Classic Sesame Street - Beware of the box!

[lizardlord4k]

O_O Holy fucking shit, *cries in the coner*

can't go to sleep box will eat me.

[joejumps4fun]

Seems like it was something made by Vince Collins but without all the LSD warping effects.

[8x13Wolf]

You don't get gold like this in Elmo's World, let me tell you.

[regregex]

It's like the vacuum monster from Yellow Submarine.

[certifiedloco]

Whoever did this video was on a bad trip for sure. This is so f'd up-

[skrag2112]

Did David Lynch direct this?

[lkmjr]

Two things: One, that was a fat-ass frog if it could swallow a box that a cat could fit in. And two, I can imagine that many, many little kids were scarred for life when they saw that.

[KurtmanJP]

IT'S A TRAP!

[foxxyloxx]

I remember this one very vaugely [if I hadn't seen it I'd never rember it]. It gave me the creeps.

It's still kind of eerie. I find myself thinking, "Don't look in the box, DON'T look IN the BOX!" And every time those dumb ass animals/train do.

[Tringolew]

that was very scary, hard to believe this was for kids. no wonder our parents are screwed up...

[ilovemayo123]

the music is the thing that does it. If it was like goofy funny slapstick music, it would just be normal

[hayabusakun]

Happy Halloween everyone! This video should be enough spooky fun.

[DrButler]

This beats education by a longshot.

[d00dwheresmyhead]

The educational value for this one is "sounds" of course.

[rowcherumble]

Reminds me of Terry Gilliam's animations on "Flying Circus."

[scebboaliwiw]

WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THIS?! All it would do is scare some people.

[tubulard]

nice. that was pretty trippy. (not sure what the educational value is, but really fun :)

[Deanmo23]

At the end of the clip is "I'm a Real Cowboy".

[ultragor]

YIIIIIKES!!!!!

[brightbite]

So much for thinking outside the box!

[hayabusakun]

This one is scary, but I don't know why I like it so much.

[raggedyanarchist]

This is amazing! I love it. I wish Sesame Street were still this imaginative. Kids can handle this sort of thing. As a general rule it's oversensitive parents who can't!

[Marbles471]

Ummmm, wow.

Okay, I know full well how bizarre and freaky older Sesame Street could get, and even I'm having a hard believing they actually included this.

[BeatsonsGirl84]

That cat meowing was painful to hear. The music sounds very Pnk Floydish.

[vrikey]

Anybody who watched Sesame Street in the early 70s has seen this box before!

Can anyone remember where?

I never saw this cartoon before, until I watched it here on youtube - but I knew there was something familiar about that box, knew I'd seen it somewhere before, and then it finally dawned on me: it's already appeared in another early SS cartoon, one not nearly so spooky or creepy.

Can anybody guess which one?

[shinryakusha]

O_o TELL ME NOW!

[PandaMishima]

It was in the earliest shows, with Sammy the Seal riding around in it. He loved to talk about stuff that started with S, ending with, "and now I'm going to get a Sandwich!" Maybe this kid is his friend?

[eviltman]

anyone got a video of this old sesame street cartoon i remembered seeing from the 80's? it's about this kid with a green hat who goes out for a walk, comes across a DANGER sign on the trail path, then starts imagining all kinds of freaky shit: a one eyed tentacled alien space monster, a guy falling off a cliff, another guy about to get smashed by falling rocks, and finally a car crash? messed up stuff:(

[rotoscoop]

youtube[DOT]com/watch?v=ZtxttH­iaOc0

really scary

[chemicalcarlos]

That was just plain strange... Inexplicable. Don't remember that one. Cool though.

[steveasat2]

Sounds like something off Ummagumma. Set the controls for the heart of the alphabet! BTW, should clouds look like toilet paper?

[llamasapplepie]

*scarred for life* i'm glad i was before WAAAAAAAAAAY before that. how do i know the pizza box sitting in my room isn't going to eat me?! perhaps it's not a pizza box, perhaps it's really an alien box from the depths of Hades!

[Maskedmutant]

Is it on a wire?

[lovemeg5186]

I think it teaches us we cant trick every one. We all play mind games with people sometimes. But we never think the other person will trick or fight back. Well done sesame street.

[StaceSesame]

that was creepy!

[rcktmanil]

WOW... that was TWISTED and weird. I do NOT remember this one. Maybe because I ran and hid every time it played, perhaps? Wow!

[moatguy]

That box got what it deseved! Eat and the world eats with you.

[skrag1]

Sometimes I wonder whether watching Sesame Street as kids educated us or gave us brain damage.

[jbl1975]

Makes me wonder if someone has the One Way sign skit with a kid riding around in a similar box on a wheel. I always enjoyed that one.

[scottandrewhutchins]

I wish someone would post that. That was the trippiest thing ever!!!

[tsavoy71]

I was just looking for that one myself. That was pretty tripped out, used to make me paranoid about going into dark rooms alone. Still, it's cool.

[thatmuse76]

Yeah, I miss the classic surrealistic, Avant-Garde edge Sesame Street had in those days.

[cjdunn]

Let alone the frog being creepy, the synth music did not help this cartoon out at all. Classic none the less.

[dannycolt]

Wow, watching that felt like beeing stoned in a childrens bookstore.

[TB4000]

The fact that the bird and the cat are now eaten by the frog is what makes it all the more eerie.

[tpirman1982]

I agree. The frog was the scariest thing in this cartoon. As the frog was trying to croak, when the frog emitted the train sound, that scared me to death.

Even the closeup shot of the frog looked scary at the last 2 seconds.

[afriendofbean]

I also thought that the closeup shot of the frog at the end was scary. I'm sure even if the box ate the frog too, then the box would've broke in pieces since the frog was very fat and weighed the most. Then after the box breaks in pieces from eating the frog, the bird, cat, train, and frog would've been set free.

[ISNorden]

This clip was brought to you by the letters W, T, and F...and by the number 5! :-)

[sweetrolls]

The frog ate that box and it was good man that frog was fat.

[terry1919]

that frog is gonna get a bad tummy ache

[speeta]

To Quote Krusty the clown, "What the hell WAS that?"

[tpirman1982]

That red box shouldn't have went too close to that frog, and should have backed away from the frog quicker. If it did back away quicker, it wouldn't have been eaten by that big black frog.

[heyheyheydude]

speakin of which, does anyone have that freaky clip of the vase of flowers that "pick" themselves? alright, the film starts out as three flowers. the camera slowly zooms away from them and a vase appears. then the camera slowly zooms closer to the flowers and then BAM! EXTREME CLOSE-UP! they start moving around and one by one thay appear to be "lifted" from the vase and one looks like it's "walking" away. THAT WAS FRICKIN' CREEPY.

[skrag1]

Uh...wow! Just...wow!

[tpirman1982]

Yeah, this scared me all the time, but now I'm not anymore. Thanks to YouTube, I am finally not scared of this anymore.

[tpirman1982]

The only thing that did NOT scare me was the train driving into the red box when the bell was clanging.

[Lectronimo]

What on earth was that? And why doesn't Sesame Street have these freaky, kid-scarin' cartoons on it anymore?!

[jonnytbird4789]

Because it was too freaky for the kids.

[tpirman1982]

I guess this is to teach kids to stay out of danger, and to teach kids not to trust or believe everything you see.

This might have scared me when this aired in the 80s, but the only 2 things that did NOT scare me was the train and the cat. The thing that scared ne the most was that big, black, hungry frog was the scariest thing in this clip. But the question is: Was anyone else scared by that frog at the end?

[moatguy]

I was not! This might be to teach kids to stay out of danger and not to trust or believe everything you see. But I think it was also there to not over trick others because as the frog ate the box at the end the same thing can happen to you some time!