# Sesame Street Flashback... whoa! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 2, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725 "2005-12-02T14:58:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/1 "2005-12-02T14:58:33Z")
I don’t know why, but I cannot get this out of my head this morning: one-two-three FOUR FIVE six-seven-eight NINE TEN _ELEVEN, TWELVE…_ ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/2 "2005-12-02T15:00:22Z")
It’s the brainwashing. It’s working. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/3 "2005-12-02T15:00:33Z")
I loved that segment when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/4 "2005-12-02T15:05:00Z")
Check out the remix of that song that jayjay linked in post number 7 of this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=322895). ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/5 "2005-12-02T15:14:18Z")
Heh, it could also be worse, it could be [Mahna Mahna](http://www.devilducky.com/media/7452/) stuck in your head. 😉😃 (Link has sound btw) ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/6 "2005-12-02T15:16:09Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > Heh, it could also be worse, it could be [Mahna Mahna](http://www.devilducky.com/media/7452/) stuck in your head. 😉😃 (Link has sound btw) You’re evil! If _ever_ anyone says the word “phenomenon” I am required to reply “doo dooooo da doo doo” ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/7 "2005-12-02T15:18:12Z")
> [@Ice Wolf](#): > > It’s the brainwashing. It’s working. I think you’re right. My high school math teacher did a stint as a kindergarten teacher. When he asked the class, “Can anyone count to ten” invariably the reply from a volunteer would be, “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, niiiiiiine, tennnnnnnnn” ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/8 "2005-12-02T15:20:04Z")
> [@Nature's Call](#): > > I think you’re right. My high school math teacher did a stint as a kindergarten teacher. When he asked the class, “Can anyone count to ten” invariably the reply from a volunteer would be, “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, niiiiiiine, tennnnnnnnn” Oh, dear. _That_, I remember! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/9 "2005-12-02T15:24:07Z")
One, two, three, Four, five, six, Seven, eight, nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, The ladybug twelve at the ladybug picnic! ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/10 "2005-12-02T15:29:25Z")
These are the people in your neighborhood. Crap, we’re friggin’ doomed! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/11 "2005-12-02T15:46:26Z")
> [@Nature's Call](#): > > You’re evil! > > If _ever_ anyone says the word “phenomenon” I am required to reply “doo dooooo da doo doo” There is a town outside of the Twin Cities named Menomonie. I have to say “doo doooo da doo doo” when I hear the name, and I suspect half of the Metro area does as well. If only the town’s founding fathers had chosen an ‘a’ at the end instead of an ‘ie’. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/12 "2005-12-02T15:58:13Z")
My husband and I have fallen victim to the brainwashing, too. If one of us is going to the store and mentions “a loaf of bread”, then the other person will then say, “a container of milk and a stick of butter”. Remember that one? ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/13 "2005-12-02T16:02:34Z")
> [@Nutty Bunny](#): > > My husband and I have fallen victim to the brainwashing, too. If one of us is going to the store and mentions “a loaf of bread”, then the other person will then say, “a container of milk and a stick of butter”. > > Remember that one? Oooh! Oooh! My brother and I aruge about this one. To my recollection"container of milk" didn’t sound right. I always thought it was “jug of milk” and yet he swears it was “container” (or “containah” to be more precise). You’ve confirmed his recollection and I lose. You too are evil. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/14 "2005-12-02T16:23:26Z")
Funny how the brain gets programmed. I suffer from that evil Sesame Street song on occasion. My kids used to have one of those awful books that made various noises when you pushed one of the buttons. One button had a picture of a banana, and when you pushed it, this odd voice said “Banaaana, banaaana”. To this day, I can’t hear the word banana without saying “banaaana, banaaana” in my head (and unfortunately, sometimes out loud). ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/15 "2005-12-02T18:05:02Z")
> [@Nature's Call](#): > > I don’t know why, but I cannot get this out of my head this morning: > > one-two-three FOUR FIVE > six-seven-eight NINE TEN Ten tiny turtles on the telephone talking to their grocery men. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/16 "2005-12-02T18:48:34Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > There is a town outside of the Twin Cities named Menomonie. I have to say “doo doooo da doo doo” when I hear the name, and I suspect half of the Metro area does as well. Yup. With regards to the OP - question for you: Do you also get the mental picture of the pinball machine? ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/17 "2005-12-02T18:48:42Z")
Phone. Phone. Yup yup yup yup! ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/18 "2005-12-02T18:49:49Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > Do you also get the mental picture of the pinball machine? Always. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/19 "2005-12-02T19:00:29Z")
I loved those guys! My mother always send they reminded her of me… I have no idea why. I’m don’t have long yarny tentacles… I guess my eyes are somewhat googly though… ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725/20 "2005-12-02T19:05:38Z")
who can forget the hit song: Abkideffghee jeckle minoper stoovewitzes? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sesame-street-flashback-whoa/333725.md?page=2)