Fat Cat (1973)

[NightSprite237]

The the expression on the blue guy's face at 1:36 cracks me up every time!

[LaserParody]

I remember when this first aired... I was 6, and have never forgotten the moment - awed.

Still to this day... such a piece, performance and music!

[MultiLinda65]

I remember watching this over 40 yrs ago. To bad kids don't have any entertaining way of learning nowadays.

[NaiTaiDai]

"Sorry 'bout that." 

[SylviatheEchidna]

The orange one is on crack.

[Listersmate2]

This used to scare me when I was a kid....in a way it still does!!! It scared me so much that I'd run away from the tv screaming that they were coming to get me!!!!

[nestafan70]

He was the first rapper.

[mauramcfly]

ROISINEE!!!!!!!!!!!! love this from the crazy 1970s! how the hell are we not now potsmokers? scat, baby! glad you are back! hope you had a great trip!!!!!!!!! love you! :)

[AnukTheMaster1000]

MEMORIES! :)

[kevseb66]

PERFECTION!!!!!!

[kenseisato1989]

i was having such a shitty ass day and i watched the mahna mahna song. witch got me remembering this song.

child hood memory forever

[lightning116]

Can you say 'ringtone' everybody?

Ha. I love this song.

[derocket88]

I also don't understand why he apologizes? For being himself "Hi Y'all" is too funny. The Ted in his bed is creepy. Nobody noticed. But Jim Henson, cough cough 70's I guess just a rhyming game. We are sober in the ??00's. Whatever decade this is? Pass the Bong and this is sooooo much funnier!

[derocket88]

My question is why do puppets that have no eyes nor sunlight require sunglasses?

[Randomvids101100]

I like the hebrew version better.

[thenolansrocktonight]

i love this xxx

[murielsartre]

"Fled up to Ted and his bed", huh? Well, obviously Fred didn't want want to be wed.

Not to a lady, anyway. :D

[kevseb66]

Thank God for these vintage Sesame Street clips. I hate how S.S. has changed so much. Of course they aren't intrested in the opinion of the 40 something demographic.

[dragondancer1814]

@kevseb66 Never mind the fact that some of us actually want the same kind of quality programming for our kids that we enjoyed when WE were kids!

[evilhistoryteacher]

After all these years, I finally realized that Bip is wearing a bathroom floor mat.

[spugintrntl]

Heh... that was awesome.

[foxyroxytm]

Sesame Street was so cool back then.

[hawkeye2k5]

Blue Puppet Face At 1:37 lol

Classic 

[TonyChase]

The crazy dude has a better flow than alot of the rap dudes out there now! This is great stuff! Brings back good memories!

[Docmananoff]

@TonyChase LOL!!!!!! True!

[BipBippadotta]

This is a way better clip than mine. Nice quality. Yes Super Mario nicked this song. Both Bip and Mahna need to lay off the pipe and stop beating up camera men. That stuff went out with the late 80's when Sean Penn was doing that stuff. Funny how Bip and Mahna Mahna have never met. But we all know the history on that issue anyway. Knowing this came out the year I was born makes me feel very old.

[ididcramsmom]

I always thought that Animal needed to lay off the pipe, but it looks like his orange cousin has him beat!! This dude needs to see Dr. Drew!... and he may want to take that pastel purple alien with him...

[northernstar4]

Don't we all have a friend like that?

[hentaiseeker]

0:32

oh, yeah.

Never stops amusing me hearing bb quip that like he just finished a weed session.

[surfbudha]

awesome

[Tonytambe]

this looks CREEPY

[FBBFANatik3]

This video has made my day...

I remember this.

[dasbraunehaus]

are you nuts???

[frizzydong]

ahhhhh songs from my childhood! hahahah

[timsperts]

that guy is so high!

[TheseBonesLiquify]

lolol

[breakfastclub75]

wonderful :)

[branfransisco9]

wow that was good

[OmHaver]

tremendous, hahhahahahaha, this was truly humor and music!

[bluedevildude2]

Performers in this sketch:

Bip Bippadotta, Lavender Fat Cat Scat Singer - Jim Henson

Green Fat Cat Scat Singer - Jerry Nelson

Fat Blue Fat Cat Scat Singer - Frank Oz

[warahoun]

Bip Bipadotta?? I didn't even know he had a name!!

