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I've always assumed that my interest in sneezing may have been sparked through seeing it portrayed in media—books, television, movies, and commercials. My earliest recognition of liking sneezing came from Sesame Street... I think :-) Here are a bunch of memories from TV show episodes and movies featuring sneezing that caught my attention when I was growing up. Sometimes I'd continue these scenes in my head, essentially writing mental fanfic based off them.

Sesame Street

Sesame Street really deserves its own large section here as my first acknowledged liking of sneezing was seeing Snuffy (Big Bird's "imaginary" friend, the Snuffalupagus) sneeze from a cold. But there were a good number of episodes and sketches with sneezing that caught my attention as well. I've included the ones that spring to mind below, though there are sure to be some I enjoyed that aren't included.

Name	Media	Description & Thoughts
Snuffy catches a cold		It was a great episode; Snuffy sneezed at the very beginning and the rest of the neighborhood remarked on the great winds that day (this was back when the rest of the neighborhood didn't know he was real).
Snuffy has the snuffle-flu Episode 2251	Episode description	Snuffy caught cold in a later episode of the show as well, and Big Bird as well as other friends go to his cave to see him and help him feel better. One of the fun activities on that show was sneeze bowling, where Snuffy would sneeze toward pins and they would count how many pins had been knocked down.
Snuffy's Puppet Shows	Gus's appearances	I haven't been able to find anyone else who remembers this but me! Another of Snuffy's marvels was putting on a puppet show. After a bit of searching, I have found that the puppet's name was Gus. Snuffy would wear this puppet on the end of his snuffle and every time he put on a show, he would never make it through without sneezing, causing the puppet to fly off and the show to be over. But every time he tried sooo hard not to sneeze, and to hold it back as long as possible. ie, great build-ups. It seems more recent segments with Gus have omitted the sneezing; what a shame!
Snuffy's other sneezes	Video: Spaceship launch (avi)	Another segment had Snuffy sneezing to launch Slimey the worm into space. And another had him sneezing from pretending to be a vaccuum. Quite a lot of potential for such a snuffle, huh?
The Count Counts to Seven	Video: Counting Flowers (wmv) Wavs: Part 1 , Part 2, Part 3	Another segment I loved a lot was the Count counting flowers. He liked to count flowers because he was allergic to them and when finished counting flowers he could count sneezes. I remember thinking about the Count's "I c-c... I c-c... I c-c-can count sneezes!" many many times when imagining the types of build-ups and sneezes I liked the most. After mentioning this to a friend on e-mail, who may indeed have brought it up before I did, said friend was nice enough to record the audio of this segment and send it to me! Later, I found a clip on YouTube.
Achoo	Video: When You've Got a Cold In Your Nose (mp4) Transcript	I think I loved this maybe more than any other sneeze segment on Sesame Street, mainly because of sooooo many sneezes and the song was specifically about sneezing. The cartoon man with a lovely, large nose it would go around sneezing freely and buildings would crumble. He finally pulled out a hanky, and sneezed into that with a great, muffled sneeze. And then the dog (who caught his cold of course) sneezed and the bus crumbled.
Mr. Tweak Tried to Sleep	Video: Poor Mr. Tweak (mp4)	"Mr. Tweak tried to sleep, but the man above would sneeze." When the man sneezed, it was deep and strong and shook the whole house. Everything stopped for me when this segment came on; I adored it.
Bert's Sneeze	Video: Bert's Sneeze (mp4) Transcript	I remember being a little frustrated that Ernie can't do this properly, but I loved the sneeze in this skit. After the longest build-up, Bert sneezes into a big handkerchief Ernie holds for him.
Why Bears Smile	Video: Confused, sneezing bear (avi)	Or, How the Bear Got Her Grin. There were lots of strong sneezes and a dramatically wrinkly snout from this sweet, confused bear.
The Sneeze Song	Video: Farm Animals (avi) Humans (mp4)	I originally saw the farm animal version, with all these animals sneezing. There's a fantastic build-up as well. While searching, I also uncovered a version with humans and sooooo very many tissues; this one was labeled as a remake version of Jeff Moss's "The Sneeze Song." I love how a couple of the puppets continue to sneeze even after the song is over, to drive the point home.
How to Blow Your Nose	Video: How to Blow Your Nose (mp4)	Even as a kid, this sketch had me at "I hab a code id by dose." There are no sneezes, though.
Different Noses	Video: The animator is silly (mp4)	The animator chooses different noses for this poor character. When he finally gets the right one, he sneezes. What an entirely unnecessarily wonderful way to end it!
Sneezing Snerd	Video: Such a sickie (mp4)	When it came to cartoons, you could almost always count on cartoon characters with exaggerated features to have big, drawn-out, dramatic sneezes. I loved this one. Thank you for teaching important lessons about not spreading your germs using animations like this, Sesame Street.
The Ten Commandments of Health	Video Ten Commandments of Health (mp4) Transcript	No one actually sneezes in this one. But I do remember that I really liked the way the character singing it pronounced the word 'sneezing' and the talk about it.
Big Round Nose	Videos: Nose appreciation song (mp4)	A song about how wonderful having a nose is... for many reasons- sneezing being the important one to note, of course. There's no sneezing, but lots of sneeze appreciation.
Bert's Cold		This was on a Sesame Street record/tape which I ended up damaging (I was 5 and left it in the sun too long and never forgave myself). CUTE sketch where Ernie is trying to get Bert to go out and play and Bert keeps telling him he can't because he's sick. Bert sneezes plenty of times, and even has to sneeze while taking his temperature... nice sense of urgency. I don't even recall how it ended.
Bert's Cold #2	Videos: Bert is Sick (mp4)	This is not the sketch I remember from the audio recording, but it's one I remember from my childhood. Bert's sick in bed with a cold and Ernie is oblivious, once again.
Ernie's Snowman	Videos: Bert gets cold (mp4)	Poor, long-suffering Bert ends up cold in the snow and sneezing by the end of this. Sorry not sorry.

I watched quite a lot of PBS as a child, so the beginning of this page is rather skewed in that direction :-)

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