Video: Carmelo Anthony, Amar'e Stoudemire, and Grover Compare Things

by Seth on Nov 10, 2011 8:29 AM EST in Videos

A while back, we got a peek at Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire's visit to Sesame Street. Now, we can watch the full performance, which airs tomorrow.

A quick breakdown of what we saw:

- compare [cum-PEAR] (v.): to figure out if things are the same. Or if they're different.

- One thing that is the same among Grover, Carmelo, and Amar'e is that they are all wearing basketball warm-ups.

- One thing that is different is that Carmelo and Amar'e are both nearly 7 feet tall, while Grover stands about three feet high and is a puppet.

- Another thing that is different is that Carmelo and Amar'e can both hit mid-range jumpers, (although field goal percentages suggest that it took a couple takes to get that shot) while Grover can do little more than hit Carmelo in the shoulder with a mid-range jumper, probably because his form is dogshit.

- Another thing that is different is that Carmelo and Amar'e can both hit routine lay-ups, while Grover has, with only a short run-up, a vertical of about 140 inches and can dunk his entire body through the rim head-first.

Other comparisons not mentioned in the bit:

- Carmelo and Amar'e both use contractions, while Grover does not and is a puppet.

- Carmelo and Amar'e are eared, while Grover is an earless puppet.

- Carmelo and Amar'e are African-American, while Grover is Cerulean-American.

- Carmelo and Grover have had their conditioning called into question, while Amar'e stays in peak physical condition.

- Amar'e and Grover have visited Israel and immersed themselves in Jewish culture, while Carmelo has not.

Cum pear.

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i'd eat a cum pear if it would end the lockout.

by frilly on Nov 10, 2011 8:53 AM EST reply actions

yikes

if stern wants to get a deal done that gives the owners 53% of BRI i bet the players would be amenable to a similar situation.

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by stingy d on Nov 10, 2011 9:07 AM EST up reply actions

maybe magic can sign a 10-day contract

before the pear is prepared. pre-peared if you will.

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by stingy d on Nov 10, 2011 9:08 AM EST up reply actions

pre-cum peared?

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by Rorschach44 on Nov 10, 2011 9:08 AM EST up reply actions

ew

by frilly on Nov 10, 2011 1:44 PM EST up reply actions

but anyway

seth, you met grover in the holy land?

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by stingy d on Nov 10, 2011 9:08 AM EST reply actions

yup

braceface

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by Seth on Nov 10, 2011 9:09 AM EST up reply actions

<3 Grover

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by Rorschach44 on Nov 10, 2011 9:09 AM EST reply actions

Melo looks downright thrilled to be there

Amar’e is taking it seriously, and his lines seem more natural, but Melo just looks like this is his favorite thing he has ever done.

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by Znell on Nov 10, 2011 11:54 AM EST reply actions

Yeah! Especially at the beginning

I’m thinking Melo invited Grover to play XBox with him afterward or something.

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by Seth on Nov 10, 2011 11:55 AM EST up reply actions

Because he was getting a paycheck

This NBA lockout is such a killer. Now I have to watch Duke and Michigan state play at MSG right now since it’s going to be one of the only times I’ll see the court on tv…

by Whats A Knickerbocker? on Nov 15, 2011 7:40 PM EST up reply actions

"while Grover has, with only a short run-up, a vertical of about 140 inches and can dunk his entire body through the rim head-first."

I saw a training video where Shump does that.

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by Chairman Meow on Nov 10, 2011 11:58 AM EST reply actions

How will Seasame Street Related Income factor into the next CBA? I hear MJ wants it all.

by XLII on Nov 10, 2011 12:13 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

As G B Shaw said...

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”

You, my friend, have it.

"Hey, I'm a reasonable guy. But I've just experienced some very unreasonable things." --Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China) expressing in 1986 what every Knicks fan would feel twenty years later.

by LaConte on Nov 10, 2011 5:44 PM EST up reply actions

Grover's fooling around..

He’s better than that. Anyway, I’m sitting here laughing at everything Grover does and say and I’m wondering how Melo and STAT could contain themselves from doing so too.

DWTDD Presses the steal button!

Did this dude just did this?

by Rubbercons on Nov 10, 2011 12:46 PM EST reply actions

Next time I play pick-up and I hate lay-up

I’m going to matter-of-factly state: “I can hit a lay-up”.

There’s just one obstacle…

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by Seth on Nov 10, 2011 1:04 PM EST reply actions

Amar'e doesn't look THAT much taller than Melo.

Also, watching Grover shoot gave me terrible hallucinatory flashbacks of watching Jared Jeffries shoot.

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by Thelonious Dunk on Nov 10, 2011 2:04 PM EST reply actions

I was thinking the same thing (about Melo and Amar'e)

And Grover’s shot is an inverted Manute Bol.

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by Chairman Meow on Nov 10, 2011 2:18 PM EST up reply actions

Amare is not that much taller than melo

Amar’e is 6’10 and Melo is 6’8.

by Robert Curre on Nov 10, 2011 2:45 PM EST up reply actions

For some reason I thought Melo was closer to 6'6".

And was just fat to make up for the difference. Huh.

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by Thelonious Dunk on Nov 10, 2011 5:57 PM EST up reply actions

I knew I wasn’t the only one who thought melo was a porker

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by Rorschach44 on Nov 10, 2011 8:07 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Really Amar'e is closer to 6'8.5 and Carmelo is closer to 6'6.5 (those were their heights at the combine)

but in a league where Nate Robinson is “5’9” they’re 6’10 and 6’8

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by knickswin on Nov 10, 2011 9:59 PM EST up reply actions

I think it was Bobby V who said: "You are never as good as you are when you are at your best, and you are not as bad as when you are at your worst."

Like the really funny uncle with a healthy bourbon habit who matches every brilliant Thanksgiving story with one or two ill-advised racist jokes or boob grabs, we’re stuck with Melo. So we might as well learn to love him — quirks and all. http://knickerblogger.net/2011-report-card-carmelo-anthony/

by gbaked on Nov 10, 2011 4:49 PM EST up reply actions

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me several dozen times, shame on Dave Checketts.

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by Seth on Nov 10, 2011 4:51 PM EST up reply actions

I think it was Bobby V who said: "You are never as good as you are when you are at your best, and you are not as bad as when you are at your worst."

by gbaked on Nov 10, 2011 5:22 PM EST up reply actions

One of the comments;

“It’s like I’m watching Nate Robinson all over again.”

BAHAHAHA

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by Chairman Meow on Nov 10, 2011 5:09 PM EST reply actions

Opportunity missed...by about 30 years

I was thinking that it would have been a golden opportunity for crappy wordplay if they had played with Mr Hooper (of Mr Hooper’s Store) instead. Then I did some research and learned that the real Mr Hooper (Will Lee) died in 1982 (three weeks after Amar’e was born, which is a little ~~eerie~~ coincidental), which kinda put paid to that idea.

Even if he was still alive today, he would be 103 years old, so I guess it was a flawed concept from the very beginning. Unless old Jewish men get better at basketball as they get older…?

by LaConte on Nov 10, 2011 5:41 PM EST reply actions