What Muppet skits scared you as a kid : Count hypnotysing Ernie
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to help him count or something but Ernie refused so the count waved
his fingers and zapped him *forcing* him to do his bidding. Man, that
was spooky no wonder he doesnt that anymore (someone musta complained)
The "Five apples take away one apple equals.." monster also spooked
me (Any1 remember him)
On the Muppets there were these guest puppeteers who did this Japanese
puppet theatre bit about a woman who opens a haunted box or something
and ends up dying, the echoing spirit music really getting to me as a
6 year old.
Any others?
Daniel J Horn
This thread starts up every once in a while on this newsgroup, and I've
noticed something pretty interesting about it -- that about half the
time it turns out that the sketch that terrified someone turns out not
really to have been on the show. Sometimes the memory is based on
something that really happened, but sometimes it's just a little-kid fear
that over the years gets transformed into a "memory" of something the kid
saw on Sesame Street.
I'm really interested in the way memory works, and studies in memory
indicate that memories are a lot more fluid than most people assume.
Often, memories can change, and the changed memories can seem even more
"real" than the actual events. Just about everyone has had the experience
of saying to his/her parents, "Hey, remember when..." and having the
parents say, "You weren't there when that happened. That happened before
you were born, you just remember us telling you about it." But in your
head, you remember that story as if it happened to you.
So all of this is just to say: Caveat emptor with these scary memories.
If someone posts and says, "I was really shocked when Cookie Monster ate
Ernie's goldfish alive, and when Ernie cried about it, Cookie Monster
just laughed and ran away," and that seems like a pretty unlikely thing
to have happened... take it with a grain of salt.
-- Danny
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Adams Daniel E
There are two that really stand out in my memory. I haven't seen them
since I was about four, so that tells you how much of an impact they had
on me.
The first one was on the Kenny Rodgers episode. I think he was singing
The Gambler, but I remember that he was playing poker with human-looking
Muppets. As I remember it, one of the Muppets smoked, and he died right
there and became a ghost (I think he died from smoking). Well, the ghost
Muppet scared the dickens out of me. I still get a little creeped out
just thinking about it. I guess the good news is that I've never taken
up smoking.
The other one was done with shadow puppets, and it was the Old Lady Who
Swallowed a Fly. Well, she kept swallowing all the things, and at the
end she blew up. That one really scared me too, but I keep thinking
about how terrified I was back then, and how I turned out fine and
normal, so I think if some kid gets a little upset by a Muppet getting
hit or something, it's not going to scar her for life.
I'm going to go hide under my bed now and sing Kenny Rodgers songs until
dinner.
-Dan
Hobbes005
skin ripped off. Or the time when Gonzo pecked out Scooter's eyes and
Scooter went blind. Or the time when Grover smashed Big Bird's hand in a
car door and it got chopped off. Or the time when Sweetums face fell off.
Or the time when Cookie Monster ate a dead racoon and died. Did these
really happen??
affectionately,
-Chris
Mr crun
which is when the show first came out. On SS, two Muppets were in a
balloon, singing "Up Up and Away" and for whatever reason, the balloon
broke really loudly and fell over. Worst of all, I don't remember how they
ended up, I just know they fell.
For some reason, the SS Mahna Mahna routine gave me the willies,
although I can enjoy it now. I also used to be scared when Grover would
talk about a G, which kept growing. Fortunately, they still show this, and
now I rather like it.
Not too much Muppet Show frightened me, but then I was older. I
thought Animal was just another Cookie Monster type, but I caught on to
his "wo-man!" schtick.
That's all for now.
-Dave
Trevor Bradley
My wife seems to recall Alice Cooper getting Miss Piggy to sell her
soul to the devil on the Muppet Show. Not that it scared her, she
thought it was pretty cool at the time...
Sorry, can't confirm it myself.
--
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Beabiz
(Hobbes005) writes:
ROTFL!!!
You know, actually the only thing I remember scaring me was those spelling
sketches. The big voice said, "These are the letters U and N. Together
they sound like this: UN. UN. UN." And as he said un un un, the
letters slowly and (I thought) menacingly marched to the front. Then the
Voice said "Way back there is the letter R. The letter R sounds like
this: Rrrrr. Rrrrrrr. Rrrrrr." And the R stalked to the front, and I
was sure it was growling at me. Of course all the letters did was spell
RUN, but the slow steady marching to that drum beat and the growling
Rrrrrr had me so freaked out I had to leave the room until it was over.
