Classic Sesame Street - Animals escape from the zoo

[rang3r34]

Must be some damn good ice cream.....

[SteveCarras]

I recognize this from ":Gumby Baby Sits".

[ceitiosaurus]

Man I wish real zoo animals were just as smart!

[superlurf]

Why do people try to debunk this. This is a CARTOON and is not real. This is a way to teach kids COOPERATION

[cmturvids]

comment on every utube video ever made: loves it!

[Muppephile]

The fact that zoos were really like that back then makes me sad. Compare this to the elephant asking which way to the zoo.

[wileyk209zback]

I just heard the music at 1:07 on "Gumby Babysits!"

[superAJ71]

Damn! Nobody seems to have that a-cappella song about zoo animals sung to the "12 Days of Christmas" tune.

"In the first cage at the zoo, this is what you'll see ..."

[Crackrzz]

He is worrying about germs from a coin (although it just occurred to me that he may have been worrying about swallowing and choking on it), but saws through metal bars with his teeth. Brilliant. :P

[ShaiMyst]

tiny question....why does the male kangaroo have a pouch?

[PandaMishima]

He's a cartoon, so he can have one when it's convienient. Of course it could also be a deep-voiced female?

[CarolinePar]

did no one else notice a MALE kangaroo was the one with a pocket?

[flowertrue]

if they do sneak back in, the zookeeper is gonna be mighty puzzled by the sawn-off metal bars

[camsotherstuff]

cooperation !!!!!

[flowertrue]

Quotable quotes:

*looks down as if just noticing.*

Look! I have a pocket!

Do we have a rope?

No, but we have a snake!

Well I won't hold it in my mouth. Thats dangerous!!!

[JAVAGOIL]

I rememeber this! It's been ages.

[Capybara371]

yep females do and they have them only at birth.

[cyborgmessiah]

I always laughed my ass off at that line drawing animation part as a kid.

[MacLeaper]

I'll assume they're breaking out of the zoo as the title says- though it does suspiciously seem like prison... LOL :-)

[Nightmastercool97]

Yeah i was wondering that the first time i saw this clip.

[afriendofbean]

I'm not sure if they're really trying to escape from the zoo (even though the alligator said at 0:09 they can bust out of the zoo maybe meaning there's a way to get out of the cage to have ice cream) since they live there, or, if they just came out of their cage for a quick second just to get some ice cream for a snack or as their dessert since the zookeeper just gave them their dinner.

However, when I was very young, I thought all three of them were prisoners who were escaping from jail.

[PandaMishima]

Your idea makes sense to me. The jailbreak thing is probably delibrate--who would want to live in a cage. Admittedly it looks like a very well run zoo, just no ice cream!

[RSG2006]

Real brilliant, guys...The ice cream man asks what you want, and you tell him..."Ice cream." I think that much was already understood. :>

[rjolliffe]

The human food could me animals sick or death.

[PandaMishima]

True, but these are anthropomorphic animals, so does it still count?

[skrag1]

Male kangaroos don't talk or wear jackets either.

[Deanmo19]

It's obviously a prison.

[moatguy]

That,s what zoos were like in the old days. In fact when I saw movies of the last Tasmanian tiger n the Hobart Zoo I felt sorry for it because it looked like it was in a prison too!

[PandaMishima]

All the same, I've the feeling the animals will sneak right back into the zoo, prison or not. Maybe the zookeeper didn't want them snacking after supper?

[culpit]

For a minute, I thought the man talking in the end was the zookeeper waiting to lock them back up.

[setheurovision94]

Me too, so I was quite relieved when his identity was revealed.

[Lurkerbunny]

Oh my gosh! I haven't seen this since I was a way little kid! Thank you for posting this!

[glowworm2]

That was cute! They just wanted some icecream!

Yet still, that was a male kangaroo! Male kangaroos do not have pockets. Isn't Sesame Street supose to teach children about these things?

[sawing14s]

I guess the director didn't know that.

[grecomic]

No... but it did teach me not to put pocket change in my mouth!

[Crackrzz]

As if sawing through the bars was any *less* dangerous o_O

[PandaMishima]

I should have made my daughter watch this! She got a dime stuck up her nose, while her friend swallowed a quarter. Both dime and quarter were recovered without major incident, both girls suffered nothing more than major embarassment. ;-)

[kevlar8686]

how did you recover the quarter is what i want to know.

[PandaMishima]

@kevlar8686

Since she swallowed it, I think you can figure out how it came out later.

[PandaMishima]

True, and to this day I do not put coins in my mouth to carry them. A friend of my daughter actually swallowed a quarter once, fortuanately with no ill effects save major embarassment.

[moatguy]

Actully a kangaroo,s pocket is called a pouch and yes males don,t have them.

[wiley207]

That's right. Is it bad or sexual to say "pouch" referring to a kangaroo on a kids' show? I know a kangaroo mascot for a local baseball team, it's a male kangaroo character but he has a pouch... or as that 'toon kangaroo calls... "a pocket!"

[wiley207]

Oh, and that kangaroo speaks with an American dialect, too. I thought most cartoon 'roos spoke with an Australian accent, "mate"?

[PandaMishima]

If you look closely, the kangaroo's pocket has these button things on each side. Maybe he went to a tailor/surgeon? A pocket is a handy thing to have, so why wouldn't he have one installed?

[Pikachurules]

What's the name of the person who did this and other SS cartoons? I know it's the same person who did the "Bridgekeeper" cartoons. What's his or her name?

[Garrettk41]

His name is Gahan Wilson.

[kingcjulia]

A peaceable kingdom behind bars

[Lectronimo]

What kind of zoo puts an alligator, a snake, and a kangaroo in the same cage?

[sawing14s]

Good question.

[efil4own1]

One without an ample amount of space?

[StaceSesame]

lol! :)

[moatguy]

It,s a cartoon! Plus animals can,t eat ice cream.

[ShaiMyst]

@Lectronimo a zoo run by the makers of sesame street