Ernie from Sesame Street has Shane's Laugh

**Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:22 pm**

Since I now have a nearly 1 year old son (preventing me from taking off to
Vegas for the Oct. shows), I have been watching Sesame Street (an American Children's program).

My son just received a toy with Elmo, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster
and Ernie. They all play a clip of their signature song. Ernie's is Rubber
Ducky, at the end he laughs- it sounds exactly like Shane's laugh. Uncanny.

**Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:38 pm**

funny - i saw these earlier today & it made me howl:

**Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:15 am**

Mike from Boston wrote: They all play a clip of their signature song. Ernie's is Rubber Ducky, at the end he laughs- it sounds exactly like Shane's laugh. Uncanny.

It does, too. I've long wondered whether Shane was artistically influenced by Ernie, or vice versa. And if Shane is Ernie, then who in the Pogues universe is Bert? :wink:

PS Love those pics, Caukill!

**Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:16 pm**

firehazard wrote:
Mike from Boston wrote: They all play a clip of their signature song. Ernie's is Rubber Ducky, at the end he laughs- it sounds exactly like Shane's laugh. Uncanny.

It does, too. I've long wondered whether Shane was artistically influenced by Ernie, or vice versa. And if Shane is Ernie, then who in the Pogues universe is Bert?

PS Love those pics, Caukill!

Good question, I was going to say Spider is Bert, but does the fact Bert
plays the accordian mean it's James :?:

**Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:50 pm**

You mean the Pogues are a "Sesame Street"-cover band?

**Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:57 pm**

Eckhard wrote:You mean the Pogues are a "Sesame Street"-cover band?

Well, having experienced many years of watching it with the kids, as far as I'm aware none of the Pogues' songs were ever given the Sesame Street treatment. Which is a bit of a shame, really. I'd like to have seen that. Some of those Sesame Street covers of rock classics weren't at all bad. :wink:

**Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:50 pm**

Sesame Street had some damn catchy songs...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tsBJYS1jBag

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cze1_cWdF5s

**Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:35 pm**

Hell yeah, I used to listen to their albums all the time and a couple of weeks ago I put one on and I knew everything they said :lol:

**Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:35 pm**

having 3 kids ourselves, we've noticed & commented to each other on the ernie/shane laugh connection. glad we're not alone. not alone in noticing that, or not alone in being pogues fans with kids, either way. indeed, it's on the tv even as i type this.

firehazard wrote:Well, having experienced many years of watching it with the kids, as far as I'm aware none of the Pogues' songs were ever given the Sesame Street treatment. Which is a bit of a shame, really. I'd like to have seen that. Some of those Sesame Street covers of rock classics weren't at all bad.

we have an old 70s record, The Stars Come Out On Sesame Street, and some of it's good. Johnny Cash w/ Oscar the Grouch was a highlight. The Pointer Sisters, Ray Charles... I remember seeing Pete Seeger on there when i was a kid, at a time when he was blacklisted from american tv & radio. Buffy Sainte Marie was on the show for several years, also while blacklisted. i remember Dizzy Gillepsie making fun of Kermit not being able to puff out his cheeks like a frog should, and like Dizzy could. All way, way cooler than anything Dora the Explorer has to offer.

our favourite song in this house (yes, i admit, we have a favourite. hey, kids outnumber adults in this house, go with the flow...) is Put Down the Ducky (if you wanna play the saxaphone), which they did with a medley of performers, clip style.

thanks for all those cover images, those are HOT. here's the cover of the record i mentioned:

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Image:StarsLP.jpg

and, for anybody really turned on, they put out a box set of music a few years back, Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music:
http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Street-35-Y ... F8&s=music

hey, i see there's a new dvd collection of old school sesame street shows too, Sesame Street - Old School, Vol. 1 (1969-1974):
http://www.amazon.com/Sesame-Street-Sch ... UTF8&s=dvd

**Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:59 pm**

Low D wrote:having 3 kids ourselves, we've noticed & commented to each other on the ernie/shane laugh connection. glad we're not alone. not alone in noticing that, or not alone in being pogues fans with kids, either way. indeed, it's on the tv even as i type this.

My son is not yet in to Sesame street, Thank god, (I like Sesame street, but that would just be one more thing to buy and collect) but he is 6 years old and know alot of the Pogues songs. he want´s to listen to Pogues every morning we go to preschool in the car. since he´s going to a English preschool i was allways a little affraid that he would sing some of the songs in class and the teachers would look strange on me

Wen he was 4 he always wanted to hear "The Whiskey song, please dad" No days his favorite is Tuesday morning and body of an american. and he knows all the lyrics as well, hes started to change the Tuesday morning into everyday and especially on Mondays, but who can blame him. TO MANY SAD DAYS, TO MANY MONDAY MORNINGS.

**Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:07 am**

Johan From Sweden wrote: Wen he was 4 he always wanted to hear "The Whiskey song, please dad" No days his favorite is Tuesday morning and body of an american. and he knows all the lyrics as well, hes started to change the Tuesday morning into everyday and especially on Mondays, but who can blame him. TO MANY SAD DAYS, TO MANY MONDAY MORNINGS.

hah! we annoyed my father-in-law because, when he was 5, our son's favourite song was Yuppie Scum (by Tom Robinsion, his loose translation of Jaques Brel's Les Bourgious). papa (a big Pogues fan) don't like yuppies either, but he didn't think our son had enough discretion to go around singing songs like that. he's probably happy that our youngest's favourite is the above-mentioned Put Down The Ducky.

mind you, i got my copy of the new book, Pogue Mahone, in the mail today. grania (3 1/2) looked at the pictures with me. then, when her mom came home, she asked me to get her accordion off the shelf, and she started jumping up and down with it. when i asked what she was doing, she said "like the picture in the book!". so i guess maybe she's ready to move from ernie to james fearnley for her new role model.

**Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:57 am**

Low D wrote:our favourite song in this house (yes, i admit, we have a favourite. hey, kids outnumber adults in this house, go with the flow...) is Put Down the Ducky (if you wanna play the saxaphone), which they did with a medley of performers, clip style.

Brilliant song, Low D.

It's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5qqhOIfAKs

You know, I do sort of miss those Sesame Street songs. The kids are far too old to give me an excuse to watch it any more. But perhaps it helped develop their fine taste in music. That and listening to the Pogues etc. from an early age. :wink:

**Tue Oct 25, 2011 2:33 am**

Okay...i know no one has posted on here forever but, I've been trying to esearch this type of laugh cause my Irish grandpa and my dad both laugh this way...I totally can't find anything. I thought it might be an Irish thing, but maybe it's just weird?

**Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:40 am**

Rose wrote:Okay...i know no one has posted on here forever but, I've been trying to esearch this type of laugh cause my Irish grandpa and my dad both laugh this way...I totally can't find anything. I thought it might be an Irish thing, but maybe it's just weird?

Surely Ernie from Sesame Street is a Polack?

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