Sesame Street: We Are All Earthlings

[jvfunn3000]

CLASSIC! I LOVE IT!

[nellie2581]

All the destroyers, poachers, hunters, polluters... and bad politicians should listen to this song

[nellie2581]

So adorable

[tedmania4]

Long livethe Muppets

[tedmania4]

Hail Muppets

[wendila]

"Elmo and his friends." Pssh, please. Back when this first came out, Elmo was no more special than any other character, human or Muppet. That was one of the elements that drives this piece: All the characters are presented as equals-- Elmo and the Anything Muppet are no more important than the fish or the robin. We are all Earthlings, we all share the same home, and we are equals. This original version of the song would never fit in today's episodes of Sesame Street...

[JohnSilverfan01]

I was watching the Thanksgiving Parade today and remembered this song when the cast was singing it on their float a few years ago along with a number of muppets from the foreign Sesame Street shows. After the parade, I couldn't get the lovely song out of my head and sang it while I was working.

But I could never forget that one parade where everyone was singing it on the float. Not only the muppets, but the humans sang a solo line as well, Bob, Gordon, Maria, and Luis. Ah, memories.

[32rosepetal]

This song is so beautiful, it made me cry as a child now it's making me cry as an adult. I'm so sad my kids will never get to know the Sesame Street I grew up with.

[sumphoneo]

6 persons must be aliens!

[sweet868jbjb]

only on sesame street you will see a lion and a lamb side by side :D

[lildwayne21]

@sweet868jbjb My God........does this shit bring back memories or what?

[romeosluvr4ever]

oh, yay. i go to read heartwarming comments about a piece of my childhood, and i see political arguments. *sigh* youtube is so full of haters. can't you just enjoy this beautiful song in peace?

[Muppephile]

I love this song, but the thing that makes me sad about it, is that no matter how much of this sort of encouraging message we make, society is still killing our planet, it's not fair :(

[beaelliott]

I hope everyone remembers this song when they select their meals... Do we really want them to contain cows, pigs and chickens? Our fellow Earthlings? Perhaps it's long overdue time to live in peace with our innocent animal brothers and sisters... We could thrive on a plant based diet and no one ever would be harmed needlessly. We are all Earthlings.

[Muppephile]

@beaelliott um, what about the fact that natural habitats were needlessly destroyed to sustain unhealthy numbers of domestic livestock? What about the fact that habitats of endangered animals are destroyed every day to sustain our unhealthy lifestyle, crude oil, palm oil for food products, sugar cane, all grown or mined where beautiful ecosystems used to stand. I would rather give my sympathy to the wild, than to monstrous overfed domestic animals that we created in the first place.

[beaelliott]

@Muppephile Of course all you say is true!!! But it wasn't the fault of "livestock" it was the fault of humans and our gluttonous consumptive habits.Eating "flesh" of any sort only exacerbates the problem. Sure, I grieve plenty for the Orangutans, the exotic birds, cats, etc..Also in America there is the loss of coyotes, wolves, prairie dogs, wild mustangs, and countless others all for the sake of "beef" - I believe we are concerned with the same issues."Fattened animals" should not be "food".

[Muppephile]

@beaelliott of course, it is our fault that we have domesticated food animals, I agree.

[TiffanyMarmalade]

i feel like crying. i cant deal with this nostalgia

[WeldingGoddessLulu]

I LOVE this~!! <3

[CrazyTigerLady]

I'm confused. It says "We all live together, on a planet called the sun. We are all EARTHLINGS...." First of all, you would DIE on the sun and earthlings don't live on the sun. And the sun isn't even a planet!

[ashbash1349]

@CrazyTigerLady Hey, I was confused too. But if you listen carefully, they're saying "on a planet OF the Sun."

[dwayneman360]

this song has such a powerful meaning, that all life from the smallest ant  to the largest elephant must be respected

[corjonbett]

Chicago the Lion... :)

[WillieB2100]

of all the songs I heard when I was a child...this was the most uplifting song ever on sesame street. Now I cry everytime, hearing it...it bring back so many memories.

[dalegend2002]

I loved that song when I was little and my son watches it now... I'm bout to cry now

[lemondragon18]

oh god i'm tearing up......sniff.....this is too much......why cant we get along..WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAA

[kybasketballgirl]

thats cute

[bucksnbeatles]

My 20 month old grandson loves this. we watch it over and over

[AmericanPatriot92]

I remember this, haha!

[Treemeadow]

We will mis you Joe Raposo. The man behind such masterpieces as "Everybody Sleeps

 and "Somebody come and play"...he wrote this after he found out he was going to die. Instead of lashing out in anger and confusion, he decided to bless us all with one last glorious insight- his best work yet.

We miss you, Joe.

[Jbrangwynne53]

@Treemeadow Actually, this isn't a Raposo song. It was composed by the late Jeff Moss (who often collaborated with Raposo) with lyrics by Sara Compton. One of Raposo's last songs, that's similar in tone to this, is called Let's Make a Dream.

[Treemeadow]

@Jbrangwynne53

Oh, woops. That must be why I was confused. I was just repeating what someone else told me.

[thestreetsempty]

:' )

[Monbrax]

Certain songs on Sesame Street always made me want to cry just hearing them as a kid. This is at the top of the list along with Ernie's "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon".

[CyraUK]

This makes me so nostalgic... I want to cry. This was such a beautiful piece, I loved it so as a child.

