Classic Sesame Street animation - Ringmaster #3

[sarahthediva]

which ringmaster skit is it where he floats up in a bloon and then someones pops the balloon and he gets mad and says "take a hike!"

[KingSlifer]

That wasn't a ringmaster sketch, but it was the same animation. The sketch you're thinking of is when a man asked for a big then bigger then the biggest balloon. After popping the big and bigger balloon with a pin when he grabbed the biggest balloon he floated away into the sky where he saw a big then a bigger then a biggest black bird, which lead him to tell the birds to buzz off. But the biggest black bird popped the balloon sending him to fall to his possible demise.

[patrickballoonman]

Useful tip for animators: Keep your characters in mid-air until they realize they're in mid-air, then make them fall.

[dorourke105]

Can anyone repost 11 purple pooches or 12 flying finches.I think 6 swimming seals used to be on here too.

[KingSlifer]

actually there were 7 seals. for 6 they used a barrel of monkeys.

[dorourke105]

Oh okay,my mistake.

[NantoVision]

I posted 12 finches recently. I have 6 monkeys and 7 seals, but they have those added sound effects.

[patrickballoonman]

That's okay, Nanto. I've always liked those finishing touches.

[videoguy100]

I've been wanting to see the one for 2, where instead the ringmaster using the whip but a saxaphone. This one has hardly seen when I was a kid. Thank you for posting this.

[classicssmfan]

I have that one, but since I don't have the technology, I can't put it on here.

[colleen4ever]

So, vvhich one is Speedy, vvhich one is Polly, and vvhich one is Guido? :)

(anyone get it?)

[KingSlifer]

Samurai Pizza Cats.

[erracht]

WOOOW, you don't know how long I've waited for this one! about exactly 23 years in fact! I saw it maybe in early 1985 when I was 5. For some reason, I really found it cool when the cat lit the wick and it started the cannon. Thereafter I was a big cannon fan for awhile (and thus also liked the number 3 Sesame Street pinball animation)! I never saw this clip again on TV. This is really a part of my childhood, thanx sooooo much!

[am9224]

3 fabulous flying felines will defy the very laws of gravity! 1, 2, 3.

[thekingof8]

The ringmaster will probably get a call from PETA.

[Deanmo23]

Cats hate water, you know.