Sesame Street - Jazzy Spies # 4

Here is another famous cartoon that was pulled. These cartoons were all so strange if you think of it.

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Film & Animation

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• Sesame
• Street
• cartoon
• 70's
• jazzy
• spies
• four

[norcotony]

Thanks for posting these. Brings me way back to when Sesame Street was still a new show full of energy and creativity. It saddens me to think that the 21st century and political correctness has spread so far as to fix yet another thing that was never broken in the first place

[mstatz]

@norcotony I agree 100%!

[tigrrrt84]

wow sesame street used to be trippy... i love it! i cant get that beat out of my head where the numbers are counting up. i was so disappointed when i took a look at it a few years back hoping to catch a few familiar clips, when i saw that half the show was stolen by elmo.

[mstatz]

You were born the year I began recording all these early 70's classic segments. I'm 38 now, so I was three to five years old between 1971 and 1973 when I first remember watching these trippy segments. The show sucks big time now with Elmo taking over.

[nirrad0791]

What happened to the "jazzy 3" I think that was the one with the devil in the end. can anyone post that one???

[mstatz]

Unfortunately, I don't have number 3. I would have posted it by now if I had it.

[4a8p9x]

SS was originally the product of revolutionary, "out-of-the-box" thinking. There were funny sequences, scary sequences, sad sequences (i.e. the crying flower) and trippy sequences; all designed to stick with the viewer after the TV went off. In its day there was a lot of controversy about educational TV, even as the benefits became evident.

So what happened? Like every good revolution, it was incorporated by the establishment and made safe. That is to say, it was neutered.

[dynasue77]

I used to love seeing these cartoons on " the old " Sesame Street. Sadly, Sesame Street is just a shadow now of what it used to be. All the great cartoons and skits seem to have gone.

[TheBeebe1972]

Weren't there some of these in Spanish?

[spacebullseye]

I wonder if that ringmaster had workman's comp.

[JhonathanFree]

Fo-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ur!­!! LOVE it!!!

[DaveWollenberg]

The original Jazzy Spies #4, with the angled 4.

[psykdiva]

@ DiamondbackMD, who imagined what these would be like if the numbers were bigger: Not only this skit, but Alex Stevens (the baker) would REALLY have his hands full (until he fell, that is)!

[trashpicker1970]

ahhh. vintage sesame street memories are the best!!! i was born in 1970 so i am one of the sesame street generation... this show and electric company, both taught me to read before kindergarten.....they should drop the way it is now and just play this all day.....i'd be happy..

and along with dropping elmo, how about getting rid of baby bear and abby cadabby? they have dumbed this show down now...

[JGCooney]

@mstatz Kevin Clash should drop Elmo, and keep the other muppets such as Kingston Livingston III.

Forget the 10 minute segment called Elmo's World. Elmo will eventually hurt Kevin's voice.

[DaveWollenberg]

In later seasons, they removed the 4 with the angle, and replaced it with a blue 4.

[ronson232]

I only just learned today that these segments feature none other than Grace Slick, of Jefferson Airplane.

[halcaannen]

@DiAnno13 hey man maybe if you put in your comment that cinco=5 then people would not think that cinco is the translation of 4. By the way I know perfect Spanish and I was just mentioning it for the people who did not know any Spanish.