1969 Ernie goes rock hunting (Sesame Street)

[FireLightning16]

0:16 just where is he putting those rocks anyway?

[rtuckerivey]

2...3... I'M GONNA GO ROCK HUNTING

[shcsepac]

LOL



[DakariKingMykan]

Monster: Actually... his buggest mistake is not saying he's sorry. I'd have forgiven him. Oh well...

[JasonMC72]

Next time Ernie, bring a machine gun with you. It worked for Rambo. LOL!

[subulion]

I always hated how Ernie Grover or any of the characters ran away at the end and left us the viewers to deal with their mess or monsters or whatever I just wanted to yell out hey come back here take me with you!

[loveforlogos]

This is from "Sesame Park"?

[speculate1]

they should have made the monster shrug his shoulders...maybe wouldn't be so scary to little kids..( kinda "oh well")

.I used to hide behind my dad's old recliner when this skit came on in the early 70's !!!

[Blondiechickie1972]

@speculate1  omg the ending still scares me and i am 39

[cstoczyn]

The Monster That Was Used In This Sketch

Is Fred The Dragon From The Ed Sullivan Show

[sonicfanornonfan]

0:39 I'M IN DA BOX!

[sweetlife031]

The early 70s Ernie / Bert sketches with monsters scared the...you-know-what out of me as a child...i.e with also the monster they used before Cookie Monster - creeepy *shivers*

[nottheduck1]

Ernie then smokes a big fat rock.

[dazzarieth]

wow.. nothing that scary on SS these days.. I have kids who love it and I think they'd freak out if they saw that.

[creepiegirl345]

Ernie looks like Crap!And his voice is soo deep!WTF!

[Dekobee]

Wow, that green monster really has a BIG, BIG pimple.

[CinemaLamb]

The eye focussing of the early puppets for Ernie weren't great as shown in this video, and in the test show pilot it was slightly hard to tell that the puppet is speaking to viewers because it was so bad.

Muppet Wiki shows that it was Season 3 when Ernie's eye focus in order to make eye contact had been finalized in its improvement.

[darthvatrayen]

Kermit > Elmo > Ernie

[cheeto37]

lol ernie likes hard balls

[JasonMC72]

That monster has Kirstie Alley's eyes.

[poopetlilly]

does that monster have a wart?

[16shogunelitegreen]

I know this has nothing to do with jim henson but the looks like the lizard monster the MMPR season 1, u no the one where kimberly gets stuck on a plane when the pilot falls asleep

[YungReg88]

@16shogunelitegreen: You mean the Snizzard? Well I suppose he does. Minus the large teeth and the apple on his head.

[16shogunelitegreen]

@YungReg88 Yeah, the Snizzard. The wart on the monster's head is wat minded me of him

[gvolpe1003]

oh yah!

[Demoncurse123]

lol, He said Hard.

[imrickjamesbitch23]

that ernie really loves his crack

[desirewhitefire]

That's Jim Henson's voice. So sad he died. :(

[OlympTheArk]

he has a ugly voice... in Germany he sounds more funnier :D

[NaiTaiDai]

Didn't Fred's mouth use to open wider than that when he appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show?

[raspberrymuffin]

Lol the "rocks" look like aluminum foil balls. :P

[whitecrow222]

i like ernies shirt... not the one he usually wore....

[coktoe]

I have an old ernie doll with this shirt!

[NikitaFilatovFan3040]

What's the music at 0:54?

[NHLinden]

? what

[galathonredd]

Dude... where IS Ernie stuffing those rocks, anyways? I don't want to think about it anymore...

[rtivey01]

i think he is "stuffing" them in his pocket

[BizzarreProductions]

The monster looks like a watermelon with eyes and a snout! LOL!

[Johnny2071]

Most of the Sesame Street Monster came from the Ed Sullivan Show.

[muppetfan33]

Anyone know why the monster had that expression on his face when he went back down at the end?

