Sesame Street - Boy Rescues Baby Bird - Animated

[IndyFan53]

Ah, I remember this one. Of course, you couldn't show this on Sesame Street today, because it shows a little boy's butt. lol!

[Pikachuiscool]

@IndyFan53 Even though there's plenty of other kids shows on tv today that show stuff like that. :P

[acholl980]

One good turn deserves another.

[AnimationDiana]

Eww. Gross. He's not wearing any underwear. He should also lose a few pounds because he popped his buttons on his pants when he bent over.

[Muppephile]

Cont-

Now that I'm 24 I realise that being a man is harder. Last year I think, a young fledgeling was stranded on the ground. It stood no chance against the local cats, or possums come evening, or snakes if our suburb still had any. Swarming ants had gotten to his face. It was the hardest thing I ever did to put it out of it's misery, and I assume birds are less resilient than we mammals, so it wouldn't have recovered.

[Muppephile]

This gets my heartstrings every time. At our kindergarden when I was 4, a baby bird was on the ground. We started to touch it, but the teacher stopped us manhandling it. I felt so sorry for it.

Then she put it back in the tree, and I was so happy when the mother accepted it again.

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[redbaronness4]

Hey, its the thought that counts!

[bluquail]

Usually the underwear would show if the second part happened. I was shocked to not see any.

[sherlockfury]

ur not supposed to pick up the baby bird w/ ur bare hand. and it could've been a a girl. they have one on that suntan lotion bottle.

[afriendofbean]

That's true. Sometimes a bird could have a disease where it should never be touched by bare hands. Also, I'm sure in real life, if someone touched a baby bird, (whether it's in a nest or it's injured or not injured on the ground) the mother bird would poke that person with it's beak. But here, the mother bird in this skit probably didn't care who touched her baby bird.

[sherlockfury]

its not about diseases, its that the mother would not want to approach the baby b/c it smells like a person.

[afriendofbean]

That's also true.

Also, I once had an empty fish tank in my backyard which got a little filled with water from the rain, and the next day I found a baby bird in the fish tank (I don't know if it fell from a tree or fell from the sky while it's mother was holding it). So I put gloves on and put it in a box and brought it inside so it can dry off for a while. Unfortunately, there were many bird hanging around my house (probably angry that I took their baby), so I let it go.

[redbaronness4]

actually, that's not true, they just tell you that when you're young to keep you from picking them up.

[HayleyCometra]

Except birds can't smell. When you're talking about other animals, yeah, you'd want to stay away from babies so the mothers don't abandon them for smelling like a person. But birds can't smell.

[Muppephile]

@HayleyCometra - birds CAN smell, it's just that most birds cannot smell particularly well because the beak and large brain and large eyes leave very little room for sinuses. Kiwi, vulture, and albatross can all smell very well.

[Smartboy8877]

@HayleyCometra

Where did you learn that birds can't smell? I find that very interesting!

[HayleyCometra]

@Smartboy8877 Oh, I don't even remember where I learned it from. It was years and years ago. I guess it was from one of those "educational kid-oriented adventure in nature" shows that don't exist anymore. All I remember was a teen-adult boy in a park picking up a baby bird that had fallen and putting it back, after showing it to a nearby first-grader and telling him/her about avoiding rescuing other baby animals but rescuing baby birds is okay as long as you're careful.

[Smartboy8877]

@HayleyCometra

Thanks a million for all of that interesting information!

[jifkitchen]

this was used on episode 3425 of sesame street in 1983

[sesamestchick]

Thanks for all your comments! I had this cartoon burned into my memory as a little one; I felt so embarrassed for him! Does anyone know who the animator was? The style seems so familiar, but different than the cartoons usually on the show.

[afriendofbean]

Yes it was probably embarrassing for that boy. Since that boy did something nice for the mother bird and the baby bird, I wonder why it didn't show something like, the paper bag with the groceries getting ripped and all the food fell out where the mother bird carried some of the food in her beak while the boy carried some in his hands.

[plyg]

not to be morbid i wonder what would,ve happened if they if they used a girl instead of a boy.

[la4or]

i wonder too. as a kid, i wished they had, but in todays climate, that would be imposible.

[plyg]

actually it would,ve been imposible in the cilamte of that time i think maybe using a girl would,ve been considered obscene.

[tamalli]

cute!

[hotel900]

OHH!! I LOVE THIS CLIP! i had it one tape years ago but it got recorded ontop. i used to love it when the boy's pants popped and dropped to show his ass! HAHA! childhood mem.

[Gothiczartan]

now that is helping each other

[glowworm2]

This is so darn cute!

[Rookiee]

Howbout people just weren't so goddamn paranoid back then?

[tigercubgurlie]

ok...welchm8, i agree itz a bit...odd...but i'm not going that far, i remember this clip...i think the boy's a lil monkey, cute tho

[dipthonggirl]

I used to rescue birds, back when I watched the GOOD episodes of Sesame Street.

[welchm8]

Sweet Jesus, child PO-Nog-graphy! Satan be-gone!

[hotel900]

aint that bad. didnt show his disk now did he!