[skullyxan]

man av totally wet my pants& split a gasket with laughter

[here2werk4u]

My favorite muppets clip of all time!

[skingerskanger]

I've always pictured Aerosmith doing a cover of this song and Steven Tyler portraying the roll of the long-haired muppet lol!

[happycat00]

my favourite's the blue one :)

[puccaandgaru1]

very funny ^^

[dmxxi]

they kill me on how they zoom all over the place. wish i can move that damn fast.

[RexNunc]

Wow so long ago yet like yesterday

[MiltownPunkette21]

Oh yeah! Love this! :-D

[marshana]

this is great :D

[solidsnakeds]

WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD THIS

[LeftSock06]

I love the nonconformist. We need more people like him in our world today.

[LeftSock06]

I wonder how many people get the punchline at the very end.

[santakwaz]

I only now got because you said that! (Except he wasn't really scatting since they were using actual words, not nonsensical syllables.)

[mooody12]

Awesome clip. The three conservatives and the radical

[BonzoGal1980]

Ah, memories! * Jim Henson as Bip Bippadotta & Lavender Singer

 * Frank Oz as Fat Blue Singer * Jerry Nelson as Green Singer

[Akira625]

I think Richard Hunt did the lavender Muppet.

[BonzoGal1980]

According to MuppetWiki, it's Jim Henson.

Plus the lavender muppet doesn't sound like Hunt.

[NDW85]

Well, maybe Richard hunt did the lavender muppet's puppeteering while Henson did Bip's puppeteering.

[Michaelknowshisshit]

THIS IS THE BEST SESAME STREET SEGMENT EVER! "...oh, yeah! o....yeah....sorry 'bout that"

LMF'nAO!!!

[Akira625]

The video quality in this version is much better than the other ones I've seen on YouTube. Well done.

[JermaineATL]

thats why i faved it....

[MySs724]

Lil Jon &nd the eastside boys?

[jordinyc]

See a redhead being fed bread on his sled made of lead as he sped to be wed but he FLED INSTEAD on ahead to ted and his bed ...

22 years later "In and Out" is directed by Frank Oz. ^_^

[UYCONNOR]

this is just like manha manha!!

[paulieb4444]

Jesus Joseph and Mary - I'm crying here!!!! Hysterical!!! How could I have forgotten this?!?!?!?

[TotemSaint]

I've been wanting to see this clip again for 20 years! Thanks so much for posting. The timing, use of color and sound is timeless. Jim Henson was a genius!

[moonfire41]

I'd love to see Tech9 do this, lol!

[divinedougla]

i love this clip its the best

[HolyWater4prez2008]

This is the invention of early rap.

[Bierhirn]

Also noch so 'n Ding und ich kotz vor Lachn'! OBERGEIL!!!

[fishpunk06]

Wow, watching these clips again for the first time after about 18 years makes me realise how much this show influenced me and my little brother. Aah, the nostalgia... :-)

[PuffyTopianMan]

Has anyone noticed that part of the "Super Mario Bros." theme is played in this song? It's at 0:35. I'm surprised that the Jim Henson company hasn't sued Nintendo about this since the game was first released...

[stuartsa]

Actually, the clip is not exactly the same, and the notes that are different are important enough so as not to make Koji Kondo liable for plagiarism. I doubt that this song was ever played on Japanese Sesame Street, as the humor depends in large part to its being in English. Anyway, the two are different enough that no copyright has been infringed.

[ARTSIEBECCA]

I love this so much. I cant tell you how much this show taught me when I was child. I learned to count and I was reading at a 4th grade level in kindergarten and its because I watching Sesame Street and The Electric Company as a kid. This brings back great memories.

[slvrboy14]

This was the only thing close to educational tv when I was kid. Back then educational tv wasn't considered as important as it is now. I learned alot from watching both Seseme Street and the Electric Company. It's funny how I still remember the words. My favorite as a kid was Telephone Rock.  I'm going to go look that one up now.

[ARTSIEBECCA]

I totally am having fun watching all of these clips and I'm remembering the words and songs that I haven't seen or heard since the 70's. I just hope if I ever have children I can expose them to good old fashioned learning. Its a new experience to see them as an adult and seeing the humor that I didn't get as a kid.Classic.

[zhelder]

Most "educational" TV today exists because it has to by law. The main purpose of these shows is to generate profits for corporations, not to educate kids, like it was back in the 60s - 80s.

