Classic Sesame Street - Billy Jo Jive: Missing Key

[Alexandria101]

..lolz...my fav!!

[NestorV]

Man, this takes me back to grade school.

Love thoses Sesame Street stuff.

[Yakovlievich]

White people in America can't find the keys tied to their shoes and they need the Obamas to find them.

[funkmike]

The cityscape and music in the intro to this reminds me of a Ralph Bakshi cartoon

[funkmike]

Whatcoo doin' latch-key white boy livin' in my hood? I'mma take my fee outta yo ass, sucka.

[SHOCKEDKAT]

godamn this just popped in my head!

[RetroGirl85]

omg the music in the background is funny, ha ha its so 70's!! I cant believe someone actually remembered this and put it on here

[songbird2875]

Does anyone remember the pbs cartoon that had a girl coming out of a brownstone house with a big red hat and singing this song believe it or believe in... what was her name?

[mooky9669]

I remember this...what a classic!! Brings back memories!

[deemoe7301]

wow!! this brought back so many great memories!! Billy Jo Jive was one of my favorite SKITS ON S.S. Ted Shearer's art needs to reintroduced to this generation of kids...they need it!

[usaTrini]

I always loved this one

[flowertrue]

And hence we have the phrase: Latchkey kid.

[Focusakker]

After this case, Billy Jo Jive became a minister and hosted a Christian radio show on 570 WMCA.

[Marbles471]

I LOVE Ted Shearer's drawing style, and seeing it animated (even minimally on a low budget) is a real trip. If only kids' shows in the 70s that were actual cartoon shows (as opposed to short cartoon skits on a mostly live-action show like this one) had been half this visually interesting.

That said, does anyone else think these Billy Joe Jive segments are way too sophisticated for the target audience age? They seem really out of place here, even for the edgier '70s incarnation of this show.

[jericho4004]

DANG!!! I forgot all about this one! I userd to love it. Talk about bringing back really cool memories, thanks!

[ELEAKANINA]

Hi I'm Elena from Italy.

Anybody can tell me in what year this episode appeared for the first time?

It's very important because it's for my university report graduation.

Thanks a lot.

Elena

[Rodimus78]

I was informed that this segment appeared in 1976. Hope I wasn't too late to help. Good luck.

[kungfuwookie]

are you going to cite a youtube comment?

good colleges in italy i guess.

[Mommy246]

holy crap I forgot about this!!

[cheerbear237]

Man, kids shows were so much cooler back in the day!

[buttholebzerker]

wrong way, you dumbass foo...just don't know why you still in school!

[desertwoman]

LOL!!!!

[bickis76]

SKATE key.

[smoothie6ft3]

HOT DAMM!! My childhood was FUNKY!

[Throatjab]

this is cool. . .just a few years before my time

the beginning song sounds like something out of dolemite

[Focusakker]

Billy Jo Jive is now an ordained minister and officiated Fireball Quick's wedding.

[FattestJack]

Anyone else notice the Shaft poster on the wall? Jive, man... Jive!

[Zukester]

This used to be one of my favourite segments on the show. Thank you very much for posting it so that I could see it again. :-D

[kd4adv]

That series has been updated to today's standards.

They don't air those segments anymore.

The don't even play that "old school jam session" after the end of the Sesame Street credits is over, either.

In 7th grade we used to watch a news program called "Behind The Lines" in Ms. Banks' class.

If anyone attended Amelia County (Virginia) Public Schools back in the mid 70s to 80s, y'all know what I am talkin' 'bout! :)

[ldpcmovies]

originally aired on schoolhouse rock or fat albert and the cosby kids

[akamsnikki]

People think I'm crazy when I ask them about Billy Jo Jive from Sesame Street! LOL After all these years, I've found it and now I know it wasn't a figment of my imagination! LOL

[SesameStrut]

I love the rudimentary how-to on breaking and entering.

[pekoe]

funky music we used to crank up the tv

[Decutta]

Man I remember this I loved this part of sesame street and 12345 678 910 11 12

[quirpco]

I always wondered what happened to this series! Thanks for bringing it back!

[MisfitDoctor]

This segment always reminded me of Encyclopedia Brown books I used to read

[undergroundkween]

YOU ROOOOOCCCCCKKKKK!!! Hahahaaaaa...you are sooooo awesome!!

[SpankRamen]

Fuck fuck fuck!!!! I LOVE THIS!!! My brother & I used to love this soooooo much. Thank you for posting this. DUDE, YOU ARE FUCKING AWESOME!!!

[Hatergirl904]

WTF!!! I can believe you actually found this!!! I remember this and I been looking for it for so long!!

[Chuixupu]

Thanks for putting this up, I was trying to remember what the name of these cartoons were for ages!

They really need to release a DVD with classic Sesame Street clips. Or is there one?

[sawing14s]

Have you heard of "Sesame Street: Old School, Volume 1"?

[MsTexas73]

I have it...LURVE IT...my 3 yr old neice loves the segment with the DOTS...and anything with music in it.

[DoomiteAsh]

Here's another blast from the past! What I wanna know though is where's that Billy Jo Jive episode where Billy says "Hold on tight, everything's gonna be all right!"? If I remember right (going back about 20 years), that was like his catchphrase. I could be wrong though...

[shydmples]

You're definately right...he definately said "Hold on tight; cause everythang's gonna be alll right" lol

[kd4adv]

OMG!

I loved those episodes.

They were great!

The music was COOL!

You didn't hear no cussin' comin from any of those kids mouths.

[waynesnooze]

Hey was there a cartoon on sesame st which had some kids hanging out around a Newyork alley? if anyone would let me know that'd be great

[moxie96]

"Susie Sunset" was the name my dad used when we played cards together Pee wee poker! candy or cookies was the wagering colateral! Otherwise my dad hated sesame street...

[LardInATubeSock]

OMFG, thanks!!! I have searched the internet for YEARS trying to find clips, and they were not ANYWHERE! No one even knew what it really was!! If you have more post 'em! Haven't seen them since the 1970s!!!

[jp2175]

All I could remember about this was the cool music and a character called wrongway. Nobody knew what I was talking about. Thanks for posting this. I've been thinking about it for 25 years.

[tonewinwy]

They don't play stuff like this anymore. Thanks for sharing.

[spacecowboy2k]

I could never remember *where* this clip was from, and I spent about 20 years trying to figure it out.  The last time I remember seeing it I was about 6 years old. What an awesome find!

[flukediggy]

Tears are coming out of my eyes! This is the Craziest throwback! I LOVED THIS AS A KID! THANK YOU! 1 MOTHAF--KIN LOVE!!!!

[678BUMPERLOVER]

i remeber seeing this when they showed reruns of the 70's sesame street in the 80's

[Maltbee]

I didn't think I'd ever see this again - I've been on here for 2 hours! Thanks!!

[ronaldraymond]

never did care for the little nerd acting like he was all that. but i think i appreciate him more now that i am older.

the farty-sounding theme song always seemed like it was trying to be a soap commercial to me. borax (dum da da dum da da dum dum), borax (dum da da dum da da dum dum) etc...

[skrag1]

This is like Shaft for kids.

[asdjlfkasdoiwue]

There are two Shaft posters on the wall of Jive's office.

[MacLeaper]

Awesome! Thanks for posting this! I loved Billy Joe Jive as a kid- nice to see another one of these cartoons in so many years!