Sesame Street - Five Jive

5 more days until Street Gang : The Documentary becomes available on digital. 

According to Muppet Wiki, this is from 1991 ( Season 23 : 1991 - 1992 ). The 1990s ( when the show's seasons were in the 20s ) was around the end of Classic Old School Sesame Street and the start of the change of the show's entertainment quality. Jim Henson's final season was Season 21. Richard Hunt's final season was Season 22. Tough Pigs mentioned how Season 25 was the indicator of the show's change in format as well as season 30 due to trying to keep up with the competition of other educational shows for kids like Barney & Friends which took a different approach then Sesame Street ever did. Elmo went from just one of the monsters to becoming a main character. When he first became a character, his personality was very similar to the short lived girl version of Cookie Monster named " Deena " who just wanted to play all the time to the point of being impulsive and causing problems to other characters. lol Then by the early 1990s, he became more Big Bird, child-like. Maybe it was around the time of Tickle Me Elmo but he became a younger character afterwords. It's true that Sesame Street is an educational show for kids but there used to be this great entertainment quality aspect to it. And as a fan of Old School Classic Sesame Street, I'm very excited about seeing this documentary. :) In my opinion, this is WAY better than the current one which seems to me like "Play With Me Sesame" level now, sort of. But I'm just expressing this as a Classic Jim Henson Muppet fan. :) I agree with Frank Oz who of course prefers the original version, where it used to be hip for adults. Often the original Muppet crew would describe The Muppet Show as being Adult / Family and Sesame Street as Kid / Family. And that's something The Muppets tried to revive which was Family Entertainment with quality entertainment. Jim Henson grew up in the 1940s / 1950s when entertainment and cartoons didn't have such a strict rating system and audience division like there is today with the entertainment industry. Unfortunately most people have that consumer mindset. Even YouTube has that COPPA law thing where people need to separate their videos for kids or for adults. Anyway, I'm very excited to see this documentary. It looks AWESOME ! :)