Re-reading the above, I feel very silly.
Bit-who is not sure she should even post this one
Elizabeth D. Wells
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Everyday Hero
The Gambler in the Kenny Rogers skit on the Muppets died from a lot more
than smoking. He died from smoking, drinking, fighting, cheating,
drifting, and old age. So don't do any of that stuff and you'll live to
be 103. Or not.
I was also really freaked out by the Japanese ghost story. Other scary
Muppet skits were Zero Mostel confronting his fears, Vincent Price and
Kermit discussing vampires, that Mayan idol Janis was being sacrificed to
that played "I get by with a little help from my friends", the murder
mystery show(with Liza Minelli), and "The Phantom of the Muppet Show",
that hideous blue muppet that stalked the theatre.
But the champion of this little fright fest will always be The Furniture
Monsters. I still have nightmares about them. Brrrrrrrrrr.
Everyday Hero
Ron Bauerle
>
>There are two that really stand out in my memory. I haven't seen them
>since I was about four, so that tells you how much of an impact they had
>on me.
>
>The first one was on the Kenny Rodgers episode. I think he was singing
>The Gambler, but I remember that he was playing poker with human-looking
>Muppets. As I remember it, one of the Muppets smoked, and he died right
>there and became a ghost (I think he died from smoking).
Actually he and Kenny were on a train, and it was implied he died of
old age and/or the stress of a lifetime of gambling.
RDB
Ron Bauerle
>My wife seems to recall Alice Cooper getting Miss Piggy to sell her
>soul to the devil on the Muppet Show. Not that it scared her, she
>thought it was pretty cool at the time...
>
>Sorry, can't confirm it myself.
She did, until she saw the monster he had turned her into, and called
off the deal :^) Gonzo, OTOH, took him up on it, and there was a funny
bit at the end of the show:
Off-screen voice: "THIS IS THE VOICE OF DOOM!"
Kermit: "Sounds more like the voice of Gonzo!"
(Gonzo appears in a puff of smoke, holding a piece of paper)
Kermit: "Is that the contract with the devil?"
Gonzo: "No! It's the bill for the special effects on this show!"
Kermit: "Aaah! I don't wanna hear about it!" and closes the show.
RDB
Ichabod Crane
and walked into a house saying "Yip yip yip yip yip yip wah wah"
terrified me when I was 2 years old. I used to hide behind the sofa
when that skit came on.
Hobbes005
Sabrina M. Jones
the Muppet Show scared the life out of me! When I was very young I had a
nightmare about a monster looking very much like the Phantom and years
later when I saw it on MS I started screaming to my boyfriend "That's my
nightmare!"
I would like to know if that muppet was ever used on Sesame Street?
Maybe I had seen it as a child which caused the nightmare. I still get
a fright when I see it in reruns.
SMJ
Hammer
-The skit on Sesame St. with the aliens who flew down on the spaceship
-and walked into a house saying "Yip yip yip yip yip yip wah wah"
-terrified me when I was 2 years old. I used to hide behind the sofa
-when that skit came on.
Yes! That skit used to scare the crap out of me!
Hammer
MosquitoRR
them in) sketch involving mummies that look like E and B that came to
life. The first time I saw it, it genuinely spooked me, but I don't
remember why.
Ryan Roe
Gonzo: I'm on my way to Bombay, India to become rich and famous.
Fozzie: You don't go to Bombay, India to become rich and famous ! You go
to Hollywood.
Gonzo: Sure, if you want to do it the easy way.
TNesi
Twice" thing on Sesame Street. Gives me the creeps just thinking about
it.
Know what scared me when I was littler? The "Vincent Twice, Vincent
Twice" thing on Sesame Street. Gives me the creeps just thinking about
it.
Ted
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>what does ROTFL stand for? Just asking.
Rolling On The Floor Laughing. Sometimes you may see ROTFLMHO (...My Head
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Lisa P.
just a ques:
did bert have leukemia...someone told me he died
say it aint so :(
Alexander Platt
: just a ques:
: did bert have leukemia...someone told me he died
: say it aint so :(
FAQ you!
Kerry Robin
>
>
>just a ques:
>did bert have leukemia...someone told me he died
>say it aint so :(
It ain't so.
