I was just a tot during the early days of Sesame Street, and now that I have two children of my own, I love sharing Sesame Street songs with them, too!
The Sesame Street bond transcends generations!
Ever on the lookout for manipulatives (fancy Early Childhood Education word for “toys”) that are both educational AND fun, I was pleased when Team Mom gave me the scoop on a new product from Kid K’NEX geared toward children ages 2-5!
The K’NEX Sesame Street Canister Building Set
is designed with little hands in mind! Building with K’NEX helps preschoolers develop hand-eye coordination, problem-solving skills, and encourages imaginative play.
The K’NEX Sesame Street Canister Building Sets feature large, chunky pieces that are compatible with OTHER brands of building blocks designed for preschoolers. That means the creative possibilities are virtually endless!
The K’NEX Sesame Street Canister Building Set also comes with its own storage canister (hence the name!), featuring a Sesame Street 3-D character face on the lid!
I’m imagining some GOOD Mama tricks when I encourage my boys to “feed” K’NEX pieces to Elmo in order to speed the clean-up process! (Mamas can be sneaky like that!)
The Sesame Street Kid K’NEX 14-15 piece sets retail for $10.99 and are available in several popular characters: Elmo (with his little fish Dorothy); Ernie (with rubber ducky); Cookie Monster (with a cookie, of course!); and Oscar the Grouch (with cute little Slimey the worm). Larger sets are also available (like Super Grover, which retails for $14.99!).
Kid N’NEX is giving away one K’NEX Sesame Street Canister Building Set to a lucky Mom Most Traveled reader!
*Congrats to our winner, Jaclyn Reynolds (non blogger)!
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29 September 2008, 7:15 am
I used to be terrified of the Yip Yips. You know yip yip uh huh uh huh! Now they are hilarious but everyone who knows about my fears make fun of me for it
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29 September 2008, 11:40 am
When my eldest was teeny tiny, we took him to see Sesame Street Live! As parents, we were ecstatic when
Elmo ran down the aisle and out of everyone, picked our son to run up on stage with him! We were sure he would get discovered AND what a great video to save!
Dylan was terrified and screamed, yelled and I’m quite sure he peed his pants…He wouldn’t go.
Funny looking back how we were angry with him at this passed up opportunity. When he later recalled the event, the time of the night was when he “danced with Elmo” in the aisle!
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29 September 2008, 11:47 am
Mahna Mahna! Love that song! Do, do, do-do-do, mahna mahna, do, do, do, do, mahna mahna,…..
Also, I used to love Mr. Snufalupagus.
My son has the Ernie and insists he must have all of these sets.
Thanks!
29 September 2008, 11:47 am
I always loved watching Snuffleufugus…
29 September 2008, 11:57 am
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29 September 2008, 12:04 pm
My favorite memory from both of my girls is them singing “Sunny Day”…..I can still hear their sweet little voices…….
29 September 2008, 12:44 pm
I loved the Ladybugs’ Picnic song. Still can sing it after all these years.
29 September 2008, 12:47 pm
Snuffy was always my favorite. He just looks so stinkin’ HUGGABLE!! My kids are HUGE Sesame Street fanatics. We have a daughter with special needs and the only thing that got her to talk was “EMO!!!!”.
We went to Sesame Street Live last January and both kids thought they’d died and gone to heaven. Our daughter kept saying, “Emo see me?!?!?” over and over. She couldn’t believe he was right there so close! As a parent I’m thankful that there are educational programs like this with characters who don’t drive me completely insane (like some other large dinosaur types).
Thanks for the chance to win - what a fun giveaway!!
29 September 2008, 12:57 pm
My favorite Sesame Street memory is when my daughter was still preschool aged and watched Sesame Street everyday. She would get a spoonful of peanut butter to lick on as a snack. The cat sat right beside her the entire time because he knew that when Samantha had eaten her share of the peanut butter, he would get the rest. It was so funny watching the cat lick peanut butter off the spoon just like he was watching Sesame Street and eating peanut butter for a snack. Boy, did that cat ever love peanut butter.
