Monsterpiece Theater: 1 Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

[sshuisken]

As much as I love and cherish the memories that Sesame Street gave me as a child, for us to say that Elmo has corrupted the show is downright selfish. Elmo is incredibly popular with today's kids, and is geared to appeal to THEM, not us (while containing some excellent parody, Sesame Street ultimately a children's program). If kids like and learn from Elmo, that's the most important thing. I DO miss Monsterpiece Theater and all the old late 80's/early 90's content, though.

[cellokid]

Who perform a cuckoo bird?

[cellokid]

Whose Perform the 2 Pigs?

[cellokid]

Whose Perform the 3 Chickens?

[Vook]

God, how I loved Sesame Street as a kid, even though I never understood any of the references that Monsterpiece Theater made.

Now, though, I can't help but think that "Four Flew Over the Pigsty and Landed in the Mud" would work great as a comically super-depressing parody of the ending of the actual movie. :P

[4TheDoctor2]

These are absolutely hilarious. Oh my god, make my night why don't you!

[Roccarocks]

Rocky 20.....HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

"Story of Rocks...."

[FilmmakeroftheFuture]

That's how I would describe the actual movie, "very beautiful, very moving, very silly." Thank you Jack Nicholson and thank you Will Sampson.

[gimmjoww]

I remember this when I was 5. good times

[corjonbett]

Me hope!

[corjonbett]

Me VERY sorry, that not "One flew over Cuckoo's Nest!" That, uh... AH!

"4 Flew over Pig Sty, Land in Mud!" (Very messy story!)

[colourfulwithaU]

Is that Handel?

[Shaghayegh11]

@colourfulwithaU

No that's Jean-Joseph Mouret.

[hreinnafhjarta]

Awww... i always loved cookie monster.... Me want cookies!!! This was soooo hilarious!!! Memories... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!! So much less traumatizing than watching the actual movie... Undoing the damage of Nurse Ratchet ...hehehe

Do enjoy....... Weeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 flew...Who knew?

[Maestrochimongas]

0:14 i always loved that kermit's pic!

[fda0010]

I use to love this particular opening of monsterpiece theater. With all the characters that had been used in other pieces shown in classic pictures. It was funny but cool at the same time because it had that sense of importance from a show you would see in an adult show version, only geared toward us kids. Very creative. Grover was awesome. Though I like Elmo I must admitt, Grover in his heyday, would give Elmo a run for his money. Not to mention Burt and cookie! Cookie eating, lol!

[thearabiandrummer]

The 7 people who disliked this video must be legally retarded.

[Mcpimpin16]

gay

[travelsonic]

"Now.. let's try again, or me get a new j ob!"

Old Sesame Street was really funny, no wonder it stuck so far into my brain.

Kids need IMO the humor, and good lessons of old SS - not the watered down crap where half of it is Elmo - though obviously while keeping modern-ish [but this kind of stuff, how do you do, or not do, that?]

[edgewooddirk1212]

Ever notice in the final refrain of the opening instrumental that Alastair munches in pitch and rhythm with the music? Clearly he's a critic of good taste.

[ThirdStrikeParty]

Inspirational.

[vantarinitel]

So buggy considering the real One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest... Creepy.

Is it bad I want a cookie now?

[ironchefjapanrocks]

what does he say.....good dexter or what??

[trecool871]

@ironchefjapanrocks

He says "good texture", refering to the texture of the cookie

[trecool871]

@ironchefjapanrocks

He says "good texture" refering to the texture of the cookie

[IndianaJonesfans09]

Oh dear god, I never saw this one. 

[herbybaby01]

I miss being a kid and watching this kind of stuff

[A2theD1]

Alistair Cookie !!!!! lol

[PapagenoJuan2]

I want the Mp3 for the intro :)

[tommyt1971]

Absolutely brilliant... still makes me laugh over 30 yrs later...

[hamsteradorable]

yeah completly coockoo ha ha ha

[KLRwashere]

When I was a kid, the beginning used to make me laugh when CM was throwing down on those darn cookies. And you know what I found out today? It still does.  I am glad it stopped when it did. My breathing was beginning to be affected by my laughter.

[Gnickk]

It's the final "cuckoo" that really sells this story.

[CDCB2]

Heh heh. The TV Y box is stuck on the screen.

[NeuralNetProcessor]

"Good texture." that always did it for me.

