Sesame Street - Baker # 5

[Mr99jahi]

nice

[4444magicmike]

I Love this!! I wish this was available via youtube back in the 80's when I tripped acid!

[uofmrules1]

Who's the lady BTW?

[HUTINAK]

I like that.."Five.. whatever they are"" Impling they are not Monsters...Monsters on Sesame Sreett are NOT violent. Good call CTW

[dragondancer1814]

I'm not cleaning that up!

[hoopersghost]

Thank goodness for your uploads; those five "whatever-they-are" monsters may be violent and scary, but the oldest generation of Sesame fans was *used* to violent, scary images on TV. Shame on Sesame Workshop for censoring a classic!

[rickditka]

00:45 gangsta! monster muppets represent! BACK UP FOOL!

[MichaelBrookham]

Ah, lady. I was always told that no one has five fingers. We have four fingers and a thumb.

[MichaelBrookham]

It is possible that these are so old, these could be the very first appearances of those two monsters -- Grover and Beautiful Day.

[MichaelBrookham]

Through the entire 10 Baker segments, the kid who counts money (incidentally, it's Jim Henson's son Brian) counts $3.11 total.

[MichaelBrookham]

Did you notice the "Whatever-they-Are" on the immediate right looked like Grover?

[MsPandaRosa]

@MichaelBrookham

And the one on the very left looked like Beautiful Day, in a bad mood.

[texasghost]

When I was in the 2nd grade..we had those TV lessons that we had to watch..one of them was the Electric Company and we had to write down every word they showed on TV. However..we were not allowed to watch Sesame Street during those TV lessons because the teachers felt Sesame Street was not educational enough.

But now that I'm 45 years old..those same teachers that thought that are dead and have been turned into plant food. So there!!

[cheech41]

i wonder how this animation was done- great stuff

[mattyian1208]

i think the five "whatever they are"s are monsters.

[cmulwee001]

The little boy who shout "Five Dimes!" is Brian Henson!

[sweetlife031]

@cmulwee001

Yes :) I believe he was in all 10 baker segments. Aso...there was an album version of this on the Original Cast album...but there was no baker.

[misfit2466]

i miss old school Sesame Street

[Btrstarwolf]

Why the monsters gotta break in the black dude's house?

[MsAutobodyman]

tubernaut you are an idiot

[75cowboyzfan]

I THINK U CAN HEAR DA BAKER SAY SHIT ON DA WAY DOWN ON THIS ONE ! LOL .

[alwayscocacola80]

I think Grover was in the clip!

[ggnub100]

1:18 is hilarious.

[rlbluver]

back then the monsters sequence was for kids but today it seems like Grand Theft Auto

[captamerica1967]

You didnt actually see him falling down stairs. Clever camera work that.

[LiteracyLabyrinth]

Theres an edited version of this when it was repeated , the monsters were cut because it was deemed too violent! thx for uncut version

[HoustonRules]

@LiteracyLabyrinth Don't you find it ironic that in all the other baker number clips, there are FIVE groups of things before the baker falls, but in the edited version of baker #5, that leaves only FOUR groups of things. Thus the only segment without five groups of things (before the baker's pratfall) is the edited #5! LOL!

[LiteracyLabyrinth]

@HoustonRules Thats true and its due to that cut clip of course. i wonder if anyone else noticed that.

[kickchick1974]

"Five Fancy Fruitcakes" if you listen carefully, it's Kermit the Frog!!! RIP Jim Henson.

[stevenscottoddballz]

A little HELP with the AUDIO, please?

WHAT kind of cakes were the baker holding?

[mimsy1]

5 Fancy Fruitcakes

[stevenscottoddballz]

Thank you VERY much! I am hard-of-hearing, so EVERY bit of help people will give me is VERY much appreciated! Thanks again!

[kingoftickets]

Wow, good call 75chris6 - didn't realize Grover rolled with thugz before he got bigtime - he's kinda like biggie

[75chris6]

Monsters: 1# Beautiful Day Monster 2# Snork 3#Flute-Snatcher 4# Thudge 5# Grover (not named at the time)

[DragonLord1975]

Thudge was Telly's prototype just like Fuzzface was Grover's.