29 September 2008, 1:11 pm
I remember coming home from kindergarten and getting to watch it. I don’t necessarily remember specifics just that I got to watch it.
29 September 2008, 1:26 pm
My favorite sesame street memory is my little brother singing the rubber duckie song
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29 September 2008, 1:44 pm
My son had a stuffed dress me button zip etc Ernie doll that he loved! It went everywhere with him! Even to bed! He is now 17 and would be mortified if he knew I told about this!
29 September 2008, 1:47 pm
Grover was my favorite as a child. My 7 year old son was never interested in Sesame Street, but my 22 month old daughter loves it. We watch sesame street every day at 10am. I can’t wait to take her to the Strong Museum in Rochester to show her the huge Sesame exhibit. They have the stoop. =)
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29 September 2008, 2:14 pm
I have to say my favourite memory of the show is the “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street” special. I remember Oscar teasing Big Bird about how Santa could possibly fit down “all those skinny little chimneys”; and then the search to find him! However, when I was 5, Sesame Street on Ice came to town. We NEVER had money for that kind of thing but grandma won tickets! I got to go and our section was selected to ride on the fire truck zamboni! By the time I got to the ice from my nose bleed seats, there wasn’t room. I was so sad. Just then BIG BIRD skated over, lifted me up and skated with ME on the ice! BEST MEMORY EVER!!!! Now, my 4 boys watch the show, and I still enjoy it.
29 September 2008, 2:15 pm
Big Bird.
29 September 2008, 2:28 pm
I loved Grover when I was a child and I still have one of my first Christmas ornaments with him on it. I still hang it on my tree.
29 September 2008, 2:47 pm
I just loved to watch my son sitting in front of the tv in his infant seat watching the show…this is 34 years ago..would love to win this for his little daughter…thanks for the great giveaway
29 September 2008, 3:03 pm
I always loved Elmo when I was a kid, and now my kids love watching him too!
29 September 2008, 3:10 pm
This post has been brought to you by the letter A.
My favourite memory is the Count. Iloved the Count and his obsession towards counting. When learning how to count, I would always pretend I was with the Count or that I was the Count. In the end, I learned to count at a very young age, but in kindergarten, I don’t think the teachers appreciated that I pretended to be a vampire.
29 September 2008, 3:45 pm
Grover created so many memories for me i can’t pick one.
29 September 2008, 4:07 pm
I love Sesame Street! I still watch it with my kids. My favorite was always the teeny little super guy, for some reason. The one who sang and rode an egg beater around, haha. And the skit with grover where he is a waiter and there is a fly in the guy’s soup. I could go on and on, I should write my own post about Sesame Street.
29 September 2008, 4:08 pm
I always loved it when Bert and Ernie were bickering. I always sided with Bert, because I thought that Ernie was an inconsiderate slob.
Alicia Webster
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29 September 2008, 4:21 pm
I always loved watching Seseme Street in kindergarten!
29 September 2008, 5:02 pm
Remember the teeny little super guy who lived in the cabinet. I used to get goosebumps when I saw that, lol! My son loves Elmo, what a cute giveaway!
29 September 2008, 5:13 pm
I love the Rubber Ducky song - Bert and Ernie are the best!
29 September 2008, 5:26 pm
I remember being excited to see the Count count
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29 September 2008, 5:37 pm
Cookie Monster was my favorite,an my kids still love it today!
29 September 2008, 6:26 pm
some of my older kids got to be on it long ago..but growing up OH I LOVE TRASH>>ANYTHING DIRTY OR DINGY OR DUSTY I used to sing
29 September 2008, 6:34 pm
reading a book about Grover over and over when I was little
29 September 2008, 6:51 pm
I love reading “The Monster at the end of this Book” to my children. Grover was always my favorite as a kid.
29 September 2008, 6:56 pm
Cookie Monster was my favorite and still is!
29 September 2008, 7:00 pm
I use to love watching Sesame Street when I was little and its wonderful that its still around! Big Bird was always my favorite!
