Sesame Street - In With The In Crowd

[ThePatch202]

I actually learned how to read with help from Sesame Street, being a bit different that kids of the late 80's and early 90's, my parents had noticed I was reading street signs very well because of it

[ThePatch202]

If you watch Sesame Street in the 80's/90's, you would have noticed that the in and out crowds were complete oppisites of each other, so the song in the video is talking about oppisites, thanks to laughingsal for explaining that

[TheHelldragon]

Freaking hipsters!

[MsPandaRosa]

This song makes being Out just as cool as being In.

[MrNickWright]

I'm actually quite annoyed with my memory that for the past 20 years I didn't think about this once. But just now seeing it on youtube my brain goes "Oh yeah, here's the files for that I had locked away for no real reason"

[ThePatch202]

Me and my mom loved this song

[TM2DB]

Welcome to the 90's. Freaked me out as a kid.

[cainster]

this is like watching Mr Rogers on LSD

[herzenverbrecher]

omg this looks like an acid trip. And I clearly remember watching it as a kid. I can't believe grown-ups even let me watch this stuff!!

[BrianMak]

I remember this!

[jwuonog]

parappa the rappa at 0:59!

[MiltownPunkette21]

The bone I have to pick with this is, it reminds me of how I was an outsider when I was growing up :(

[ElectricShark]

Hey me too!

To me, I read so deep into it as a kid.

The In-crowd represented society to me but the out-crowd was the iconoclasts.

I went overboard on this.

And to think, I was just a little Autistic kid who desperatley wanted to fit in with the In-Crowd!

[MiltownPunkette21]

Autistic, eh? One of my exes is autistic :) What type of autism do you have?

[ElectricShark]

Asperger's.

Maybe this is why I read so much into this as a kid.

I always wanted to dance with the In-Crowd as a kid but I subconciously knew I was part of the "out" crowd.

[twigggie]

i loved this as a kid but it gave me nightmares!

[MavericksJSF]

Anybody notice the bong that gets put in the fridge? And what is that the "In Crowd" is harvesting in that field...

[TinyDancer500]

LMAO! Nice catch, I never noticed the "bong" before :-) Gotta be something else, though, even the hip Henson crowd wasn't *that* hip!!

[BizzarreProductions]

You can go ask user laughingsal; she made this.

[RainbowVintage]

It's a toy, a wooden duck (or dragon or gator?) with little wheels on the bottom.

@TinyDancer500

Thanks for the Sounds Archive, it's great!

[Muppephile]

@TinyDancer500 it's a toy duck, I think, or a "drinky-drinky bird".

[WorldChallenge]

@MavericksJSF it's a duck.

[sweetprism00]

I never really got what the point of this song was...

[TinyDancer500]

Just a funky way tom illustrate in and out, nothing too taxing :-)

[sweetprism00]

Haha--I just didn't know why they needed a song for that--even toddlers get the concept of inside and outside!

[harrypotter1512]

wow lolz i looooved this when i was youngerr:)

hahahaha buut i just noticed that the "in crowd" is neat and tidy, and supposed to be cool.

and the "out crowd" is all wierd and messy:// coincidence?? i think not hahahaha :p

[jackmanslightpepper]

Hahahahah!! A bunch of hippies in the coolest, cleanest crackhouse ever!! Love it!!

[Cragget]

Paranoid Android??

[Katarine08]

OMG!! I haven't seen this in over 15 years! Wow, great memories! lol

[ReesiePuffs64]

I remember this! Snippets of it have been in my head since I was little but I had not seen it sense then.

[shikaneji1]

Damn. That is one catchy song, no?

Sheesh, I love it.

~Salma

[opheliahasagun]

This song scared me when I was a little girl! Actually, most of these animated musical sequences did!

[iamveggie]

wow. ive remembered this song since i was a kid and i cant believe i. listening to it again.

i would sing this in the most random of moments while growing up hehe XD

[Kalaundrea]

This was my absolute favorite song ever. I mean Ever. I liked this more than I liked grover's song. And that's saying something

[KGinATL]

Where is the one about above and below?

[TinyDancer500]

Look for the user named laughingsal, that's animator Sally Cruikshank's channel and you'll find it there. Or just check my Sesame Street Cartoons Playlist, it's on the first page :-)

[juniatha]

Wow, it's obvious that the people who sang this got into it to a ridiculous extent. I mean, PULL IT OUT DRAG IT OUT HAUL IT OUT, etc. It's wild, I love it, I love them. They went so far for us. Thank you, Sesame Street people!

[crocetti1984]

OMG, I KNEW THIS EXISTED!! People kept telling me I was insane when I asked them if they remembered it!

[mftheory]

I think you are thinking too hard about Sesame Street.

[bluenotes1981]

The Out Crowd loves to shout it out. LOL

[HomicidalGenius]

the memories are flooding back

[mftheory]

This is a late 80s skit. Classic on so many levels. It not only teaches about the Opposites in and out but also on society as a whole. I could type a paragraph on this.

[678BUMPERLOVER]

lol i remeber this, what is so damn cool about staying in side the house

[PandaMishima]

On a sunny summer Georgia day you'd understand EXACTLY why.

[scar78201]

Wrong...the Song is "The In Crowd" by Dobie Gray in 1964. They kept pretty close to the original melody..

[NecroticCadaver]

Animator Sally Cruikshank rocks man!

[mftheory]

You actually KNOW who did the animation?!?! you guys never fail to surprise me,...!

[TinyDancer500]

I had no idea myself when I first posted this, but Sally has her own channel here (laughingsal), check it out!

[Hookedoncollies]

Sally Cruikshank is the best! Look for "Face Like a Frog" - they used to show it on Nickelodeon.

[Spongegirlbob]

i dont think there is an old sesame street skit that i dint like lol i swear i think it was all ruined when elmo became a regular now the show like revolves around him and stupid elmo world is like 40 minutes long

[AnnitheDiva]

Wow... yeah. Wow. I still know all the lyrics to this, even though I haven't seen it in a good ten years. Thanks for sharing this, TinyDancer, and I've been frequenting your awesome site for quite a few years now. :)

[cinemania96]

Does anybody know the name of another Sesame Street vignette with animation just like this in which a female with blond hair has on a pilot's outfit and goes flying with no airplane? The name of the song?

[ElectricShark]

That song is called "Above It All."

And yes, it is on youtube.

[Rwicked]

Sesame Street gave me an appreciation for good music.

[glsun02]

man we were easily amused back then

[tictoc1987]

You're so effin' awesome for uploading this!!! Been wanting to see it for yeeeaaaars!! Thanks!

[eledriel]

I absolutely loved this song. I don't really know why. It's kind of beatnik-y in a way.

[ISNorden]

Well, it was a parody of a late 60s song; the writer did a good job of keeping the original style.

[nafeesa83]

If there is anything scarier than the 80's its the early 90's! LOL! This is really post modern

[KatieWagnerFan]

I so remember this from the early 90's!

[janeykinspeen]

ahh these scared meeee

[tigercubgurlie]

i love that song! i remember it too

[LiteracyLabyrinth]

those angular animations are scary

[mashimaro1]

I remember this! The style of the drawings scared me!

[chayale]

i remember watching this in the early ninties and iots gr8 to see again!

[Nyandra]

oh god. I remember this...