[MuzikJunkyAES]

That part with the monsters was cut probably because they're owned by the Walt Disney Company. Peace.

[Yakovlievich]

That baker makes me think of Manuel from Fawlty Towers.

[superAJ71]

On someone else's upload of this, the monsters' break-in was cut out completely. I do remember seeing it when I was growing up, so did Sesame cut it out some time in the 80's?

[mstatz]

I recorded this in 1986, so it must have been after that. Some wimpy yuppie decided it must be too violent for kids.

[Pocockable]

@mstatz

I wonder if parents would complain about that to Sesame Workshop if those baker films aired on Sesame Street today?

[CapHusky]

Those "Whatevertheyares" creeped me out everytime this segment came on, but, I loved it! I loved all of the weird and spooky stuff that used to be on Sesame Street. The creators of the show seem to have forgotten that kids LIKE that stuff.

[CapHusky]

Speaking of scary Sesame Street bits, does anyone besides me remember an animated counting segment from the 70's (I think it was the number 10) that had these giant monsters doing things like trampling trees and drinking lakes? At the end, they all pile into this spooky house in the distantance. Then all of these arms and legs start hanging out and the house runs to the camera with a pair of creepy eyes in the windows.

[donsarahbanks]

Those...those monsters..are truly horrifying. Do you hear the sounds they're making?

[MarioZone69]

This song is on the Sesame Street Book and Record, but...

1 - There are 3 groups of 5 objects instead of five

2 - The objects are 5 horns, 5 dogs and 5 coconuts.

3 - There is no baker falling down the stairs.

[StefanoFan27]

I still hope that someone should yell, "WATCH OUT!!!!" to the baker whenever he starts to go down the stairs.

[Murdog83]

Ever since you've been posting this message on all the videos I've actually found myself yelling "WATCH OUT!!!" Thank a lot. Ha!

[Koontakinte]

The baker = DERP DE DERP !!!!

[StefanoFan27]

lol, omg, that baker is so funny, I hope someone should yell, "WATCH OUT!" to the baker whenever he starts to go down the stairs.

[snootzie78]

I'm surprised that guy didn't get hurt from the breaking glass in the window.

[TimmyGal]

I always felt sorry for that baker as a child!! He never did get his treats down the stairs!! LOL!

Seriously though, I hope that guy got paid good to fall in every skit in this series!! How many of those could he possibly take??

[StefanoFan27]

well maybe he should learn to watch his step.

[HoustonRules]

@TimmyGal Apparently ten.

[goback3spaces]

The monsters breaking the glass is hardcore. It's like something Brecht would've done.

[ProfessorIgor]

yes !! it;s the Beautiful Day Monster @ :49 the far left monster.

[ur2sensitive]

...and looks like grover on the right (only more sinister!)

[Pam4Rob]

oops I meant 5 whatever they are..LOL

[Pam4Rob]

LOL@ 0:48 " four whatever they are"

[rickditka]

the monsters are straight gangsta as they bust my brother"s window

[bainsey89]

There are six fruitcakes, if you count the baker.

[bigboy0519]

@bainsey89 L O L...that is an extremely funny comment!!!

[cjk247]

@bainsey89 yeah you think by the 3rd fall he would have watched his step

[grade21]

Five lawyers giving baker five business cards!

[uruseiranma]

This took me back as soon as I saw the 'five fingers' skit. Just the fingers being numbered on their tips.

[godcharon]

next to the baker

i think my favorite was the creep who kept all the tiny animals hidden in compartments in his house

[lovavista123]

1- 2-3-4-5 Pink floyd members

[treadley]

I think the next thing the baker says is, "Five slipped discs!"

[conradragzoff]

"Five Diiiimes!"

[shyphyre]

Is it just me, or does the black guy look like a youn Samuel L. Jackson?

[cne08]

And that's the song of 5.