29 September 2008, 7:10 pm
My children loved the Sesame Street Christmas record. That was way before CD’s. They still love to listen to it and they are all adults.
29 September 2008, 7:17 pm
I loved watching sesame street growing up. It was always fun watching Ernie he was one of my favorite characters. He was always causing trouble for Bert. I loved it when he would wake him up and get crumbs in his bed.
29 September 2008, 7:21 pm
I don’t remember watching it as a kid (but then again, there were no TV’s then!), but I did watch it with my son 20 years ago and I think I enjoyed it more than he did! I still hang SS ornaments on my Xmas tree and remember all the songs by heart!
29 September 2008, 7:22 pm
watching big bird with my children
29 September 2008, 7:24 pm
My favorite was snuffaluffaguss - although there’s no way I could say that. I remember having a figurine of good old snuffy and I carried it everywhere with me!
29 September 2008, 7:34 pm
I have very fond memories of sesame Street from when i was a kid. I had some sing along cassette tapes that I adored! I still remember the words too! Now that my daughter is here she is completely in love with sesame street! Now my favorite memories include seeing her learn her first song - elmo’s song. And I will always remember the way she says their names — it is the cutest thing i have ever heard!!
29 September 2008, 8:42 pm
I always like Cookie Monster
29 September 2008, 9:09 pm
I love Sesame Street as a child and my son is growing up on it too !! It transcends generations
29 September 2008, 9:55 pm
Gotta love Big Bird! I watched Sesame Street with my kids and now I watch it with my granddaughter. Such a wonderful educational show for kids of all ages!
Thanks for the chance to win your great giveaway!
29 September 2008, 9:56 pm
We got Oscar and both kids are fighting over him…
I loved Sesame Street when I was little, especially Snuffleupagus. Of course, it was the only option back then!
29 September 2008, 9:57 pm
Snuffaluffaguss was my fav, I used to pretend he was my friend.
29 September 2008, 11:19 pm
I loved big bird as a kid.
29 September 2008, 11:21 pm
kermit not easy being green
29 September 2008, 11:39 pm
My Grand-daughters love Sesame Street! My children grew up on Sesame Street too. We love the Elmo Potty Training Movie. And have enjoyed all the guest sing along number songs. I would love to win this for them.
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29 September 2008, 11:45 pm
When my first son learned the letter J from it
30 September 2008, 12:03 am
I loved watching big bird when I was little
30 September 2008, 12:28 am
I loved watching Sesame Street when I was little! My favorite characters were Big Bird and Cookie Monster!
30 September 2008, 1:09 am
I always remember the eposide with cookie monster and the little boy counting and the little boy just got the biggest case of the giggles during the whole thing. We also remember the counting songs. But Elmo is our favorite little red furry monster!!
30 September 2008, 1:41 am
love hearing my little ones sing along!
thanks!
moore.g@insideconnect.net
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30 September 2008, 2:33 am
O mY gosh this is tooooooo cute Not only does my Daughter love Elmo but so do I.. This would be so Awsome if we won..:O) thank you
30 September 2008, 3:20 am
My favorite memory is of hearing Cookie Monster singing “C is for Cookie”.
30 September 2008, 3:58 am
I used to love watched Oscar The Grouch in his garbage can!
30 September 2008, 4:24 am
I remember that we didn’t get PBS on our tv, so one of my earliest memories is of going to preschool and standing transfixed before the television when Sesame Street came on. As a specific memory of the show itself, I remember my mom singing “Manah - Manah” to me.
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30 September 2008, 4:34 am
I loved learning to count with the Count. One, ah, ah ah..two, ah, ah ah… I also loved the Honkers, the characters that would honk their noses.
30 September 2008, 5:04 am
I watched Sesame Street when I was little but my favorite memories are actually of my own children watching Sesame Street and singing along. My two year old gets the biggest grin on his face when I sing the “Can you tell me how to get.. how to get to Sesame Street” song to him. It’s just too sweet.