[afriendofbean]

Maybe he gave that expression as soon as he went back underground because, he was probably glad that Ernie ran away and so that he could be left alone with no one around to hit or touch the rock on his head. Also, maybe that expression he gave while going back underground probably meant that he was saying to the audience "bye everyone."

[OhGodIPooed]

omg i got a fright when the monster came up lol

[muppetfan33]

I could've sworn when I saw this as a child the monster had spirals in his eyes.

[loikmg]

This was probably one of the videos you saw of fred the dragon.

[afriendofbean]

Fred The Dragon was also in the skit where Kermit describes what "in" the box means with Grover (this was the skit before Grover got the name "Grover" where he was referred in that skit as "Fuzzyface" and "Hairy One" by Kermit).

[loikmg]

Same here when I was a kid, I can take it now as well.

[finnishminnow]

This is probably the first time you'd see Fred Monster.

[briansky10]

The monster part frightened me to death as a child. Whenever this would come on I'd change the channel immediately. I can take it now though.

[Jonni859]

......

[CoreytheGreat14]

I just laughed at Sesame Street. Touche Ernie, touche.

[OrwellianDawn]

I would've thought Ernie preferred things that were stubby and hard. You know, kind of like....erm, never mind.

[finnishminnow]

Ernie certainly made a big mistake hitting a monster on the head as it looked like a rock. I could tell because it grumbled by waking up as Ernie accidentally hit it on its head even though Ernie hadn't meant to do that, he thought that it was a rock.

[pokinsmot]

....... im so glad i never saw this.... i woulda shick brits...

[danawadd]

Yeah old school SS creeped us out but it stuck in our minds decades later, teaching us fundamentals while we ran for cover half the time. Current SS is so PC that nothing would 'scare' kids nowadays... and they're not learning either.

[beanut520]

None of my family members are PC. We watch whatever the hell we please. My youngest siblings hate Sesame Street, but I think they may not hate 1969-85 SS if they gave it a chance.

[eloquentfuckhead]

Oh man, this is what nightmares are made of, hahah, brilliant!

[godsholywoman]

Was Jim Henson the voice of Ernie in 1969?

[jwitchbaby]

yes. :)

[evantrude]

thats the thing about rocks no matter where you find them you dont hit them or else a cactus rock monster will come up and bit yer freakin head off.....mwahahahahahahahahahah­haaa

[38MGA]

Woah...freaky.

[bigrene2]

2,3....

[zizumia]

did sesame street begin in 1969?

[rotoscoop]

no one does monsters like jim henson

[idontwannatalkabther]

that is a really scary monster

[MeAndMyRC]

Fred The Dragon!

[Fiskomanen]

xD I'm from Norway and in Norway Ernie's voice its much more funnier x]

[EliJBrown]

What do you think the monster was going to do to Ernie?

[sortashaman]

"OH, YEAHHHH!!!"

Helluva growth on the ol' noggin' there...

[EliJBrown]

I'm going to go rock hunting

[eddman1000]

this really scares me. im afraid of alot of the old episodes of sesame street. idk y.

[lightningmunk]

that was freaky when the monster went down, eyes of hell man :P

huh! look at that one! that one is thee biggest one of all

[JME1973]

The synthesizer music at the end is pretty trippy!

[sacredcowburger]

I love Ernie's sense of what makes a rock worth keeping.

[Danskoe]

I don't think any kid who ever saw this became an archeologist.

[bornibol]

I hope Ernie got his rocks off!!!

[sammysamantha]

that's really creepy...

[Quietschquatsch]

I think this was made for teaching the children the meaning of big, bigger and the biggest.

[CDCB]

where did you get this?

[VisionofOrion]

For some reason this used to scare the hell out of me when I was a kid.

[Quietschquatsch]

This one scared me right now! And I am 23 now! What the hell is that?????

[koala371]

I wonder if Bert hired that monster to scare Ernie? serves him right.

[RoyalTenenbaum]

Ernie is much better off without Bert.

[VisionofOrion]

I always thought Ernie as the happy go lucky guy and Bert as the whiney mope...I always liked Ernie's solo skits alot more then when he was paired with Bert.

