My Video Museum of Vintage Sesame Street Weirdness

[kentamundo]

Many people think that Sesame Street is a kid's show which is overly cute and maybe a little cloyingly sentimental. Elmo and Zoe certainly don't do anything to counter this impression

Comments

[shiara_]

I love the three little pigs take. That was priceless! Thanks for reminding me of that from when I was a mere tot. :-)

I think one of my favs is of the Count and his counting ... can't remember the specific one tho...

[kentamundo]

Once again, The Count was at his best in the early days, when he was ever so slightly creepy.

[shiara_]

This was great! Sesame Street was so much better in the old days of our childhood when networks didn't know what to make of it. Now... not so much.

But this wasn't the Count one I was thinking of. I can't recall it exactly, but, like the proverbial little black dress, I'll know it when I see it.

Big Bird always drove me a little bonkers, now that I recall. Did you ever watch Mr. Dressup down in the ol' US of A?

[kentamundo]

Here's another one, complete with that spooky music and lightning bolts.

I never saw Mr. Dressup, though it looks similar to Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. I'm not sure it translated far beyond the borderlands, and the only cross-border children's show I was familiar with was Villa Alegre (chalk it up to my early years in Texas). Looks like Ernie Coombs was an immigrant - from the U.S. of all places.

[kentamundo]

Found another one from my dim memory: The abstract mosaic which comes to life:

[caribouken]

[kentamundo]

People sometimes don't give the target audience enough credit. We could handle creepy stuff better than one might think. I think we even secretly liked it.

Not sure I've heard of Sky King before. Looks like there was more drama in the Arizona desert than one could imagine. I like the multiple choice "Penny in peril" scenarios.

[caribouken]

[kentamundo]

I like the Nabisco ad, maybe even more than I would have liked the show as a kid. Too bad they were unaware that they were showing the future seeds of childhood obesity.