[thedrumbum1990]

20 rocks,,, very heavy stuff! XD

[mrchickenwing98]

oh...now i get the joke...

[AviloriANo1]

This is a real classic when Sesame Street was worth watching.

Every since Elmo's World, its spiraled down the drain.

Old Sesame Street FTW.

[pokeplayer935]

@AviloriANo1 I think Cookie should have had his own series instead. Maybe kids nowa days wouldn't be so messed up if that had happened.

[matthatter56]

@AviloriANo1 What you mean you don't like CGI Bert and Ernie. CGI is so much more awesome then actual puppets. Wait what this isn't opposite day? Oh *backs away slowly*. Lol

Seriously I agree old school Sesame Street is the best. My heart broke when I saw Bert and Ernie CGI. Also every time I see Elmo's World my childhood dies a little.

[AviloriANo1]

@matthatter56 Every time dude....every time *pulls out hankie*

[sowisapigtobeexact2]

LOL: 3 flew over chicken's coop and 4 flew over pig's sty! Ha Ha Ha Ha!

[wileyk209zback]

At 1:14, one of the chicken puppets looks like Camilla the Chicken!

[Angie2343]

@wileyk209zback Maybe it IS Camilla.

[NaiTaiDai]

@Angie2343 Except she isn't performed by Jerry Nelson in this skit like most of the Muppet Show chickens are.

[Angie2343]

@NaiTaiDai Ah, okay.

[brianklick]

I always loved and appreciated the opening sequence. buying all the props and taking the time to set them all up for the camera to capture is impressive. the time and effort the ss staff put in to create it is something that we have not seen on ss for years.

[theflamingredone]

rocky 20, the story of 20 rocks.

..very heavy stuff.

[NOW060]

how come cookie monster didn't eat the script/ book in the end?

[Iori400]

WTF no jack nicholson? :P

[Durhandoni]

One flu over the cookies nest,would be closer to reality.

[Wheeloffortunefan999]

@Durhandoni lol, good one

[corjonbett]

Where'd the book come from? And where did it go?

[sandrilene23]

Oh, Sesame Street, I applaud you.

Next week: Rocky 20. Story of twenty rocks. Very heavy.

[justin2themax]

he sounds like hes having a orgasm lol!!

[Gravidtron]

For some reason I thought there was a "Five Swam Under The Duck Pond" in here somewhere. I remember a low-tech underwater effect and everything. Must be a false memory.

[mcht50202]

hahaha!! handsome number 3 and handsome number 4!!

[NeuralNetProcessor]

lol @ :21 "NOMNOMNOM...good texture."

[CaitlinBrooksMusic]

I always loved the theme song here.

[wickedfeylady]

I remember this one from when I was little!!! 3 flew over Chicken coop!!

i'd have loved a verison with Jack Nicholson as number 1 and Snuffy as Chief Bromden.

[terrencemesed]

as the screen's first Dracula. See this film @ Movie Watcher [dot] US

[afrox]

I cannot believe how many sesame street segments I remember! (considering how little I was) Now that I've seen one flew over the cuckoo's nest this is pretty weird! XD

[RThompson313]

LMAO....wow I haven't seen this in years...Cookie Monster was the man !!

[Mascro1977]

that Cuckoo did remind me of Nurse Ratched

[linkabombs]

i'm young kid again! is this a real song cuz I want to dress like a king and play it all day

[CoolDude8675309]

This isn't the same book I read. Hehe.

[sarahn2k7]

a still remember this from wen a woz like 3 or 4 :P

[alias093001]

A true classic. Forty years of Sesame Street and this will always be the skit I remember.

[DubCTales]

I think I actually remember this skit...good memories, haha!

[reaverofsouls]

Where's the pipe, man?!?!

It's not Monsterpiece theatre if Alistair doesn't eat his pipe at the end of the bit.

[wonderoutloud]

ahhh awesome! haha that made me laugh so hard

[TomatoeAssassin]

I grew up with the Cookie Monster.  He was always my favorite Sesame Street muppet.

[Blahkishma]

History has been marked.

[NaiTaiDai]

I think SS was more random than TMS, wasn't it?

[RazorSlik]

LOL i always laughed at the sound of cookie monster eating during the intro years ago... and i still do LOL

[TraderJack641]

Classic stuff! Great clip!