[Quietschquatsch]

Me too. At the moment I am collecting all the clips I can find with Ernie without Bert.

[KingGeber]

Look at abbot and costello

...

that's the whole point of pairing bert and ernie together.

[johnnymac497]

@VisionofOrion you really are going to say that Bert and Ernie were a mistake and the Ernie should have been solo?  Wow.

[VisionofOrion]

@johnnymac497 I actually like most skits with both (Actually couldnt picture the two apart) just trying to express how good some of Ernie's solo skits were.

[poopdookoo]

Lol cute but where does he put the rocks? in his pants?

[afriendofbean]

Maybe he's wearing a big waist pouch around his waist and he put the big and the bigger rocks in his waist pouch.

[toadettelover4ever]

ernie is really cute ^_^

[eleanoodle96]

HEY ernie is da best ever! :D

[greg5566]

I love how he hums if he walks two feet. He's so good-natured.

[citysnidget]

so trippy...but so good.

[tvmango44]

I like this show but it freaked me out when i first watched it.

[100Percent2Nothing]

It's sad but i actually got scared by the monster's look at the camera...I'm scared too easily i think. Did anyone else find it scary?

[dadogster]

hummm scary thought...

[33chiliken]

This one scared me too. A lot of the Old School Sesmae Street skits did. Weird watching them today, though.

[afriendofbean]

Yes, I thought it was scary too when the monster looked at the camera. That monster's name is Fred.

[Pimp479]

The suffuleupagus elephant was extinct about 1700BC.

[canadianrainbow]

Brings back memories.

[McPenguin97]

wow it does!

[jadekoolkat]

Back in the late 90s/2000-01, The CBC stations in Canada aired a 30 minute show called Sesame Park. Almost every episode showed an Ernie and Bert episode from the 69-70 season just like this one. I taped the one where Ernie tells Bert a monster ate the cake.

[Geotpf]

Clearly that's the source of this clip-that's a CBC logo in the lower right hand corner.

[presto35]

I love the ending music - HAD to have been played on a Moog synthesizer (the only one of its kind in 1969! :))

[wiley207]

The ending music seems pretty intense.

[StaceSesame]

and the monster looking at the camera really scary!

[InnerLock]

wat is really freaky is when in the episode of Futurama with the 4 leaf clover, and bender is shaking the safe to open it, he looks and the camera shaking fast and thats FREAKY! really!

[sonicfanornonfan]

@presto35 PBS '71 logo...

[Kooberz]

he stuck the rocks down his pants!

[133tn00b]

It's hard to!! hahaha

[StaceSesame]

lol imagine someone raping Big Bird, maybe Snuffleupagus. ;)

[Johnnyaddict1]

Lol this is sooooo funny well done.

[TheClarinator85]

..now where was he putting those rocks??

[jbn0817]

Haven't seen that skit in over 30 years. Hey, at least they were fashionable as Ernie was probably collecting pet rocks.

[MeAndMyRC]

That was Fred The Dragon, well, at least that was his name on the 'In' skit with Green Grover and Kermit. He was also on the Ed Sullivan Show before SS with Baby Dragon, also in a few SS skits.

[chris9879]

geez..is rock collecting fun?and that monster sucks!!it looks scary

[christmas75]

Owie. If anyone hit me on the head with that thing, I would be mad too! LOL! Rock hunting... sheesh. LOL! I love Ernie.  He's so silly.

[jadelman98]

I do remember seeing this on Sesame Street! They also played it in the early 70s as well as 1969.

[StaceSesame]

that dragon monster is the scariest monster on Sesame Street!

[DiAnno13]

1969: The first Monster of Rock tour

[JME1973]

I have heard about this skit but I never saw it until now. I may have when I was really little but I don't remember. That would have bothered me as a child but now I don't find that scary.

[pokinsmot]

yeah, that wouldve made me cry as a kid...

[sonicsuks]

where is he keeping those rocks?

[jim92021]

in bert's underwear

[sonicsuks]

LOL!

