Sesame Street - Mad Painter # 10

[JBWiz]

When I was a kid, I tried this on an identical stool in my father art room. I also sat on it to see if the number 10 transfered to my pants. didn't work the way it did on TV.

Lesson learned, you can't trust what you see on the screen.

[MaxxFordham]

Haha, I remember these a bit! Nice to see them again!

3 glaring untechnicalities in this, though:

1. The 10 on the stool is *completely* removed just by the guy sitting on it. But if we're going to be consistent with the "9" segment (where the 9 is partly washed from the road), then it wouldn't have been.

2. It's way too sharp on the guy's butt when he stands up! Those digits almost look like pieces of paper stuck on.

3. (Cont.)

[MaxxFordham]

3. They just taught kids wrong about imprinting--it looks like they subtly tried to make it look like the print would work out right (the guy turns the stool around), but it still didn't. It was supposed to have come up *upside-down* on the other guy's butt, but didn't! That was dumb.

[MaxxFordham]

The painter should have just used a straight-line 1 instead this half-arrow type.

[masonben2011]

I know what that guy's favorite song is called: "wet paint".

[TanzDerSchatten]

Wow, I'd forgotten all about segments like this! I typed in "vintage sesame street" to show my two year old something that wasn't Elmo, and suddenly all these memories started coming back. I'm 37 and I can't believe it's been so long since I saw this stuff. I just flashed on being five years old again.

[wambam99999]

Shhh...don't tell the kiddies it would appear as the number 01 on his tushie...

[MaxxFordham]

@wambam99999

Okay, I won't. That's because it wouldn't! Watch how the painter places the stool! it would be up-side down!

The painter should have just used a straight-line 1 instead this half-arrow type.

[Gyrofrog]

The guy in the coveralls reminds me of a younger Uncle Leo

[dslgunner1977]

The Mad Painter was one of my favorites! I actually got in trouble trying to imitate him when I was about 3 (back in 1980).

I was "helping" my dad paint the garage door (you know how kids love to do grown-up stuff) and there was a small wooden fence next to the garage. Well, I got the bright idea to paint a "10" on the fence, but I only got to do the "1" before my dad was like: "WTF are you doing?!" I guess that's what he gets for trusting a 3-year-old with a paint brush!

My dad was awesome.

[Pocockable]

@dslgunner1977

If those Mad Painter sketches aired on Sesame Street today, Sesame Workshop would probably get lots of irate letters from parents complaining that their kids were trying to imitate him.

[dslgunner1977]

@Pocockable Hahahaha...I totally agree!

Heck, the time I tried to immitate the "Mad Painter" was probably the very first time in life I got in trouble! lol. How was I supposed to know my dad would not be fond of having a random number painted on his wooden fence! lol

[MaxxFordham]

@Pocockable

Haha, yeah, painting numbers on counters, couches, chairs, floors, the fridge, dad's bald head, sandwiches, doors, the cars, etc!

[Drchainsaw77]

This bald guy must be unionized. Here, he's clearly more concerned with his break than anything; in the #11 clip, he wipes away the number without thinking at all; and in the #8 clip, he's got a swimming pool the size of my house!

[rosefnjt]

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[MsAutobodyman]

these are classics

[ArxVirtus]

1:02 - Who puts salt on a banana??

[afriendofbean]

I agree. Putting salt on a banana doesn't taste that good. (After I saw this skit, I put a teeny tiny drop of salt on a banana just to see what it would taste like, and it didn't taste that good even with a teeny tiny drop). However, I might be wrong but, maybe that wasn't salt that the guy put on his banana. Maybe it was some sugar inside the container since some people put sugar inside salt and pepper containers. So I guess maybe he put sugar to sweeten his banana. (That's my guess).

[dslgunner1977]

@afriendofbean I hope that is what he did...salt on a banana sounds disguting!

[afriendofbean]

Yes that's true. Since bananas are sweet tasting fruits, it will be gross to put salt on a banana. I remember when I put a teeny tiny drop of salt on a banana, it didn't taste that good and it was making me thirsty a lot. I guess that guy who put salt on his banana probably has taste buds that love salt and bananas mixed together.

[kaboompoop]

Salt on a banana.....wtf?

[Pocockable]

@kaboompoop

Some people like salt on watermelon.

[kaboompoop]

@Pocockable

Yeah...but....it was a banana not a watermelon...

[MaxxFordham]

@kaboompoop

But still, some people like salt on their watermelon!

I agree about salt on bananas too. Just a little(!)--but it helps an otherwise rather bland piece of fruit have a decent bit of taste to it.