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30 September 2008, 9:49 am
I always liked Kermit the Frog, even as the reporter on Sesame Street. You can’t find a better character than Kermit.
30 September 2008, 10:22 am
I loved Sesame Street when I was a teenager babysitting. What an easy job it was. Just turned it on for one hour and I would get a welcomed break. Oh yes I forgot I would watch it too. Thank you!
30 September 2008, 11:59 am
my fav has always been rubber ducky song with ernie. i’ve also loved the episode where grover does anextreme home makeover and eliminates and doubles the doors.
30 September 2008, 12:44 pm
I loved loved loved kermit and kermit on the street! Thank you so much for the chance to win such a cute prize! My youngest would love this.
30 September 2008, 1:09 pm
I always remember Bert and Ernie and Cookie Monster. They were funny. Always wondered why Cookie Monster was allowed to have all those cookies and I wasn’t.
30 September 2008, 2:01 pm
My children watched this daily when they were little. My favorite memory is listening to the theme song and knowing my children would be learning something.
30 September 2008, 2:47 pm
The old Sesame Street was far better than the newer ones. I used to sing the “Rubber Ducky” song all the time.
30 September 2008, 3:08 pm
When I was a kid my absolute favorite character was Ernie. I was in cloud 9 when they began to sing Rubber Ducky! Still one of my fave songs ;)!
30 September 2008, 3:26 pm
Snuffalupagus because he always seemed so sad always needed some cheering up and he talked so slow I thought it was funny.
30 September 2008, 5:11 pm
These are adorable. I loved Snuffy as a kid.
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30 September 2008, 5:50 pm
remember eagerly awaiting for Elmo to come on tv
30 September 2008, 6:32 pm
I watched Sesame Street all the way back from the beginning (yes, I am an older Mom). I loved the puppets and I even had my own build a muppet that I could attach pieces to and play along with the show. It is a joy watching my own kids feel the same joy and excitement learning from this wonderful and educational show.
30 September 2008, 6:49 pm
I always loved it when Grover was a waiter in the restaurant and he would inevitably get completely frustrated and it was so funny!
30 September 2008, 7:32 pm
I loved counting with the count
30 September 2008, 8:46 pm
There was one episode when I was a kid when the Count accidentally made everyone have those funny glasses with a big nose & mustache connected to it. It scared me to death. I started sleeping with my head under the covers and the habit stuck. I still do today.
30 September 2008, 9:21 pm
We watch a lot of Sesame St. around here! I’d love to win this for my daughter. I’d save it for Christmas cause money is tight!
30 September 2008, 10:24 pm
I have fond memories of Oscar the Grouch!!!
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30 September 2008, 10:52 pm
i LOVE BIG BIRD! I WATCHED IT WHEN I WAS LITTLE!
30 September 2008, 11:11 pm
I have two: The first is the aliens, “Yip, yip, yip” and the second is ladybug’s picnic. cookiecutter72 at hotmail dot com
30 September 2008, 11:31 pm
Big Bird. I LOVED him!
01 October 2008, 12:44 am
Back in the day when I watched sesame street I used to love the little guy in a cup. My friends think I’m crazy and they don’t remember him but I do and I wish he was still on!
01 October 2008, 1:45 am
I always watched it when I was little, I remember all the shows nearly!
01 October 2008, 1:58 am
I loved the adventures of Super Grover!
01 October 2008, 2:44 am
I remember Sesame Street when everyone wasn’t so worried about what was politically correct!
01 October 2008, 3:10 am
My brothers and I listened to a Sesame Street record until it was nearly worn out. Those songs are now fun to sing with my own kids. And yes, “I’ve got 5 people in my family.”
01 October 2008, 5:20 am
My favorite moment was Christmas Eve on Sesame Street when Big Bird waits up for Santa. It is an amazing and heartwarming show.
01 October 2008, 6:00 am
I loved learning my numbers with the Count!
