Sesame Street - Jazzy Spies # 4

[TheBeebe1972]

Weren't there some of these in Spanish?

[spacebullseye]

I wonder if that ringmaster had workman's comp. 

[JhonathanFree]

Fo-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ur!­!! LOVE it!!!

[DaveWollenberg]

The original Jazzy Spies #4, with the angled 4.

[psykdiva]

@ DiamondbackMD, who imagined what these would be like if the numbers were bigger: Not only this skit, but Alex Stevens (the baker) would REALLY have his hands full (until he fell, that is)!

[trashpicker1970]

ahhh. vintage sesame street memories are the best!!! i was born in 1970 so i am one of the sesame street generation... this show and electric company, both taught me to read before kindergarten.....they should drop the way it is now and just play this all day.....i'd be happy..

and along with dropping elmo, how about getting rid of baby bear and abby cadabby? they have dumbed this show down now...

[DaveWollenberg]

In later seasons, they removed the 4 with the angle, and replaced it with a blue 4.

[ronson232]

I only just learned today that these segments feature none other than Grace Slick, of Jefferson Airplane.

[jasonpp1973]

Those 4's at the end are "Jefferson Airplanes!", sine Grace Slick provided the vocals for these!

[norcotony]

Thanks for posting these. Brings me way back to when Sesame Street was still a new show full of energy and creativity. It saddens me to think that the 21st century and political correctness has spread so far as to fix yet another thing that was never broken in the first place

[mstatz]

@norcotony I agree 100%!

[LonelyVagabond]

I bet every kid moved their head closer to the tv screen at :44

[LiteracyLabyrinth]

4-4-4-4! That plane bit is kinda weird

[Sincopare]

In 1969 when this video was made, Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins was the premier hockey player in the NHL. Glad to see he made a cameo appearance at the beginning!

[JGCooney]

anyone have this clip on hebrew arbah or spanish cuatro?

[dj99surf]

How fun this must have been for Grace Slick to record these.

[ih8tbush]

spies remind me of flashers

[sfchris]

FOUUUUR.... R..... R .......R ....

[froggyola]

I guess all those drugs came in handy when doing this! LOL.

[camolanphy]

I am *floored* to learn that Grace Slick was the singing voice in these counting clips. During my teenage years and twenties (I'm 33 now), Jefferson Airplane was my favorite band (in the 90's, you can imagine what a lonely teenager I was...), and I can't believe that amongst all of the trivia that I knew about the AIrplane, I didn't know she sang on this very familiar music from my childhood. I guess when I grew up I recognized Grace's voice without realizing it... somewhere in my subconscious.

[sirigi22]

Go Grace Slick!!

[Lifesuit]

I remember seeing these as a child. When did they get pulled, AFTER they aired?

[jimn35]

They never got "pulled". Sesame street just updated everything as their audience grew up and times changed. These particular "jazzy spies" ran probably two seasons...maybe 3.

[DiAnno13]

Cuatro-phenia.

[dynasue77]

I used to love seeing these cartoons on " the old " Sesame Street. Sadly, Sesame Street is just a shadow now of what it used to be. All the great cartoons and skits seem to have gone.

[chipbj65]

Kool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chipbj]

Fantastic!!!!

[RingtailStudios]

Nope, all of the Jazz clips are gone now. The last time any of them aired (At least according to Muppet Wiki) was in 1991.

[isidro7667]

I find Jim Henson's death all the more tragic in that, not even a year after his death, all these classic clips start getting pulled in favor of more "appropriate" ones, in the eyes of the PC Police! I count myself blessed that I watched SS in the late '60s/early '70s era.

[bv2thetiger]

maybe the more trippier ones got pulled

[MGHSHour2]

what about the 4 airplanes at the airprt skit?

[tigrrrt84]

wow sesame street used to be trippy... i love it! i cant get that beat out of my head where the numbers are counting up. i was so disappointed when i took a look at it a few years back hoping to catch a few familiar clips, when i saw that half the show was stolen by elmo.

[mstatz]

You were born the year I began recording all these early 70's classic segments. I'm 38 now, so I was three to five years old between 1971 and 1973 when I first remember watching these trippy segments. The show sucks big time now with Elmo taking over.

[JGCooney]

@mstatz Kevin Clash should drop Elmo, and keep the other muppets such as Kingston Livingston III.

Forget the 10 minute segment called Elmo's World. Elmo will eventually hurt Kevin's voice.

[4a8p9x]

SS was originally the product of revolutionary, "out-of-the-box" thinking. There were funny sequences, scary sequences, sad sequences (i.e. the crying flower) and trippy sequences; all designed to stick with the viewer after the TV went off. In its day there was a lot of controversy about educational TV, even as the benefits became evident.

So what happened? Like every good revolution, it was incorporated by the establishment and made safe. That is to say, it was neutered.

[tiedyebandanachick]

NEUTERED! THAT was the word I was looking for to describe what has happened to Sesame Street since I watched it back in the 70's! I'm 31 now, and I turned out fine; I'm not understanding why it had to be diluted for generations after mine.

[aindiandog]

Our generation was the only one that could have handled it! We were the chosen...Grace Slick is incredible.

[ArmyJames]

I think somebody did a little too much LDS.

[pyenapple]

Latter Day Saints? Yes, indeed. Someone DID do too much LDS.

[DiamondbackMD]

lol. maybe if the numbers got into the teens they could have shown Brigham Young and his wives??? On vocals, Grace Slick would be like "15, 15, 15, 15, 15...15.....15.....fif-teeeeen­!!!"

[nirrad0791]

What happened to the "jazzy 3" I think that was the one with the devil in the end. can anyone post that one???

[mstatz]

Unfortunately, I don't have number 3. I would have posted it by now if I had it.

[aldiakaroofus]

Thanks you for reposting this! I never got to download it before it got pulled! Now it's on my PC hard drive, I've learned my lesson!

[DiAnno13]

"Four" is a 4-letter word. Maybe that's why Sesame Street stopped showing this.

[DiAnno13]

"Four" is the only English word which tells you how many letters it has.

In Spanish, the only such word is "cinco".

[mstatz]

You're right! It's funny...I never thought of that or heard that before.

[Maskedmutant]

Also, seven is the only odd number that becomes even when you take away its first letter

[lenaslife]

that is the trippiest thing I've ever heard.

[halcaannen]

@DiAnno13 hey man maybe if you put in your comment that cinco=5 then people would not think that cinco is the translation of 4. By the way I know perfect Spanish and I was just mentioning it for the people who did not know any Spanish.

[Juliefan21]

That was taken from episode 8. Right or wrong?

[mstatz]

I'm not sure. Is episode 8 on the Old school DVD. I'm not sure what episode this 1st aired, but it was re-aired about 600 times in previous episodes since it's debut.

[sodapop81]

There's an SS old school DVD?? Where did you get it?

[mstatz]

Yes! You can get it at your local "Best Buy" or order it on Amazon!

[sodapop81]

Thanks!