Sesame Street: Sing Along (1987-1996 VHS)



Here's the opening and closing to the 1987 and 1996 VHS of Sesame Street: Sing Along.

Release Date
September 8, 1987 (original)

April 30, 1996 (re-release)

Characters

 * Biff
 * Sully
 * Big Bird
 * Hoots the Owl
 * Bob
 * Gordon
 * Maria
 * David
 * The Kids
 * Nicole
 * Granny Bird (mentioned)
 * Farley
 * Unnamed Muppet Girl
 * Luis
 * Susan
 * Honkers
 * Oscar the Grouch
 * Two-Headed Monster

Sketches

 * Grover
 * Madeline Kahn
 * Olivia
 * Linda
 * Ernie
 * Rubber Duckie
 * Bert

Songs

 * John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt (cast)
 * Stand Up and Pinch Your Nose (Gordon, David and Maria)
 * Sing After Me (Grover and Madeline Kahn) (First: Episode 1112)
 * The Alphabet Song (one of the kids)
 * We All Sing with the Same Voice (with cast intro and outro) (First: Episode 1708)
 * Cheer Up (Big Bird and Sully)
 * Sing (Olivia and Linda) (First: Episode 1446)
 * Old MacDonald Had a Farm (cast)
 * Rubber Duckie (Ernie, 1970 version) (First: Episode 0685)
 * Doin' the Pigeon (Bert, no intro) (First: Episode 0536)
 * What's the Name of That Song? (cast, with Farley and an Anything Muppet girl, Luis and Susan, the Honkers, Oscar the Grouch, Two-Headed Monster)

Synopsis
Biff and Sully are fixing a TV antenna on the rooftop of 123 Sesame Street, with a small TV set to check their progress with. Suddenly, Big Bird, Hoots the Owl, Bob, David, Maria, Gordon, and some kids bring in a piano for a sing-along. They inform the workers that they're going to hold a rooftop sing along and invite them to join. Biff passes until they can finish their work.

They begin the sing along with "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt." Next, the adults lead everyone to "Stand Up and Pinch Your Nose". After that, Biff whistles to tell everyone that the TV is on, showing Grover and Madeline Kahn singing "Sing After Me". After the song, Biff attempts to change the channel, but pulls the knob off the set.

As everyone else argues over what to sing next, Bob calms them down and allows Nicole to pick and she requests to sing "The Alphabet Song". She sings it all the way to P and then everyone else joins in. Then they sing the whole song together. Next, Bob chooses to sing "We All Sing with the Same Voice". After everyone sings the intro, we move on to the original song footage.

After the gang finishes the song, Big Bird requests to sing "Cheer Up", which nobody knows how it goes. Biff says that Sully knows it. Sully plays a classical piece to warm up and then manages to play "Cheer Up" on the piano, while Big Bird sings, and everyone else joins in on the chorus.

Biff then tells everyone that the TV is working again. It shows Olivia singing "Sing", with Linda signing the lyrics. After the song, Biff gives the fixed TV a playful slap, causing the back to pop off and fall off the roof. He assures them he can still fix it.

Hoots the Owl requests to sing "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" (calling it "The Barnyard Boogie Song"). The last verse involves his own saxophone. After that, they see bubbles coming from Ernie's bathtime in his apartment. Ernie yells up that he's got a song. David asks Ernie to come up and sing for them. Ernie says he's in the bathtub, so David asks him to sing it from down there. We then cut to the original 1970 version of Ernie singing "Rubber Duckie".

Next, Biff moves the TV to near a pigeon coop where he talks to some pigeons in the coop and asks if they have another song. It reminds Biff that he's going to play "Doin' the Pigeon". The TV shows Bert singing it.

As night begins to fall, Bob suggests they do their big finish - only they can't remember how the song goes. They all begin singing "What's the Name of That Song?". Down on the street grounds, Farley, an unnamed girl, Luis, Susan, two Honkers, Oscar the Grouch, and the Two-Headed Monster join in. As the song builds to its crescendo, the TV antenna falls over and Biff asks the question one last time. As the sing along ends with slight chaos and everyone leaves, one of the children asks if Biff calls himself a repairman. He replies, "No, a Republican! I call myself a Republican."