It is technically, medically, clinically, and physically impossible for
the foam/felt puppet to get any sort of disease.
Except for the dreaded moth-bite syndrome.
Kerry Robin
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Lisa P.
say what?
On 23 Mar 1996, Alexander Platt wrote:
> Lisa P. (be2...@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu) wrote:
>
> : just a ques:
> : did bert have leukemia...someone told me he died
> : say it aint so :(
>
> FAQ you!
>
>
Jon Schell
Momunshanz (horrible mispelling, but I have no idea) were on...people dressed
in black tights that do weird things with their faces. Sometimes they did
dances with masks that had toilet paper for eyes and such, and that was fine.
But one time these two did this dance with clay faces, and they kept changing
the expression on them while dancing. And at the end, they're faces got
stuck together, seemingly for eternity. Besides the fact that the faces scared
the crap out of me, it really distrubed me to think that now their faces
were STUCK together forever! *shiver*.
BTW, I have no memory of this, but according to my parents, as a child
the commercial where the animated bubbles go down the bathroom drain really
scared me. I would run out of the room. Why am I confessing this? *sigh*
--
-Jon Schell
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Kevin K. Kiuchi
The Count always scared me when I was younger. I'd always get scared or
something after he counted, and did his Dracula-esque laugh when there
would be a lightning/thunder effect.
Anyhow, long since my youth days of watching SS, I got a little older, but
not too cool to watch the muppets, I still had some weird nightmares and
fears of the Count.
Last Friday at work I was talking to the new hire, breaking "the ice" and
the first thing I thought to discuss was Sesame Street/Muppets. When we
were talking about, I was counting money or something and said ONE dollar,
TWO dollars, THAREEEE DOLLARS! *huh haa haa* Just then a customer came
waltzing in and smiled. :)
kevin
Daniel J Horn
: >
: > : just a ques:
: > : did bert have leukemia...someone told me he died
: > : say it aint so :(
: >
: > FAQ you!
: >
: Say what?
They meant check out the FAQ -- the "Frequently Asked Questions" list.
It's posted to the newsgroup every month and answers that question.
Short version: No, none of the Sesame Street Muppets have a disease or
will ever have a disease. This is a particularly persistent and
irritating rumor.
David Hirsch
pretty weird when I first saw it. Ernie was dressed as a barber, and he
talked Bert into letting him get a haircut. Ernie cut off all Bert's hair,
revealing his tall pointed head. I just remember it seeming freaky the
first time. I know this happened because I saw the bit again in college, so
I'm not making this up. Anyone else recall this?
I think there was a follow-up segment where Bert gets his hair back,
but I'm not sure how it happened. Anyway, that part wasn't repeated when I
last saw it.
Dave
Ross Garmil
: just a ques:
: did bert have leukemia...someone told me he died
: say it aint so :(
Not leukemia--he got hooked up with the Cali Cartel. It's always sad
when a good muppet goes bad.
No, I'm kidding! No muppets have died (except arguably, Scooter) and none
have plans to be dead, although rumors seem to constantly circulate.
Ross
Lisa P.
ok, since everyone is flipping out over my post, i will explain:
a couple months ago we had a discussion in my english class about sesame
street, and my TA said that she heard on the radio that bert died. of
course everyone in my class started freaking, and then someone else said
that bert had leukemia, and that it was supposed to teach kids about death
(leukemia being a child-disease). of course this could just be a vicious
rumor, and so i figured, who better to ask than my muppets newsgroup
(since we also talk about sesame-street muppets)
sorry for any confusion i might have caused.
-lisa
On Sun, 24 Mar 1996, Lisa P. wrote:
>
>
> say what?
>
>
> On 23 Mar 1996, Alexander Platt wrote:
>
> > Lisa P. (be2...@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu) wrote:
> >
> > : just a ques:
> > : did bert have leukemia...someone told me he died
> > : say it aint so :(
> >
> > FAQ you!
> >
> >
>
>
ALICE M. GERHARDT
them. On the other hand, Statler and Waldrof scared my younger sister.
She had to go to bed right after the Muppets and used to have nightmares
about 'em. I could never figure it out . . . they were two of my
favorite characters :)
Alice
Daniel J Horn
: No, I'm kidding! No muppets have died (except arguably, Scooter) and none
: have plans to be dead, although rumors seem to constantly circulate.
