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Long post is long, but here goes:

For the sake of completeness, here's what I believe to be the full solution to the Episode 5 announcer names/roads clue. It's not just roads around Marine Park; it's a nearly full list of the named streets crossing a specific stretch of Avenue U, in order from west to east, ending at the far corner of the park. Here's all of the streets in that stretch, with first names (and one title, which people have been leaving off of the lists for some reason) added in where appropriate. Some names are homophones or near-homophones instead of the actual spelling of the celebrity or character's last name; these are marked with asterisks below.

(BILLY) Ocean Ave. (Musician)
E 21st St. - 24 St.
(BOB) Bedford Ave.* (Actor, sort of - see below)
E 26th St. - E 29th St.
Nostrand Ave.
Haring St.
(JAMES) Brown St. (Musician)
Batchelder St.
(JOHN) Ford St. (Director)
Coyle St.
Bragg St.
(MISTER) Gerritsen Ave.* (Fictional character, South Park)
(JIMMY) Stuart St.* (Actor)
(CAROL) Burnett St. (Comedian)
E 33rd St. - E 38th St.
(WINONA) Ryder St. (Actor)
(JOHN) Kimball St.* (Fictional character, Kindergarten Cop)
(GARY) Coleman St. (Actor)
(LANCE) Hendrickson St.* (Actor)

We start at Leslie Sebastian Charles and stop at Hal Vukovich, echoing the last line of the video.

Not all cross streets are used. Some of these are understandable - quick, how many Nostrands or Batchelders can you name? - but I'm a little surprised they didn't slip in a "Keith" for Haring, considering they seem to love public art and used to be NYC subway performers. "Bob Bedford" (Rob Redford with Bs for Rs) is weak, but I'm guessing the puppeteers didn't want to make people walk twelve blocks with no confirmation.

I'm not sure why we're meant to be at Ave. U and Ocean St to begin with. I have a theory, but it's not one I'm confident of: we're somehow supposed to have gotten on the B service, "hit the end of the line", "gone the other direction", and been "up to our collar in turds" (if it were possible to back the other way on the B service from the end, you'd pass Neck St. and the "t'ird" stop you'd hit would be the Ave. U stop a few blocks west of Ocean). It's not as much of a slam dunk as the names, though, and unless the whole path is important in the endgame it likely doesn't matter.

Confession: I've been sitting on this information since the day the fifth video came out. I've been working remotely with a small group of East Coast solvers and watching the forum, at first to keep an eye on potential rivals for Episodes 1 and 2, then in solidarity with everyone confused by Episodes 3 and 4, then in disappointment as the thread became dominated by a couple of people with a heavily misguided sense of what should and shouldn't be considered a clue, then with some hope as Cap'n Slim tried to put things back on track, then finally in disgust as Cap'n Slim was called out on his gaming of the forum and trolls trolled and things broke down entirely. My group's kind of fizzled - we were sort of counting on the information in the Dental Workout Kit for new ideas, and apparently a combination of unexpectedly limited resources and poor sportsmanship have made that impossible - so I figure I may as well open up now. I'm still kind of shocked that for the weeks after Episode 5, either nobody else thought to check Google Maps for a "Ryder" or a "Hendriksen" in NYC, or everyone who had was just as tight-lipped about it as I was.

Also, elephant in the room: BertAndEarnie is doing a really poor job of hiding that he's SpyGuySailor. Am I seeing things? I can't be the only person besides Cap'n Slim who's noticed this, can I? Right after SGS leaves citing his hatred for "the Sesame Street aspect" of the thread, a (poorly spelled) Sesame Street name pops up with the exact same rambling, overconfident posting style, same bizarre visual "clues" that only he can see, and same paranoid delusion that everyone who disagrees with him must secretly be Cap'n Slim in disguise. There's been a lot of talk about how posting under multiple names is against forum rules; why hasn't there been more outcry about the most blatant example of it?

Grr, sorry to be negative. I just had to let that out.