Sesame Street - That's about the size of it

This great, nostalgic catchy cartoon/song is very popular. It teaches kids that big and small are actually relative terms. Luckily, I recorded it over 21 years ago and found it in my Sesame Street archives. A re-post because the volume has been increased. Special thanks to Sesame Street Workshop for allowing me to post this here. All copyrights and profits for ALL Sesame Street segments belong to them!

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[ThirdOfJune4444]

I agree with all of you. You'll never see anything this tastefully and musically well done on Sesame Street these days, or any other childrens' shows. I'm 37 years old now and I remember this song & lyrics as if I had seen it yesterday. Made me feel good & nostalgic. What's on Sesame Street now? May as well call it the Elmo Show....like driving a railspike through my skull for 25 minutes.

[floresarts]

Yes. Yes. These animations from the early 70's were so wildly creative and fanciful. They were about imagination and a sense of wonder. What happened to that sensibility? Why is that not found in children's programming today?

[Marbles471]

@barfyspitz

That's not exactly what happened. Sesame Street changed its approach because suddenly in the 90s it had something it had never had before: competition. Blue's Clues and Barney became hits while doing everything the opposite of the way Sesame always had: aiming purely at children, with no double-layered humor for their parents, staying simple and direct, and using a slow pace. Sesame Street lost almost a third of its viewers overnight. They had to adapt, or die out.

[barfyspitz]

@rvaliant7 Caught the sarcasm at the end(nice touch). I'm a huge fan of smart asses. But maybe we're confused...I was saying that there was a shift to replace sketches that stimulated kids' minds to problem solve, develop creative concepts and solutions in favor of shiny objects and cute noises. If virtual slave labor and poverty is the winning formula, I guess we'll have to consider breaking the UNIONS, giving our property to the Dictator, move to the housing, and enjoy victory.

[rvaliant7]

@barfyspitz The purpose of public education reform is to train children to take tests, not think about perspectives. Corporations would like Americans to work for the same wages, and in the same conditions, as the Chinese - just ask Apple. Chinese workers are not more competitive than American works because they are smarter or wiser, it is because they are cheaper. That is what competition is really about - not to hurt your feelings, or anything.

[barfyspitz]

I think you can see the outcome of dummying down of our children in the schools and the media by this classic. Sketches like this seemed to open childrens' perspectives and encourage progressive thought processes and advancement. There was a change probably 15-20 years ago to keep all kids at the lowest stage of the group and discourage competition or achievement so as to not hurt any ones feelings.

[bearcattony]

ugh. giant bugs, especially ants.

[brotherjohn25]

Superb. When I was a kid I used to sing along with this song which was one of my favorites in sesame street.

[RubberBiscuit]

Thank you so much for uploading this. I used to dance around to it when I was tiny.

Then when I was a little older, I decided it was about visual perspective.

Now that I'm much older--and I lie in bed at night worrying needlessly about things, sometimes--I realize it's about that, too.

[thaggas]

Just watched the Winnie the Pooh movie. Budd Luckey as Eeyore was inspired casting!

[UpRoaryus]

@floresarts - well the war on drugs happened - I'm sure some "shrooms and lsd were contributing to more than the sid and marty krofft shows... =)

[zandermanandcassymom]

I was singing this song all day. I don't know what put it in my head but I'm surprised I still remember it! Way to go Sesame Street!!