Season 27 (1995-1996)

Sesame Street
Premiere	November 20, 1995 (3396)
Finale	May 17, 1996 (3525)
Episodes	130

3525b — Lamb Chop and Shari Lewis visit Sesame Street.

Song — "Two Princes" (with the Spin Doctors)

3425f — Telly is blowing bubbles as the Count counts them.

3410 — Oscar's mom gets flung out of the Subway Station.

Sesame Street Season 27 aired from November 20, 1995 to May 17, 1996.

Season Overview

This season is consider the "experimental season" in a way to "increasingly presenting its lessons in overlapping ways, to reach those whose learning may be more closely tied to musical or mathematical abilities than linguistic ones."^[1]

Show Format

Valeria Lovelace said about the show's new format for each episode, "lessons on one topic are to be clustered during an hour rather than spread out through the show as they have been. One show in January, for example, will portray the letter "D" in three consecutive segments: first it's marked out in candles, then it's depicted in a sand animation, and finally it's shown growing out of the ground. This will be followed by three segments on another topic, rain. First, Ernie and the Twiddlebugs go out in the rain, then there is a rain dance in clay animation, and finally rain and wind are rendered in Chinese calligraphy. In addition to being clustered, these segments are in tune with the new approach because they stress not only the visual and the verbal but also musical, interpersonal and spatial relationships"^[1]

Episodes

Episodes 3396 - 3525 (130 episodes)

Episode 3396 -- Big Bird gets the Memory Flu
Episode 3401 -- Snuffy visits Miles
Episode 3402 - Hatching a Honker egg
Episode 3408 -- Big Bird wants to be the Alligator King
Episode 3409 -- Benny Rabbit's surprise birthday party
Episode 3410 -- Baby Bear draws a picture of Elmo
Episode 3425 -- Telly tries to blow bubbles
Episode 3426 -- Elmo witnesses as Linda breaks Ruthie's pitcher
Episode 3427 -- Following a butterfly
Episode 3428 -- The Bears have dinner with the Robinsons
Episode 3429 -- Elmo Takes Pictures With His Camera
Episode 3432 -- Telly and the Slap-Happy Cap
Episode 3438 -- Telly and Oscar share a magic lamp (repeat)
Episode 3465 -- Snuffy is having trouble with tap dancing
Episode 3480 -- Slimey's birthday (repeat)
Episode 3491 -- Zoe, Telly and Baby Bear reenact the Three Little Pigs
Episode 3501 -- Zoe Gets a Library Card
Episode 3506
Episode 3522 -- Grundgetta enters an ugly contest
Episode 3523 -- Sloppy learns to wiggle and crawl
Episode 3524 -- Maria, Luis and Gabi look after Alice
Episode 3525 -- Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop visit

Notes

This was the first season with the episodes ending with Big Bird announcing "Coming Soon on Sesame Street," after which a clip from the subsequent episode is shown, be it a sketch or the main plotline of said episode, then Big Bird says, "Toodleoo" The "coming soon" teasers were dropped in season 30.
This was the first season since Season 2 to have one letter and number as sponsors.