Classic Sesame Street Animation - Letter V

[rozz6398]

Very Yellow Submarine-esque.

[InglebertHumperdink1]

Vagina

[InglebertHumperdink1]

Vagina

[jaytotheell]

i think all volcanoes should spew vegetables!

[bix7bix77bix777]

Vegetables?????????????? (why the question?) LOL

[bix7bix77bix777]

VOL...CA...NO!

[spectaculously]

Vagina

[warminator]

The Vikings were obviously drunk. :D

[bix7bix77bix777]

@warminator LOL!

[jonathynblythe]

How about "vagarious"?

[cstoczyn]

Long Live Count Dracula!!!!!

[cstoczyn]

RIP Count Dracula

[cstoczyn]

VERY VIVID!

LOL

[TnseWlms]

When I was a kid I thought he said "little aunties" even though that doesn't begin with V.

[alexandrastehman]

This scared the freakin sh1t out of me when i was a child. It was more the repetitive hissing and 'v-v-v-v-v'....

[alexandrastehman]

This scared the freakin shit out of me when i was a child. It was more the repetitive hissing and 'v-v-v-v-v'....

[JP5466]

This scared me when I first saw it at 5 years old

[cstoczyn]

@JP5466 Me 2

[5395018]

I havent seen this one since the 70's. great clip! A little creepy but fun to watch. I always loved the part with the vikings! I'm 41 now and I still love it! You don't see great animations like this anymore. Thanks for posting this clip!!

[MWL4466]

FAR-OUT.... KING CRIMSON!!!!!!!!

[cstoczyn]

@MWL4466 RAD!

[windjammer777]

I really dig this video - very similar to the psychedelic of the Beatles animated cartoon, Yellow Submarine produced 1968.  Same era, same idea. Thanks for sharing this.

[cstoczyn]

@windjammer777 Thanks

[TnseWlms]

I never heard of a volcano erupting vegetables. Most volcanoes erupt mulberry jam sandwiches, usually not palatable (planetary mnemonic).

[cstoczyn]

@TnseWlms Weird, Huh?

[RadAlly]

Looks like Yellow Submarine!

[psykdiva]

Very valuable video! I especially love the singing Vikings, and the narrator's booming voice on the word "VOLCANOOOOO!"

[Sparkina]

Oh, a classic! And the music sounds kind of Pink Floydian

[supergirl1189]

I love this video

[supergirl1189]

I love this video a classic from sesame street

[jannyrcobs]

Dark, plodding, semi-psychedelic, and avant-garde. Was John Cale secretly supplying music to these animated bits in the late '60s / early '70s...?

[supergirl1189]

@jannyrcobs I agree with you

[moxie96]

Is that bob narrating this?

[EvaliaHysteria]

0:25 - 0:35 = Vagina

[slartibartfast68]

They didnt say Victor, the universal radio communication denotation for V.

Roger Roger, whats your Vector Victor

[StormsongK]

@slartibartfast68 Do we have clearance, Clarence? :)

[dirtyjockstrap72]

v is for va-jay-jay

[dirtyjockstrap72]

v is for va-jay-jay

[RozRulz]

What is the thing just before the clip starts!! I want to watch a video of them - they were hilarious!! I've searched everything like green tall puppet, dancing etc. Help?

[smegmacheez]

As of ll/23/lO...8 people disliked this. ARE THEY F**KlNG STUPlD?!!?!?

[67nairb]

Who would've thought that this creepy cartoon was appropriate for small children and pre-schoolers?

[minnoui]

@67nairb Yeah, well I guess we weren't molly coddled little twerps who can't for the life of them figure out what vigillante means.

Oh, and creativity wasn't outlawed yet back then either

[67nairb]

@minnoui You're right. It's a much different world we live in now than when we were kids. And that difference is not for the better.

[67nairb]

At least this cartoon ended on a positive note with the vampire being vanquished by the valiant vigilantees. But hat happened to the viglialantees behind that v?

[halfthefunhouse]

Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacated, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition!

[67nairb]

@halfthefunhouse What does vox populi mean?

[67nairb]

@halfthefunhouse What does this post mean?

[halfthefunhouse]

@67nairb It's from V for Vendetta.

[Jerseysson27]

VICTORY!

[67nairb]

Alot of bad and scary words begin the letter V like vampire, villian, vulture, volcano, vanquish (depending on whose gettin vanquished), Vlad Tepes King of Wallachia and the real Count Dracula, virus, vomit, vanity, vainglorious, and vulgar.

[67nairb]

0:52: The vampire villian was vanquished by the valiant vigilante and was thereby victorious!

[67nairb]

0:10 The violinist plays like Jack Benny.

