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Revision as of 04:58, 28 July 2011
Sesame Street has had many game shows over the years, hosted by Guy Smiley, Sonny Friendly, and other characters.
Sesame Street Game Shows
Recurring Game Show Sketches | |||||
Picture | Title | Earliest Known Appearance | Host | Description | |
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What's My Part? | Guy Smiley | The object of the game is for the blindfolded contestants to guess what part of the body is the guest on the show, based on clues from the guest. At least two segments were made. | |||
Beat the Time | Guy Smiley | The object of the game is to bring in a number of related items within a given time frame. | |||
Here is Your Life | Guy Smiley | Guy surprises somebody (usually an animate version of an inanimate object) by showcasing that person or things life, with surprise appearances from people in that guests life. This segment was later retitled "The New Here is Your Life", with Sonny Friendly taking over hosting duties. | |||
Name That Sound! | Guy Smiley | In this game, a number of sounds are heard, and the contestant must name the items that make those sounds. There was also a "traveling edition" hosted by Sonny Friendly. | |||
The Letter of the Day Games | Episode 4083 | unseen announcer | Hosted by an unseen announcer, Cookie Monster must accomplish three tasks that involve The Letter of the Day. | ||
One-Shot Game Show Inserts | |||||
Picture | Title | Earliest Known Appearance | Host | Description | |
Pick Your Pet | Episode 0067 | Sonny Friendly | A game show from the first season. The object of this game is to wear a blindfold, ask three different animals some questions about themselves, and then pick one of them to be the contestant's pet before taking off the blindfold and seeing what kind of pet was chosen. The three animals include Little Bird, Baskerville, and Beautiful Day Monster. | ||
The Mr. and Mrs. Game | Episode 0072 | Guy Smiley | A game show similar to The Newlywed Game, where a monster couple could win a prize if Mr. Monster's wife could guess her husband's answers. | ||
What's My Letter? | Guy Smiley | Another What's My Line? title parody, hosted by Guy Smiley. In this game show, the contestant has to figure out the featured letter of the day. In this skit, the contestant is Prairie Dawn, and the letter is E. (YouTube) | |||
The Trading Game | Episode 0279 | Guy Smiley | Contestants bring in items that they can trade for an item in a mystery box.
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The Remembering Game | Episode 0310 | Guy Smiley | This game show is a matching game, where the contestants have to match two pictures. The prize is whatever the contestant correctly matches. The contestants in this skit are Cookie Monster and Bill Smith.
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Dialing-For-Prizes Movie | Episode 0666 | Guy Smiley | Guy Smiley gives the lucky caller a group of monsters as a prize. | ||
The Addition Game | Episode 0890 | Guy Smiley | The contestant, Herry Monster, has to add numbers to win the prize. Herry can solve all the questions except "3+1=_", so he brings four cars into the studio to add them together.
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The Mystery Mix-up Game | Episode 1446 | Guy Smiley | The object of this game is to unscramble a word. The word to unscramble is "SCHOOL", and when his contestant wins, she rearranges her prizes. (YouTube) | ||
Say the Word | Episode 1836 | Guy Smiley | In the manner of Password, one contestant must give his partner clues in order to say the secret word ("Stop"). The contestants are Chester O'Leary and Maurice Monster. When Chester's clues fail to enlighten Maurice, the latter resorts to tickling. The monster finally yells "Stop!" The pair win, but Maurice gets his own back by tickling Chester and Guy Smiley. | ||
Name That Food | Episode 2096 | Don Carrot | The object of the game is to identify foods that appear on a screen and then eat that food. One of the contestants is willing to eat every food shown, while the other contestant refuses. | ||
To Tell a Face | Episode 2125 | Guy Smiley | The object of the game is to identify the face of a relative. The contestant in this skit is a baby, who must identify his grandmother.
