Classic Sesame Street - Who is this boy?

[d72jjpilc]

An excellent example of Sesame Street teaching kids about 'perspective' (in this case with human relationships)! The line 'Throw it on the porch...' stands out in my mind the most, said by the man to whom the boy delivers papers.

[MarioZone69]

The music sounds like "What Babies Are Called"

[70Kenny]

The narrator sounds like a homicide detective: "All right, little boy, which one of those people was telling the truth?" I'd almost expect him to next say "Don't lie to me or you'll be looking at 40 years in Attica!"

[JGCooney]

Who is the narrator?

[brianklick]

Jim, Frank, Jerry and Richard: the odd family

[legoofeggos]

Jim was the little boy

[raposofan]

I love this song so much.

[stevenrf69]

what did the guy w/the glasses say?

[Garrettk41]

He said "throw it on the porch, not in the bushes". Sounds like a pretty reasonable request to me. He, like the mother, is voiced by Frank Oz, and here he uses a voice very similar to that of Sam the Eagle.

[Garrettk41]

Looking more closely at the sister's hair, I realize it actually looks a lot like my mom's.

[Garrettk41]

Thanks.

[Garrettk41]

Who's voicing the mother? I can't tell whether it's Frank Oz or Richard Hunt. Her voice sounds a bit like a mixture of both of their Miss Piggy voices (in case some of you didn't know, Hunt was Miss Piggy's voice during the "hospital" segment of "The Muppet Show").

[raposofan]

Frank

[DRUMMERMAN77]

frank oz is def the mother

[Garrettk41]

Yes, I know that now. And the sister's hair is sort of like Judy Graubert's, but slightly more curled. Am I right in thinking that's Jerry Nelson doing her voice?

[DRUMMERMAN77]

no, richard hunt is the sister and best friend

[Garrettk41]

Really? Wow. Sounded like Jerry to me. A lot of his characters sound like the sister. Little Miss Muffett, for instance. I never would have guessed that was Richard Hunt.

[DRUMMERMAN77]

little miss muffet in the director sketch was frank oz jerry nelson was the spider jim henson the director

[Garrettk41]

No, no. I'm referring to the Sesame Street News Flash with Kermit interviewing her and being frightened away by the spider who was voiced by Oz. Sawing14s has that clip if you want to check it out. I do remember the one you mentioned though. And also, the more I listen to the boy's sister, the more I do in fact hear Richard Hunt's voice.

[mftheory]

As susal, they at Sesame Street HAD to make it look ridiculous.

[sweetrolls]

Does anyone have the film segement, "You're a family yep a family." the words in the song goes "So if youre like me

Love somebody and see

How it works perfectly 1, 2, 3

Youre a family"

[See918]

How come the little boy is the only one with a helmet?

[See918]

The grandmother is so cute!

[mstatz]

I remember this skit when I was a kid & you're right...the same music is played when the baby crawled, then stepped very carefully, then walked up the steps. They filmed the baby every 4 months or so from the age of 1 to 3 and spliced it all together. "She really likes those steps" was what one kid said at the end. I remember that one and would love it if someone posted it.

[DiAnno13]

I'm a lot of people too. See that lady? To her I'm an ex-husband. See that girl? To her I'm an ex-dad...

[DiAnno13]

See that boss? To him I'm an ex-employee.. that's why I have all this time to write comments.. on a PC at the library. Because to the landlord, I'm also an ex-tenant. :(

[Marbles471]

I never saw this before. I love the twist ending.

Ironic that the music from the "baby crawling up the stairs" film is used here. Because when I saw that recently I thought "there's never been a piece of music more perfectly suited to a visual than this." I thought it was a perfect match. Oh, well.

I still think it was probably created for that film first.

[jeopardy60611]

When I saw this clip countless times 30 years ago, I didn't realize, as I do now, that the "football team" consisted of the boy's mother, sister, friend, and guy on his paper route. That grandmother is so sweet when she says "heh, heh, heh, you're a good little boy."

[PaulDrapac]

Hope you post the film before this about Listening to different sounds.

[emcgo]

"Throw it on the porch, not in the bushes. Thank you." :)

[jeopardy60611]

What else would a man have to say to his paperboy? Really nice clip.

[Teankun]

Better the bushes than the roof

Love on week ends boy is in charge as well as how mu8sic changes from sweet melody to fight song

[jonnytbird4789]

His mother and his sister looked like the background people from that Ernie & Bert @ the movies clip that I posted.

[ISNorden]

Heeheehee...this is one of the better "family" clips done with generic characters.  Five stars!

[culpit]

"Throw the ball, Grandma!"

[Lectronimo]

Ha! She does look like Judy Graubart!

[glickmam]

In addition the man with the glasses looks a lot like Skip Hinnant.

[mstatz]

I don't see the resemblance but the boy looks like what Skip Hinnant would have looked like when he was about 7 or 8.