[lemmykilmister1]

Eerie is the word. I was born in April '70, during the first season of SS, so I saw it all. The show was so evocative of emotions. Some clips scared us to death and kept us awake, others made us sad, and others made us laugh our heads off. It was a brilliant show by brilliant creators. Wouldn't recognize it now if I tuned in.

[JMew414]

I was born in '68 and I don't remember the 60's.

This video still scares me, and why would little kids need to know the word VIGILANTE?

I love the Viking part, lol

[schizoidboy]

@JMew414 I think they needed some V word to chase after the vampire-villain. I'll say this though, I think this was the first time I heard of the word Vigilante, before I heard of it as a negative connotation.

[67nairb]

@schizoidboy Me too.

[67nairb]

Alot of words that begin with the letter V are bad. Not bad as in dirty bu as in evil and dangerous.

[67nairb]

@67nairb Alot of words that begin with the letter V are bad. Not bad as in dirty but bad as in dangerous, evil and scary.

[67nairb]

@Cuteblondie1972 It was creepy.

[pazzensutra]

This one creeped me out as a kid in the 70's, and seeing it again for the first time in 35 years or whatever.......it still does!!!

[iseven016]

this clip was from the first season of SS in '69-'70..so it's safe to assume that whoever created this was pretty fucked up on some good psychedelic drugs from the '60s

[bix77bix777]

0:23 Ahahahahaha!

[tsavoy1971]

V was my favorite letter for a long time after watching this on PBS back in the day. Thank you for sharing it with us :)

[IJustWatchEm71]

It was always my favorite letter, too!

[redfox409]

@IJustWatchEm71 Why is v your favorite letter?

[IJustWatchEm71]

@redfox409 You know, looking back on it, I wasn't really too sure. Maybe it was the way it sounded, or it was some of the cool skits and stuff for it like this one.

[redfox409]

@IJustWatchEm71 There are other animals that start with v not just vulture.

[redfox409]

@IJustWatchEm71 There are other animals that start with v not just vulture.

[67nairb]

@redfox409 Like vole a type of rodent.

[67nairb]

@tsavoy1971 This cartoon scared the heck out of me as a kid and me afraid of the letter v.

[ClarkieandStephen]

Bizarre and creepy!! It always was to me!

[redfox409]

@ClarkieandStephen Why is venus shown as a statue? Venus is a planet.

[ieatpoopforlunch]

@redfox409 Venus Di Milo. It's a famous statue of this topless chick without arms. Weird.

[ArchivesMLS]

The planet was named after the goddess, which the statue represents. To probably represent the planet, it would have to be shown in the context of its placement in the solar system. The depiction was also meant to stimulate interest in art and sculpture.

[Deanmo23]

Probably from 1969.

[lebaron1982]

I just watched this with my 6-year old twins- they loved it as much as I did back in the old days!! Thanks for posting this!

[yogafan6500]

V is for Vampire, Villain, Vigilante, Victory. Very memorable.

[TimelordR]

A great, yet surreal video about the letter V. Thanks for sharing.

[67nairb]

@TimelordR Join the club.

[cstoczyn]

@TimelordR Thanks

[yogafan6500]

Very, Very memorable!!!!

[1980sVideoVault]

No, this music is the same as it always

was. I loved the funny whistle-breathing

throughout this animated "V" clip. I could

never figure out how they did that, but this

film was very phychadelic..

[RedVynil]

This is the right cartoon, but the music is either mixed wrong or not the right music at all. I remember a different piece used for the music, someone sounding like Bert (Frank Oz) saying V in a monotone throughout.

[whitecrow222]

this is one i remember..they just seem to get better every time i watch them..the letter cartoons are my favorite, most are so funny!! or surrealistic...which is cool too....

[Garrettk41]

It's my understanding that V was the last letter to sponsor Sesame Street.

[shuvcat]

I think this is the one. I remember staying up all night with my mom back in 1982, laying on our sofa and seeing this on our B&W TV at about 4 in the morning. I was looking at a Sears Roebuck catalog. I distinctly remember seeing some weird Sesame Street thing about the letter V at the same time, and my mom asking me if I didn't think I'd rather be asleep in bed now....

[Syrinx77]

Yeah, this one was kind creepy. The vampire *kinda* scared me too, but I think the strong voice-over is the main culprit here. lol!

[67nairb]

@Syrinx77 This cartoon really scared the heck out of me as a kid especially with the vampire which I found most terrifying and I'm not kidding.

[cstoczyn]

@Syrinx77 FTW

[cupidandpsycho06]

So spooky. I wish actual artists still produced a few of things that children are exposed to. Its all corporate homogenization now.

[gomiwomi]

Vanquished....

[Trund27]

Very clever...Music is kind of like Inuit throat-singing....I remember being afraid of the vampire as a kid... and thinking the vikings were funny!

[joni2691]

V...Viagraahhhh!!!!

