Sesame Street: Creepy toys, robots, and satellites

This was my favorite Sesame Street short when I was little! OMG! Thanks for posting! Is there a better quality one around?? Anyone??

Oops. i hosed that.
"It's got a ruined eye"

That's not a satellite at the end. It's a computer rendering of one of the Voyager probes.

"And there's a creepy doll
that always follows you!
It has a creepy eye
that's always open!"
—Jonathan Coulton

Holy crap this used to scare the **** out of me when I was little!!! Everytime I was watching Seseme Street and this would come on I'd change the channel lol.

This was always a favorite of my mom and I when I was little... she would come out of whatever room she was in and watch it with me and sing along with the song... I actually teared up watching it cuz it brought back such good memories

You know, I never found this short creepy, even as a kid. In fact, the film of the Voyager space probes at the end (I think the short is supposed to show the evolution of robots, which the Voyagers technically are) marked the moment where I first became aware that there were planets other than Earth. Considering I now work for NASA, that was a very important moment.

I was never creeped out at all by it, but I can see how others might have been.

When you look at it, the point of this film is showing how we went from dolls led to dolls with clockwork contraptions, which led to robots which led to rockets.

Does nybody anywhere know the name of the tune that is played on this film?

Honestly, what would make an adult think for a split second that it would be a good idea to show this shit to a child?

This is why I put a "Santa: No Robots Please." sign on our Christmas tree when I was little.

You've never heard of a Sambo doll, have you?