Sesame Street - Jazzy Spies # 8

[jfpinell]

I wonder if the part where the bug, spider and snake are.....AHEM!....having dinner, (0:23-0:33)if it was set up that way intentionally the way she yells 8 (ate)? It seems like at the moment each one of them goes "CHOMP!" she yells ATE (EIGHT)......FUNNY!

[269848]

I wonder if any of the classic clips would work on today's SS shows. This might!

[jfpinell]

@269848 With the way people are, the part where the bug spider and snake are eating each other, I wouldn't be one bit surprised if some left-field P.C. activist would think that's too violent! .....Seriously, I wouldn't doubt it. Sad but true today.

[LiteracyLabyrinth]

That snake eating the spider is ingrained in my psyche - how bizarre these were.

[DaveWollenberg]

You guys were right Jazzy spies #7 and #10 were done in Spanish, too! God bless!

[vieryuiop]

Fantastic!

[MegaCrowman]

I love these! vocals used to scare me sometimes 12345678910!

[trppey66]

Were these also done in Spanish? Or did I just imagine that?

[wmbrown6]

I seem to remember a Spanish equivalent, myself.

[craig9843]

How well I remember this.....been so long ago......

[mazzarge]

imagine if it was still like this.remember tv the drivein or cinema were the only way back then.

[DiamondbackMD]

Can I give eight stars??? Love the JaZZy sPIeS, especially with Gracie Slick from Jefferson Airplane on vocals. They're all great, but 3 5 8 and 10 are my faves...Thanks for posting!!!

[DaveJ721]

I bet this jazzy spies sketch gave some kids nightmares about being eaten by caterpiller, who is eaten by a spider, who is eaten by a snake.

I once had that dream anyway.

O_O

[Maskedmutant]

I wondered about that myself - maybe that's why I've seen ALL the 'jazzy spies' sequences hundreds of times, but I only saw the # 8 one once and only once - I asked my mom about that, but she didn't know (she worked for CTW)

[east215]

Remeber "Hunt for Happiness", starring Granny Fanny Farquar. Parody of "Search for Tommorow" (yes, I'm that old.}

[vivaladiva2001]

YES I DO! Hello fellow Granny Fanny Farquar. :)

[rikjaymad]

it is amazing that at 40 i am watching SS again and loving it.

[twistedbabydoll]

I think LSD and other psychedelic drugs were involved in the making of these Jazzy Spies cartoons...LOL! These are so subliminally sinister.

But I love these! They make me so nostalgic. =(

[aymer98]

It's funny that these are called "Jazzy Spies" on here. I always called them "Racecar Counting." Classics!

[lkrny]

Why are these clips called Jazzy Spies?

[kll510]

Because it's set to jazz music and the guys at the end are supposed to be spies.

That caterpiller is sure weird looking. I always thought it was a hippo when I was a kid.

[kll510]

Yea I remember the Ernie and Bert clip that followed the 8 clip. I 1 the sandbox, I 2 the sandbox, etc. all the way up to Burt saying I 8 the sandbox. LOL

[etch47]

This was my favorite one of the series. I will be eternally grateful for learning my numbers from a bunch of hippies

[grabbyhands]

Good god, I just had the strangest flashback to being like 6 years old again! Man, I haven't seen this in 30 years, amazing!!!

[culpit]

At first I thought that caterpillar was a small hippo and I wondered if spiders like to eat hippoes. Then I learned from a SS book that it was actually a caterpillar. Too bad he never had a chance to become a butterfly.

[wattamack4]

I know you didn't record that many muppet segments but did you manage to record the Ernie and Bert sketch that was occasionaly shown after this called "I-8 the sandbox"?

[fieldsfan336]

That was a classic running gag! I want to see that one again

"You ate the sandbox? (Ernie laugh) How'd it taste, Bert?"

[DragonLord1975]

What happened to the billiard ball in the opening?

[mstatz]

I was a second or two late recording the segment.

[raposofan]

Did you know that in the first episode of SS the #8 Jazz Numbers clip premiered, you can actually hear the eight ball being struck by a cue stick just before the clip begins? I know this is worthless information because I can't for the life of me remember which episode # it is, but it's true. Turn your TV volume up very loud as the videotape monster sketch is ending, just before the Jazz Numbers # 8 starts, and you'll clearly hear it.

[nirrad0791]

Wow! It might not matter to anyone else, but that was interesting to me. Thanks

[mstatz]

That is interesting. I did't know that.

[raposofan]

The preceding monster sketch was actually an Anything Muppet sketch - about two Anything Muppets who overreacted to disappointments. A smudge of dirt got on a little blonde girl's hanky or dress, then got on her brother's shoe or something, and they each freaked out when it got on them. There were 3 sketches like 3 acts, with cartoon clips as commercial breaks. The cue stick sound immediately follows the fadeout of final act. I have it on VHS. I need to find it.

[raposofan]

It parodied a soap opera. There was an announcer intoning the name of "the soap". And soap was part of an injoke to the story - because soap solved the problem of dirt the two sibling muppets were upset about. Noggin aired this and it's where I got it - a 1969 episode. Anyone else see this?

[binturong1000]

@DragonLord1975 where is jazzy spies 1 i got 2-10 but no 1 where is it?

[DragonLord1975]

@binturong1000 From what I read, there WAS no Jazz #1. The only thing that had a #1 was the baker segments. That's how it goes, I guess.

[DiAnno13]

I don't know if I'd call that ironic... I had an uncle who smoked for 50 years. He quit for one day and choked to death on a piece of nicotine gum. Now that's ironic!

[DiAnno13]

The snake represents S8an.

[ISNorden]

The ironic thing is that Jazz #3 actually did show a devil (the numeral turned into the prongs of a trident it held). Hopefully, my video-editing friend can post a Noggin-free version of that one soon!

[DiAnno13]

..In his eternal war with the Cre8or.

[DiAnno13]

And the g8es of heaven were slammed shut on him, and he was cast into the abyss... h8ful creature.

[mftheory]

Jeez I wish I could get clips like YOU guys!

[kll510]

Thanks for posting this one. I've been looking for it since it got pulled off awhile ago. This one, 10 and 5 are my favorite ones. I love the clever pun of eight and ate. That's what I like about old SS, it never talked down to kids and was always smart and witty unlike today's shows.

[mftheory]

Hey! I can't remember singing in these clips!

[aldiakaroofus]

Thank you! Now I'm only missing #3 and I have them all. :-)

[mstatz]

Sorry, I don't have # 3!

[ISNorden]

Gr8 job...not a second too l8.  Five stars!

[mstatz]

Hey...that's very clever! lol

[mftheory]

What would complete my dy is that you get the clip with two ; y'know the clip where there was a train and a man saying twotugutwotugutwotugutwotugutw­o,... .

[mstatz]

I have that one! I'll post it soon if you want. I'm going to title it "The 2 train".

[DiAnno13]

How about the "2-2 twain"? :)

[kll510]

LOL that's cute. Yea if someone could post 2 and 3 it would be great.

[DiAnno13]

I think I've seen that on a license pl8!