hooper's Store, whom still does to this day. Handford was a retired firefighter who bought the store from David in 1989. David Handford was running Hooper's Store during my time watching the show as a little kid. Hooper was long dead by the time I was born in 1988. This was in the early 1990s, when I was really little. What with the 50th anniversary of 'Sesame Street' approaching, and with Colin LooksBack's YouTube video of various retired 'Sesame Street' Muppets, I thought I'd do my own blog post about minor or forgotten 'Sesame Street' characters, human and Muppet, of my childhood.

Sesame street one two two little cats