![]() Have a Gay Old Time: The pun on the old meaning of "queer" in "ABC-DEF-GHI".Everything Is an Instrument: "Rubbie Duckie" is punctuated by squeaks from the title toy.A slightly deeper-voiced Kermit and Ernie (and a more subdued Bert).Bob McGrath and Loretta Long pitching in with Anything voices too.With the hiring of Jerry Nelson and Fran Brill in season 2, Spinney focused on just playing Big Bird and Oscar. Caroll Spinney playing some of the Anything characters.Starting in season 2, the methodology shifted to using the Anything Muppets as templates for continuing characters. The Anything People as a separate troupe of Muppets who changed personalities from sketch to sketch.Cookie Monster not having crystallized as a full-blown character yet, so he has a voice closer to Grover (though the singing voice is close to the classic voice).Oscar with a more pronounced Bronx accent.Big Bird being portrayed as The Ditz with a yokel accent. ![]() Early-Installment Weirdness: The album serves as a time capsule for all the elements in season 1 of the show that soon changed.At the end of "I've Got Two", when everyone enthuses about what a great song it was, he simply says "I didn't like it." Breaking the Fourth Wall: Several characters address the listener directly.Baths Are Fun: "Everybody Wash" and "Rubber Duckie" are Ernie's celebrations of bathing.Antidisestablishmentarianism: In "ABC-DEF-GHI", Big Bird thinks the alphabet is a really long word."On my way to where the Tropes are sweet":
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