[perfgeek]

I wonder if Alistair Cookie ever met Mr. Cooke :)

[Goji73]

This sketch introduced to the existance of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. I still think this is better than the real thing...

[AJTalon]

You said it. I liked the movie better.

[midcoast007]

I remember qouteing this endlessly to my older sister and my parents to make them laugh when i was young. I think the year this aired was about when I stopped watching.

[rachiekins2391]

i love the intro... it really takes me back...

[ShereKhanTiger]

Believe it or not, this Sesame Street sketch got me hooked on the real, Masterpiece Theater, and later I got into reading these classic pieces of literature because I wanted to see how they were to the shows. Thanks Sesame Street.

[1104882221]

However, today in 2009, we know these "classic pieces of literature" were mostly all written by DWEMs (dead white European males) and so are racist, sexist, prejudiced, and biased...now we study WORLD literature !!

[ShereKhanTiger]

I am reminiscing as to how I got started reading more than kids books as a child, and this nut comes along and makes this completely insane comment about European literature.

I must have a sign on my back that says, "yes, I would love to listen to your insanity." I mean, really, WTF? Some liberal new-age **** is trying... you know what, not worth the time. If anyone feels like spamming user 1104882221, go for it!!!

[1104882221]

I see that I have indeed struck a nerve !! You must be one of those conservative right-wingers who goes on and on about how you are not intolerant, yet live in a gated community and use undocumented workers for domestic help. You invite people to spam me, but I compare you to Police Chief "Bull" O'Connor of Alabama who ordered his K9 dogs to attack unarmed freedom marchers - but who ultimately prevailed? Certainly not the white-supremacist segregationists !! WE SHALL OVERCOME...

[BizzarreProductions]

What about the Monsterpiece theatre where they talked about "The Old Man and the C"? That story was totally about white people!

[thegreatactor]

SNL

[lazrul]

man im way to old to watch this let alone laugh at it... yet i do

[NaiTaiDai]

"Cuckoo! Cuckoo!"*1 flies over the nest*"....Cuckoo!!"

Ain't THAT the truth?!?

[Wellch]

too bad Jack Nickelson did not make a cameo appearance in this picture.

[fortyseventhronin]

I can get over how cute Cookie looks in his little suit.

[Pikachuiscool]

Does anyone have the skit where the three cuckoo birds go inside the cuckoo clock just to say "cuckoo" when the clock strikes 3?

[scorchedcandy]

LOL! I love this spoof!

[sandrilene23]

"Join me next week for Rocky 20. Story of twenty rocks.

Very heavy stuff."

XD

[ironchefjapanrocks]

@sandrilene23 that just cracks me up.....didnt it crack u up?

[NaiTaiDai]

Two of those chickens are white. Nice cameo, huh?

[deanster57]

i love cookie monster-tori

[moatguy]

Cookie Monster should have checked the Contents page.

[yesistasty]

The best part has to be his expression at the end. So smug.

[Mascro1977]

OMG now according to PBS this is not suitable for preschoolers even though I watched this when I was that age!

[Jbrangwynne53]

2:15 Let's try again or me get new job. Oh ho! XDDDDDDD

[BuddyBoy600]

Is that Steve Whitmire doing Henry the Pig?

[jonnytbirdzback]

No.

[Jbrangwynne53]

Hhmm... Sounds more like Fran Brill to me. Or it could be Bob Payne.

[MiyahSummer]

Lol, I love the intro with cookie shoveling away.

[moatguy]

I always loved when the 4 splated in the mud.

[moatguy]

Has Cookie Monster ever heard of a Contents or Index page?

[petejt]

I LOVE this! best of 'em all!

[neddx]

I like how he doesn't even eat the book. I would've loved to see Rocky 20 with a Dolph Lundgren rock and a Mr T rock

[neddx]

Cookies are a sometimes food...and sometimes is NOW!!!!

[FreakinEviI]

"Very messy story." Lol...

[Gabrielle261]

"Very beautiful! Very moving! Very silly."

Alright Cookie Monster!! :)

[renstevens109]

"let's try again or me get new job"

[54spiritedwill54]

Finally, a copy with the long intro! It sure beats the "Green Curtain" title card!

[tubegirl93]

lmao! i like the curtian. this intro used 2 scare the shit out of me as a kid [idk y, don't ask], but now i don't see a problem with it, lol! it's actually funny =D. i was a WEIRD child, lmfao!

