The show added animated sketches from 1989 and again from 1994 (with short, animated segments before 1989).
One of the show's more noted features is L'il Ronnie James, an animated recurring sketch which depicts James as a young child growing up in Cape Breton in the vein of Terry Gilliam's animation style.
She brought out a notebook and showed him animated sketches.
He also created numerous animated sketches for Sesame Street, sometimes in collaboration with John Canemaker.
In 1969, Thurman joined the writing team for Sesame Street, scripting both street and Muppet scenes as well as producing many animated sketches.
The show became a 15-minute animated sketch show instead of an hour-long live-action show with the occasional animated sketch.
With these tools, the user may create frames for short animated sketches, called flipnotes.
When producer James L. Brooks was working on the television variety show The Tracey Ullman Show, he decided to include small animated sketches before and after the commercial breaks.
Exclusive animated sketches from the BAFTA award winning comedians.
Mr. Sanoussi, a short man with black curly hair and steel-rimmed glasses, began an animated sketch about slum dwellers and beggars being hustled off a street before a motorcade with foreign visitors passed.