Scooter is NOT dead.
Muppets don't die. (Except for Dead Tom, of course.) Richard Hunt died,
which means that Scooter may not be on the shows anymore, but Scooter
didn't die. People die, Muppets don't. That's one of their many advantages.
A. K. Mauer
one where the orange muppet was walking along to that
windmill in my mind song. He kept getting faster
and faster and faster and faster until he ran into that
windmill. I remember being scared to run for a while after
that in fear that I couldn't stop....
Andy
TNesi
>People die, Muppets don't. That's one of their many >advantages.HI-HO! Kermit the Ted here! I'm a Muppet, ha ha ha, I...um...I...um
don't....um...die....um...yeah.
Ted
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Ross Garmil
: Ross Garmil (lim...@bu.edu) wrote:
: : No, I'm kidding! No muppets have died (except arguably, Scooter) and none
: : have plans to be dead, although rumors seem to constantly circulate.
: Scooter is NOT dead.
: Muppets don't die. (Except for Dead Tom, of course.) Richard Hunt died,
: which means that Scooter may not be on the shows anymore, but Scooter
: didn't die. People die, Muppets don't. That's one of their many advantages.
: -- Danny
Danny, I just said "arguably."
And I think it is arguable. I prefer to use the term "retired" but I think
aside for the random tip of the hat, such as the picture in the back
hall at KMUP (which I really think I saw) it appears to me as if Scooter's
appearances are at an end. I'm not complaining (although I did like the
character and do miss him, casts change, shows progress), I'm just leaving
it open as a possibility. I really didn't mean to incite anyone to....
incition.
I would love for him to show up on Friday's show and personally apply mud
all over my face. I just think that it's a case can be made for it, and
wanted to recognize all opinions.
Jeez.
Ross--who's apparently getting under Danny's craw lately.
Karin Alejandra Arroyo
> Any others?
>
This has not much to do with the muppets, but actually with Sesame Street.
This will sound *really* weird to you, but you remember the animated cartoon
of the pin-ball going around while a counting song going up to twelve was
playing? Well, that used to give me nightmares, and my parents had to
teach me how to use the remote control so I could change the channel when
that cartoon came on.
It still creeps me out a bit.
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No, no, crazy one. You haven't been sticking into my craw at all, or
whatever the phrase is. I think you're great.
I just think there's a big difference between a character not appearing
anymore and a character being DEAD. Hilda hasn't appeared for about 20
years, but she isn't dead. To be "dead," we'd have to see her die, and
they'd never do that.
I was just concerned that by saying that Scooter is "dead," that would
spark a million boring rumors about how they "killed" him, same as with
Ernie and Bert. And we'd be stamping those fires out forever. I think
it's much easier to say that Richard Hunt is dead, so Scooter isn't
appearing any more -- but Scooter isn't dead.
-- Danny
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killing everyone (and beating poor kermit over the head with lead pipe) I had
nightmares for years.
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singing something about "you're always welcome at our house,
any time of the day, you're always welcome at our house, and
we hope you will stay..." and klunking their guests on the head
and hiding the bodies in a trap door. Come to think of it, it
kinda gave ME the willies, too. :D
Sandy
Ross Garmil
: No, no, crazy one. You haven't been sticking into my craw at all, or
: whatever the phrase is. I think you're great.
Hey, Danny,
I just wanted to keep that line up top.
I see your point about not using the d word and working to stop stupid
rumors from spreading, and it's an easily concedable point. As I said
earlier, I do prefer to say that the muppets in question have been retired
(although I do think that's partially the difference between Rowlf and
Scooter--the type of retirement (not to mention all that fur)).
Maybe he's in Montana with the biological Aliens father.
Ross
Jason Luck
>The skit on Sesame St. with the aliens who flew down on the spaceship
>and walked into a house saying "Yip yip yip yip yip yip wah wah"
>terrified me when I was 2 years old. I used to hide behind the sofa
>when that skit came on.
Catchin this thread a little late, but count me in on this one too!
It terrified me!
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Milwaukee, WI | jl...@earth.execpc.com | Updated 2-12-96
Joseph Larson
: This wasn't exactly a muppet skit, but it was on the Muppet Show.
: in black tights that do weird things with their faces. Sometimes they did
: dances with masks that had toilet paper for eyes and such, and that was fine.
