Sesame Street - Ending theme to episode # 179

[3KNOCKS]

I DID AND STILL DO LOVE THE OLD SESAME STREET AND I MISS IT TOO.

IT IS JUST NOT THE SAME TODAY.

[kaiclay2]

Which Year Was That Taken ?

[ENTERTAINMENT35]

is that patty doitch talking in the closing credits

[torontonian1978]

hahahahaha i remember i used to cry when they started to play this music, it meant i had to go to kindergarten!

[Melcat96]

Just so you know, that's Little Bird announcing the sponsors.

[itofficer02]

was it actually aired in Black and White?

[zingarzahoy26]

What year was this made?

[zingarzahoy26]

And right now I'm gonna have nightmares of this

[zingarzahoy26]

Holy crap, so damn scary!

[plateshutoverlock]

Very weird to see this on movie film complete with a crackle/pop laden soundtrack.

[SeanElGatoTelevision]

@plateshutoverlock: Well into the mid-1970s, some public TV stations were still broadcasting in black and white so PBS sent black and white kinescope copies of its programming (including this 1974 Sesame Street episode) to stations that hadn't yet upgraded their facilities to color broadcasting. 

[trev358]

@SeanElGatoTelevision Actually, this episode is from 1971, not 1974. I'm sure most of you know that color television was introduced in the U.S. in the mid 1950s, and became the standard by the 1970s, although even then there were still some black-and-white TV sets existing.

[KraZvEgGyBuRgEr]

Even though I wasn't around, shows looked so simple back then, but still entertaining. Now they try too hard.

[girlygirl850]

this is like over 40 years old does anybody know

[VirgilB01]

@girlygirl850 - I remember these old episodes back when it first started on NET. Me and my little sister (back then, now about 45) used to watch these shows along with "Mr. Rogers Neighborhood". What memories!

[aiboluver]

Sesame Street 1969-2010

[CartoonCookie93]

Why don't they have a poor transfer of the "Funky Chimes" ending????

[BrittnayMarie22]

Oscar Looks So Scary At The End He Gives Me Fricken Goosebumps lol.

[punch41]

this is scarey

[lcirej71]

My biggest question about the street in SESAME STREET, is where DID they tie the other end  the tire swing?

[mstatz]

Hey, that's a very good question!  I never thought of that. There doesn't seem to be a tree around.

[plateshutoverlock]

@mstatz Maybe to a beam+pulley used to haul cargo up to the upper floors of the warehouse like building behind them.

(course reality it would just be the sound stage rafters :)

[tmakalinaw]

@lcirej71 in reality it would b the cieling mayb

[dadogster]

I grew up watching this when it first broadcast back in the 70's.

[ravengurl92]

Why isnt this in color?

[pooka5472]

Probably because it was recorded off of a B&W set.

[kungfujiapple]

From 1970.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

Wow! Great video. I'm 26 years old, so I can definitely say any of my earliest Sesame Street memories aren't from before 1984 or 1985. Unfortunately, I was about 3 months old when Mr. Hooper died, so I can't tell you I remember that, but it's something I've always heard about. I am, however, old enough to remember Jim Henson's passing (I was 7 in the summer of 1990).

Thanks for posting this!

[mstatz]

I remember Sesame Street in the early 70's (I was born in 1968) and it was NOTHING like it is today. It is like another TV show now (and it stinks). I was almost 22 and in the army when Henson passed away. It went down hill from there. It stayed relatively the same from 1969 to 1989 but it got worse quickly from there.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

I pretty much stopped watching Sesame Street in 1990, when I was about 7-8 years old.

I can safely say I remember when Elmo did nothing but a segment with cute 3-year olds when I watched it - he's such a nuisance now.

[aiboluver]

@mstatz My dad was born in 1968 too! He was 1 when Sesame Street first started



[saugagirl83]

Same here...I'm also 26 and can relate to everything you said. I've seen the clip of Mr. Hooper's passing though and I think it was very well done.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

YEA!! Another 26-year old!

I am definitely going to have to see the clip now, because I am curious.

[saugagirl83]

Yes, definitely check it out. It's not an easy thing to tell young children but I think they pulled it off great.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

Sometimes things like this help parents tell their kids in the most sensitive way possible.

[saugagirl83]

That's something I love about Sesame Street now as an adult--they help to teach children the reality of life in a way that's not too scary for them.

In fact, just a few days after 9/11, I was flipping through the channels and came across Sesame Street right before it going to start. Elmo and Maria were on talking about it and telling the kids not to be scared of what they were seeing on TV. I think it was really great that they did that. I searched for the clip but I could'nt find it.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

Wow that was a good idea about 9/11.

My mom said my brother and I (who are twins) watched this show 3 times a day on 2 different networks - our PBS station (WNET) and NJN (The New Jersey network) as toddlers. My mom even said I randomly started counting one day when I was about 18 months old, maybe slightly younger. I never knew that until a few years ago.

