Sesame Street - S for Superman (1970)

[JTBear37]

S is also for Supercalifragilisticexpialidoc­ious

[TheRealThreeP]

He left out STRENGTH.

[NationOfAblation]

Gee, while he was lifting the spaceship and sailboat, you'd think the obvious 's' word would been strength... I was waiting for it.

[timepoet77]

Just so you know, that isn't Lennie Weinrib doing Superman's voice. It's long-time radio announcer Bud Collyer, who did the Man of Steel's voice in both the 1940s radio show and the late 1960s cartoon series.

[icyswordofawesome]

S is for Script that was written by thumbing through a dictionary.

[7DARKHELLS]

Wonder where he threw the Spaceship?

Its still dangerously active!

[voon100]

S stands for shyte.

[UaeDevil001]

S is for Stoned and that's what state i'm in now

[clsarashimmer20]

S for SHAZAM!

[DragonLord1975]

You don't mess with the "S"!

[cochranexyz]

S is good in Scrabble, too!

[ceetee1459]

I loved this short when I was a kid. Its as good as it was way back then.

[darthmeyers074]

Was that Lex Luthor in the spaceship?

[zvermilyer3]

@darthmeyers074

I think so, yes.

[vardiss22]

As a kid in the 70's growing up on the "old school" Seasme Street" this was one of my favorite animated shorts..i used to anticipate this one being shown every episode lol

[madorosh]

@vardiss22 Word. I've been trying to find this for decades. How did I know YouTube would have a copy. Nice find.

[robfergusonjr]

S is for STFU

[DarPower1]

hey superman, s also stands for 'stupid' and 'strange' and 'superfriends' which is where you should be with at the moment!

[zangetsu134]

Yes, S is important. listen to superman, or he'll lobotomize u.

[stegatops]

Love that Spaceship.........plenty of those flying around for kids to study the letter "S".

[TheSlickAndroid]

Why do I have a feeling that this was Superman's audition tape for Sesame Street?

[heartlessmushroom]

S is for Spy Sappin my Sentry

[blues2death]

sufferin succotash!

[buzzlewie]

Next time you think of Superman, think of the letter S, it's my favorite

[doctalee]

man i remember this....i loved it

there were no superman cartoons that cool at that that time

[TampaRed]

That. Was. Awesome.

[KG84C]

It also stands for Shit, Syphyllis, Scrotum, Semen, Sperm, Slime, Sleezeball, Spam, Spic, Sebum, Sarcasm, Sordid, Slut, Scum, Sewage....

And Sensationalist newspaper like the Daily Planet.

[therealgreatqball]

@KG84C oh, my....

[TheSlickAndroid]

@KG84C Superman could be saving lives and worlds right now,but he has more important things to do,like telling people how many words start with the letter "S."

[Deathclok]

@TheSlickAndroid He was saving lives and fighting crime. He stopped the villainous space ship AND saved a person in a storm.

[TheSlickAndroid]

@Deathclok I was just making a joke,man.

[Deathclok]

@TheSlickAndroid Just making sure you saw he was helping ;)

[thecrowe20]

@TheSlickAndroid Well Save and S'oh my god that's fucking Darkseid!

[buzzlewie]

Didn't see that in ages.

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

He missed, "Strength."

[JMMPR24]

"It also stands for Stupid Supervillan Shooting Sh*t at me. I'l Show him!...It also stands for Saliva, which is now all over my costume. Son of a b****!"

[therealgreatqball]

@JMMPR24 rofl

[JMFabianoRPL]

S is for Stole, as in Lex Luthor stole 40 cakes.

[tahunu]

And that's terrible.

[therealgreatqball]

@JMFabianoRPL nice...

[Klopy1414]

rofl. I was totally thinking this.

S stands for Sea.

And sailboat.

and storm.

And sinking.

And screwed.

[birdleson]

Are you sure that's not Bud Coyler voicing Superman?

[4a8p9x]

This was my favorite "S" skit when I was young. Most of the "S" skits struck me as very creepy (Sammy the snake terrified me as a toddler). This one was different however.

[DiAnno13]

Geez... S is also for Show-off.

[Deathclok]

@DiAnno13 he's helping people!

[baarbear]

You know, it's kind of jarring to hear a 70s animated Superman not being voiced by Denny Dark (The Superfriends).

[Goji73]

S also stand for this STATEMENT...

