Sesame Street: Kermit Reports News OnThe Princess & Mattress

[SuperRyan80]

awwww why wasn't the count there to count the mattresses! i dont believe that!

[RSLindsay]

What do you mean you found this "disturbing?" When I saw this as a kid, I thought it was the funniest "Sesame Street" skit ever! It was hilarious!

[sweetlife031]

Was the lackey the Count's dad? lol...this skit scared th daylights outta me as a child...Cookie Monster was ultra pocessed here.

[MIKECNW]

Wonder what was that wierd sound when the lacky was walking?

You didn't hear that when Cookie came in.

[blackolive666]

@Cuteblondie1972 I actually still find it disturbing! To this day when I see people stuffing their faces in an out-of-control frenzy I'm freaked out by them, and I'm sure this skit had something to do with it.

[blackolive666]

@Cuteblondie1972 Yes, that was it. Puppets or no, cannibalism is cannibalism and it really spooked me to see CM stop at nothing to chase Guy Smiley in an earnest attempt to eat him! Especially since Guy was supposed to be such a positive jolly fellow etc.

[blackolive666]

@Cuteblondie1972 Yeah, and the sound of the wood of the bed splitting...could easily freak out a kid getting ready for bed. This is still not as bad as Cookie Monster trying to eat Guy Smiley in that one skit, though - that was "really" freaky when I was a kid.

[blackolive666]

Yes, it's true - this skit was a total nightmare scenario. Cookie Monster sounded possessed - which was weird because he seemed more amped about eating mattresses than he ever even seemed about cookies! Obviously the writers of this skit thought it was all supposed to be very funny - the music that accompanies the destruction is supposed to be like a zany comedy take on the music played earlier when CM first appears. (Unintentionally the most frightening music Joe Raposo ever wrote.)

[MrTornado300]

MATRESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Cracked me up

[zedtransform]

Kermit can levitate.

[LordHoundoom]

There was an error in this sketch. When the Royal Lackey said "I gotta go see the court physician. I think i threw my sacroiliac out of whack." he was rubbing his head in pain.

But the sacroiliac is actually located at the near end of the lower spine.

As a person who had a spinal injury close to the sacroiliac, I would know.

[sha8808]

I love cookie monster

"dum de dum dum"

Cookie: "what frog...doing in my bedroom?"

Kermit: "Kermit the frog with sesame street news Ma'am"

Cookie: "what..ever"

[thezaylady]

Nobody could do the Princess better than Cookie Monster!

[Simplysims001]

Hahahahahaa!!!! I LOVE the cookie monster!!! "What frog doing in my bedroom??"

[Advocate7x70]

Wait, there's a Muppet nicknamed "Cookie" and the princess can tell if there's a cookie in her bed? That hardly seems appropriate for kids! :P

[oliviathefolkie]

The "Royal Lackey!" :)

[Angie2343]

Fourth wall reference when Kermit makes reference to the tight shot.

[Angie2343]

Cookie Monster's most EMBARRASSING role.

[muppetfan33]

i once saw this news flash with the black layout throughout the intro. I like this version without the black layout better.

[wileyk209zback]

@muppetfan33 I imagine they must've replaced the "NEWS FLASH" logo on the version you saw. They also did that to the Sleeping Beauty segment on the DVD version.

[rigel5]

I loved all these newsflashes and this has to be my favourite! What a great program Sesame Street was. Appealing to both adults and children alike.

[afriendofbean]

What did the lackey say from 2:53-2:57? I did hear him saying something about seeing the court physican but, I'm not sure what he said.

[KingSlifer]

He said "I gotta go see the Court Physician. I think I threw my sacroiliac out of whack." The sacroiliac is a joint connection close to the lower spine. I can relate since I had a spinal injury close to the sacroiliac.

[afriendofbean]

Thank you. Now that I listen carefully I can hear him saying that. Also, I'm sorry about your injury. I hope you didn't get too hurt.

[KingSlifer]

Well I did need surgery to have a steel rod and some screws to keep me on my feel, but I'll say this:

I'm lucky to have been 182 lbs when I had my injury. If I were 265 lbs which is what I used to weigh, I'd be paralyzed from the waist down for life.

[afriendofbean]

That's good that you didn't get too injured. Someone I know fell out of a window 20 feet high and broke his backbone. However, he was lucky that he landed on a bush. Unfortunately, he has to keep a metal bar on his back for the rest of his life and sometimes it hurts for him to bend and it's hard for him to climb a lot of stairs.