[Garrettk41]

It scared me a bit when I was younger too. I guess I was just used to the Union Jack introduction at the time, and this one was a bit more intense than I was to. The original is still the best.

[tubegirl93]

i was used 2 the green curtian =)

<3 that one

i never saw the old one on tv before, but i saw it on youtube

[BuddyBoy600]

I prefer the Monsterpiece Theater intro with the Union Jack flag.

[jonnytbirdzback]

Me too. I do remember seeing that version while I was younger but do you or anybody else have it?

[Wellch]

I miss it too. Were those from the UK upset about the presence of it or something?

[Tyrannozero82]

As a parody of the real Masterpiece Theater series?

[BuddyBoy600alt]

Yes. This is a parody of Masterpiece Theater.

[vulpecula999]

@BuddyBoy600 don't want to be pedantic, but it's either the union flag or the union jack, not the union jack flag. If the flag is flown on land it is the union flag, if it is flown at sea it is the union jack

[Ereldor]

"Story of 20 rocks. Heavy stuff!"

[gsmittyuniy]

i love the intro music, i wish someone had an mp3 of it or something so i could put it in other videos

[silverwurm]

keepvid website will let you download youtube videos as .flv files, AoA audio extractor will let you rip the audio from them in mp3/wav form. (search for both on google) Then you'll just need an audio editor to separate the intro music from the rest. Of course you'll still have cookie monster munching in the background during the intro.

[kapgunryda]

join me next week for rocky 20, the tale of twenty rocks, pretty heavy stuff. LOL

cookie monster makes the show.

and now i can share my childhood love for sesame street with my kids. cartoons aren't what they used to be, but sesame street stays the same.

[abnormalchild]

anybody knows the title of the music theme???

[Wellch]

it came from a PBS TV show called Masterpiece Theater with an Alastair Cook.

Sesame Street is just spoofing it.:-)

[CapsaicinHat]

The Masterpiece (and Monsterpiece as well) theme comes from "Symphonies and Fanfares for the King's Supper". A little web searching should find you a recording. There are many.

No idea if it's still the case, but as a trumpet player circa 1990 high school I played it a *lot*.

[princessirenie]

i love the intro.....gooooood memories

[girlsixdiva]

Me too! That intro is the bomb! And love the part where he burps and goes "scuse me." LOL

I miss the part where he would eat the pipe!

[realeimperobritannic]

'Very beautiful. Very moving. Very silly'

lol the movie is the best one i've ever seen,

it's starts funny but ends sadly and beautifully...

[MuppetPro]

Let me try again or me need to get new job. LOL

Sesame doesn't have this kind of humor anymore.

[videolover978]

Why did they show, 3 flew over the chicken coop, 4 flew over the pig sty and one flew over the cuckoo's nest!

[ReevaInari]

Two of those chickens came from The Muppet Show.

[setheurovision94]

I could go on and on about the wonderful quotes but I've nothing to add, really. "Rocky 20: a story of 20 rocks. Very heavy stuff." ROFLMAO!

[CitizenGatsby]

LMAO That's my favorite line from this.

[bassman5588]

very funny. i haven't seen this in a very long time. the real story of "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" is very sad.

[MysteriousBob]

I had to write an essay comparing the totalitarian systems of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

Dunno how I got an A for it because I didn't even realise flying numbers had such a large part in the plot.

[metrocard155]

Bwahahaha!

[actorflaw]

It would be mathmatical if a "7" flew over cuckoo's nest. How many times would you hear "Me sorry"

[rajaboy]

i used to love it when the stories would get fucked up & he say me very sorry

[vanni9283]

That's why they have "News Flashes" with Kermit the Frog....haha!!!

[Wheeloffortunefan999]

"very beautiful! very moving! very silly." LOL

[Wheeloffortunefan999]

i was wondering what happened to this!

[melman74b]

Rocky 20??? ROFLMAO!!!!

[setheurovision94]

Sylvester Stallone must have fainted when he heard that.

[XelaRini]

It would be funnier if a 5 flew over him

[Angie2343]

or a 20.

[lizzykat2]

Haa haa My Throat and my head hurts from laughing so hard

[matthew3alex]

I've been waiting so long for that Sesame Street Dancing Feet skit. Can you upload it?

[wiley207]

Finally, a copy with the long intro! It sure beats the "Green Curtain" title card!