Sesame Street - Nancy the nannygoat

[Lystaria]

Be yourself, Nancy! I always wondered why the other nannygoats cared what she wore round her neck.

[freakette55]

My boyfriend is a Capricorn...and a nutty ninny neerdowell nincompoop who needs to be smacked out of his nightmare...no more cNN or weather chaNNel (but I still love him!) :)

[StevenShields29]

Around her neck she wore a narrow napkin? That really IS weird. I wonder what brand it was...perhaps Kotex.

Did they ever show this in other English-speaking countries?

[Audi134]

This one one of the ways I learned about the letter N. This Comment was brought to you by the letter N.

[OldSkoolBoysRule]

Can anyone say "BAD ACID TRIP" or what!!

[rockhopper10r]

Poor Nancy. She's trapped in a world filled with (N for) non sequiturs.

[cyanastropyre]

This makes even less sense than it did when I was seven years old.

[AdamCartwrightMyLove]

God I so loved this when I was little, still do. thanks for posting and allowing everyone to relive a part of their childhood.Life is so rush, rush,rush now a days, it sure is nice to slow down for a moment and take a look back at a time when things were so simple and enjoyable in our lives.

[Stimulator7]

who is the voice of the granny nanny goat?

I think its FLORENCE HENDERSON???

[pazzensutra]

That was great. I forgot about that one.

[rayandreina]

"Numbskull! Nitwit! Nincompoop!" -- these are just a few of the words that you'll NEVER hear on a golf course!!!

[vidhag900]

I would say to Nancy...be yourself, don't let others tell you how to live. Classic clip.

[5171967cafk]

OMG......I had been searching for this, but then forgot about.....Thanks so much for posting...haven't seen this in well over 30 years !!!!!!

[trailmix40]

Nancy doesn't get any respect.  After all the verbal abuse, she had a nervous breakdown. She then changed her lifestyle by getting rid of the napkin, put on a necklace, and stopped nibbling on her nails. She still gets ridiculed by granny nanny about her new hobby of noticing noodles. Give her a break! I think she should take her nightingale and move far away from Nantucket.

[YankeeTom63]

I loved this and Wanda the Witch when I was a kid, what about the O song? Where the O goes rolling along ....

[nixatnite]

nanygooats who nibble on their nails and notice noodles are nutty? hahahahha Should kids notice noodles anyhow? hahaha

[kevseb66]

TOOOOOO FUNNY!!!!!!

[MucusandPus]

It is Tee Collins. I love the music in both this and Wanda the Witch.

[iluvpepi]

Oh I love the music! Back then there was always a great variety of musical styles from jazz to this sweet, childlike, Beatrix Potter sound whenever these types of sketches would come on.  As a child they taught me alot

[sunniluvart]

?? I don't get it.. Thought I understood it when I was a kid...

[hippojuice23]

Notice noodles..lol!!

[TheGreatDoon]

"Nincompoop" LMAO

I haven't heard anyone use that word in eons!

[fonna]

Why did it make more sense back then?

[OtherBrother09]

I grew up with this cartoon and Wanda the Witch. I still love them.

[sd04276]

who narrated this wonderful thing sounds like Shari Lewis a very pretty voice

[DianaDeLuna]

This made so much more sense when I was 5.

[FlamestrixWindfyre]

OMG!!!! You found it!!! I have been looking for this one. None as my friends seem to believe me when I say the Nancy the Nannygoat existed....

even though the other Nannygoats are quite mean, it was always just cute to me. I guess this got me into Alliteration in my writing.

Thank you!!!!

[MuzikJunkyAES]

The music's dope in this sketch, too. Peace.

[JonasClark]

I'm certain this music was also in some sort of British kids' TV bit.

[funnymissy67]

I haven't seen this in about 35 years! My name is Nancy and I have been telling my kids (hee hee) about this segment and how the neighborhood kids (hee hee) tortured me for years! They just saw it with me. It's even worse than I recall : ( I mean what other name did they do such an injustice to?

Nancy

[deadluckyjay]

me too, it's surreal seeing it again after all those years

[Babe5677]

I remember this as a kid I used to sit down watching this with a drink of water and nibbleing on my nails. But I don't nibble on my nails anymore I have nice lovely long sharp nails. I still love this segment I would love it on DVD and I wish I had a pet nightingale and a beautiful lovely necklace like Nancy. I liked Nancy the nannygoat, her grandma and the pet nightingale I still do. Because my Nanna looks like the granny nannygoat because she knits alot just like her. I give it 1000 stars.

[d72jjpilc]

I remember this - a creative collection of 'n' words that one can call 'noteworthy nonsense.' That is, even if something doesn't appear to make sense at first, the fact that someone was able to come up with such an idea deserves notice.

[grdabennett]

I've heard this music somewhere before, but it was'nt on this. Instead it was on an old VHS that I still own where Bill Cosby tells aesop's fables to two kids in a forest.