[fayavethug]

What frog...doing in my bedroom???

[YouAreHereNow]

I wonder if Miss Piggy would be on top of the matresses to find the cookie? And Kermit would be the prince?

[Lolly0830]

that's some colourful matresses

[muppetfan33]

With that beard and mustache he kind of looks like a villain from one of those melodramas.

[See918]

The lackey sounds constipated.

[NaiTaiDai]

"MATTRESS!"

[ponca49]

Question, why did the lackey fall and kermit didnt? poor lackey.

[maziebunny]

maybe Kermit's legs are a little more stretchy than the lackey's. you gotta feel for the guy when he kept falling down. ouch.

[muppetfan33]

Or maybe the lackey is just clumsy.

[brianklick]

the royal lackey, lol

[kungfujiapple]

This sketch appears on:

"Sesame Street" episode 0671 (November 11, 1974)

"Sesame Street" episode 0747 (February 25, 1975)

[darkoriole]

Aww... poor mattresses!

[HATERICHFUX]

C is for cookie....thats good enough for me..lmao

[gordonXU]

COOKIE MONSTER!?

[StevenShields29]

I love CM-in-Drag!!

[dewlulu]

ok that was unexpected cookie monster ATE the matresses? he _ _ _ them? i thought he was going after the cookie. But still HILLARIOUS!

[Bruin10145]

MAT-TRESSSS!! Owrum rum rum...LOL

[TheFabJ]

I wish I had a royal lacky.

[NaiTaiDai]

I didn't know CM had royal relatives.

[amybee40]

Sesame Stree was so much more fun when Jim Henson was alive, before it got all politically correct and "culturally relevant" and just lost its innocence in general.

[pphunkwephunk]

@amybee40

what's ironic about the changes, is that the show was MORE politically correct and culturally relevant before they attempted to force it to be so. . . .

[NadrianATRS]

speak into the microphone, lol

[afriendofbean]

Yes that was funny. (I wonder if Kermit told him to say the name of the cookie in the microphone because he was talking too quiet). This must be the only Sesame Street news report where whoever Kermit is interviewing, he tells the person to talk in the microphone.

[muppetfan33]

Not really. He also said that to the princess who was looking for a prince.

[wilek209]

Cookie Monster's such a pig! He didn't even eat all of the mattresses, he just bit into them enough to destroy them. Was he saving room for the cookie if he found it?

[CGAWLEY]

When the lacky falls the secind time, why didn't Kermit fall also? I guess frogs can defy gravity. LOL!

[afriendofbean]

Probably the reason why Kermit didn't fall along with the lacky was because, as a frog, Kermit has long strong legs for standing high and jumping but, the lacky doesn't have that.

[d72jjpilc]

'That smarts!' - I remember that line! I think I also remember the closing music which accompanies the 'Cookie Princess' eating away at the mattresses.

[hotroute]

This bit absolutely freaked me out when I was a kid - I think it was the timpani playing everytime the lackey came in and out. Still not as scary however as The Boy, the Girl and the Jellybeans. I will not stop referencing that clip until I see it again on the "tube."

[muppetfan33]

I thought that skit was scary, except for the first and last parts. The middle one was scary.

[kaddursal]

Me too. I was so offended by this skit too. When Cookie Monster ate the matresses, and with that wacky background song. The last time I saw this in the summer of 1982.

[blackolive666]

It's true - I didn't see the humor in it as a kid, I just remember thinking how disturbing and destructive the whole skit was: Cookie Monster bellowing "MATTRESS!" and flying into a gluttonous rampage with an inedible object (made even weirder by the fact that he's a "woman"), with that ominous kettle drum sounding the warning just beforehand. I even found the kettle drum "bouncing" sound made by the clumsy lackey to be some kind of ominous foreshadowing.

[finnishminnow]

On 1:21, the muppet who carried the 10th mattress fell down by accident.  I hope he was all right.

[DoctorWhoIsLife]

i think that 9 plus 1 probably equals 10

[zanzafer]

Love it when the servant goes down. I always thought either the muppets were made of glass or there was a mess on the floor. They always made so much noise when they fell.

[muppetfan33]

I especially liked the drumroll when the servant fell down the first time.

