May Bumble Live Nine-Hundred Years!

I had completely and utterly forgotten about this Sesame Street animated skit until I was reminded of it just now while reading a biography on Maurice Sendak.



Sendak was on the National Board of Advisors at the Childrens Television Workshop during Sesame Street's early development days, and he had his book Bumble Ardy animated into a sketch with Jim Henson doing the voice of Bumble Ardy himself. It's surreal seeing it again, and how I can still recite the verse verbatim based on this cartoon alone.