[Gzubi14]

This was my favourite ever Sesame Street skit when I was a kid. It's one of my earliest memories.

I was calling everyone a "nitwit', a "ninny' and a 'nincompoop' for weeks.....lol

[CherJovi]

I love this so much as kid, thanks so much for this

[galaxyhigh73]

Has there been some unquestionably verified, completely objective study, that declared "Material this whimsical and intelligent has irreparably harmed the development of young children into responsible adults"? Um, no. It just isn't cost-effective, and doesn't sell merchandise, like good ol' Elmo (cough cough).

[eyesandmouth]

this is classic

[Akira625]

Nancy's nana sure is a nagging nuisance. Nancy should tell her to notice her needlpoint instead or she'll nudge her towards the nearest nanny-goat nursing home.

[onetwopussies]

never

[Akira625]

The background was always so catchy, and I swear I've heard it elsewhere on TV too.

[lfrage]

I loved the animation.

[JME1973]

I just listened to it again and you are right it is "nutty" not "naughty". Im surprised that they said "nutty" on Sesame Street but yet again it is an old skit.

[JME1973]

"Nannygoats who nibble on their nails and notice noodles are naughty" Back in the day that was one of the strangest things I have ever heard.

[love2register]

I think it's "nutty" insteady of naughty. I agree it's strange. Nutty, even.

[cannonmovietalesfan]

I think it's nutsies-a slang term for being crazy.

[melissa3289]

i was little and got a cat who was kind dumb so i was watching this and called my cat ninkumppoop she didn't have a name atthis time so since then it just stuck lol so when ever i saw this i would think of my cat

[RSG2006]

I once worked with a girl who claimed her grandmother was the narrator of this and "Wanda The Witch."

[autumnbubz5]

i like the'mary,mungo and midge' music.....

[am9224]

You worked out where the music came from orginally.

[woodrailking]

Nancy's going to get an "N-feriority complex".

[chemicalcarlos]

I adore the music in this one. It's so sweet! The least the other nannygoats could say after she put on that nifty necklace was "Nice", "Nifty" and "Neato"!

[patybear]

Oh wow! I remember this one!  patybear

[culpit]

Did you notice how all the nannygoats were giants and Nancy and her N shaped trailer was pretty small?

[ffairlane57]

This is pure unadultrated Sesame Street, before it was dumbed down, and long before Elmo.

[wattamack4]

Obviously done by the same person who did "Wanda the witch".

[matisse35]

Classic!!!

[ResidentFilmmaker]

OYE!NICE to kNow that video still is N-joyed by fellow aNimators, this spot was done by me aNimation meNtor Tee Collins who also did Wanda the Witch... eNjoy!

[cubestarlove]

Ah the good ol' days when people used words like 'nincompoop'

[vidhag900]

One of the best ever. I think Nancy is a good lesson in doing your own thing and not caring what others think.

[celticepona]

I think the music from this sketch was used in some 70s or 80s PSAs too...it sounds very familiar!

[ProductionX]

Heh, I know have this piece of music as an MP3 on disc!

[MuzikJunkyAES]

So, then, what's the piece? Crate diggers for beats need to know! Peace.

[murkitty]

This is great- and I love your classic NE aquarium clip too!! Now, if I could just find wanda the witch...

[ktelqueen]

how much do i love 'i am a nightingale' !!

[crowamonghens]

i can relate.

[yessong69]

At 37 years old I admit that I still bite my nails sometimes...and whenI do I always hear "Nancy! Don't be a ninny! Never nibble on your nails!" Too bad it doesn't seem to work....:)

[peterproscia]

Thank you for this. I never thought I'ld see it again. Love it!

[MacLeaper]

This is a great cartoon- I don't think I've seen this since I was a kid! :-)

[Lectronimo]

"Instead of nibbling her nails, she started to notice noodles."  I love this cartoon, the dialogue, the music, everything. Did anything ever come of that Nancy the Nannygoat / Wanda the Witch spinoff that was rumored to be in the works? No I'm joking of course.

[dariaE]

oh I love you, love2register, now if you post either the scary 'louis & bob paste up the train tunnel billboard' OR (oh please!!!) the animated bit where the girl talks to the cracks on her walls in the shapes of animals I will pledge allegiance to you daily...

[love2register]

I'm sorry dariaE, I don't have them but maybe someone else does? Can we discuss terms for a weekly pledge?

[squeaks1015]

Yes, the scary train tunnel billboard clip was hands down the scariest clip from Sesame Street. I would run out of the room crying when I was little. I can perfectly remember the music they played, which made it all the more disturbing to me.

[tristateguy]

That train tunnel skit scared the hell out of me! That and the bert/ ernie counting balloon reminded me of night terrors, which I suffered from, for some reason.

[jonnytbird4789]

Thanks for posting up! I haven't seen this one in ages!