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!**I can believe that. I remember getting in trouble for doing the Don Music impression at our piano when I was a child. BOUNG!!!
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.
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!
This sketch still creeps me out to this day*!*Beautiful Day Monster was always terrifying looking… :eek:
One comment said “FUS RO DAH!” and that ruined the fear for me.
Just youtube “I love being a pig.”
My brother plays that one all the time so I know what it’s like.
wow - to shake out some cobwebs, then…
The Family Song - Sesame Street - A Family (complete) - YouTube
Those bloody twiddle twiddle bugs - Sesame Street: Twiddlebugs Party - YouTube
The O and the E songs - Sesame Street - The 'O' Song - YouTube
“Welllllll, birrrrrrrrrd…”
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.
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.
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.
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.
This, although this was before my time, I could see how the sounds would creep one out.
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:
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.
NO!
This one!
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. 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.