SHIT, what happened to Sesame Street?

[ETBX1]

I remember Filmation by its background score. And in these older productions, the sound effects were different; like that high pitched swooping sound when Superman flies past. By the time this clip was released, they were using the HB-like sounds, but when Superman and the other superheroes came out, it was a toatally different cound library.

[wiley207]

And sometimes, Filmation's animation (especially in the early "Archie" cartoons) would resemble a Jay Ward cartoon from time to time!

[saracen3000]

cool how they used 2 teach children shit back in the day. now the kids got cable and access 2 all kinda bullshit.

[Dmasterman]

I thought the "S" was a kryptonian family insignia. Then again, it looks like an English character S for humans. :P

[d72jjpilc]

Super memory! Thanks for posting! Music adds to the drama as well.

[ClarkSavageJr]

Does anyone know if the companion Batman and Robin cartoon from Sesame Street is loaded anywhere?

[KojiTsunami]

Nice. Y'know, this is pretty funny.

I'm surprised he didn't say strength though.

[misterlaufeyson]

superman looks kind of like namor at the end there...

[Astraldragon1]

Lennie Weinrib was a awsome talent he created lot of voices for many cartoons over the years from Scooby-Doo  in 1960's to Smurfs in the 1980's, he all so played PufnStuff and Magic Mongo.. the first Time I had seen him was on the Dick Van Dyke show. He was a friend of Buddy and Sally who played a Joke On Rob Petrie, and his co-workers Sally and Buddy were in on it.

[Jac2Mac]

Did Hanna-Barbera do the animation for this segment?

[asaweryold]

No, it was done by Filmation.

[wiley207]

Sometimes it's hard to tell Hanna-Barbera and Filmation cartoons apart, particularly since they use the same sound effects and animation techniques!

[floopehobaloobie]

This is great! Man this brings me back. thanks for posting!

[yootoobsuxx]

You can buy this on Sesame Street Old School Volume 1.

[groomdoggi]

Awesome! I've wanted to see old Sesames streets for a long time but had no idea where to look. Thanks for the clue.

[timharrod]

Lennie Weinrib was awesome. In addition to everything noted here, he was the voice of "Time for Timer," for those who are old enough to know.

[ClarkSavageJr]

I probably haven't seen this since it orignally ran on Sesame Street. If there was any one thing I could point to that made me a life long Superman fan, it'd be this 60 seconds of animation. For years I remembered "and Sinking...and Save...and Sand!". Now I can enjoy the rest. Thanks!

[drbotanus]

Who is the voice? Its one of the regular Filmation voices. I recognize it. But its not Bud Collier who normally did the voice. Anyone know?

[asaweryold]

Superman is voiced by Lennie Weinrib, who played Magic Mongo, H.R. Pufnstuff, and various other roles in Sid & Marty Krofft shows. He's also done a lot of other animation voices, including Lotor in Voltron.

[drbotanus]

Yep. Your right. He was also every villain, except Catwoman, on The New Adventures of Batman. Thats quite an accomplishment. But Ted Knight was creepier as the original voices of Penguin, Joker and Riddler.

[CygnusRoc]

@asaweryold I wonder if he's related to Gary Weinrib...otherwise known as the awesome Geddy Lee from Rush

[dtemplar21977]

@asaweryold Bud Collyer died in 1969, a few months before Sesame Street first aired.

[Urvy1A]

Collier passed away when this skit was aired.

[drbotanus]

Reminds me of the time "The Count" disintegrated in the sunlight!!

[RoyalKnightVI]

As action packed as Sesame Street could be!

[TFAtv]

Excellent! I have the utmost respect for the Sesame Workshop Company now, as I did then, but they will never top the old-school stuff (such as this) no matter how hard they try. Ever. End of discussion.

[asaweryold]

Try to watch a 2007 episode of Sesame Street from beginning to end on your local PBS station, and then let me know if you still have the utmost respect for the Sesame Workshop Company.

[Smartboy8877]

@asaweryold

You have just made a very good point! I find Sesame Street now to be pretty bad!

[robfergusonjr]

@Smartboy8877 Aint just SS, its almost every about America; quality is way way down.

[phonemadness2000]

Nice.

[jamesoshea67]

is sesame street still goin?

