Monsterpiece Theater: Chariots of Fur

[mainpaiges]

Love it when Cookie eats the pipe.

[vaj99]

Is that how people talk in England?

[Beowulfsonur]

Go out & the evidence is all around i.e. people in position of power who do not know what they are doing. It negatively effects all of us.

[pookoos]

Are kids show this clever anymore? 

[Beowulfsonur]

@pookoos ... Sadly no because kids at least those attending public school's are not being taught anything of real world value. "Indoctrination" has replaced "eduction" & American kids have some of the lowest test scores to prove it. The politicians solution threw more money at a failing system instead of fixing what is so clearly broken & the kids suffer because of it. Furthermore all aspects of society suffer because kids graduate unprepared to inter the work force.

[dhylec]

I love the birds in the background. They seem to fly in a certain "tossed object" trajectory :P

I love all these monster piece theatre vids. Thanks for uploading them.

[oliviagale]

I guess they couldn't get the rights to the actual "Chariots of Fire" theme music, but what they used is good.

[julialuvsjesus]

These are so great. Thanks for posting!!!

[finnishminnow]

Grover & Herry were also known as an Old Chap and Old Bean on this sketch, and therfore they certainly have worked hard to run to the end of the beach.

[finnishminnow]

It seems like Grover fainted on the end of this sketch because he got tired of running to the end of the beach in which Herry told him the wonderful thing he got was to run the other way, rather than predicting he'd get something like an award or something. Grover sort of told himself "Forget it, I too tired to run", but that was still a good sketch.

[finnishminnow]

Previous Goof: After Herry told Grover the wonderful thing he got was to run the other way, Grover fainted because he thought "Forget it, I can't run anymore because I've had enough running excitement for one day". It did not really sound good and exciting to him. However, he must have been expecting an award or something as I was saying before.

[montx2007]

love this.

[XmegaPresident]

WOW!! I remember seeing this and LOVED it! I can't believe wow!! MEMORIES!!!

[AJMWriter]

So Nirvana has said that when Weird Al did his spoof of "Teen Spirit," they felt they had made it. Sure, Vangelis won the Oscar for "Chariots of Fire" but I sure hope Jon Vangelis got to see this and smiled big, knowing he was pretty much immortal now. =)

[sideslide23]

after watching this, I can now watch this over and over now because its over uplifting with that music man

of course I remember this as a child to.

[pokinsmot]

one of my favorites

[TsugaC]

bbloom78 nailed it cold. The true reward for achievement is to be able to set your sights ever higher. How many kids these days are actually getting this message in the age of "social promotion" and other sops towards the sub-standard?

[flowertrue]

they don't run very well do they? More of a toddle.

[bbloom78]

This set me straight at an early age about so-called rewards and the intrinsic value of life: easy and hard, good and bad. Twenty-five years later, I've not found a better explanation of the human condition. Whoever put this together is a genius. Thanks to Sesame Street for leveling with us, and thanks to tpirman1982 and YouTube so that my friends can see it as well.

[indy072]

Wonderful - such great days... we really had the best of everything growing up in the 80s

[240G]

Oh man, awesome!! Thanks for posting this!!! What memories.

[truelove1330]

monsters have cute feet

[MusicMan32K]

It has been ages since I've seen this. The fake Chariots of Fire music is just classic!

[TheStapleGunKid]

So the reward at the end of the run is more running? Reminds me of my old football coach in high school.

[afriendofbean]

I guess that, that was an unfair reward. When I first saw this, I thought the reward was going to be an ice cream cone, a balloon, a trophy, or a medal. Maybe Herry said that the reward would be to run back because, since Grover had the energy to run all the way down to the end of the beach, he would be able to run back from where he and Herry started without any problems (although, Grover almost passed out at 2:36).

[2talkingmuffins]

What's in the pipe?

[TheGreatDoon]

Well, he does get the MUNCHIES pretty bad!

[upabittoolate]

my god!! how in the hell did you even find this? hysterical. thanx for the nostalgia

[poelover37]

HAHAHAHAHAHAH! ROTFLMAO!

This is a great send-up of the origninal COF. Grover got the runner's pained expressions just right.

[KlokJammer]

Sounds like they couldn't get the rights to "Chariots of Fire" so they made up their own theme to sound like it. It was actually pretty good.

[quizmaster85]

Amen to that! I almost cried near the end!

[ryuuseipro]

@KlokJammer That's not really an issue, as the song "Chariots of Fur" was meant to be a parody of "Chariots of Fire." In other words, it's not *supposed* to be the same exact theme in the first place. Something the Children's Television Workshop can own themselves.

[brightbite]

I think instead of shaving my legs tonight, I will instead dye the hair blue with Manic Panic and go running in white shorts down the nearest beach!

[franksnbeans]

Holy crap, thanks for posting - This clip is the most poignant Sesame Street memory I have from back when I was a kid.