Momafettets! I loved them, they showed up on, oh, the show with the
moose, the one in Alaska, NORTHERN EXPOSURE, that was it. Yea they were
their and I was like "Wow, I haven't seen these people is soooooooo long.
The had a bit with a green...thing, kinda like a felt pacman with a
tounge and it would roll around and eat this piece of lint that would
stick on it's tounge, then it would stick out it's tounge with the lint,
people would laugh at it, and it would laugh with them.
: But one time these two did this dance with clay faces, and they kept changing
: the expression on them while dancing. And at the end, they're faces got
: stuck together, seemingly for eternity. Besides the fact that the faces scared
: the crap out of me, it really distrubed me to think that now their faces
: were STUCK together forever! *shiver*.
Eh, that one was fairly strange, the one the for some reason spooked me
was there were ones with blocks for faces and they kept removing the
blocks and placing them on a board. That one scared me because the idea
of taking off your face...yeesh.
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>>On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Cybernet Cafe wrote:
>
>>> Any others?
>>>
>
>gonzo stood there singing a song, while george burns sat there on fire.
This is definitely a case of memory playing its tricks on you. The actual
joke was "Gonzo fiddles while George Burns", a pun on Nero fiddling while
Rome burns. Gonzo was in George's dressing room before the show, playing
the violin, while George was smoking his cigar. He was not on fire, it was
the cigar that was producing the smoke.
Noah
Noah
Support Blue Ribbon
(after all were all mature enough to watch ourselves...right?)
daleske kirsten amy
street!! aaaaghh! they make weird noises, break into people's homes, and
stare at their alarm clocks and ring at their phones and whatnot!!!
aaaggh! the idea of things teleporting into my house gave me nightmares
when i was little, and i can still be freaked out by that noise they
make: "uhhh-yup-yup-yup-yup-yup-yup....brrrrrinngg...yup-yup-yup-yup"
aaaagh!
>kirsten "the martian-hater" daleske
Shane Pearson
stanza that said something about "so I asked her to come
in, and we gave her some poison lemonade, and put her in
the freezer where it's nice and cool... then it went on
about being welcome at our house...that one scared me too!
Funny what you remember from when you were a kid-
Krista
Leon Krolik
eating furniture on the Newsflash. Ten years later and I'm still
suffering...
Daniel Krolik
lekr...@accent.net
Wayong
Electric Company when I was 3. I used to run screaming & have nightmares.
That year, my father to me trick or treating & who opens the door (a
neighbor) --Spider Man! That really flipped me out.
Also, when I was 5 or 6 or so, I was watch Saturday Night Live, the Land
Shark Skit scared me. It was around the time the 1rst Jaws came out. The
shark puppet was life size & was trying to get into the apartment. Ralph
Lee (puppeteer) constructed the shark.
"Pizza"
"I didn't order any pizza! Who is this?"
"Uh, candygram."
"Wait a sec, are that land shark that's going around eating
people?"
"Uh, no ma'am. I'm just an innocent dolphin."
"Oh. Okay" says the woman, opening the door.
If a giant shark could scare me, maybe a giant frog could scare a kid.
Richard J. Pugh
>Nothing on Muppets or Seseme St. --
Actually, I used to be afraid of the "King of Eight" sketch (which was
more of a puppetoon sequence than muppets). Whenever that one came
on, I would run from the room, because I couldn't get past the fact
that at the end of the sketch, the huge plaque with the number "8" on
it would fall from the castle roof and crush the jester!
I used to scream to mom and dad about how the jester's insides would
be splattered all over the place.
Foolish? Probably.
Richard Pugh
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David Hirsch
>way...@aol.com (Wayong) wrote:
>>Nothing on Muppets or Seseme St. --
>
>Actually, I used to be afraid of the "King of Eight" sketch (which was
>more of a puppetoon sequence than muppets). Whenever that one came
>on, I would run from the room, because I couldn't get past the fact
>that at the end of the sketch, the huge plaque with the number "8" on
>it would fall from the castle roof and crush the jester!
>
"Jim Henson: The Works." So, it is in fact Henson-related.
>I used to scream to mom and dad about how the jester's insides would
>be splattered all over the place.
>
was tame compared to the early Muppet commercials for Wilkins coffee in the
late 50's-early 60's.
