# Help me ID this Sesame Street sketch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-sesame-street-sketch/690851 "2014-06-15T20:51:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-sesame-street-sketch/690851/1 "2014-06-15T20:51:57Z")
Actually, it’s a song/dance number. There is a U-shaped fuzzy thing dancing on a horizontal surface. It does a few tricky moves. Then, a baby U-shaped thing comes along and wants to dance too, but keeps getting in the big one’s way. Anybody? ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-sesame-street-sketch/690851/2 "2014-06-15T20:57:01Z")
Here ya go: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/O-kDtgtF9qU/hqdefault.jpg "Muppets dancing (Season 1)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-kDtgtF9qU) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-sesame-street-sketch/690851/3 "2014-06-15T20:57:11Z")
Moved to Cafe Society. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-sesame-street-sketch/690851/4 "2014-06-16T01:01:24Z")
6 minutes? ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-sesame-street-sketch/690851/5 "2014-06-16T01:47:21Z")
Well, it’s Sunday, and Father’s Day…things are bound to be a \*bit \*slow… ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-sesame-street-sketch/690851/6 "2014-06-16T02:18:18Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > 6 minutes? Well, I first reported the post for transfer from general questions to cafe society, then I googled, then i watched some of the video, then I typed my response, then I previewed my post. Hey, anyway, I didn’t see _ **you** _ come up with the answer. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-sesame-street-sketch/690851/7 "2014-06-16T03:07:42Z")
> [@Santos\_L\_Halper](#): > > Well, I first reported the post for transfer from general questions to cafe society, then I googled, then i watched some of the video, then I typed my response, then I previewed my post. > > Hey, anyway, I didn’t see _ **you** _ come up with the answer. 🙂 I’ll get to it in a few days! 🙂 I’m always impressed how quickly the 'Dope identifies stuff like this. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-sesame-street-sketch/690851/8 "2014-06-16T03:44:07Z")
> [@Santos\_L\_Halper](#): > > Here ya go: > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-kDtgtF9qU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-kDtgtF9qU) Since it’s not really made clear at the link, this is a Muppet Show bit, not Sesame Street (they also did it, with less colourful puppets, on Ed Sullivan, but not on Sesame Street). And contrary to the link’s description, it’s called Java, not Jazz. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-sesame-street-sketch/690851/9 "2014-06-16T09:40:13Z")
It’s pre-Muppet Show, pre-Sesame Street. It was originally done in the 60s, I think as part of the Ed Sullivan show.