Classic Sesame Street: "Fred, Get Me A 20!"

Thanks to YouTube Classic Sesame Street fans d72jjpilc and rayandreina who inspired the final, successful hunt for this long-missing clip! Our two heroes shared and posted the audio of the 1971 Sesame Street segment "Fred, Get Me A 20", bringing back some serious long-lost memories. I and an earlier dubbing specialist at Sesame Workshop tried to find the video of "Fred" in 2002 and 2003, then later in 2006 and 2007, to no avail. After hearing rayandreina's audio, I felt inspired to try again. Boy am I glad I did... because this time, Sesame Workshop finally found it!

"Fred, Get Me A 20!" is actually titled "Detectives 11-20" (which strongly suggests there must be a "Detectives 1-10", right, lol?) and stars Sesame Street composer Joe Raposo as a slow-witted detective's apprentice who searches the streets of Manhattan for numbers 11 through 20. As of Mother's Day 2010, the "boss" has been officially confirmed as indeed Sesame Street percussionist Danny Epstein.

Sesame Street bassist and close Joe Raposo personal friend Bob Cranshaw remembered this segment immediately and reports there were "several" made: all starring Joe Raposo as the bumbling gumshoe.

Enjoy, true classic Sesame fans! The search is over!

Look for: Joe Raposo using his telescope to examine a pair of shapely blonde legs passing a newsstand. :D

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[jeopardy60611]

@d72jjpilc Back then, the curriculum only included counting to 20. In later years, I discovered that they added numbers up to 40.

Sesame Street really had an impression on me, as I used to be obsessed with many of the songs and skits when I was 3 years old and watched it a lot. I even amazed my grandparents and their friends by counting in Spanish once when I was at their house.

[jeopardy60611]

@loitermanart I didn't understand the "oh boy oh boy oh boy" line when I saw this at 3 years old. I thought he was saying something like "oh way oh way" and I didn't get it. It's amazing how much easier it is to understand everything now.

[rocknrollwarrior]

"What's a 20?"...lol! I guess he's only used to 50s & 100s.

[RSLindsay]

I wonder if the gorilla was renting the office.

[loveforlogos]

Which episode is this from?

[muhammadstephen]

Directly to favorites no thought required.

[delideliver]

that gorilla use to scare the shit out of me when I was little,I was afraid the gorilla was going to kill that guy

[loitermanart]

WOW I cannot believe this in my head after all these years this has been buried somewhere for so long. No wonder I lapse into that voice doing that New York speak -as in DAT BUS or BOYOBOYOBOY! weird huh!

[zazelby]

... I had totally forgotten about this until I saw it just now, and then I remembered every second of it.

[texasghost]

Wonder if he meant...get me a "20" as in...bucks?