>Foolish? Probably.
>
-Dave
Flapjack
way...@aol.com (Wayong) writes:
> Also, when I was 5 or 6 or so, I was watch Saturday Night Live, the Land
> Shark Skit scared me. It was around the time the 1rst Jaws came out. The
> shark puppet was life size & was trying to get into the apartment. Ralph
> Lee (puppeteer) constructed the shark.
> "Pizza"
> "I didn't order any pizza! Who is this?"
> "Uh, candygram."
> "Wait a sec, are that land shark that's going around eating
> people?"
> "Uh, no ma'am. I'm just an innocent dolphin."
> "Oh. Okay" says the woman, opening the door.
>
> If a giant shark could scare me, maybe a giant frog could scare a kid.
What the hell were you doing up that late at age five!
I know I was fast aslep then.
Well, sort of.
I hadn't been born yet.
flapjack-who was born a week before the legendary Louise Lasser episode
--
Flapjack, the Guilt Toad who's keeping the goatee for a while
"Hey! I just realized how much I blow!"
--Noah, in the play of the same name by Abe Smith
Have a look at the goatee at:
HTTP://students.vassar.edu/~nosmith/nosmith.html
Jocelyne Pasman
: this one STILL scares the bejeezus out of me: the martians from sesame
What?! They're among my favorite minor Muppets! I spent several years
convincing friends who grew up on Saturday morning cartoons that they
actually existed, and only a couple of years ago met someone who
remembers them well enough to play "imitate the aliens" with me.
The skit from Sesame Street I couldn't handle as a kid was the short
animated bit where the frog? just keeps inhaling, like a balloon, until
he explodes. Saw it the other day, had to leave the room...
Jocelyne
--
"It's impossible to be uncheered with a balloon."
-Winnie the Pooh
Jocelyne Pasman yu10...@yorku.ca Jocelyn...@edu.yorku.ca
Caroline
Nothing about it was particularly scary but the skit where he was singing
with all the monsters was kind of frightening - even though I think they
were singing a totally harmless song.
=) Bye!
Jaime E Farrow
Distribution:
Jocelyne Pasman (yu10...@yorku.ca) wrote:
: daleske kirsten amy (dal...@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: : this one STILL scares the bejeezus out of me: the martians from sesame
: : street!! aaaaghh! they make weird noises, break into people's homes, and
: : stare at their alarm clocks and ring at their phones and whatnot!!!
: : aaaggh! the idea of things teleporting into my house gave me nightmares
: : when i was little, and i can still be freaked out by that noise they
: : make: "uhhh-yup-yup-yup-yup-yup-yup....brrrrrinngg...yup-yup-yup-yup"
: : aaaagh!
:
Finally, someone else. I **HATED** those things. I still do.
I used to literally RUN SCREAMING from the room when they came on... my
folks didn't know whether to even let me watch SS for awhile, they
traumatized me so badly. I think it was the noise they made, and their eyes.
"yup-yup-yup" STILL makes my hair stand on end. They made those awful faces
...remember when they broke down the walls of Ernie and Bert's bedroom?
I had nighmares for weeks after that. Heh.
I still have to leave the room when they come on..at least now in my
twenties i do it a little more quietly.
-J-
Sean Gaffney
1) The Windmills of Your Mind" song, with the rather sudden ending.
2) Zero Mostel's "Figment of Imagination" recitation.
3) For some odd reason, the "Time in a Bottle" sketch.
--Sean Gaffney
--"You git! I thought you were dead! Git git git!" - Benny, No Future
S. Revell
sheena
Jer Jer Bo Ber
> Anything involving Sweetums.
> Noah
Anything involving Frazzle. I think it was the orange eyes and huge
teeth that set me of. That and the way he talked. Just hearing him
sent me running out of the room.. I still get goosebumps when I hear
it.
-jer
--
j...@gulik.gweep.net Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that's beautiful
j...@ultranet.com
mpy...@gnu.ai.mit.edu -><- Author of Xtacy, an X11 Graphics Hack
jer_j...@real.life.edu http://www.gweep.net/~jer/index.html
Wildwood
muppets were being murdered 1 by 1. I couldn't watch it all the way
through the 1st time.