[biggill4209]

When there is love,any life is to short. Bereavement is so personal that few of us,unless we have experienced it ourselves,can comprehend its grief. There is a lonesomeness after the death of a love one. I would like to dedicate this song to all those who have been in my shoe's "TEARS" :{ you are in my prayers.

[cwegers]

Yes, Mr Hooper holding that fancy sign takes me back

[trackseventeen]

Mr. Looper !!!!

[MANILABOY6631]

What happened to all the human characters like maria ? What are they doing now ?

[kevapaula]

Maria is still, to this day, with the show. I didn't know about this until my toddler just started to take an interest in this show (mostly b/c of Elmo). I think the 3rd Gordon from 1974 onward is still with the show as well.

[MANILABOY6631]

Thanks for the update.

[neddx]

Dude! don't take Roosevelt Franklin lightly. Seeing sketches with him is rare these days. He was actually my favorite character when I was 4. Now I think it's Cookie Monster

[mstatz]

I just checked out your age and considering that the Roosevelt Franklin character was phased out about 10 years before you were born, I seriously doubt you remember him...unless, of course, you just blatantly lied about your age for some reason!

[A1l2l2e2n4]

@mstatz

When Jim Henson died, "Sesame Street" had 20 years' worth of Muppet sketches accumulated. Assuming that "Sesame Street" DID indeed recycle some of those sketches, it's possible that neddx might have seen sketches with Roosevelt Franklin.

[chickenbaby12]

oscar looks hot in the end! he always gets me going.

[Idoljunky32]

Mr Hooper!! He was awesome. I cried when they showed the eposode when they told the kids he died. I loved this show as a kid. Programing back then was way better. Kids today don't know what they are missing!

[PinkStupidity]

I miss Mr. Hooper too!! I cried also when I saw the episode when he died. In fact, when I was watching some old clips of him on here it brought tears to my eyes. Hoopers store just isn't the same without Mr. Hooper. Heck, Sesame Street will never be the same without him.

[ribeekeeper]

Sesame Street first aired in 1969 when I was in first grade. My teacher would pull out a big television and we would watch in fascination. What a great new show! Back then most of us only saw black & white television and it never occurred to me at the time that I was missing out on anything! Those were much simple easy times...

[CelesteK]

Cheap Cheap is right. :)

[Leveena222]

why did he say cheap cheap lol didnt expect to hear that lol

[TheImpactor]

(sigh) I've been looking for the video that showed big bird and kids playing in central park, that's the only ending I remember. Long time ago they showed that ending a few times, and POOF, it disappeared. I miss that ending, and it seems like no ones even aware of it. I know im a big boy now, but please is there someone out there who knows what the smokes im talkin' about?

[ginaandsavionfan39]

I was born in 1993

[doctorwhorox]

Sesame Street used to be in B&W on Australian TV, according to my mother. I was born in 1993-GO US, SenhorBundy!

[SenhorBundy]

I know, we got colour in '75 and Sesame Street started over here in '71, I was just saying how lucky I was being born some decade and a half after that.

[cwegers]

Why, you didn't get to see the 70's and they rocked

[videos4everybody]

This is certainly a rarity because this is an example of when it was copied to film. If you hear closely after the music stops, you can probably hear the nose in the background. That's why I favorited it.

[rodneybuffalo]

MR HOOPER on the CTW sign. There was a good man. So sad when he passed away. Very difficult moment when they let the kids know too.

[animegal2686]

Did he do alot those endings where he holds the CTW sign?? I've watched a lot of these endings, and that's what it looks like to me.

[WhatsAYak]

There was one from 1982, w/him holding the sign outside a NYC subway entrance...used to be on here, but got taken down awhile back.

[nicka727]

This sponsor announcement from little bird sounds very dumb. Please dub out into another character's voice and edit it.

[simpsonzlover32]

the voice of little bird was fran brill

[simpsonzlover32]

wow, this is old

[rudyking]

I'm glad to see these in B&W. We didn't have a color TV until 1981 or so so everything I saw in my early childhood was in B&W.

[yaadiebwoy]

Yeah me too. As a matter of fact colour never existed in Jamaica prior to 1981.

[SenhorBundy]

Australia didn't get colour until 1975, but I was born in 1991, so GO ME!

[coolkat873]

she's sound's like zoe the monster elmo's best friend that is fran brill's voice she did the voice over at the end

she don't sound's like Big Bird

[coolkat873]

i love this part i love oscar in the end

oscar holding sesame street at the end

[HartCourtMonopoly]

What year was this episode from?

[Blueskywatcher]

Feels good.

[bboytramp]

Little bird sounds just like Zoe Monster because that's Fran Brill's voice.

[michaelmoval]

cheep cheep

[dadogster]

thank you for posting these.