It isn’t until the king finally has someone actually point out to him that not everything he does is magnificent that he snaps out of it and realizes how silly he looks, after all. All of Marvin’s fawning subjects, however, rather than suggest he remove it, all decide that, if the king is doing it, it clearly must be the latest trend, and so everyone at court sticks balls on their own noses (again, keep it clean, folks) in order to be just like the king! That is, until Bruce enters to retrieve his ball, sees what everyone is doing and laughs in their faces. In short, young Bruce is tossing his aforementioned favorite bouncy ball when he accidentally breaks one of the king’s windows, the ball crashing through and hitting King Marvin square in the nose, where it sticks. Keep your mind out of the gutter, people. Starring The Amazing Mumford as King Marvin the Magnificent and Ernie as an innocent young boy known as Bruce, it is effectively a Muppety spin on “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” except with nudity swapped out for a small, pink ball. The next sketch is “The King’s Nose,” a Muppet fairy tale narrated by Maria, which was particularly exciting for me to see because I had a Sesame Street storybook adaptation of it as a kid but had never realized before–at least as far as I can recall–that it had been featured on the actual show. This is even fairly reminiscent of Kermit’s own sarcasm about their mission statement in the original pitch reel, although here he’s the spokesperson for the show, not playing Devil’s advocate against it! You can watch it yourself here. Want to?…Well, we’ll play it again anyway.” Sesame Street wasn’t always this self-deprecating about its lessons. It isn’t the best or funniest Kermit scene ever but you have to love the snark at the end when Kermit encourages us by saying, “You all did a real good job! We’ll play again some time. He tells us to close our eyes, at which point the screen goes dark, and to imagine what it would look life it were raining and then snowing, and the scene changes accordingly when the lights come up each time, finally returning us to the original day. I also watched another quick Kermit lecture, in which our intrepid frog stands in a beautiful park on a lovely, sunny day and encourages us to imagine the same setting in different weather. And you can watch all of them, along with the rest of the sketch of course, here! It’s also particularly fun because the series of flustered expressions Kermit’s face goes through by the end reach practically epic heights. Then, he has 4 chicks to count, after which each wanders off one at a time, reiterating the lesson. ![]() ![]() As his demonstration goes on, however, each egg begins to hatch and a baby Muppet chick pops out, which subtly introduces the concept of subtraction. ![]() And today, we have even more highlights from Sesame Street‘s fifth season! The first one I watched for today’s post is another brief lecture from Kermit, this time about counting 4 eggs.
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