Sesame Street: Creepy toys, robots, and satellites

The name says it all: creepy mechanical wind-up toys (the EYES!), robots with alphabet blocks, and satellites spinning around planets from vintage Sesame Street. All to stick-in-your-head music. I think this clip is why I grew up with a lifelong fear of robots.

EDIT: This video must have been made sometime between 1981 (when the first shuttle was launched) and 1988 (when this tape was from). The mystery continues!

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Entertainment

Tags:

• creepy
• toys
• robots
• satellites
• sesame
• street
• vintage

[Hawkeyes711]

omg this used to scare the shit out of me when i was a kid and i LOVED IT

[PhriendlyPhantom]

I remember watching Sesame Street every day in the faint hope that they would play this video again. I got to see it several times but then they stopped showing it altogether. I searched for years in vain to find this video -- I could still faintly hear the music in my head and see some of the images. It's one of the most enthralling, exciting, inspiring, and magical thing I've ever seen. It certainly never occurred to me that someone could find it creepy -- only magical! Makes me cry in joy. :)

[rebrella]

Frightened me when I was a kid. Now I love it.

[wonderfulmadcat]

I died.

[moatguy]

I remember in Australia when I was a kid the music to this and the music on the rocket clock in old playschool which in Sesame Street and Playschool's heyday were shown. First Sesame Street then Bananas in Pyjamas then Playschool. Today now that they've been moved around it's just not good.

[thornmallow1]

Wow! me too! I hated robots for years, This just reminded me of the museum of science and industry in Chicago. Ok yeah the silver robot is still scary. NO don't touch my blocks!! Hey, I used to use those soda bottles.

[xXThatFurryVixenXx]

This song gives me the creeps bad! I used to love it on the rocket clock on playschool though.. Thenagen, I have a strange fear of robots.. Add that to this music and bam! You've given me nightmares. Lol o_o

[robotmaker11]

1:23 I never knew they had put Heathkit Hero and Heathkit hero jr. in this! Awesome! :D

[DepthPerceptionPics]

When I was a child I thought, what this video in Sesame Street conveyed was how humans have come a long way in their inventions and technologies. To lifeless dolls and toys, to ones that wind up and move, then to robotics, and then ultimately space travel. What WOULD be scary is if they inculcated a video of nuclear testing and the aftereffects of atom splitting and radiation poisoning.

[bearcattony]

Actually not too bad until the last sequence with sparks, explosions, cymbals, rockets.  That's what scared me when I was little.

[johneastmond]

Ramshackle toy sounds over NASA space footage. LOL!

[jeffyoung60]

This is great Sesame Street vignette. I think it spooks some people in a delightful way because of the antique toys operating without a human child operator and it is all set in a dark background. This contributes to the so-called, 'haunted house' effect this vignette displays. If I could re-make this video, it would be only antique toys; no modern technology included. This would truly make for a haunted house, spooky effect.