Thumbs up for "Sneak Peek Previews"! ('Sesame Street' Wednesday)

Remember 'Sneak Previews'? It was a show on PBS in which two movie critics would review and give their opinions on the latest feature films.

Back in my day, this was one show my parents just absolutely had to watch each week. Or else! They just adored it. I believe 'Sneak Previews' was on Saturday nights, because I remember them watching it while I was in my room jumping off the bunk bed in the hopes that I'd be too injured to go to church the next day.

Who could forget the catchy theme music to 'Sneak Previews'? The melody was a bit like that of the 'Smurfs' theme, and it was accompanied by a clip of a person's hands pounding on a soda machine until the cup pops out sideways and grape soda shoots out all over it.

The height of comic genius was for me to dance around the living room and pretend I was urinating or defecating during the closing theme (much like the kid in the school uniform cartoon from The Last Word doing the same to the Car-X ad).

In the early '80s, 'Sneak Previews' was hosted by the legendary film critiquin' team of Roger Ebert and the late Gene Siskel.

'Sesame Street' did what appears to be a spoof of the series called "Sneak Peak Previews." It was hosted by Oscar the Grouch and Telly Monster and appears to take place in the same theater that Bert got thrown out of years earlier in a famous '70s sketch.

In one installment, Telly and the ol' Osk hosted Siskel and Ebert as guests:



Our friend Oscar sure derives a lot of enjoyment out of seeing Gene and Roger argue!

'Sesame Street' is known for occasional celebrity appearances, and this was one of the more amusing.