[archhunter4]

that black dude gets robbed

[ozmamichael]

can you do windows movie maker with film age old with the number songs

[Zippykhan]

Five Frawgs!

[dewgoddess24]

Prototype Grover!! Quite a difference from the fuzzy and blue (and cute too) version we all know today.

Falling Baker FTW!

[zenonwheels]

I think it was Frank Oz.

[kevnar]

I saw five fancy fruitcakes walking down the street the other day.

[mrmoore1970]

LOL!

[uofmrules1]

I was just going to ask that.

[vivaladiva2001]

*lqtm* you're wicked, kevnar! :)

[conradragzoff]

This was my favorite of all the number songs... not sure why..... Love that these are all re-posted!

[jjohn2k]

to quote my mom from 1974

"That's terrible"!!

[blackwhimsy]

Poor Jim Henson.

I bet he was sore after doing that 10 times.

And that doesn't include outtakes.:-)

[DreamDancer82]

The baker isn't Jim. Jim just does the VO.

[jdenicol]

I believe that was Carroll Finney (aka "Big Bird").  This one was my favorite. Probably because I was 5 years old when I saw it...

[cne08]

The lady who says five fingers is wrong. It's four fingers and a thumb. She should be in the #4 baker skit.

[michaelmoval]

FIVE FANCY FRUITCAKES...whoop! LOL

[godcharon]

holy crap

early grover was scary

[38yofrmut]

I'm sure I saw this segment along w/2-4 & 6-10 as a child in the 70's but I dont rem. I rarely watched SS during the 80's. I did watch season 16('84-'85) & summer reruns of season 12('80-'81)faithfully & saw each of the other segments but nvr saw 5 during each of those seasons. I didnt know there was a Baker #5 until I 1st discovered You Tube.

[DragonLord1975]

"5 Fancy Fruitcakes" and 1 fruitcake carrying them all.

[TerribleRedAngel]

lol, muppet hate crimes!

[ReevaInari]

The monster that busts the window is the Flute Snatcher, predecessor to Snake Frackle and Dark Green Hunchbacked Frackle.

[olaspjet99]

talk about memories. luv'd n learnt alot from sesame street. Watched the baker fall so many times, i wondered when he would ever make it down the stairs and not hurt himself, i felt sorry for him hahaha. thanks for uploading, i want to show my kids these too ^^!

[d72jjpilc]

I'm just curious, does anyone know where and when the Baker episode featuring #1 will be posted? I think I just remember seeing it (quite coincidentally) 'one' time, when I was about four or five years old (c. mid-1970's). I do remember vaguely two things - a cow as the animal behind the '?' door, and the baker holding (and falling down with) a wedding cake. Am I right? Are a cow and wedding cake featured in the extremely rare Baker episode featuring #1? Thanks in advance.

[Tubernaut]

You are correct in that the animal was one cow and that the baker fell down the stairs while attempting to carry a large wedding cake.

[kll510]

I vaguely remember this one, but they must not have shown it much. Why would that show monsters breaking a window of a house? That would be scary for little kids. Maybe that's why they didn't show it often.

[CDCB]

That would probably go with the pilot episode, as well, because in it, it shows a man walking straight through a glass door. Although it is a great guess, I was thinking it would teach kids to immitate it.

[d72jjpilc]

I remember this one, too, but at first I thought it was the crocodiles on the #3 episode who did the breaking of the window. Ween I saw #3 the other day, they (crocodiles)were hiding behind a '?' door. And, no, I did not become a vandal because of watching this episode:)

[CDCB]

SHATTER!

"Five...whatever they are!" LOL

[CDCB]

I know this isn't really the best place to ask it, but what year did Jim Henson die in?

[zhelder]

He died on May 16, 1990. The same day as Sammy Davis Jr. It doesn't seem like it's been that long!

[vrikey]

(con't from comment below)

Billy Monster took things a little toooo seriously, he was a little too dull, his character just lacked lustre - probably why they introduced Grover, who was more spirited, carefree and likable. I don't think Billy was ever seen again after Grover showed up!