01 October 2008, 2:48 pm
My favorite memory of Sesame Street is actually watching it now with my kids and going to see the Sesame Street Live show a year ago.
01 October 2008, 4:29 pm
Watching Sesame Street with my Great grandmother when I was a child.
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01 October 2008, 5:28 pm
Oscar the Grouch was always my fav! I remember watching this show every afternoon at my daycare, all of us surrounding the HUGE wood tv stand!
01 October 2008, 5:54 pm
My favorite is a recent episode where Tina Fey starred in a sketch about “BOOKaneers” Did you know that “Pirates LOVE f-words?”
01 October 2008, 7:37 pm
All things Big Bird! My 8 month old saw it for the first time last week and started clapping for the first time:-)
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01 October 2008, 8:19 pm
The one thing from Sesame Street that can pop into my head with absolutely no warning and be stuck there for days was the old counting song with the marble running through a track. “one two three four five, six seven eight nine ten, eleven twelve!”
Now my girls love Elmo. My almost 2 yr old goes around the house singing “la, la, Elmo, la, la, Elmo” trying to sing the Elmo’s World song.
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01 October 2008, 8:32 pm
I remember watching this show with my children and now I am so lucky I get to watch it with my grandchildren.
Thanks for this great contest and prize!
01 October 2008, 11:55 pm
Crazy neighbor has a version of KNex from their lab at UAB. They make models of viruses…uh, maybe Elmo would be better for a 2 year old boy…
02 October 2008, 12:34 am
Cookie Monster was my favorite.
02 October 2008, 1:13 am
Loved Oscar the Grouch!
02 October 2008, 2:00 am
just the joy of watching on tv.
02 October 2008, 5:43 am
Ernie has always been my favorite character.
02 October 2008, 9:02 am
I remember liking Oscar the Grouch so much so that I named my cat that because he whined all the time.
02 October 2008, 10:29 am
I enjoyed watching Ernie and Bert’s silliness.
02 October 2008, 11:53 am
Watching my youngest dancing to Elmocize. Now my granddaughter does the same thing. It is priceless.
02 October 2008, 5:02 pm
I learned my only Spanish from “Maria” and Grover
02 October 2008, 6:21 pm
watching my grandson dance to elmocize
02 October 2008, 6:55 pm
My favorite memory is when they would show the twiddle bugs in Burt and Ernie’s window box! Thanks!
02 October 2008, 9:30 pm
My favorite memory is when Super Grover shows up! My kids put on their towel capes and “fly” around! So cute!
02 October 2008, 10:42 pm
my favorite memory was the song “1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9–10-11-12″ with the retro ball that spun everywhere.
02 October 2008, 10:53 pm
I always loved Zoey!
03 October 2008, 12:46 am
I used to love watching cookie monster.
03 October 2008, 2:15 pm
i love the count!
03 October 2008, 3:14 pm
Always loved the Cookie Monster.
03 October 2008, 6:55 pm
i always liked elomo and the count but the boy likes elmo too
03 October 2008, 8:55 pm
Watching it with my parents after school
04 October 2008, 1:20 am
I loved the Count and the Cookie Monster!
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04 October 2008, 2:42 am
Watching Ernie sing Rubber Ducky
04 October 2008, 11:27 am
My son loved to hold his stuffed elmo and watch Sesame Street.
04 October 2008, 4:47 pm
Haha! My favorite Sesame Street memory is actually watching it religiously with my roommates in college with big bowls of milk and cereal. =)
04 October 2008, 6:22 pm
Any episode with Bert and Ernie
04 October 2008, 10:39 pm
My kids love the Rubber Duckie Song. It is by far the most sung song in our house.
05 October 2008, 12:04 am
My daughter is married now and has two boys, I can remember her watching the show and we would sing the songs, now she is sharing that same experience with her two little ones
05 October 2008, 12:23 am
I remember playing Sesame Street for my granddaughter and at age 2 she was mezmorized
05 October 2008, 5:20 am
I didn’t watch Sesame Street much as a kid, but I did watch it with my oldest.
