Sesame Street - 5 ladybugs & 5 lizards

This one used to spook me a bit between tha ages of 4 to 6. The strangeness of it, however, made it a very effective lesson about simple arithmetic (addition & subtraction).

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Film & Animation

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• Sesame
• Street
• cartoon
• 70's
• jungle
• ladybugs
• lizards
• one
• five
• additionn
• subtraction
• arithmetic

[gossame1]

I believe it was around '73. I remember this skit freaking me out when I was a little boy. I believe it was the voice of the narrator and the background whisper that did it for me when I was younger.

[mstatz]

Yeah, that pretty much sounds like the year I first saw this too. I started kindergarten September of 1973 and I used to watch Sesame Street when I got home.

[mstatz]

I was wrong about when Jim Henson died. It was May 1990, not July.

[mftheory]

This one is in the 80s. About the time Jim Henson died or a little before.

[mstatz]

I'm sorry but you're wrong. Jim Henson died in July of 1990. This cartoon was made sometime between 1970 and 1973. In fact, I recorded this in 1986 and I remember thinking then that this was one I remember watching when I used to come home from kindergarten in 1973-74.

[zhelder]

With all due respect, Mstatz, you're wrong too. Jim Henson died on May 16, 1990. The same day as Sammy Davis Jr. You still get mad props from me though. Thanks for all the great Sesame Street posts! BTW, this skit is definitely from the third season, but it seems very ahead of its time.

[mstatz]

I know I made a mistake. Read below what I wrote before your comment. I did remember he died the same day Sammy Davis Jr. died, though.

[RJDRJDOO]

Hello. I am a 36 year old male and i also saw this toon as a kid. It did spook me out at first but before long, i found myself wanting to star in the toon as that ladybug that the lizard tries to eat. To this day, I would like to see that happen. Anybody else there feel like i do? Or maybe you would like to be the lizard?

[rscadence]

That's why us gen-xers are a little off..:)

[SnowbirdFlock]

I loved the spookiness in this! And I like the feeling of nature at the end, if you get what I mean

[thefirefighter2011]

@barbamarge

from early 1973

[d72jjpilc]

This clip sounds vaguely familiar. After the narrator says 'One and one are two,' the long 'drawn-out' number 'twooooooo...' rings a bell. Though, of course, the same is done with all five numbers. Like others have mentioned, the theme has 'spooky' overtones.

[zangazoo2007]

This is when Sesame Street ruled. CTW went to far making today's SS for a much younger demographic.

[superAJ71]

I've always loved the backing musical track underscoring this. It was my first exposure (aside from my own experiments) to backward sound, before I heard the Beatles or Jimi Hendrix.

Hey, anyone familiar with an album from the 1950's called "Strange to Your Ears" by Jim Fassett? I think some elements of that record were used to create that audio track.

[ClarkieandStephen]

This was def creepy, still gives me a bit of goose bumps..

[barbamarge]

omg i'm so glad i'm not the only one who was freaked out by this! There's alot of trippy animation on classic SS but this was the one that effected me the most.