[stevenrf69]

it sure is

[mrmoore1970]

WOW!!!! I haven't seen this clip since I was a kid since the 1970's. I thought this was long gone and forgotten! Thanks a million for this clip!

[DragonLord1975]

Now THAT'S OLD SCHOOL! Who couldn't forget watching DC Classics on syndication? Sesame Street's "S for Superman" is quite a tribute here. I'm still waiting for how to cross the street with the Dynamic Duo.

[Kinesthetic]

From The Same Time This animation was made, there were two or so videos made that featured Batman and Robin...

From the Filmation Cartoons. Those animated shorts were featured on Sesame Street also...

[whammer0411]

Isn't there also a clip with Batman and Robin chasing the Joker? Anyone remember that one or am i crazy?

[PandaMishima]

I remember that clip, but I think it featured the Penguin, in connection with Clean & Dirty, ending with Batman cleaning the window.

[DiAnno13]

Which proved grime doesn't pay.

[AceTheBathound]

This was mine and Kinesthetic's fave when we were kids.

Of course, The DC universe from that period is our fave... Especially the original (comic book) version of Krypto, The Superdog, despite we're (Kinesthetic and I, AceTheBathound) one and the same

due to us being the same age and living under the same roof...

[OriginalRocketJock]

The voice is NOT Weinrib's; it is the voice of Bud Collyer, who did the voice for Superman on radio and the Filmation cartoons of the 60s, which this clip obviously is.

[asaweryold]

I'm sure Bud Collyer would have been happy to reprise his role for this, if he hadn't passed away the year before it was made.

[firestorm63a]

No. The poster is right. While Collyer did do the Filmation cartoons, he died before this "S" for Suoerman clip was made. So it is Weinrib.

[Lectronimo]

That voice is so clearly Weinrib's, not Collyer's.

[SidJustice1]

When he threw the space ship he unleashed GENERAL ZOD,THE LATEX CHICK, AND THE LURCH DUDE. From the mirror vortex. lol..

[mrmoore1970]

Actually, I think it's...General Zod, Ursa, and Non, from the Phantom Zone.

[SidJustice1]

Getting kinda "geeky" aren't we? How about this? Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas and Jack O'halloran from the giant piece of "glad-wrap".

[mrmoore1970]

Uh yeah, whatever!

[sailorlunatic]

My first guess would have been Lex Luthor. But it was too hard to tell. When I was little, I wasn't sure about its significance.

[DiAnno13]

"Maybe he committed suicide or maybe he didn't.." I certainly can't argue with that.

By the way, what qualifies as a normal death?

[DiAnno13]

S also stands for Suicide, which George Reeves, TV's first Superman, committed. It also stands for Several Silly Sequels, So Stop!

[skrag1]

S also stands for supposedly. There are still questions to whether he died by suicide or was murdered.

[DiAnno13]

True, S also stands for speculation, sensationalism and scepticism.

[skrag1]

Maybe he committed suicide or maybe he didn't, but it proves one thing, celebrities never die normal deaths. If a celebrity dies from suicide/overdose/sudden illness, conspiracy theories soon follow. Look at Marylin Monroe, Bob Marley, John Belushi, etc.

[thoughtfoxe]

Superman was my boyfriend when I was between the ages of 5 and 8. I was very proud of him, aren''t you?

[DiAnno13]

Not if he was dating an 8-year-old!

[PandaMishima]

Hey, Superman's not going to do anything Sneaky or Sinister to a Small child! Probably took Thoughtfoxe to a State park and showed her the Superior Surplusses of Sweet Mother Nature, which proved a Swell time.

[DiAnno13]

Indeed. He only threw it about 30 feet!

[skrag1]

So where did he throw that spaceship? Couldn't it just swing back around and attack again?

[vidhag900]

I was pretty worried about that sailboat for a minute. :)

[TServo2049]

This was done by Filmation; notice that the music incorporates the theme from the 1966 cartoon. The only perplexing thing: Why didn't they get Bud Collyer like they did for the cartoon series? I mean, even Danny Dark on the Superfriends is better than this voice...

[jetjaguar22]

Well, sadly Bud Collyer died in 1969. I'm sure Filmation had every intention of using Collyer, but probably already passed when they were ready to record. I'd had prefered Collyer too. I'm sure most Superfans would agree. However, I loved this sketch has a kid and it's great to see it again.

[jbl1975]

I used to remember this one well.

[bennyraven]

Really?