[GoldenOldies60and70s]

V...Valium...Plz!

[sortashaman]

Another one of the highly creative, early animations from S.S.! The soundtrack is quite brilliant as well! Thanks for posting this!

[moonfire41]

What were they thinking when they made those freaky whistling/pounding sound effects in the background? More like, what were they SMOKING? Still love the nostalgia though.

[pupstu]

I remember this animation- but i dont remember it being so scary. Why am I more afraid of it now than I was back then?!

[raposofan]

What I and my brother wanted to know as kids, though, is what exactly happened behind that V to cause the explosion?

As a kid born in 1968 who saw this sequence the first time it aired, MANNNNN I miss the heck out of the Sixties.

[TheBlueFlamingo]

Ah, just one of the many mysteries of Sesame Street.

[4thtroika]

Vampire he go boom.

[DiAnno13]

It was Volatile.

[DiAnno13]

... As were the sixties.

[raposofan]

Yeah, and we still haven't reached the wellsties :)

[dnm72863]

Wellsties!?!?

[raposofan]

"Sick-sties"... "well-sties"...

Bad joke

[dnm72863]

My thoughts exactly.

[67nairb]

@raposofan Don't think I'm criticizing, but how can you say you remember the Sixties if you were born in 1968? I was born in 1967 and don't remember the Sixties.

[raposofan]

@67nairb I have something called eidetic memory. I have total recall of scenes and events from as early as six months of age and told my mother correctly she had a can of Lilt on her bedroom dresser one morning when she was nursing me, and where on the dresser it was. I also remember the 1969 moon landing. I remember quite a bit of 1968 and 1969, and 1970 is considered the Sixties. If you can't remember them, it doesn't mean no one else can.

[67nairb]

@raposofan Boy, I wish I had that had that kinda memory.

[67nairb]

@raposofan Historians have said that the Civil War of the 1860s is far from over; the same could be said about the psychodelic 1960s and all it ushered in. We're having more problems with drug addiction today than we ever did in the Sixties.

[raposofan]

@67nairb "More problems with drug addiction today than [snip]." Cite source, please.

[67nairb]

@raposofan Of course there's more problems with drug addiction now than there were in the Sixties.

[WorldChallenge]

Yellow Submarine!

[mowm88]

This remains a fave, it's fun.

[TnseWlms]

I never heard of a volcano erupting vegetables. Most volcanoes erupt moldy jam sandwiches, usually not palatable.

[toastichedu]

I'm surprised they would use a world like vigilantes because most young kids wouldn't even know what vigilantes are. I never knew when I was a kid when I saw this segment.

[dome1972]

This one still scares the shit out of me.

[cwegers]

seek therapy friend

[67nairb]

@dome1972 Judging from your username I would you were born in 1972. Right?

[beefyben]

Man I have been looking for this! Killer bass line!

[meanmoon75]

sometime in the 70's: hey man, what do you do for a livin'? "Well, I wake up in the morning & smoke a fatty. Then, when I get to work me & my boss drop acid & draw cartoons for Sesame St.

No one can say that I'm the only one who thinks this. Don't get me wrong! educational & entertaining BUT! it almost looks like Beatles Yellow Submarine animation. Anyone agree?

[flowertrue]

I was thinking something kinda similar actually. This whole sketch is way surreal! The music is just ... whoa man! ... and the vampire's legs as he walks are just fascinating to watch! The viking boat broke, the volcano erupted vegetables, the vigilantes caught the vampire and blew up! So surreal!

[horsetotemraven]

This has a vague Edward Gorey type style, like his book cover of War of the Worlds. Love it.

[67nairb]

@horsetotemraven I thought  H.G. Wells wrote War of the Worlds.

[Bradyhousetour]

I agree, the music is creepy.

[Akira625]

Love the way that voice-over guy says "volcano", he sounds just like Nathan Explosion.

[67nairb]

@Akira625 What's that?

[mightycowhero]

the viking part always cracked me up.

[bix7bix77bix777]

@mightycowhero I hear that!

[Akira625]

The animation style is similar to the "Jazz Number" series, with the race cars and spies.

[MasterEiji]

wow..even today the music in this is "creepy"

[wotmeworry333]

Man that sounds like the big GC. correct me if im wrong.

[midguardz]

they are saying we should become vigilantes & fight for our rights cause the police have proven useless.

[aliniaz]

very creative animation!

[Kerry816]

vigilante? lol

[DontxLabelXmeV2]

V-Vagina

[actorflaw]

Virgin-----V

[lfrage]

V is the coolest consonant.

[Furbydude05]

yes, a lot of Vector in it as well uhhhh... how about Voldemort, the main Villain from harry potter?

[d72jjpilc]

I remember this fondly - yes, I know the music was somewhat 'spooky,' but it had some sort of 'energy' to it that made me interested. (Sorry, I don't know much about music, so I am somewhat limited in the terms I can use to describe it.)

