Sesame Street - "We Are All Monsters"

[CokeLiftFantaMan]

@sweetlife031 or originally before Kevin Clash redubbed Elmo's voice Elmo was played by Jerry Nelson

[NewYorkKnicksfanatic]

Lol " I am fat"

[charisma341]

i like elmo

[blackkey1976]

Humanity would have been better off if Elmo had remained a background character.....

[sweetlife031]

Blue monster: Jim Henson

Green monster: Frank Oz

Elmo: Kevin Clash

Gray monster: Richard Hunt

:)

[TheRoadRunnerCoyote]

Elmo's voice is better than the original version

[MarioZone69]

Kermit the Forg: "I am grey!"

CC: "i am black"

[MarioZone69]

I don't think they ever filmed an original version with Jerry Nelson as Elmo. Jerry's Elmo voice is so much awesomer than todays.

[Dekobee]

Elmo's stupid. Now I just wish they had classic Sesame Street episodes from '69 until the early 1990s.

[Musicposter4you]

i hate what's happened to children's television now. This would probably scare the pants off of a little kid nowadays.

[Shiryuu666]

xDDDD

[sfpopp1]

Elmo

[afriendofbean]

It's funny to hear Elmo referring himself in the 1st person rather than the 3rd person in this skit when he usually always refers himself in the 3rd person.

[kungfujiapple]

This is the redubbed version. The original version has Jerry Nelson filling in as the voice of Elmo when Kevin Clash was unavailable to do Elmo before 1985.

[glowworm2]

I like this-the original version had Elmo talking in a creepy voice!

[OofusTwillip]

That was back when Elmo was just a generic monster Muppet. It took quite a while for him to become the annoying little kid monster we all know and love/hate today.

[zangazoo2007]

@OofusTwillip Agreed, and what is worse is how much of a phenomenon he became *shudder* I worked Toys R Us back when Tickle Me Elmo was extremely popular. Oh and this was around Christmas. Elmo and CTW have really killed all that was great with SS. Even the DVDs are missing many great skits. Sigh. it'd be nice to go back to this era.

[Muppephile]

how dare you refer to Jerry Nelson as creepy! :P

[frymahhide1982]

It kinds of sounds like Sesame Street is attempting to teach racial diversity in this skit...but in the form of different type of monster. I guess they didn't want to stir up controversy.

[OofusTwillip]

"Sesame Street" has been teaching diversity since the very first show, through the diverse mix of characters who live on the Street. I remember reading an article from the 1970s, about the show's impact. It mentioned a little girl who, when watching the first show, said Gordon & Susan were "bad people, because they're black". After watching a few more episodes, she said they were "really good people, just like everyone else".

[Muppephile]

OofusTwlip:

I find that the muppet philosphy always has an interesting commentary on the human condition.

I remember hearing a quote from somewhere, that of all our fears of "monsters and demons", that the only real "monster" is man himself, for what he does.

This show even as a chidlren's medium, teaches that we're all none of us perfect, and in that way "we're all monsters".

[LincolnHeightsrocks]

I think in 1980 when this sketch was made, it was a little too early for things like that. But by the early 90's they actually did address this issue with humans. In a 1993 episode about racism. Gina got a disturbing phone call at Hooper's Store by someone telling her that her and Savion shouldn't be friends, because theyr'e not the same color. You couldn't hear the person's voice since he was on the phone, but Gina responded "How dare you say such horrible things!" pretty deep for a kid's show