Classic Sesame Street - Rube Goldberg alphabet contraption

One of the most innovative animated sequences seen on Sesame Street.

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  Film & Animation

[mightyfilm]

Well, here's one we'll never see again, due in part to the smoking. But this was always a favorite!

[lfrage]

He had to miss the baseball, otherwise the alphabet will begin again! ;-D

[LarcenTyler]

The only part I remembered after all these years was the letter 's' where that poor baby wouldn't stop crying.

[DreamDancer82]

Well, there was a radio/movie theater ticket booth, complete with window (K), a fish bowl there (L), a tank of water (T), and some lab equipment (U), so yeah, the baseball coulda hit something around there. But I also agree with lfrage, if he hit the baseball, then this thing would never have ended.

[Bradyhousetour]

Good times.

[lfrage]

Who knows, but I like the letter v.

[mahler19110]

Is the "v" the van halen logo?

[stevethepocket]

Sweet! I don't know why, but I've always wanted to see this again. Something about it fascinated me to no end.

'Course, it's even better now that I know about the Rube Goldberg diagrams it's based on, that always used letters to define the steps.

Don't suppose anyone knows where I can find the one where they create the letters all in different ways, like one is drawn in the sand and the X is repeated all over a computer screen, do you?

[eam22]

Interesting.. I never noticed this before, but the boy misses the baseball the second time. However, I guess the person who added the sound effect failed to notice this! (or else the baseball crashed into something behind him!)

[lfrage]

That goat had to ram the television set revealing the letter "n", otherwise that part would have been boring. :-)