[Lectronimo]

Hey, does anyone remember the sketch where Ernie was outfitting a bunch of...I'm not sure...round creatures with baseball caps? Maybe they were balls. I'd love to see that again. And isn't there an Ernie sketch where he plays hide and seek with an X or a Z and it hides on the door of a barn? Those anthropomorphic letters always scared the hell out of me. I hated the Dragnet spoof because of that freaky M (or was it a W?).

[Derridonn]

I remember that one with the baseball caps. I'd sure love to see that one again.... I used to think the teeny weeny caps were the cutest things....

[steffap]

I remember those! I would like to see the first one especially....

[33chiliken]

I remember those too. How about when Ernie looses his rubber duckie and Oscar tries to help but instead brings a grouch doll. Ernie ends up finding his rubber duckie and they fight over which doll is better.

[jim92021]

Will success spoil the Rock Hunter?

[mooky9669]

That was freaky...a true classic!

[kobraf150]

Yeah, this would have creaped me out as a child. I'm glad I wasn't around in 1969.

[8traxrule]

Ernie should smash that logo in the corner! Most people in the US probably can't even tell what it is. Luckily there's a Classic Sesame Street DVD set coming out later this year. Public TV taught me that commercial TV was bad, but now my local PBS stations are putting crap on their picture too!

[JasonSesame]

I would love to see the other skit that monster appeared in, with Grover and Kermit.

[shadowhawk27]

never saw that one and i like it

[rjolliffe]

This movie is cool of short film

[Forkie]

II think its very possible that it's Frank Oz, because as you all know, Ernie is perfomed by Jim Henson.

[loikmj]

the rock monster i think, was puppetered by frank oz. if you listen to the monsters voice closely, he sounds like cookie monster. if this was me, hitting that monster on the head of course iwould run like hell, and call the authorities, if they would believe me and tell them what happen. and have them go out and destroy that thing, before it happens again to anyone else.

[loikmj]

yeah i know what your talking about. i've seen that ed sullivan sketch, i think this is the same dragon muppet that was on the sullivan show in 1966. or a replica look a like of it on this episode with ernie. the name of the muppet dragon was called fred the dragon. and the muppet did an episode with grover and kermit on sesame street in 1969.

[jonnytbird4789]

I got to admit,lots of things from sesame street scared the cap out of me when I was a kid. Like the Sesame Street News Flash with Pinocchio where his nose went even longer and longer until it crashed throught the wallwith Kermit at the end of it.

Also, that rock monster was the same dragon as used from that Ed Sullivan show sketch "Monster Father and Son" in 1966. But back then he had fangs in his mouth, arms, horns, no rock on his head, and was also performed by Jim Henson.

[loikmj]

i love this one. hav'nt seen this in ages. i think that is one of the weirdest looking monster muppets i've ever seen. please don't delete this video thank you.

[1f5sda]

that was a great skit but that creature was WEIRD looking!

[DiAnno13]

Yes... and the green bloke with the rock on his head was a bit odd-looking as well.

[StaceSesame]

This skit still is scary to me and I am 33! :O

[vivabrooklyn]

I agree with you--it's still scary to me too! When I was little I saw the skit and then was afraid that same exact monster was hiding somewhere in my house. Augh!

[MacLeaper]

If anyone has the full sketch of The Count spending the night at Ernie and Bert's and Ernie having zombie eyes the next morning because The Count kept him up all night long with his counting, PLEASE definitely post it! I haven't seen it in forever!

[simplyrahil]

hahaha

[StaceSesame]

yeah the skit with Ernie's zombie eyes were really creepy! wasn't that the skit when the Count slept over?

[brier19]

I remember this one. I was so afraid of it. Lots of things on Sesame Street was frightening for kids and they didn't realize it. Like when Ernie did his zombie thing once, that was scary as hell.

[StaceSesame]

that was scary at the end with the dragon muppet looking at the camera and that creepy music! :O

[muppetfan33]

Scared me as a child, too. In a way, it kind of still does, but not as much.