[vrikey]

The muppet was Billy Monster, and he predated Grover - he even made guest spots on variety shows with other SS muppets.

Billy's most memorable skit was explaining "near and far" - he'd run far back in the background, turn around and yell "This is FAR!", then run back and stick his nose right into the camera lens: "This is NEAR" - he'd repeat it about four times then fall over exhausted.

[Tubernaut]

There was a special on PBS called Henson's place which showed footage from Ed Sullivan circa 1970. Kermit was singing "What kind of fool am I and is interrupted by Billy(Grover?) playing the banjo. The skit was in black and white.

[djdavemick]

The recording of the "5" song on the Sesame Street Original Cast soundtrack (Columbia, 1970) doesn't do a FRACTION of justice to the original--there wasn't even the baker on that version!

[Sparkina]

This was a classic! Those monsters weren't scary to me when I was little, just plain old adorable, esp the shark-looking one who breaks the window, and Grover's forefather. And I loved the guy who mentioned the frogs sounding cheesed off for no earthly reason. And I laughed when the chef fell on his tush with his trayload of pastry. And no, I never wanted to break windows from watching that. Some folks need to lighten up!

[DJLaurieB]

Oh wow thank you so much for putting these on here - I remember as a kid I used to get so excited wondering which number they were going to stop on! And the baker is just classic!

[Tubernaut]

Teaching children it's alright to embrace vandalism with one of the whatever they ares breaking a window? PBS, what were you thinking?

[mstatz]

I saw this many many times when I was a kid in the early to mid 70s and it never gave me a desire to break people's windows. You shouldn't insult the intelligence of kids like that.

[Tubernaut]

Unfortunately, some children are more impressionable then others.

[Tubernaut]

Grover was one of the whatever they ares. He is in the lower right.

[DragonLord1975]

Actually, that was Fuzzface. He soon later became Grover.

[CDCB]

Actually, that was a nickname Kermit gave him. He had no name until season 2

[Tubernaut]

The Muppet with no name, eh?

[CDCB]

That same thing happened with Cookie Monster, except I don't quite know when he got a name.

[dlikuski]

I wouldn't mind seeing "whatever he is" break the window in slow-mo!  Utube needs a control for such!

[MVillani1985]

You mean YouTube. Utube is something entirely different.

[dlikuski]

Thanks, MV--I meant YouTube, sorry.

[jadekoolkat]

The one scene has Proto-Grover in it.

[tvrottedmybrain]

Did she say 5 f'ing fingers?

[mattmo1]

Wasn't that Flip Wilson introducing the monsters in the window?

[mstatz]

It looks a little like him but I don't think it is.

[KPCarter2000]

That was definitely not Flip Wilson although I Did appear as a guest segment on Sesame Street I think 3 times.

[boosterdragon]

I forgot all about these! They made numbers sound so exiting! That Baker I think is ten times more funny then when I saw him as a kid. Man, teaching kids schaudenfraude!

[DragonLord1975]

Check the monster marked "5" in this one. That's Fuzzface, Gorver's predecessor.

[HeAvEnLyStAyFLy]

is it just me or is the "five frogs" guy Exitdor from Mork and Mindy?

[MGHSHour2]

this game rocked

[tamalli]

I like the ?-door guy... "FIVE FRAAGS!"

[angelgirl7473]

Them Ice Cream Soda's Looked Pretty good!

[easynorth]

5 whatever they are, what a trip.

[QBCNetwork]

5 fancy fruitcakes! Don't let the baker visit Corsicana, Texas (home of the famous fruitcakes).

[hagiadzo]

Parents complained about the baker falling down? I think that monsters busting out a glass window would be much more disturbing than the baker's comedic tumble!

[Brinah]

you know? that bothered me when i was a child; it still does and i'm an adult!

[hagiadzo]

It's strange how we almost expect to be bothered by silly things that frightened us as kids. Chances are, we probably wouldn't be scared seeing it for the first time as an adult. When I first saw the clip of the monsters at the window, it struck me as very odd, especially because it was on Sesame Street. Either a kid is going to have nightmares about monsters busting out his bedroom window or they will try to bust out the window themselves out of curiosity. It's a no-win situation!