This time was the pinnalcle of educational TV. You had Sesame Street, Electric Company, Mr. Rogers, New Zoo Revue, Great Space Coaster, Fraggle Rock, Hot Fudge Show, Captain Kangaroo, Magic Garden, and the list goes on. These shows educated and entertained, and they all did so brilliantly in their own way.

[ARTSIEBECCA]

RIGHT ON!

[zhelder]

More educational shows from this time period:

Zoom, Villa Allegre, Carrascolendas, Big Blue Marble, Vegetable Soup, 3-2-1 Contact, Mulligan Stew, SquareOne TV, Patchwork Family, Schoolhouse Rock, The Most Important Person, Romper Room, and Joya's Fun House.

There was far more quality educational television in the past than today. Sometime in the latter half of the 80s, we all got greedy and decided to put the almighty dollar first. And educational TV suffered greatly because of this.

[icebox766]

Uh, most "educational" TV existed in the 60s through 80s because it had to by law.

The same charges you level at current educational TV were made at that time. Were you there? Captain Kangaroo was commercial TV, which means it too was primarily about making profits for its sponsors. Things were no better then than now.

[tantomdoora]

Great!

[NDW85]

I know that in this clip, Bip is voiced by Jim Henson since he has a Guy Smiley/Dr. Teeth voice. The Blue guy is voiced by Frank oz since he sounds like a mix between Fozzie Bear and Sam the Eagle. The Green Guy is voiced by Jerry Nelson since he sounds like Robin. However, I did not know that Henson voiced the purple/lavender dude. I always thought it could have been either Steve Whitmire or Richard Hunt.

[zhelder]

It's definitely Jim voicing the lavendar dude. My question is who's doing the lavendar dude's puppeteering? Jim is DEFINITELY puppeteering Bip, because no one but Jim could do a performance as manic as that? Steve Whitmire didn't join the Muppet until 1978, so he's out. My guess? Richard is doing the puppeteering. He was still a "junior member" at this point, and didn't have any established characters yet.

[edijkelly]

I admire the subtle gay themes - the red head being fed bread on a sled made of lead as he sped to be wed, but he fled (obviously not being able to face the fallacy of a heterosexual union) instead to head up to Ted in his bed (where he could be truly happy, we can only imagine).

Not to mention the fact that the small ball, after falling in the hall from the tall wall, calls, "Hey, y'all"

[JDBW]

............Okay......O.o

[jordinyc]

OMG WOW! I had to replay that part after reading this. "... as he sped to be wed but he fled instead to head up to Ted in his bed .." XD AWESOME!!

[g0recki]

mario music nicked this?

[Homie0static]

Yep you noticed it too I see.

[sPiKeCuNaNaN]

best quality I've seen on YouTube!

[LanaHensley]

I see so many responses on the classic Sesame Street stuff from people who watched it growing up and love these clips. I think if I were rich I would create an amusement park called "70's World". Just imagine...everyone in polyester and bell bottoms, music that is melodic and cool, moms with beehive hairdoos and dads with horned rim glasses, record players, Shake-a-Pudding, pink tennis shoe erasers, and of course, lots of Sesame Street muppets! :)

[Lovebyte69]

I would be there!

Don't forget in the restaurants to have microwave dinners and a lot of meatloaf!

[sPiKeCuNaNaN]

That would kick ass! Count me there too!

[murielsartre]

Daaaamn, what a gorgeous transfer. I'll be getting the DVD for this old stuff, sho 'nuff! But for 1:53 on YouTube, it's 1974 for me again. Thank you.

[coldwatersupertramp]

old school sesame street is on dvd? i may have to change my pants.

[radiodave1]

Is it just me, or does this early "Animal Look-a-like" look like a cross between Animal and Ernie! LOL

[edstuntze]

omg...they said head

[wattamack4]

I think you missed a little bit of the ending.

[coolcatyaya]

what the heck

[coolcatyaya]

omg what the heck

[coolcatyaya]

omg lol

[benjy1975]

This is the best quality version on youtube so far.

Just turn your speakers up!

Pure genius.

What happened to the world i grew up in?

[rpatersoncomposer]

This one's good, but I wish the sounds was louder!

[SanderQtems]

you can turn your music on :P

[AngeleeJames]

OMFG

[ChiquitaBanaan]

TU TUU DU DU DU

[SanderQtems]

MAHNA MAHNA