[wlbaz]

Me too. That was the best part! I also liked how the servant was counting the mattresses and was straining to count the 10th one--"up here on the tippy-top..." then CRASH! Down he goes again! :)

[muppetfan33]

Yeah. He was clumsy, all right.

[Leecogic]

Cookie monster in drag, truly classic! I still laugh at the poor guy who fell after stacking the mattresses. He hurt his sacraliliac. Hope he got insurance

[disneyrangerblue02]

What's a sacraliliac?

[KingSlifer]

It's a joint connection close to the lower spine. It's also known as an S1 connection. I'd know because I suffered an L1 fracture to my spine.

[disneyrangerblue02]

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Thanks for the info, pal.

[KingSlifer]

Glad I could help. I forgot to mention it's spelled sacroiliac.

[disneyrangerblue02]

Oh. Well, once again, thank you.

[KingSlifer]

No problem.

[billium1999]

My favorite moment is when the princess slicks down "her" curls. Probably my second favorite news flash, after the all-time classic Rapunzel skit.

[ShelbyOrvis]

I personally don't like this skit I used

to have nightmares when I was a kid about

cookie monster eating my mattress.

[muppetfan33]

Did he also eat the bed? I thought I heard wood cracking at the end.

[KittyStarlight]

"See the princess here, folks? That's the royal princess, and she's looking beautiful tonight. She's wearing a sort of a...oh, that's kind of a blue brocade, with a magenta robe overlay in satin, and sort of a silver net, a hairnet, there, mm-hm." "Good night, princess. Sleep well" "'Night, frog." "Uh-huh, good night." (He/she asks *only later* "What frog doing in my bedroom?" ^_~) ("Kermit the Frog of Sesame Street News, ma'am." "Whatever.") ^_~

[KittyStarlight]

"Hold everything, folks...she sat up.

See, the princess can't sleep, folks.

She's discovered something..."

"MATTRESS!!! Arrrum-um-num-num...oh, mattress

...mattress...delicious..." (yeah, my dogs

would probably agree, they like chewing

mattresses...um-num-num...^_~)

"Oh, my king-sized...um...num..."

^_~

[bicchy1]

dum de dum dum dum..haha i forgot cookie used to do that

[MarshalGrover]

"What frog doing in my bedroom!" Ha!

[muppetfan33]

@MarshalGrover Kermit the Frog of Sesame Street News, ma'am.

[muppetfan33]

Anyone know why Jerry Nelson's announcer voice sounded so thin back then?

[wiley207]

I dunno why. He also sounded like that in the Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty's Kiss segments.

[GroverKent]

I remember this from my childhood! Good times!

[wiley207]

That's Jerry Nelson as the Royal Lackey. Jim Henson plays Kermit of course, and Frank Oz plays Cookie Monster.

Here's another very early News Flash segment, like the "Sleeping Beauty's Kiss" segment and the "Rapunzel" Segment

[blackolive666]

I actually used to find it pretty terrifying how Cookie Monster bellowed "mattress!" before flying into his rampage (preceded by that ominous kettle drum.) Why they even bothered to name him I don't know - he's eat anything, including an attempt at Guy Smiley, which I found very scary. Of course nowadays, CM has lost his whole "raison d'etre" as the show neutered his character; he now eats healthy foods and only cookies comtimes. Ah, political correctness and childhood obesity/diabetes.

[muppetfan33]

I really like the 7th and 8th mattresses, because they're the fanciest!

[bluquail]

I can't imagine the crew getting all those only to have them get destroyed during the filming. What a waste! I used to think Jim would sometimes be out of his mind.

[wiley207]

Well they're not real full-sized mattresses. They're smaller mattresses that the art department made for this skit, and they obviously had them made with them being wrecked in mind.

[hani273nhk]

princess cookie monster!

[glowworm2]

Wait-YES! I've been waiting for this one! Thank you!It's so hillarious! Too funny when the loyal lacky crashes!

THe best part is Cookie Monster as the princess!

[muppetfan33]

Is it me, or was the royal lacky kind of clumsy? Also, anyone know why he made that bouncing noise when we walked?

[muppetfan33]

You don't know how long I've been waiting for this one! Thank you!

[muppetfan33]

"I've got my hands full, buddy. Could you count them yourself?" I thought that was kind of rude.

[afriendofbean]

Maybe he didn't mean to talk like that. He was probably just feeling very tired from carrying very heavy mattresses all by himself by running back and forth constantly.