[planetdarwin]

It used to be really frustrating for me as a kid when these sorts of things would happen... the way the "10" transfers to his butt in a geometrically impossible way (with the tail of the 1), or simply the fact that when he holds up the stool it doesn't look the same as when he painted it. It used to drive me mad. It's in almost all of the Mad Painter series. For example, when he paints "4" on the umbrella it suddenly goes from a paint-y looking 4 to a perfectly sharp-cornered 4. ARGH!!!

[planetdarwin]

Also, see the one where he paints an "8" on the guy's bald head. Then the bald guy swipes it with his hand sideways, but it appears on his hand at 90 degrees of how it should have. That drove me nuts.

[afriendofbean]

I can see a little bit a difference with the "10." I noticed when he held up the stool, the "10" looked a little bigger than when he painted it.

[latex123456]

@planetdarwin  Its called 'artistic license'

[planetdarwin]

@latex123456

you don't have to be condescending.... my comments were nostalgic and affectionate. which side of the bed you wake up on?

[whitney1966]

I remember watching this when I was little & I used to think who the heck puts salt on a banana? To this day I still don't know anyone... thanks for posting - these are a riot to watch =;o)))

[cudaboy1971]

the voice over is the same as the actor. it is the late paul benedict, aka bentley from 'the jeffersons' among many other roles.

[soilsminor]

I noticed that the Mad Painter turned the stool before "Mac" sat on it. If the Mad Painter painted a 10, turning it would also make a 10 if it was a simple one.

[1977JAGuar]

The only problem with that is that the "1" had a tail on it.... if the "1" had have just been a straight line, it would have worked.

[dslgunner1977]

@1977JAGuar That always bothered the heck out of me! LOL

[smjjohnson]

That guy who's really bald is lucky that the painter dude didn't use super glue instead because it would have ripped off his drawers when he stood up and he would have then mooned the audience, mostly made up of 8 and 9 year-olds and that wouldn't be kosher. Who eats their bananas with salt anyway?

[LarcenTyler]

I don't. But I remember the time a friend of mine put barbecue sauce on his banana!

[freakystyley73]

who was the voice-over artist for these segments?

he had a great voice, kind of Vincent Price-ish without the chilly evilness! :)

[JAG8176]

oh man memories.

[skins2717]

"Mac" puts salt on his banana at 1:04. Thanks for posting these shorts. I loved Paul Benedict as "The Mad Painter" when I was a little kid.

RIP Paul Benedict. You will be missed!

[flowertrue]

oh, I had forgotten all about these! Maybe they were some of my first inspirations toward becomina an artist! Yes, the 10 should be reversed, but why quibble? Its funny this way! TY Mstatz

[smjjohnson]

Wouldn't that 10 have read "01" on his butt?

I would have kicked his ass if I was that black man.

[trppey66]

RIP MadPainter-Mr Bentley-Paul Benedict. This is where it all started for him.

[joelyandtheboys]

WOW! The flood of memories that come back watching that segment!!

[patrickgamil]

10 out of 10.

classique

[patrickballoonman]

I've always liked the theme music heard here. This clip probably has the most improvised version of it.

[SidJustice1]

Yeah, I've always loved the music, as well. Good melody.

[pedestal007]

*thumbs up* isn't that dude from the Jefferson though lol?

[tmrphl10]

We'll ask Uncle Jerome for you guys...more to follow.

[smoothie6ft3]

Anyone out there but salt on a bananna like the guy in this skit?

[afriendofbean]

When I watched this skit, I thought it didn't look good how the guy put salt on his banana. As soon as I saw him doing that, and when the skit ended, I just wanted to pour a teeny tiny drop of salt on a banana to see what it would taste like, and it gave me a small choking feeling mixing salt with a banana and it didn't taste that good but, I didn't choke that badly.

[andrewdick]

Thanks for posting these videos. I'm about the same age as you (mstatz) and grew up watching Sesame Street and Mister Rogers. These memories make me so happy. I have a 4 month old son and can't wait for him to start watching Sesame Street. I've shown him some of these clips and he stares at Kermit, Grover and Cookie Monster. These were innocent times of our lives which I loved.

Thanks for brining me some joy and taking me back to when I was young.

[mstatz]

Thanks for the letter. I'm hitting 40 this July. Time is going so fast now. It seems like last week that I was 5 and watching all these segments when they were new.

[ilovepoppedcollars]

You're so right. I don't know where the time goes?

These are great videos. Thanks for posting them!

[afriendofbean]

It is very surprising that every skit that Mac is in with the painter, he doesn't know who the painter is. Mac wears the same clothes for almost every skit, so I thought he would recogize the painter for all the graffiti he's done in the past skits. Maybe Mac doesn't remember faces or he's probably playing as a different character for every skit he's in with the painter, which could be the reason why he never says or shows anger towards the painter.

