Classic Sesame Street: Adding Is Putting Together

This ditty from the early 1970s illustrates basic arithmetic; when I saw this in reruns as a kid, I couldn't help thinking that maybe the guy shouldn't have used cookies to demonstrate addition! (After seeing the Hebrew dub that Superben21 posted here, I thought I'd upload the English original.)


P.S. My apologies to sawing14s for reposting his copy; I'd heard (mistakenly) that the English version got pulled offline!

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• Sesame
• Street
• classic
• vintage
• retro
• TV
• kids
• 70s
• 1970s
• Muppets
• Cookie
• addition
• subtraction
• math
• PBS
• CTW

[d72jjpilc]

I remember this fondly - the way Cookie Monster comes in and gives his improptu song 'lecture' on subtraction really stays in my mind after three (or more) decades. Yet another fond memory that's OUT OF SIGHT - YEAH!

[DiAnno13]

'... I subtract them and leave you with none.'

Tough cookies.

[MrMetalmanRock]

@efil4own1

Yeah, maybe Animal could've been the one after the cookies. LOL

[Charla1606]

Out-a-site!

[2011mrkingofkings]

This song can be heard in Sesame Street Numbers for the PC CD-Rom.

[MsPandaRosa]

Hope the guy remembers to pick up his hat. This always bugged me when I was a kid, why'd he go and toss it on the floor? Of course the rhythm made it worth while.

[kungfujiapple]

This is originally from 1970.

[mbrand19971]

Thats a cool segment which I used to have the album when I was a kid and I love the way Cookie monster said Yeah at the end.

[CanadaFamilyMan]

This is another one that my sis & I acted out on our tape recorder. I was the hippie & she was cookie monster.

[TimmyTickle]

Don't you mean Jerry Nelson?

[golddemona]

Kerry Nelson is awesome. XD

Out of sight even! XD