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The animated segments are always worthwhile. They would hire different animators for these segments, whether established studios (Hanna-Barbera and Filmation did a few segments, for example), or weird indie animators that's not otherwise associated with children's TV, like Sally Cruikshank, or in the above video's case, Vincent Collins.
I'm not kidding about how weird Collins' animation is
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I don’t have any memories of that segment but yeah, now that I think of it, Sesame Street is a treasure trove of indie/experimental animation.
This segment was nightmare fuel for five-year-old me:
This segment was nightmare fuel for five-year-old me:
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Jim Simon did some really cool and expressive animation for PBS
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Here's a Sesame Street segment featuring Batman. Produced at Filmation. Voices by Olan Soule and Casey Kasem.
Jim Simon is someone I really want to know more about. This is such a wonderful segment.
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Here's one by Sally Cruikshank. She produced some really great (and weird) indie animation
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If anyone hasn't seen Cruikshank's "Quasi at the Quackadero", you're in for a trip
It's like if Fleischer Studio was still around in the 1970s.
It's like if Fleischer Studio was still around in the 1970s.
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This one has a talking letter "J". Made by Fred Crippin (older animation fans might remember a show he did, "Roger Ramjet"). Voices include Gary Owens and Bob Arbogast.
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Oh yeah, Roger Ramjet! With his sidekicks Yank, Doodle, Dan, and Dee!
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This is the Sesame Street animation I remember more than any other:
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I remember that too! But you know what’s weird, hearing it now I think I appreciate it more than as a kid.
Like as a kid everything’s just pleasant noise, but as an adult I can have thoughts like “Wow, Sesame Street is funky” and “Ooo, steel drum!”
So I guess I’m a Sesame Street hipster. The show is wasted on the target audience, they don’t get it the way I do.
Like as a kid everything’s just pleasant noise, but as an adult I can have thoughts like “Wow, Sesame Street is funky” and “Ooo, steel drum!”
So I guess I’m a Sesame Street hipster. The show is wasted on the target audience, they don’t get it the way I do.
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a loaf of bread, a potato of milk, and a stick of butter
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The character featured is "Tiger", a comic strip that started in the 1960s. For a while Sesame Street had animated segments based on characters from King Features comic strips (they also did one with Beetle Bailey and Krazy Kat).
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My older sister was TERRIFIED of the "yipyipyipyip" aliens. As soon as they came on screen, she'd flee the room.
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How's this for terrifying?
This was such a nightmare fuel that they removed this in later reruns
This was such a nightmare fuel that they removed this in later reruns
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Seriously, everything about this segment is creepy, including behind the scenes. We don't even know who made this, and there was an investigation for it.
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i didn't even realize that one was obscure, i know i saw it as a child
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I'm the crack master
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This is the Sesame Street cartoon I always remember.
"I am a nightingale!"
And the Pink Panther making a guest appearance.
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That one set me off like nothing else. I must have watched it exactly once before I insisted on bolting from the room whenever it came on.Mechanical Ape wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:48 amThis segment was nightmare fuel for five-year-old me:
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Crack Master has nothing on Rubberband Mouth Orange
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This is cutePonyHag714 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:27 amThis is the Sesame Street cartoon I always remember.
"I am a nightingale!"
This made me wonder who made this. It's Tee Collins, one of the first black animators to open their own studio (Jim Simon, linked earlier, was another). "Sesame Street" was great for hiring animators with diverse backgrounds.
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Here's another neat one:
This was animated by Whitney Lee Savage, with his son Adam voicing the little boy.
Adam would grow up to have a big career in television like his dad, on a little show called "Mythbusters".
This was animated by Whitney Lee Savage, with his son Adam voicing the little boy.
Adam would grow up to have a big career in television like his dad, on a little show called "Mythbusters".
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From 1973, this looks like something Hanna-Barbera would make, although I don't know if the studio did it or not. At the very least, it was made by someone who worked at the studio.
That's Hal Smith doing voices. He was a character actor who did a lot of voices in animation around this time, but his most famous role is probably Otis the town drunk in "The Andy Griffith Show". He also briefly took over as Elmer Fudd's voice after his original actor, Arthur Q. Bryan, died.
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I'm leaning toward the theory that the phrase "crack monkey" became a problematic thing to be saying in a kids' show by the '80s. Though I'm sure the scary face coupled with the implication of a living thing falling apart didn't sit well with a lot of kids either; there was an incident involving a car dealership's elephant statue that messed three-year-old me up badly enough to set off a chain reaction of minor phobias.Mechanical Ape wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:35 amCrack Master has nothing on Rubberband Mouth Orange
Speaking of freaky Sesame Street stuff, here's one that's also before my time but is apparently pretty infamous.
by the way if mods want to split this off into a new thread I feel like we could have some fun with that
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Agreed, I think this warrants its own thread!
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Probably the Holy Grail of these number segments.
"One belly button."
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This song has been in my head for 30 years or so
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I was hoping someone would bring up one of those, because they were sung by none other than the late Bud Luckey—the Pixar animator who created the short Boundin' as well as doing a few voices for them over the years. He played the clown in Toy Story 3 and the g-man in The Incredibles.
Here's the full list of which ones were his, by the way. They appear to have all been animated by the same team, as well.
Here's the full list of which ones were his, by the way. They appear to have all been animated by the same team, as well.
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I love Bud Luckey's segments! Here's one of my favorites:
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Don't know who made this one, but I wonder if the animator worked for Hanna-Barbera. They certainly had access to the studio's sound effects library.
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That kid played her dad like a fiddle
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One of my favorites, and a great way to explain the seasons.
I think this was the first ever animated sequence to appear on the show.
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"Broil the biggie!"
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The history of Cookie Monster is wild. Before this Jim Henson made a test commercial for Wheels, Flutes and Crowns. The commercial never aired, but that Wheel Stealer would have a bright future elsewhere.
So Wheels, Munchos, and finally Cookies...
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This one had some pretty sharp writing.
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This makes me convinced that Jim Henson was the original Michael Bay.