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The Trash Is Right | Episode 2258 | Oscar the Grouch | Hosted by Oscar on Sesame Street. The object of this game is for the contestant, Grundgetta, to match each pile of trash with the picture of the person who threw it away. | ||
The School Game | Episode 2282 | Guy Smiley | The object of this game is the contestant must figure out the correct answer about School and the teachers. The contestants are Timmy, Lynn-Lynn, and Rosa. All three contestant wins the game. The prizes, as displayed by a woman resembling a schoolteacher, are various Guy Smiley merchandise (such as a Guy Smiley Lunchbox, a Guy Smiley backpack, a Guy Smiley pencil set, a Guy Smiley coloring book, and a book about Guy Smiley's amazing life story.) | ||
The Fairytale Newlywed Game | Episode 2404 | Guy Smiley | The object of the game is for one Fairy Tales couple to get the same answer that the host asked them. | ||
What Happens Next? | Episode 2407 | Gordon | Gordon asks the audience what would happen next with help from the Dinger and Maria (as Charlie Chaplin). We have to guess before Gordon rings the bell. On the 1st round, Maria as Charlie Chaplin steps on the Banana Peel on the ground. On the 2nd round, Maria sits on a bench with only Three legs and it knocks down. Then on 3rd (and final) round Maria used the cane to push cloud to the game show studio, causing Gordon to sneeze alot. | ||
The Eating Game | Episode 2475 | Guy Smiley | The object of the game is to ask questions to three different types of food, and then pick which one the contestant wants to take to dinner. The contestant in this skit is a plate (Fran Brill), and the food choices are a fish (David Rudman), a corn on the cob (Kevin Clash), and a glass of milk (Martin P. Robinson). | ||
What's Prairie's Problem? | Episode 2484 | Guy Smiley | The object of the game is to figure out why Prairie Dawn can't use one of her senses (i.e., which part of her face is covered). | ||
Where Do I Belong? | Episode 2486 | Guy Smiley | A group of objects/people/animals tried to figure out where they all belong. The first group is a sun, a star, and a moon, who all belong in the sky. The next group is a fish, a clam, and a scuba diver, who all belong in the water. The last group is a cow, a tree, and a haystack, who all belong on land. | ||
Bring that Thing | Episode 2494 | Guy Smiley | The Yip-Yip Martians are contestants. They would have to find something that involves light (Such as a flashlight, a lamp, and the Moon). Similar to Beat the Time. | ||
The How Many Game ?? | Episode 2503 | Guy Smiley | The object of the game is for the contestant to bring in a certain number of objects. The contestant is the Two-Headed Monster, who must bring in two of something. | ||
The Triangle is Right | Episode 2506 | Guy Smiley | The object of the game is to answer every question with "a triangle" as the answer. Contestant Prairie Dawn has little patience for this format.
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What's My Job? | Episode 2573 | Guy Smiley | Monster contestants wear blindfolds and must guess the occupations of three guests. The guest include a firefighter, a dentist, and game show host Sonny Friendly.
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Squeal of Fortune | Episode 2579 | Pat Playjacks | A parody of Wheel of Fortune, hosted by Pat Playjacks with the help of Velma Blank. The contestants are Count von Count and Prairie Dawn. The object of the game is to spin a wheel with a pig in the middle and guess how many times it will go around (with one squeal per turn). The Count wins, but after being given his choice of prizes (including a larger-than-life portrait of Playjacks himself, grapefruit goggles, and a barrel of industrial-strength gray-green finger paint), he chooses the pig instead. Then an eel comes along to ask Pat Playjacks if the game is called Eel of Fortune. | ||
This Is Your Lunch | Episode 2600 | Guy Smiley | Construction worker Sally Smith is the surprise contestant of the on-location game "This Is Your Lunch." Sally must guess the contents of her lunchbox correctly after each food item gives her clues. | ||
Happiness Begins At 40 | Episode 2626 | Guy Smiley | Contestants count to 40, with their emotions improving as they get to 40. | ||
Mystery Guest | Episode 3149 | Guy Smiley | The contestants wear blindfolds and ask the guest who it is. In this skit, the contestants are Cookie Monster, Don Music, and Sherlock Hemlock, and the guest is the letter X. (YouTube) | ||
Meal or No Meal | Episode 4138 | Howie Eatswell | A parody of Deal or No Deal. | ||
Are You Smarter Than an Egg Layer? | Episode 4179 | Jeff Bawksworthy | In the game, the contestant must answer egg-related questions. This is a parody of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? | ||
The Anything-in-the-World Prize Game | Guy Smiley | Guy Smiley asks questions to random people on the street. The winner gets to choose the prize. His guest for this skit is Oscar the Grouch, who doesn't want to be bothered by Guy Smiley and accidentally gets every answer right. Since Oscar gets to have whatever he wants for a prize, he asks Guy Smiley to get lost.