[DiAnno13]

Here the painter shows a sample of his work. A stool -- never mind.

[mstatz]

I get it! That's funny!

[MeowMonkey]

Is that the guy that played Mr.Bentley on the Jeffersons?

[mstatz]

YES!

[GoneBallistik]

He's name is Paul Benedict.

[dlikuski]

I get a kick out of his quick up/down movement when he says "ah-ha" at about 12 seconds. It looks like he's on the verge of taking a dump. Hee hee! :-)

[telewizja]

It's funny, when I was very young, I used to copy that of putting salt on a banana, since I thought it was normal after seeing the bald guy do it. The banana didn't taste so bad, but I don't do it anymore.

[Eddie62070]

Good...I wasn't the only one...lol!

[Rhypes99]

why is this guy salting a banananananana?!?!

[MGHSHour2]

it is newzurica numbers; but he painted it arial

[angelgirl7473]

looked More Like a SALT shaker than Sugar!!

[ghostchantxx]

salt on a banana that's very weird.

[StoogeAtHeart]

Why didn't the painter just wait until the guy came and thn painted the 10 on his butt? Great clip!

[RCast]

Remember how postal that guy went when the painter painted a big number 8 on the guy's big bald head? That clip is here in YouTube somewhere.

[3KNOCKS]

REMEMBER THIS ONE AND IT IS FUNNY.

[VideoFanatic02]

To this day, I still say to my younger brother "Where'd my ten go?" He just rolls his eyes up to heaven. LOL, he knows exactly what I'm talking about.

[mftheory]

Who puts sugar on a banana? I used to find this funny

[wattamack4]

Anybody got 2,5,and 6?

[tellshiar]

The only thing bizarre to me now, as it was when I was a kid, was that he was sprinkling salt to eat a banana. I tried it after seeing this one time (as a kid) and it was horrible. I was never inspired to go and paint numbers on places though, so the reasoning for pulling them due to grafitti is ridiculous a reason to stop airing them. We live in too "tense of times" to have to censor Sesame Street!

[MGHSHour2]

what about the pinball 10 and the ringmaster 10

[mstatz]

I didn't collect any of those pinall or ringmaster cartoons. I also rejected the "typewriter" cartoons. I wish I had them now but at the time I recorded all these skits, I had gotten sick of them and I didn't find them nostalgic.

[DiAnno13]

Say... shouldn't that 10 have been backwards on the seat of his coveralls?

[mstatz]

You're right. My brothers and I used to laugh about that. Also, you might notice the numbers were a lot larger when he first painted them on the stool. And why is the guy putting salt on the banana?

[DiAnno13]

Because he was out of mustard.

[1977JAGuar]

Upside down actually... look at the way the stool was when he sat on it...his left side was on the 1, and his right on the 0... which is the way it was when he got up, but the 1 would be upside down. Would've looked perfect if he had painted the 1 without a tail.

[mstatz]

You're right about the fact that the 1 and 0 were in the right place but because of the position of the tail on the 1, I would still consider it backwards too, as well as upside down.

[d72jjpilc]

Actually, I was just about to comment about the fact that the '10' on the man's deriere should be 'mirror-image,' but I noticed that you and others already commented on it. Mac's clothes were probably already painted with a '10' when he arrived on the scene. No offense, but too bad the producers didn't take this into consideration (i.e. the way the '10' would look on Mac's clothers as opposed to the way it looked on the stool).

[dadam32]

This show is for children ages 1-5 who are learning their numbers. It doesn't help to call 01 a ten. And I think if you'll notice, the painter turns the stool around during the video so that it would say 10 on Mac's clothes.

[freakystyley73]

except the 1 would then have been upside down when the painter turned around. they used a nice cheat though! LOL

[RCast]

I agree with you, 1977JAGuar.  Wouldn't the number 10 look backwards in real life when he stood up? Something is not logical here on Sesame Street.

[notvnobeermakeshomer]

The PAINTER spun the chair around when he put it back on the ground.

Thusly reversing the positions of the numbers.

Of course, there is a serif on the 1 that should have been on the bottom of the bald mans pants, but they at least tried to make it logical.

Watch when the Painter puts the chair down.

He spins it around.

[patrickballoonman]

Although, it would have made more sense to have that number reversed on Jerome Raphael's coveralls, we have to remember that Sesame St. is a kid's show, and that it doesn't teach kids to recognize letters and numbers in reverse. At least, I've never known it to.

[patrickballoonman]

By the way, Paul scratching his derby hat at the end? Nice touch.

[ISNorden]

You're a perfect 10 when it comes to cool Sesame Street clips; keep 'em coming!

[MGHSHour2]

thanks for bringing this back and bring all the number skits like this on youtube