Sesame Street I-Beam

This video clip used to send me running away from the TV and hiding under the bed. Sesame Street clip that used to scare the crap out of me.

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Education

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• ibeam
• i-beam
• sesame
• street
• the
• letter
• steel
• mill

[Trystera]

Holy crap, I think I repressed this one! D:

The discordant music was terrifying. Plus the sheer randomness -- I don't think I understood that they were forging an I-beam, so it had no context. It just seemed like a loud harsh industrial version of the cute animated "profiles" they'd do of letters.

[HowieFeelin]

"If Danny Elfman were tone deaf"

[xkalicKings]

AT 30 YEARS OLD,I MUST SAY THAT I HAVE CHALLENGED MYSELF TO WATCH THIS PERTURBED EPISODE ON SESAME STREET, AND BOY! WAS I STILL DEVASTATED AFTER YEARS OF NOT SEEING THIS TORMENTING" I BEAM" EPISODE. YES IT'S STILL SOMEWHAT DISTURBING TO ME BUT AFTER SOME NIGHTS WELL OF SELF PUNISHMENT, THE PAIN EASED.

[donniedarkodevotte]

We laugh now at what scared us as kids, but when we're little, it's easy to become over-stimulated by music. It can become so over-whelming. I don't know if I even saw this one when I was a kid, so it did crack me up to think of the poster of this video running away and hiding under the bed when this came on. At the same time, this sounds like the Jaws theme remade by Danny Elfman, so I can see how it would have scared a few kids back then.

[JadeGryphon]

I don't get why people find this scary at all, even at a young age. Is hot metal really that frightening? lol then again I was watching stuff like Tales from the Darkside at 10 years old, so I wasn't THAT easy to frighten. xD

[bboudrot]

Stephen King's I-Beam

Actually this didn't scare me at all.

Now the Count he was scary back in the day back when vampires were really scary - now they just suck.. for the most part.

[ericalynn2727]

I was creeped out too. I remember running out of the room in sheer terror when this would come on. It used to scare the crap out of me. And even watching it now, some 32 years later, I remember exactly how I felt. I was petrified of the letter "I" for a long time.

[splotchboi2770]

the music's end doubled at the end but boy, do i like the music in this.

[smayds]

How It's Made S13E08: Nightmares

[ViewtifulForever]

That close-up at the beginning of the clip, paired with the first startling note of the song STILL gives me the chills.

[rsvp9146]

I always thought this was cool as hell as a kid. Maybe cause my dad was a builder.

[dragondancer1814]

I always thought this was a pretty cool scene, but then again I'm an odd duck who never did outgrow her funny feathers!