Sesame Street - The Geefle and the Gonk

Uploaded by request, from 1971. On the planet of Snoo, two strange alien creatures learn to cooperate. With Jim Henson as the Geefle and Jerry Nelson as the Gonk and the narrator.

This was one of my all time favorite Muppet segments when I was a kid, and to this day I literally cannot hear the word "nectarine" without thinking of this skit.

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• Jerry
• Nelson
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[critterfur7]

Holy cow! I remember this! It was actually made before I was born (I was born in 1975), but it must have been in rotation in subsequent episodes. Some of Henson's stuff was simultaneously fascinating and creepy. Oh, by the way, the Geefle says "Let's call it Shirley" at the end, not "sharing". "Sharing" and "cooperation" are similar concepts, so why confuse little kids? The joke is a very Monty Python-esque one, and very much Jim Henson's sense of humor.

[NantoVision1]

@critterfur7 Back when I hadn't seen this sketch since I was a kid, I was very certain that it was "sharing", and there was a friend of mine I used to argue about this with. But listening to it now with headphones, it's very clearly "Shirley", no doubt about it whatsoever. Quite an amusing little non sequitur.

[HouCuseChickie95]

And to this day- we still call it Shirley :)

[vigerfa]

Lets call it... scary!!! I remember this so well, the word co-operation really stuck in my mind from seeing this classic example.. however, the background music and settings were something I found quite disturbing even to this day.... and the very word co-operation was a word I've taken quite seriously since..

[Teankun]

"Let's call it 'Shirly.'" One of the most hilarous memories of my childhood.

And over the melenia it became "symbiosis"

[raspberrymuffin]

@RadAlly

Lol same here. Nectarines still remind me of my dad and this skit from when I was a kid.

[raspberrymuffin]

I'm 28 years old, and still remember watching this with my dad before I was even 5 years old. Thanks for posting, I figured I'd never see it again, and found it immediately thanks to you! You rock NantoVision1!

[RadAlly]

@stephiesquirrel I can't eat a nectarine without thinking of this sketch:)

[d72jjpilc]

'Nectarines from the nectarine tree!' That's Jim doing his 'Beaker-like' voice in this hilarious memory! This, the Alien Alphabet, and the Martian clips are all attempts (and very successful ones, I might add) to give Sesame Street that occasional 'extraterrestial touch'!

[whitewitchoz]

Wow, After all these years I thought it was "sharing" .... kinda blows my mind.

[stephiesquirrel]

I loved this when i was little. I'm surprised i found it on here!!! to this day i call nectarines "sharing nectarines" because of this. :)

[rayandreina]

I've noticed that music has a distinctive ONE-two-THREE-FOUR, ONE-two-THREE-FOUR... beat that I absolutely LOVE; the only other piece I know of that has that beat is Shostakovich's Symphony #5 (1937), during the first movement of that symphony.

[rayandreina]

"GONK!!! Ohhhhhhhh, Go-o-o-onk! Oh, GONK!!!" You think you'll ever hear THAT one on a golf course? HA! -- fat chance!