[geoduct]

VAGINA

[Furbydude05]

i dont think they are allowed to say vulgar stuff on here

[mcclanahand]

The Vampire Villain was Vincent Price.

[kll510]

Your right, that vampire does kind of look like Vincent Price.

[Davidt33]

What is so scary about this? This was one of the best animated bits on Sesame Street ever.

[DragonLord1975]

That was quite a show.

[SidJustice1]

One of the best damn S.S. animations I can remember. Trippy...

[lfrage]

V is a cool letter!

[TGS909]

I remember this when I was 5 years old. Havent seen it again till now...35 years!

These videos are so cool yet...make me kinda sad to realize how fast life has gone..

[TheLittleDevil]

The background music is fantastic!

I have talked about this one for years!

Back in the early 90s just before Henson died I tapped Sesame Street every day and scanned through the show hopeing I might have taped this very animation. I never did find it untill now. Fantastic!!!!

[jdand2000]

The viking song goes "Viking V, on a voyage on the way." It's very funny when the dragon's head broke off and landed on the beach when the vikings' ship came ashore.

[Antifrodis]

They actually sing "Viking Navy on a voyage over the waves"

[4thtroika]

I'm pretty sure they're singing, "Vikinging on a voyage over the waves." If there even is such a thing as vikinging. What do you want to bet they watched Monty Python's Spam sketch when they did this?

[jannyrcobs]

Between this, Chico The Rainmaker and The Boy Who Turned Yellow, it's a goddamned wonder we didn't all wind up serial killers, drug addicts and schizophrenics!

[quizmaster85]

Only drug I'd need is Valium (see the connection there?)

[whaNauAna]

...heh! ..judging by the childhood nightmare comments of some of the other Youtubers, it would'nt suprise me if there were uninvited subliminal messages in these classic works of animated art back then, ..far-out! ..there was some good LSD in those days! ..HEH! ...just get creative! ..undeniable brilliant animative ideas! ..."BRAVO!!! 5 STARS!! ..thanks for the memories.

[mescko]

I was never scared by the music, I can distinctly remember thinking the music was cool. I haven't seen this in thirty years!

[rrrock6]

The music was the scariest thing about it, and I thought it was scary/freaky too. Listen to how forked up the music is is. Awesome.

[radius2]

Victory Not Vengeance! : )

[austinfeet]

This TERRIFIED me as a child I would run screaming out of the room. And now all these years later i haven't seen it since then, and it's still making me uncomfortable.

[nirrad0791]

I'm sorry but I had to laugh at that one. Amazing how certain things used to scare you as a child. then when you see it as an adult, it STILL makes you feel uncomfortable. Hope I didn't offend you :)

[kingbonk]

it scared me too.

[todd7416]

Remember remember the 5th of November.......

[cosmowanda868]

Vendetta.

[freakylittlegnome]

Hey, anybody out there know how I could find the rare Letter "I" song from S S that goes like this- "many words that begin with I are longer than Itchy and Into, theres impossible and Incredible and important too, The Letter I is quite a pip, I think I'll take him on my trip, we'll have some fun and do a flip, into my car away we'll zIp, I'm glad to be with the Letter I 'cause he's so Irrizzziiistible. if ya got it please post I'd love to see it again.

[SidJustice1]

"beep, beep"!! Dude, I remember that! Can't remember if that's S.S. or T.E.C., though.

[Jamiepeavler]

It was on Sesame Street.

[jonzumakinaruto]

seriously, how many illustrators were on LSD in sesame street? how did they come up with these great ideas? so eerie, too.

[splotchwork5000]

i actually liked the music to this and i laughed when the head to the viking ship broke off when the vikings hit land.

[lunasword]

creepy

[videoguy100]

This one scared me especially with the "Volcano" part when and the "Victory", puncuated by a pow and the loud cheering behind it. I just couldn't stand the volume (another "V" word). All in all, not a bad cartoon to me.

[bgpiper]

The guy at the very beginning looks like one of the characters from Yellow Submarine.

[kevin07979]

Doesn't get much better than this. They would never show this today. One of my favorites. Vigilante!I

remember seeing this for the first time around 6 years old and asking my parents what that word meant.

Love this one!

[nirrad0791]

My memory about this is similar to yours. When I was in kindergarten, the teacher asked us what begins with the letter v, and I said "villian and vigilantes" and she thought I was weird and smart

[ajk70112]

This scared me, really scared me when I was ~4 years old. Its really incredible. Thanks for posting.

[nirrad0791]

I wasn't scared of it, but I thought it was a little on the dark side. I see your view though

[whammer0411]

Trippy music and animation..always liked this one.

[fatfacedmole]

Vanished!!