Therefore, this time, she comes prepared, wielding an anachronistic microphone (though, to be fair, so does Kermit), which at first seems to be so that he’ll hear very clearly, but actually ends up being part of her scheme. And she’s less concerned with hunting down Snow White than she is tricking in the mirror into telling her what she wants to hear.

Unlike in the regular story, where all it takes is one response of “Snow White” to send the queen on her quest for vengeance, this witch (performed by Frank Oz) asks the same question every day, and every day gets the wrong answer. When Kermit asks how the mirror’s apparently daily response of “Snow White” in response to the witch’s “fairest” query goes down each time, he happily responds, “It drives her up a wall, Froggy!”

And a very cheeky mirror he is, too, confirming for Kermit his delight in getting under the witch’s skin every day. And for Muppet trivia enthusiasts who might be unaware, that man just so happens to be Jerry Nelson aka the performer behind the Count, Gobo Fraggle, Robin the Frog, etc. As the title indicates, it’s a Muppety twist on the well-known story of Snow White with the significant difference being that the owner of the mirror is actually a Sesame Street witch (such as we saw in the coven sketch) with green skin, pointy nose, pointy hat, etc., rather than a glamorous queen, thus making her insistence on being considered the fairest of them all even more absurd than usual.Īlso, in a nice twist on the norm, rather than using a Muppet for the magic mirror’s face, instead it is a video projection of that of a human man’s. We begin with the fairy tales, starting with “Mirror, Mirror,” which just so happens to possibly be my favorite News Flash it at least shares the top spot with the Rapunzel sketch and the one in which the Big Bad Wolf blows everything but the Three Little Pigs’ brick house away. Well, as it so happens, Season 6 brought with it a slew of Sesame Street News Flashes, all of which I’m covering today, other than the “Jack Be Nimble” one which appeared in my last highlights post. I’ve mentioned before that Kermit’s News Flash sketches were quite possibly my all-time favorite Sesame Street segments, or at least very high up on the list, most likely because most of them blend two of my favorite things: Kermit and fairy tales, specifically those of the fractured variety.

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