05 October 2008, 2:40 pm
I can remember when Tickle me Elmo first came out. I had as much fun as the kids with that great doll.
06 October 2008, 3:47 am
My all-time favorite Sesame Street moment was when Ernie and Bert were fishing and Ernie would just call “Here fishy fishy fishy” and they would literally JUMP into the boat!
06 October 2008, 4:17 am
We didn’t watch a lot of TV as kids, but Sesame Street was always on the agenda. I loved Snuffy! Now it’s fun to watch Sesame Street with my own kids. Every year we take our son to Sesame Street Live and it’s so much fun. Except one of the Honkers came by us and tried to shake his hand this year and it terrified him.
06 October 2008, 11:58 am
I don’t have a specific memory but I remember watching as a child. Then my oldest who is 20 watched and my youngest who is 2 watches. It is a great long running show.
06 October 2008, 1:17 pm
I loved hearing my kids learn to count along with the Count. They even developed quite an accent with the numerals.
07 October 2008, 12:14 am
I remember watching it with my children when they were very young and now I sit a watch it with my grandchildren. What memories.
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07 October 2008, 1:36 am
hearing my children sing and count in Spanish
07 October 2008, 2:00 am
my fav. sesame street memory was being a 7 year old girl dressed up in one of those thin plastic suits with the mask as earnie. I loved burt and earnie and I loved earnie the best, he made me laugh.
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07 October 2008, 3:38 am
My favorite memory is being jealous of cookie monster because he got to eat so many cookies and I didn’t! Silly!!!
07 October 2008, 6:38 am
My favorite memories are of my own children’s love of the Sesamie Street Characters. My children’s fascination with Elmo has resulted in us buying the kids 6 stuffed Elmos, an Elmo chair, an Elmo stroller, DVDs, Elmo shirts & dresses/skirts & shoes, MANY books, tub toys, beach balls, etc. We are living the Sesamie Street life! I personally preferred Grover as a kid; and, my sisters liked Big Bird and The Count. My mom liked Mr. Snuffelupegus (sp?) best. I remember many bedtime stories with Grover.
07 October 2008, 11:36 am
Unfortunately, PBS would not come in where we lived so my parents bought us several Sesame Street books. Growing up these were some of my favorite books and I still have them to read to my children. They are just as wonderful today as they were when I was growing up!
07 October 2008, 2:38 pm
We took our daughter to Sesame Place, and she went into the replica of the famous street and 123 Sesame Street. She sat down and announced, “I live here now!”
07 October 2008, 3:24 pm
I remember the song about how something doesn’t belong. I also remember the aliens (or whatever they are) that said yup, yup, yup, yup…
07 October 2008, 3:42 pm
i remember that in elementry school we got to re-enact sesame street for a school play and i got to be the kid riding the tricycle across the stage!
07 October 2008, 5:38 pm
my favorite memory is the first memory i have of watching sesame street. Waking up early before school and watching while eating my breakfast with my brothers.. I love all of the characters!! and my kids do to..
07 October 2008, 6:07 pm
I was watching the Honkers (the guys that honk their noses) and they were going on and on, and when they paused, right outside the open window, a car honked its horn. It was perfect timing.
07 October 2008, 9:00 pm
Anything to do with Oscar the Grouch! Thanks for the contest!
07 October 2008, 9:12 pm
I can remember when I was little having to stay home because I was sick. Dad set his little black and white tv up in our room so that I could watch Sesame Street. I loved the Bert and Ernie skits best.
07 October 2008, 9:41 pm
the ladybug picnic song
07 October 2008, 10:18 pm
I took my oldest son to see Sesame Street live, every year. It just so happens that they are always in our town right around his birthday. Well one year, I received excellent seats on the front row, side, so the characters would come out the side door, and before they would run up on stage they would play and greet the kids in the front few rows. This made my son sooo happy, he was thrilled and talked about it for years after that day.
07 October 2008, 10:52 pm
Anything with The Count!
07 October 2008, 10:56 pm