Bill
muppet freak
giant guys on fraggle rock....what were they called again? the kid one,
and his parents. i hated it when he'd scoop up a fraggle....gave me
nightmares. what were those things called?
drummer girl :)
Frank Serpas III
>3 sketches disturbed me as a small boy:
>3) For some odd reason, the "Time in a Bottle" sketch.
Was this based on the Jim Croce song? What went on in the sketch? I have
a vague recollection reacting similarly, but I can't remember the details
of the skit.
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personal WWW page- http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~serpas/
muppet freak
the song was something like "you've got a friend" and it went "winter
spring summer and fall...all you got to do is call...blah blah blah..."
i loved that episode, and have it on tape at home. cool beans.
:) drummer girl ;)
T. Erik Browne
Frank Serpas III <ser...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:
>Sean Gaffney <gaf...@iconn.net> wrote:
>
>>3 sketches disturbed me as a small boy:
>
>>3) For some odd reason, the "Time in a Bottle" sketch.
>
>Was this based on the Jim Croce song? What went on in the sketch? I have
>a vague recollection reacting similarly, but I can't remember the details
>of the skit.
Yeah, great song, great sketch.
In the sketch, this old scientist type is mixing up potions as he sings the
song. Each time he drinks one, he gets younger. At the end of the song he
drinks one last potion and suddenly turns into his old self.
MosquitoRR
that one.
Ryan Roe
Kermit: We should be able to catch them red-handed.
Beau: What color are their hands now?
Alexander Platt
: >3 sketches disturbed me as a small boy:
: >3) For some odd reason, the "Time in a Bottle" sketch.
: Was this based on the Jim Croce song? What went on in the sketch? I have
: a vague recollection reacting similarly, but I can't remember the details
: of the skit.
Yes, it was. An aged scientist in his laboratory was mixing chemicals.
Every so often he would drink them and become younger (in a puff of
smoke). It was very believably done with the reverse-aging process be
carried out with terrific likenesses. At the end he drinks one two many,
and the strapping young lad returns to the old man that he started as,
and sighs.
--
Alex Platt (LHO)
< O /
()~ --How goes the night?
/ >
Sean Gaffney
> Sean Gaffney <gaf...@iconn.net> wrote:
>
> >3 sketches disturbed me as a small boy:
>
> >3) For some odd reason, the "Time in a Bottle" sketch.
>
> Was this based on the Jim Croce song? What went on in the sketch? I have
> a vague recollection reacting similarly, but I can't remember the details
> of the skit.
This old mad scientist kept drinking potions that turned him younger.
At the end, it backfires, and he reverts to normal. Freaked me out at
the time.
Tim & Christine Morgan
>
>daleske kirsten amy (dal...@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
>: this one STILL scares the bejeezus out of me: the martians from sesame
>: street!! aaaaghh! they make weird noises, break into people's homes, and
>: stare at their alarm clocks and ring at their phones and whatnot!!!
>: aaaggh! the idea of things teleporting into my house gave me nightmares
>: when i was little, and i can still be freaked out by that noise they
>: make: "uhhh-yup-yup-yup-yup-yup-yup....brrrrrinngg...yup-yup-yup-yup"
>: aaaagh!
>
>convincing friends who grew up on Saturday morning cartoons that they
>actually existed, and only a couple of years ago met someone who
>remembers them well enough to play "imitate the aliens" with me.
I love those guys too! Well, I say guys, but I suppose one of them
must be a gal or whatever passes for gender difference among aliens, because
they did a cute skit awhile back where a baby alien was introduce.
Yup-yup-you, yup-yup-me, yup-yup-baby, yup-yup-fam-i-lee!
Christine
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> ve...@eskimo.com <> corrupt...Idealists regarded everybody <
> <> as equally corrupt, except themselves." <
> <> Robert Anton Wilson <
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Carina Geraldez
> What exactly happened in "Windmills of Your Mind?" I must have missed
> that one.
>
>
> Ryan Roe
It was the one where the muppet had three legs that was spun (like a
windmill) so that it kind of looked like how cartoon characters run they
get that "multiple legs" effect. He/She? *ahem* It started out by
talking about how clam it was on the outside..but on the inside [queue
the music] he does the spinning legs/wavy arms while singing thing
(there's a picture of a windmill in the background I think) and ends up
crashing into a windmill. You them see it back on its "outside" and
talks about how clam it is and then spins away screaming...
phew...okay I'll clam up now
kuh-REE-nah
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(Opinions expressed are mine. I made it all up, by myself, and maybe PBS.)
