Sesame Street - The invention of EXIT

[See918]

I don't think the opening line by Jerry Nelson was necessary. If the cavemen didn't live in caves, they wouldn't be cavemen. It would've been better if the writer of this sketch just had him get to the main point, like, "Once upon a time, some cavemen had a king who loved to play outside." Sorry to be nit picky.

[Durhandoni]

Caveman, we have a problem.

[Garrettk41]

Whether that cavekid can read or not, he shouldn't have had problems at the end. There was only one sign in the cave, and he had already heard several times what it said. Plus, the door was already open.

[d72jjpilc]

Nice memory! The blue caveman sure knew how to forecast the future all right ('Clocks haven't been invented yet!') Now, if only all kings were like Ernie is in this skit (i.e. helping someone to read the sign so that he can go outside)! My (witty) thoughts, as always!

[1980sVideoVault]

Now, all 3 of the "Royal Smart Person" clips are here, as well as the "3 Witches" scetch and the "Emporer's 4 Dragons" scetch, all of which took place in the same cave backdrop. I guess the music here was based on how the dinosaurs would walk, as it's very slow. I prefer the other music, which was later reused for a "Caveperson Days" series of scetches with Ernie & Bert on windows & trashcans from the 80's. That series was renamed from their first clip, "Caveman Days".

[glowworm2]

I remember watching this one as a child.I love the part where the last caveman crashes! XD! "You're a nice king." aw!

[Garrettk41]

I'm actually willing to believe this story- up to a point. It kind of makes sense when you think about it. I'm thinking this is sort of approximately how EXIT first came to be.

[finnishminnow]

Thanks for bringing this up.

[ProfessorIgor]

FINALLY !!!!!!!!!!! the reason I found YouTube was because I was looking for this sketch... THANK YOU !! haven't seen this in over 30 yrs

[Smartboy8877]

@ProfessorIgor

I had not seen this one in a while either! I am very happy to have finely found it here!

[muppetfan33]

The blue caveman used to scare me as a child.

[kungfujiapple]

Roosevelt Franklin appeared in this sketch, but he was performed by Frank Oz here instead of Matt Robinson, who voiced Gordon and Roosevelt Franklin on "Sesame Street", and sound like Bert and Fozzie Bear.

[ErnieandBert1]

I don't think it's the same Muppet actually. Just the same pattern.

[antsamthompson9]

I saw this on the Sesame Street Video Player.

[Jbrangwynne53]

"Elementary, my dear king."

For some reason, that phrase never took off =\

[kungfujiapple]

From 1971.

[MarshalGrover]

"Once some cavemen lived in a cave." Really now.