[StaceSesame]

yeah that part with the monsters was really scary to me as a kid! The part with the guy saying "5... whatever they are!" was funny. :D

[loveutoto]

The kid who talked about the ice-cream sodas sounded shocked, as if he was saying, "How do you expect me to drink all five?"

[cocobliss30]

When I first saw this baker series when I was little, I only remember seeing #10! Some I barely remember seeing, and some I don't remember at all! But I know one thing: That baker was in a world of hurt falling down those stairs that many times! lol

[hucklebun]

The part where the monster breaks the glass used to scare me (a bit), but the humor in the man saying, "...whatever they are!" saved it for me.

[justmetay]

ha, me too

[KPCarter2000]

yeah me 3

[KazuyaPrower]

We also need the uncut version of 10 that has the 10 indians instead of the 10 bells.

[CDCB]

I have seen that one!

[StaceSesame]

i recognize early Grover and Beautiful Day Monster but who were those other three monsters?

[jonnytbird4789]

The other two monsters were from The Ed Sullivan Show Christmas episode with Arthur Godfrey. You can find that on Ed Sullivan's Muppets Magic DVD. And the monster with the beak can be found in the monsters saying A clip.

[MGHSHour2]

ok; hope we can get 1, 2, 8 and 9 up soon; we need a new baker skiyt for 2

[MGHSHour2]

are you sure thewre was one for 11 with 11 boston cream pies?

[videoguy100]

No, there is no baker sketch for 11. Only 1-10. And just to let you know, the sketch of 1 wasn't made until the 1980s because Sesame Street didn't sponsor that number yet.

[ISNorden]

I actually saw the "Baker #1" sketch in the early 70s, although learning that the "sponsor" number that day was *2* confused me badly. Jim Henson must've decided to allow the #1 sketch for completeness' sake; only one other clip, a Harvey Kneeslapper skit, specifically taught the number 1 back then. (It's ironic that the *whole* series of Baker clips was being phased out by the mid-80s because parents complained about the endings!)

[MGHSHour2]

we need a new baker segment 2, and a 1, 8, 9 and 11 if there was one) and 12 if there was one

[ISNorden]

The skits go only as far as 10; otherwise, the opening count-up would have gone further. Sorry to disappoint you there!

[Dane2]

Was that Brian Henson with the piggybank?

[Crackrzz]

Yep. I think he's in all of the ones that have a piggy bank with coinage... or is that all of them??

[Tubernaut]

Brian Henson is also served three peas in appropriately enough, #3.

[MGHSHour2]

and we need more sesame street ringmaster skits

[culpit]

I was wondering the reason they don't show this skit anymore was because one of the monsters broke a glass wall?

[StaceSesame]

i don't know, i liked that part though. :(

[MGHSHour2]

post them up; then all we need now is the sesame street baker skit 1

[Madamow]

also, 5 - Whatever they are, rofl

[Madamow]

oh, one more wish I forgot, the m film with the guy holding masks

[Madamow]

The world awaits 8 and 9.

[mstatz]

I have 8 & 9! Does anyone out there want me to post them?

[MGHSHour2]

Please Do

[thekingof8]

Yes Please!!!

[MGHSHour2]

Please Do It

[gutchman84]

yes please!

[MGHSHour2]

goody! all we need is 1, 8 and 9

[sweetrolls]

5 muppet monsters?

[nantosuichoken]

Beautiful Day Monster, Fuzzyface Grover and a bunch of the scary first season monsters went on a home invasion spree!

[PiLfan]

Interesting...this must have been one of the very rare occurences where the original green Grover protoype was shown outside of the first season (since they ran these baker clips to about 1988 or so)...he's one of the "whatever they are!" breaking through the window at the 50+ second mark.

[ISNorden]

The falling baker and the zooming-at-you numbers scared me when I was a girl, but this is still a classic that CTW/Sesame Workshop should not have thrown out. Five stars (of course): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!

[DiAnno13]

6 fruitcakes