I can remember a Sesame Street skit from when I was younger, (Or was it the Electric Company? Zoom, maybe?) In it, I saw stop-motion, or maybe time lapse photography of pictures of satellites, stars, planets, and maybe machinery, (marbles dropping through tubes?) while the most hypnotic song played in the background. I am quite tone-deaf (Damn you, step-on-the-musical-square puzzles in Console RPG games), but I think the music went kind of “Bumpity bump bump bump, bumpity bump bump, and repeat.
Did it also have numbers in it? Sort of like a pinball machine at times?
I don’t think so, but it has been years. What are you thinking of? Come to think of it, numbers, in what format?
I used to love an animation that played that had numbers, it was counting up to 11? I think, it had a space theme, and sort of a contraption like the ones you see in Tom and Jerry cartoons (forget it’s proper name) with a ball rolling through several scenarios, the “camera” follows the ball past various numbers, at one point it shows a pinball machine in it, but I can’t really recall anything else about it. I want to say it played on Sesame Street, but I’m not certain.
You know, I think that was it, except that it was live action, not animated.
Maybe you’re thinking of an homage to what I rememebered then?
Did it go, “ONE twothree FOUR FIVE sixseveneight NINE TEN eleven twelve”?
Here’s a link to a remix of the song I’m thinking of, with a video made from the original footage from the show.
That was a nice video, but like I said, it was live action, and also, there was no vocals. Thanks anyway. It sounds like what Zabali_Clawbane is looking for, though.
I wonder if a pinball manufacturer has thought of designing an actual machine based on that short.
As for the “Seseme Street” short you’re thinking of, did it feature a red ball on a track going through a type of Rube Goldberg-contraption while demonstrating the number 3? From what you’ve described, that does seem a bit like it.
This sounds like one of those things they used Philip Glass music for. It’s vaaaguely familiar.
jayjay, I’m dying a thousand deaths over that video. Thank you so much. While you’re at it, do you remember the skit that had the alphabet, with really soft music and ethereal voices, and letters that got morphed into each other by turning into little animals that would change position and turn back into a letter? About midway through the rhythm was broken up by two mice doing a little country dance step.
Okay, I know exactly what you’re talking about, so you didn’t imagine it. I can just see that satellite spinning around…now it’s going to bother me, too.
I remember that! The only thing I specifically remember about it was that the “S” was a snake, and maybe that the “K” was an acrobat (or two), though.
Hmm…this isn’t the one that had the montage that included some footage of a Voyager (maybe Pioneer 10) probe, and a few shots of an anamatronic endoskelleton that had a pair of fake teeth (with gums—not unlike dentures) in it’s “mouth”?
And did the music sound a little like the “I’ve got no strings” song from Disney’s Pinochio, played on a muted trumpet?
Yep, yep, yep - I remember this. Comedy Central’s recently been doing a riff on this little skit with some South Park commercials (not sure if they’re still airing, however; that commercial might be over now). It’s a red ball, bout an inch or so in diameter, that rolls along a metal track. As it rolls along, it makes flags go loopy and falls through hoops and such. And doesn’t it get ground up into some candy at the end, which a kid dispenses into his/her hand and eats? I seem to remember this.
No clue about the stars and satellites, however.
I am not sure about the skeleton, but maybe.
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And did the music sound a little like the “I’ve got no strings” song from Disney’s Pinocchio, played on a muted trumpet?
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No, a little more repetitious.
Good site, but like you say, it isn’t it.
Was there a child’s voice saying the word “three” once in a while? There might have been, or it might have been another skit. I can not remember.
Snickers: That is most defiantly not it, but it sounds cool. I have looked for it on http://www.southparkstudios.com/ and on http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml to no avail. Anyone have any idea where, besides cable, I can see this commercial?
It got ground up into powder, which was dispensed into an ADULT hand. It did not get eaten.
I didn’t look at the link, but my guess is it’s the song “That’s About the Size of It.”
"Oh, the big become the little when you see it back a bit
That’s about the size of it.
That’s about the size
Where you put your eyes
That’s about the size of it."
etc.
The cartoon gave different POV’s moving out to see the earth, from space, the solar system the galaxy and then turning into lines on the skin of an elephant.