# 70s Sesame Street shorts that freaked you out **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2002, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769 "2002-10-11T03:32:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/121 "2016-02-10T00:56:53Z")
If we accept that The Electric Company is…well…Sesame Street _Plus_, then THIS: set me on edge. The two cat girls are just so...\*\*HEINIE-FUL!\*\* ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/122 "2016-02-11T17:54:27Z")
> [@Hermione](#): > > Don Music. Loved him! > > “Oh, I’ll NEVER get it right!!! _ **NEVER!!!** _” (bangs head on piano) > > That was supposedly one of the reasons they got rid of him, aside from the passing of his puppeteer Richard Hunt–kids were imitating his (literal) head-banging behavior. I can believe that. I remember getting in trouble for doing the Don Music impression at our piano when I was a child. BOUNG!!! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/123 "2016-02-11T18:01:21Z")
Sesame Street didn’t bother me. However, one Muppet appearance elsewhere did. Mom used to tell me about how one of their monsters eating things really freaked me out but she couldn’t remember what show it was on. ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/124 "2016-02-27T01:59:30Z")
How about the music at the end of the Ernie rock hunting skit, and the music at the beginning of the Count to 10 with Limbo skit? That traumatized 9-year-old **Shockaholics** when she used to watch '70s SS skits on YouTube! ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/125 "2016-02-28T03:43:53Z")
[This sketch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUUP0tAiziE) still creeps me out to this day\*!\*[Beautiful Day Monster](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Beautiful_Day_Monster) was always terrifying looking… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/126 "2016-03-03T23:52:43Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > [This sketch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUUP0tAiziE) still creeps me out to this day\*!\*[Beautiful Day Monster](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Beautiful_Day_Monster) was always terrifying looking… :eek: One comment said “FUS RO DAH!” and that ruined the fear for me. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/127 "2016-03-03T23:59:36Z")
Just youtube “I love being a pig.” ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/128 "2016-03-24T21:18:46Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > Just youtube “I love being a pig.” My brother plays that one all the time so I know what it’s like. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/129 "2016-03-24T21:58:19Z")
wow - to shake out some cobwebs, then… The Family Song - [Sesame Street - A Family (complete) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNmKu4VJ3XM) Those bloody twiddle twiddle bugs - [Sesame Street: Twiddlebugs Party - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vguwX-EkILk) The O and the E songs - [Sesame Street - The 'O' Song - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiytkIXTkAo) “Welllllll, birrrrrrrrrd…” ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/130 "2016-03-25T02:37:00Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Those bloody twiddle twiddle bugs - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vguwX-EkILk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vguwX-EkILk) Even as a kid I loved the way Kermit, after he declares it a ‘Twiddle Bug party\*!\*’, kinda looks around, mumbles, and walks out frowning thinking the whole thing is kinda stupid. Showed how subtle and nuanced Jim Henson & his crew could be. ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/131 "2016-08-05T23:52:16Z")
One that hasn’t been mentioned yet is Sam, a machine character that was on the show circa 1972. He looked like a Dalek. He creeped me out. Also, he made a cameo in a Spider-Man comic book. I am not making this up. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/132 "2016-08-06T20:25:09Z")
I don’t recall ever being “freaked out” by anything on Sesame Street, but I remember one that confused the hell out of me. There was a short, live action film sequence that simply showed some children playing. I don’t recall dialogue. It was just a sequence of clips showing children partaking in various fun activities. I recall seeing it fairly often, so it may have been something they used as a “bumper” between skits. At one point in the sequence, the kids are shown playing with toy construction equipment, in what looks like damp sand, or mud. They’re pushing the sand/mud around into piles and shapes. It then cut directly to a scene showing the kids eating ice cream. My problem with this was twofold: a) I was too young to understand an abrupt cut between two unrelated scenes, and b) we had a black & white television. The result was that I thought the kids were eating scoops of sand/mud. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/133 "2016-08-08T00:27:09Z")
I think I remember the sequence; there were the sound effects of actual construction equipment, such as the squeaking of pulleys and joints and the roar of diesel engines, playing over the images of the children in the sand. ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/134 "2016-10-23T19:46:41Z")
[This](https://youtu.be/Qj7zZqEl--U), although this was before my time, I could see how the sounds would creep one out. ---
**Author:** ![WAMPA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ee7513/32.png) [@WAMPA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WAMPA)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/135 "2016-10-25T16:15:46Z")
I recall it was on electric company. there was a sketch about a man who went around town to barbershops and collected hair. he then went home and baked it into a pie and proceeded to cut a piece and put it to his mouth to eat it. being too young to see the sexual undertone, i recall it completely grossed me out and made me forever want to gag when i get a piece of hair in my mouth. i recall it was on the same show with the guy who painted numbers on things. ring any bells? creepiest thing i ever saw as a youth. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/136 "2016-10-25T16:33:04Z")
> [@WAMPA](#): > > I recall it was on electric company. there was a sketch about a man who went around town to barbershops and collected hair. he then went home and baked it into a pie and proceeded to cut a piece and put it to his mouth to eat it. being too young to see the sexual undertone, i recall it completely grossed me out and made me forever want to gag when i get a piece of hair in my mouth. i recall it was on the same show with the guy who painted numbers on things. ring any bells? creepiest thing i ever saw as a youth. I _really_ don’t think “The Electric Company” made a “hair pie” joke. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/137 "2016-10-25T16:39:27Z")
> [@Shockaholics](#): > > When were the trippy aura sketches introduced and can you find a video? Sorry, I just saw your question now. I can’t access YouTube at work but if you look up “Sesame Street - Scanimate kids Intro (1975)” there it is. I was remembering it wrong, it’s the same kids running around but multiplied so it looks like there are like 6 of the same kid running in a line. Some of the kids look special needs. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/138 "2016-10-26T14:34:25Z")
https://www.youtube.com/embed/vX9J7WcYtxI?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLeY9qQHlFJvEgySUz39sxxCTjkHS0-3gj ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/139 "2016-10-27T03:00:03Z")
NO! This one! BTW…these two were to hypnotic for my preschool mind to wrap around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvSqL1q8jlY ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769/140 "2016-10-27T22:06:41Z")
I am amazed at just how many of these bits I had completely forgotten, but instantly remembered when I saw them mentioned in this thread. After opening a couple of youtube vids, I stumbled upon this old SS bit about [desert rocks forming the number 12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbs93BcfXX4). It didn’t quite freak me out to the point of running out of the room, but I always a little disturbed by it. Something about how the happy-face rock just fades away into the ground just spooked me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-sesame-street-shorts-that-freaked-you-out/131769.md?page=8)