Talk:Lefty the Salesman
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U Skit
Currently, this page does not have an image from the U skit. I'd like to point out that a clip from this skit does appear in the A&E Biography special, for thsoe with the resources to make stills. --Minor muppetz 00:14, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Citation for Caroll Spinney
I'm not sure why a citation was requested for Caroll Spinney's role in at least two skits from the 1969 series, but as one of the skits is commercially available on the A&E's Biography special (well, an excerpt, anyway), I used that as a citation. I hope that will suffice. -- Dave Splurge 00:38, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
- I have read a post at Muppet Central about Caroll Spinney's book signings from 2003, and at one of those signings, he talked about performing Lefty, and stated that although he performed Lefty in a few skits, Frank Oz gets the residuals (I'm not sure if Spinney was joking or not). --Minor muppetz 00:02, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Lefty
Where does the name Lefty come from? — Scott (talk) 17:07, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
- He was named Lefty in scenes with his boss (The Golden An and Lefty recites the Alphabet). Although he is identified as "The Salesman" in most off-screen publications (such as Sesame Street Unpaved). "Lefty the Salesman" is an unofficial merging of the two names (like Henderson the Guard) possibly we should change it to "Lefty (The Salesman)" or "The Salesman (Lefty)". -- Brad D. (talk) 17:56, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Voices
Who did Lefty's voice for Sesamstrasse (German Sesame Street)? I saw a German music video about Sesamstrasse on Youtube in which Lefty talked for a relatively long time (the singer must have been a Lefty fan or something) and his voice sounded similar to the Japanese version of Kouga (InuYasha). Although it is highly doubtful that it is the same person, that should at least give an idea of what the voice sounded like. Does anyone know who it is? Lycanthrope777 05:01, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
- This gentleman, Horst Stark. Evidently, he also dubbed over the voices of William Shatner and Burt Reynolds. --Dave Splurge 00:45, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Bananas?
Anyone remember Lefty selling fruit? This is a still from Learn at Home the Sesame Street Way. -- Zanimum 13:32, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
- Seems like it's from this sketch, already on the page: "Scale: Lefty wants to sell a scale, using vegetables to demonstrate (all of which weigh two pounds). Ernie already has a scale at home, but he would like to buy the vegetables." Andrew Leal (talk) 16:07, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
- This reminds me of the definition of "sharp" in The Sesame Street Dictionary. It had a picture of Lefty showing Oscar how sharp a knife is by chopping up vegetables. Oscar says "I don't want to buy a knife. But how much is all that wonderful garbage?", pointing to the vegetable pieces.
U skits
I'm parking this here, since we're trying to keep speculation and questions out of articles, but there's always the off chance someone will have the answer in the distant future. Note: According to Sesame Street Unpaved, there was a skit where lefty tried to sell a U which got bent so he tried to pass it off as a V, but in the clip that this user saw, it was a string made to look like a U, which would be hard to get bent. Was there another U skit? Andrew Leal (talk) 21:47, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
- That was the skit. The string tied between two posts was held down by Lefty to make the U look like a V. --Dave Splurge 22:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