[branfrog]

but i thought ducks live on the moon but die on the sun...

[ssAntdaant]

oh i get it spining around a planet called the sun we are all earthlings

[athull08]

@ssAntdaant it's a planet OF the sun

[steventean]

a planet OF the sun?

[athull08]

@steventean yes

[JackoB716]

(sighs) I always love that song. So beautiful, and not only for kids, but for teens and adults as well. It is true that we are all earthlings. ^_^

[TheSarcasticBear]

Some people should listen to this song and realise we are all Earthlings!

[EPiCPlaYLisT123]

This is amazingly deep. I wanna cry every time I hear this. Idky.

[AbstractOddity]

OMG this is the song I have been trying to find for a looong time. There is another song that reminds me of it and I could remember the scene with everyone sitting around but wow this is the ultimate nostalgia!!!

[MsAnnaAlmond]

0:58 Paul the Octopussy?

[ThePatch202]

Such a classic song

[ThePatch202]

This video does make a really good point

[luvu4eva1000]

omg i luv this song since i was 5.

[7nmelz]

I still have the VHS of the 25th Anniversary celebration where this song is from. I love it to little bits and I think I'll love it all my life :)

[jtomally9681]

@7nmelz I still do. Sometimes I get a tear from watching it.

[ohemgeeadrienne]

@7nmelz me too! i love that video

[AstroBoyGF]

oh my every time i hear this song i just wanna cry happily^^ ah as a kid from the 90's

[Muppephile]

This is laegues better than the new version. The addition of a celebrity to that song is wholly un-necessary.

[songbyrd5]

This is a great song! No matter hoe many times I watch this, I still gets teary-eyed! (Happy tears!) Rock on SS!!! (Child of the 50's)

[anthonymezzapelle]

they left out the New World Order , Reptilians, and the Terminator Robots

[metaldave08096]

@anthonymezzapelle lol terminator robots, could you imagine Arnold singing this song, I'd probably have a heart attack and die of laghter!!!

[Babypebbles12]

hello i'm ajlisa i just love sesame street and this song thanks!

[Kymanthiel]

Vintage Sesame Street never fails to restore my faith in humanity, even though I'm far past the target demographic age for it.... I feel so happy and loved and safe whenever I watch something like this <3

Thanks to Children's Televison Workshop for posting this so the whole world can feel good ^___^ "Onnnn a planet of the suuuuuun" <3

[livvysaurxrawr]

I remember watching this on TV when I was like four :) I miss this show. It's completely ruined now...

[supergodzilla12]

this song gets me every time! :')

[BuddyBoy600alt]

I thought this was written by Joe Raposo as his Good-Bye song. It made sad that he died. R.I.P. Joe Rapsos (1937-1989). Jeff Moss wrote "Things that I remember" as his good-bye song Because he was going to die soon.

[crock703]

I caught a new episode of SS the other day.

What happened to this show? No education and no real human spark to it. They really never should have abandoned the Children's Television workshop model.

Now it's just a vehicle for Elmo (and I guess his merchandising.) The idea of Sesame Street being a tangible place, that was safe, nurturing, honest and imaginative.. has been replaced by numb CGI and terrible child-style illustraion. So sad to see SS spinning its wheels.

[Kymanthiel]

@crock703 SS is a shadow of its former self T-T & I mourn. But within that shadow, it still manages to produce some hilarious stuff. Its all Muppet/live-action based, the CGI/Elmo's World makes me want to VOMIT! But seriously, one recent episode, there was a Pythonesque "Bring out you Ks!" scene, a poem in American Sign language w/English voiceover&beautiful visuals, and a crazy awesome Bear Family hibernation plot in which another bear muppet acted as their "hibernation consultant"! SS LIVES!

[StarvingForTruth]

@crock703 funding dried up. too much competition from cable networks now.

[studenttheatre83]

This song makes me want to cry.

[jr52990]

if you remember this you were a 90's child... love this song.

[RealTime88]

@jr52990 I am a child of the 90's and this song gets to me. It is hard not to cry when I hear this song. It is so beautiful and an urgent message of take care of the planet, be kind to all people, and that we are all one.

[ranabluu]

planet of the sun

[brianklick]

How i wish Jim Henson could have been a part of this song before he passed away

[jtomally9681]

@brianklick I use to think he was. Boy was I fooled.

[TheaterServant]

@brianklick Everyone does. Jim Henson was a SAINT of a man

[Poisonfrogg]

did they say they live on a planet called the sun???

wtf!?

+ the goat was the best !!!!!!!!1 ^_^

[hkmaths]

@Poisonfrogg they said "a planet of the sun"

[Cosasbebe1]

@Poisonfrogg lol the goat

[funnyguise]

@Poisonfrogg "of the sun"

[jr52990]

@Poisonfrogg I think they are saying "of the" .... but I know what you mean. lol

[greatergood666]

@Poisonfrogg It's "a planet of the sun." .The boy next to Elmo says it more clearly at the end.

[songbyrd5]

@Poisonfrogg That's what I thought at first, but they're singing "on a planet of the sun" :)

[krulz133]

@Poisonfrogg "On a planet of the sun" is what was said.

[musicncomedyfreak]

@Poisonfrogg a planet OF the sun.

[antsamthompson9]

This version's better than the one with Jill Scott. Could you guys upload the version Elmo sung?

[TomatoSpud5]

you guys are epic :D

[1255674556666]

Awesome!