Sesame Street - Mad Painter # 10

Here is another "Mad Pinter" segment that was pulled. I would like to see number 5 again (the zoo) and someday, see numbers 2. For a full 2-11 list of these Mad Painter segments, go to: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mad_Painter

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Sesame
• Street
• film
• 70's
• number
• painter
• ten
• 10
• stool
• Paul
• Benedict

[andrewdick]

Thanks for posting these videos. I'm about the same age as you (mstatz) and grew up watching Sesame Street and Mister Rogers. These memories make me so happy. I have a 4 month old son and can't wait for him to start watching Sesame Street. I've shown him some of these clips and he stares at Kermit, Grover and Cookie Monster. These were innocent times of our lives which I loved.

Thanks for brining me some joy and taking me back to when I was young.

[mstatz]

Thanks for the letter. I'm hitting 40 this July. Time is going so fast now. It seems like last week that I was 5 and watching all these segments when they were new.

[DiAnno13]

Here the painter shows a sample of his work. A stool -- never mind.

[mstatz]

I get it! That's funny!

[MeowMonkey]

Is that the guy that played Mr.Bentley on the Jeffersons?

[mstatz]

YES!

[kaboompoop]

Salt on a banana.....wtf?

[skins2717]

"Mac" puts salt on his banana at 1:04. Thanks for posting these shorts. I loved Paul Benedict as "The Mad Painter" when I was a little kid.

RIP Paul Benedict. You will be missed!

[JBWiz]

When I was a kid, I tried this on an identical stool in my father art room. I also sat on it to see if the number 10 transfered to my pants. didn't work the way it did on TV.

Lesson learned, you can't trust what you see on the screen.

[MaxxFordham]

The painter should have just used a straight-line 1 instead this half-arrow type.

[MaxxFordham]

@wambam99999

Okay, I won't. That's because it wouldn't! Watch how the painter places the stool! it would be up-side down!

The painter should have just used a straight-line 1 instead this half-arrow type.

[MaxxFordham]

@kaboompoop

But still, some people like salt on their watermelon!

I agree about salt on bananas too. Just a little(!)--but it helps an otherwise rather bland piece of fruit have a decent bit of taste to it.

[MaxxFordham]

@Pocockable

Haha, yeah, painting numbers on counters, couches, chairs, floors, the fridge, dad's bald head, sandwiches, doors, the cars, etc!

[MaxxFordham]

3. They just taught kids wrong about imprinting--it looks like they subtly tried to make it look like the print would work out right (the guy turns the stool around), but it still didn't. It was supposed to have come up *upside-down* on the other guy's butt, but didn't! That was dumb.

[MaxxFordham]

Haha, I remember these a bit! Nice to see them again!

3 glaring untechnicalities in this, though:

1. The 10 on the stool is *completely* removed just by the guy sitting on it. But if we're going to be consistent with the "9" segment (where the 9 is partly washed from the road), then it wouldn't have been.

2. It's way too sharp on the guy's butt when he stands up! Those digits almost look like pieces of paper stuck on.

3. (Cont.)

[masonben2011]

I know what that guy's favorite song is called: "wet paint".

[TanzDerSchatten]

Wow, I'd forgotten all about segments like this! I typed in "vintage sesame street" to show my two year old something that wasn't Elmo, and suddenly all these memories started coming back. I'm 37 and I can't believe it's been so long since I saw this stuff. I just flashed on being five years old again.

[kaboompoop]

@Pocockable

Yeah...but....it was a banana not a watermelon...