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The Crying Game | Sonny Friendly | In this game, Sonny tells a sad story, and whoever cries the hardest wins. However, after Sonny learns that the prize is his own teddy bear, he cries the hardest and wins.
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Family Food | Richard Dawson | A parody of Family Feud. The Hungry Family must come up with the top five answers for foods that make up a healthy meal (chicken, broccoli, wheat bread, oranges, and milk). The prize is a smorgasbord of the food listed as answers, a trip to Florida, and a horse.
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Dreidel of Fortune | Shalom Sesame, Show 6: Chanukah | Jeremy Miller | A spoof of Wheel of Fortune When no one can guess the answer, Co-Host Lvanna White (parody of Vanna White) provides the missing clue and completes the puzzle: A Great Miracle Happened Here. Since Mrs. White works on the show, All the contestants gets a prize. | ||
The Letter G Game | Grover | Grover interrupts Mr. Johnson's reading at the park to have him be a contestant in "The Letter G Game", in which Mr. Johnson has to show one object beginning with G. Mr. Johnson doesn't have anything that starts with G, but wins due to Grover thinking of him as a gentleman. Prizes include a pair of gloves and glasses, which go with a new pet goat, who can play the guitar.
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Featured Game Shows | |||||
Picture | Title | Featured in | Host | Description | |
Alphabet Treasure Hunt | The Alphabet Game | Sonny Friendly | This game show involves a screen that randomly picks a letter, and whenever that letter is presented, the contestants must find an object that starts with that letter and bring it to the studio. Whoever correctly finds something beginning with that letter gets a piece of cookie, and when the contestant gets three pieces, which form a full cookie, the contestant wins. If there is a tie then the contestants must correctly answer a question. | ||
The My Best Friend Game Show | Episode 2274 | Sonny Friendly | The contestants talk about their best friends. | ||
The Healthy Foods Game | Episode 4085 | Mr. Healthy Food | This game show involves its contestants in a search for healthy foods of various colors, but the contestant must find foods of all colors before a mouse reaches the top of a refrigerator and play the piano. | ||
What Happens Next? | Episode 4100 | Oscar the Grouch | Oscar sets up some things, and his contestant must guess what will happen next. | ||
Sesame Street Squares | Episode 4065 | Mr. Square | This game show involves its contestants in a search for 7 squares before a mouse reaches the top of the clock and ring the bell. | ||
What Comes Next? | Episode 4129 | Mr. Pattern | The contestant tries to figure out what comes next in a pattern of things before an unnamed mouse rings a bell. | ||
Hurry Up! You're Running Out of Time! | Episode 4182 | Guy Smiley | The contestant has a task they must complete without getting distracted by Denny the Distractor (Gilbert Gottfried). | ||
Other Game Shows | |||||
Picture | Title | Featured in | Host | Description | |
Double Get Wordy | Ready To Learn | Guy Smiley | |||
The Matching Game | The Sesame Street Dictionary | Guy Smiley | Six contestants hold hapes, with the palyer having to match the shapes. | ||
Elmo's Breakfast Bingo | Elmo's Breakfast Bingo | Elmo | Elmo hosts a game show with the purpose of teaching kids about healthy eating for breakfast. The game is structured as a multiple-choice format, often with silly incorrect answers. Occasionally, Elmo makes jokes such as that the contestant has won a new car or that they've reached the one million dollar question. | ||
Oscar's Big Game Show | Sesame Place | Oscar the Grouch |
Real World Game Shows
The Sesame Street characters have been guests on many outside game shows, including: