Sesame Street - 1 to 20 number elimination

[Hellsing1225]

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[ladypeinforte]

Precursor to "The Z was Zapped."

[Todeskaefer]

In the cast of characters, shouldn't Cookie Monster be mentioned in between 17 and 18?

[goldendragon3369]

how about an elimination for 21?

[RCast]

Play-by-play recap continues with numbers 11-20: 11 acts like cymbals and crumbles 12 gets bulldozed 13 squashed by giant mallet 14 gets clamped 15 squashed after getting stomped 16 tree falls on it, made sound 17 eaten by you know who 18 safe falls on it 19 explodes like dynamite 20 crumbles after feather falls on it Who knew counting can be so destructive?

[RCast]

Play-by-play recap: 1 deflates 2 sinks into the ground 3 falls in water 4 slides down angled incline 5 pops like balloon 6 gets the hook 7 shatters like glass (or crumbles whichever you prefer) 8 taken away by bird 9 inflates before bursting 10 gets bowled over TO BE CONTINUED...

[ngradrian]

i can repair the number 7

[MuzikJunkyAES]

Wow, Jim Henson was a BRILLIANT animator! Peace.

[pja30199]

18 squashed by a safe

19 dynamited

20 destroyed by feather

[TwilightLink37]

1, 3, 7, 9, and 11 commited suicide.

[ScottQB4]

Hey-Hey-Hey good idea for a stick figures on crack video!

[kim2547b]

That's hilarious!

[hotpoot]

I hate to register

[love2register]

@hotpoot I was exasperated at the time and went the sardonic route with my necessary registration

[zensorship]

@love2register

I chose my nick for a similar reason

[smallgwynfryn]

Should be 1-10.

[instrodude94]

i would love to have 17 cookies rite now!! :)

[staceyannec]

lol!

[hotpoot]

what's so great about registering?

[daleclover]

i like 17 cookies!!!!

[brivance1975]

LOL @ :38

[alpturantan]

those numbers are getting pwned yo!

[alexweb8]

charACTORS, get it? Like actors!!!

[CanadaFamilyMan]

I saw 2 enhanced versions of this. They were cool, but this original version is, quite predictably, the best. Anyone who saw this as a kid will agree I'm sure.

[CanadaFamilyMan]

Oh, so this was a movie! A very funny one, but not one in which I would want to be an actor!

[papplemanger]

"Charactors"

[lancendean2]

TORTURED NUMBERS

[AnimationDiana]

1 deflated 2 sank 3 drowned 4 slid on the slope and fell 5 popped like a balloon 6 dragged off the stage 7 fell apart 8 flew away with a bird 9 inflated and exploded 10 bowled over 11 crashed into each other and disintegrated 12 bulldozed 13 smashed with a mallet 14 chomped by an excavator (that is what the machine is called) 15 stepped on (Plz do not comment yet. I'm not done.)

[srf1969]

I guess numbers 7, 11, and 20 got broken into pieces but, I liked the part when the animated cookie monster put #17 in his mouth.

[idiotfangirl]

SEVENTEEN!!

[ragf987]

16 and 15 got owned!

[AllRequired]

All they had to do now was give the numbers lives of their own (such as #7 signaling to be cleared away).

[Akira625]

Ah-ha! I knew there was some old skit on the show that had an animated Cookie Monster in it, I finally found it! Rock! :D

[beck943]

check it out! at the end, they mis-spelled CHARACTERS! who knew?

[HoustonRules]

Maybe it was a combination of characters and actors??? Even so, for a show that's supposed to teach kids numbers and letters and to get them started reading, saying "charactors" probably isn't a good idea.

[CygnusRoc]

Ah yes...must have been spelled by one of the salespeople where I work who spells "hollow" as "hallow". The hallowed halls...lol.

[lhclayton1]

@beck943 I actually like the misspelling. There's something sweet and homemade feeling about it. Something like that would never slip through on today's SS; it's way too slick and corporate.

[webkinz884]

for 4 u could do slide on the soap

[EternalGuardian07]

This is really funny.

[d72jjpilc]

I also posted this question under the clip 'Bumble Ardy's Party' (also 1970's Sesame Street), which is: Is the narrator in this clip and that clip (i.e. Bumble Ardy) the same? The voices in each sound very similar to me, if not the same.

[tilseboys]

19... BOOM! LOL!

[SenhorBundy]

what year was this from?

[MrBertstown]

No numbers were hurt during this cartoon.

[d72jjpilc]

I remember this - '17!' sticks in my mind the most (and I think you know why!). Speaking of 20, anybody out there have the live-action skit from the 1970's featuring a man being sent on a mission to find a 20? He runs into the numbers 13 through 19 along the way and his search is punctuated by an encounter with a gorilla! (He knocks on the door, says 'OK, this is it....' and then...)

[thekingof8]

Googly-eyed cameo? I'd don't see Marty Feldman anywhere?!!

[memphisslim6]

THAT'S SO FUNNY LOL

[uofmrules1]

That music was used on Channel 50 in Detroit for their own bumper for Tom and Jerry.

[StaceSesame]

haha Cookie Monster :D

[MrBertstown]

For some reason, this reminds me of Monty Python. Too bad Terry Gilliam didn't make any Sesame Street animated segments.

[brivance]

Probably because of the foot that squashes number 15. Similar to the python foot !!

[MIKECNW]

Funny thing about this piece is no matter how many times I see this, it's still hard to remember each incident that happens to each of the numbers.

[Orenotter]

Loved Cookie Monster's appearance on 17.

[raposofan]

Jim Henson animation. Best ever. This was back in the era when Sesame Street was, um, oh, I forget, what did they call it? GOOD.

[Leahlambchops]

People with the best common sense grew up on the 70's and 80's sesame street. Classic and creative! That is why the kids today are crazy....they don't get the classics anymore!

[psycoticsinginchick]

"cast of charactors" is how it was spelled. haha! I caught that. Dumb Sesame Street. I'm glad I never really watched it! I could be stupider than I already am!

[culpit]

Cast of Characters? It sounds like more of an obituary for the numbers we lost.

[figlidigilles]

the most amazing countdown i've seen in time

[MGHSHour2]

that font is a lot like the ss baker skits

[XtremeWeirdo]

lol, charactors... Man, this was boring. x);;

[achimendez]

No offense, kiddo, but this is because television ground up your generation's attention span like so many hicks in a combine.

[XtremeWeirdo]

No offense taken, because I agree.  I just happened to think that this video was a little boring, that's all. Sesame Street's never been my thing, I was just looking up old 70s videos. :]

[joanieaqua21]

Look at all that violence! I thought this was safe TV LOL

[delayedricochet]

cookie monster got snubbed from the credits.

[gypsyball]

That is the weirdest looking Cookie Monster I've ever seen!

[brivance]

I like when the foot crushes # 15 !!

[patrickballoonman]

It's obvious that Frank Oz did Cookie's Voice here. But who was the announcer?

[melslurp]

I believe it was Bob Arbogast, the narrator for "A is for Archer", "L is for Leopard", "P is for Puppy".

[agnamaracs]

I saw this a total of once and thought it was brilliant. I remember as a kid I kept waiting for this one to come on again... it didn't. Thanks!

[PatrickRox80]

So, I take it. The "charactor" Cookie Monster was uncredited? xD

[jbl1975]

I always loved this skit, especially when the cartoon Cookie Monster eats the 17.

[dorourke105]

I already know what they look like. If you want I can draw them for you.

[PandaMishima]

This I gotta see.

[DiAnno13]

Y'know what I'd like to see? Lowercase numbers. They do it for letters, so why not?

[MIKECNW]

I cry when I see those mumber getting treated like that.

Just joking.

[brivance]

What is everyone's favorite number sequence?

[Brinah]

number 15

[Omegaville]

My favourite is the number 10, getting knocked over by a bowling ball.

While hunting for Sesame St vids I had the intention of finding this one, and sure enough, found it within 30 mins. This intermanet thingy is cool :D

[88HJS]

My favourite: 19 gets exploded, makes way for 20, and the feather destroys it. I also liked the "cast of charactors" at the end.

[uofmrules1]

Ironically for me it was 17, when the cartoon CM ate it.

[MIKECNW]

No the 10 was there.

[Lawnboy]

Didn't anyone notice that the number 10 was missing but it appeared when they showed the list of "charactors" part? LMFAO

[uofmrules1]

10 was there. It got bowled over, and the 1 in it became part of the 11.

[AndrewT3660]

Hilarious! I feel that something like this would never make it to the show nowadays, though.

[Lurkerbunny]

I never got to see this when I was a kid, they musta taken it out before I was born. :(

[Lurkerbunny]

Oh, and "Charactors"? ...you're doing animation for frikkin Sesame Street and you can't SPELL? ...no wonde rthis got pulled.

[Slappyfrog]

I love the animated Cookie Monster.

[quadputer]

why does every letter have to get ganked

[Brinah]

you mean numbers don't you?

[rollingchild4]

This would've been on DVD. Really liked this cartoon as well.

[Lectronimo]

Neato. Sounds like a few of the sound effects were borrowed from the H&B library.

[love2register]

funny you should say that, there are a few I link together by use of those recognizeable hanna-b fx: this one, Francis Fairy, R Wizard, and one more I can't remember right now. The fx could have been borrowed, but it is possible that someone from h-b actually animated these?

[Lectronimo]

It's possible! In fact, the music during the "cast of charactors" credit roll sounds very much like the background cues Hoyt Curtain did for H&B, but nothing I recognize from any of their cartoons. Maybe someone at the studio was working on their own projects on weekends or something...

[love2register]

the other I couldn't remember with H-B fx was the "alphabet onslaught" one I posted (doh!)

[wiley207]

Many of the sound effects in this sketch are from "Rocky & Bullwinkle" and the rest of the Jay Ward cartoons, but there are a few Hanna-Barbera sound FX scattered here and there. Filmation, DePatie-Freleng and the Peanuts specials often combined the sound effects from those two companies and the Warner Bros. sound FX as well.

[67nairb]

@wiley207 That's right.

[uofmrules1]

I had mentioned somewhere here that the ending of that song played in the background was used for one of the "bumpers" for Tom and Jerry on Channel 50 in Detroit back in the 80s.

[Ian16545]

Come to think of it, it sure was a cryin' shame that H-B's characters didn't make an appearance in any SS skits!

[Marbles471]

Actually, those sound effects seem to turn up all over the place during the 70s. They show up in some of Jay Ward's shows from the 60s, too.

All I can conclude is that there exists some vast library of public domain sound effects that anyone can use.

Weird thing is, in the OLD days ('30s-'50s) every studio had their own distinct sounds. Now I constantly hear those exact same recordings used everywhere. Even Disney's.

[Maskedmutant]

A LOT of different studios did stuff 4 Sesame Street, among them Filmation & DFE (Depatie/Freling) Studios

[TheEndAsWeKnowIt]

Could be worse. Someone could have drawn one of the numbers backwards.

[Maskedmutant]

I think # 11 was

[mr3urious]

This clip has a lot of "charactor"!

[PiLfan]

LOL @ "charactors".

Doh!!

[Deanmo19]

That clip was from episode 1141 of "Sesame Street".

[rollingchild4]

What letter and number was sponsored on that episode number?

[Maskedmutant]

Who can tell? That segment was shown hundreds of times throughout the years

[StormyCat]

I love Cookie Monster too......shame about how they've 'tamed' him on the new crappy "Elmo Street" He's a COOKIE Monster for heaven's sake......let him eat cookies. No one expects a herbivore to eat meat, or a carnivore to eat greens.....so it's stupid that people now expect Cookie to only eat cookies 'sometimes'.

[ISNorden]

Amen to that: Cookie Monster has been turned into an Alphabet Monster (who moonlights as a dietitian). Someone ought to make a parody video of his reaction: "Me mad as heck and me not gonna take it anymore!" *LOL*

[StormyCat]

LOL!! Darn right

[ISNorden]

I've had specific ideas for potential "Cookie Monster's Protest" videos; it's a shame I couldn't draw (let alone do animation) to save my life. Wonder where I can offer new video ideas on this site?

[33chiliken]

I forgot about this one. Thanks for sharing. I love Cookie Monster too. :)

[MacLeaper]

That was awesome! That was really cool seeing an animated Cookie Monster eating 17! And I love the way #1 is destroyed too! :-)

[sodapop81]

Wow, thanks for sharing! I love Cookie Monster. :D