"You have got to have Soul. But if you don't have Soul, Halibut will do."
- Lew Zealand
Flapjack
st95...@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Caroline) writes:
> I was always scared by the episode with Vincent Price hosting.
> Nothing about it was particularly scary but the skit where he was singing
> with all the monsters was kind of frightening - even though I think they
> were singing a totally harmless song.
Oddly enough, the Vincent Price version of "You Got a Friend" is
actually much less scary than James Taylor's.
flapjack-who thinks the dude's just a little too laid back for his own
good
--
Flapjack, the Guilt Toad whose goatee has vanished!
"please remove alt.sex.fetish.diapers from your posting list. your
drivel does not fit the purpose of the group. Thank You."--John M.
Chen
The only known picture of the goatee can be found at:
HTTP://students.vassar.edu/~nosmith/nosmith.html
Margot Anne-Stephanie Vigeant
>
> Frank Serpas III (ser...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu) wrote:
> : Sean Gaffney <gaf...@iconn.net> wrote:
>
> : Was this based on the Jim Croce song? What went on in the sketch? I have
> : a vague recollection reacting similarly, but I can't remember the details
> : of the skit.
>
> Every so often he would drink them and become younger (in a puff of
> smoke). It was very believably done with the reverse-aging process be
> carried out with terrific likenesses. At the end he drinks one two many,
> and the strapping young lad returns to the old man that he started as,
> and sighs.
>
think of who at the moment) aged and de-aged (young-ed??) his voice.
I thought that was really neat.
Margot
Sharon L. Casteel
large monster eats a small monster and they do a due of "I've Got You
Under My Skin".....
--slc
Joseph Larson
danced. For somereason the visulas on that just gave me the willies. I'd
be thinking of that all day and fall asleap that night trying to make
sure there wasn't a part of me sticking out of the blanket.
Joe, who in the tradition of flapjack, will refer to himself in the third
person here.
Joe, who's glad he had a big blanket as a kid.
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Frank Serpas III
>I wrote:
>: Was this based on the Jim Croce song? What went on in the sketch? I have
>: a vague recollection reacting similarly, but I can't remember the details
>: of the skit.
>Yes, it was. An aged scientist in his laboratory was mixing chemicals.
>Every so often he would drink them and become younger (in a puff of
>smoke). It was very believably done with the reverse-aging process be
>carried out with terrific likenesses. At the end he drinks one two many,
>and the strapping young lad returns to the old man that he started as,
>and sighs.
OK, this rings a bell. I remember now that the sketch got me thinking about
the inevitability of death and all that fun stuff. It's the first episode of
angst I can recall (I was about 8 years old at the time).
Laura Baldwin
I always used to be terrified by the short cartoons in the Electric Company
where they played the theme from 2001 and the obelisk crumbled,
leaving behind (I think) a letter. I had to flee from the room for
those...
-Laura Baldwin
boo...@mit.edu
Wraith
guys..
CybernetCafe
The Dragnet spoof on SS; at the end it disturbed me that there was a
rogue M out there running around (he is described as being "one line up,
one line down, one line up one line d-" Hey Waitaminnit come back here!")
The face changing machine on MS ( Having your nose yanked off YIkes!)
Flapjack
jla...@mosquito.frcc.cccoes.edu (Joseph Larson) writes:
>
> Joe, who in the tradition of flapjack, will refer to himself in the third
^
You misspelled "-". Hope this helps.
> person here.
flapjack-who will leave no nit unpicked
Ross Garmil
: In article <4l2uvk$h...@news-2.csn.net>
: jla...@mosquito.frcc.cccoes.edu (Joseph Larson) writes:
: >
: > Joe, who in the tradition of flapjack, will refer to himself in the third
: ^
: You misspelled "-". Hope this helps.
: > person here.
: flapjack-who will leave no nit unpicked
Look, Flapjack, to each their own, okay? Man, lay off, ya big meanie.
Ross--who prefers the two "-" method.
Mr Scred
I was always scared of the monster who was in the "got anything cheaper"
skit. I wasn't scared of anything he did, I was just scared of him in
general. (For those of you who own 'the works", he is on page 112, and in
the 2nd picture from the top, all the way to the left with the halo on his
head.)
Kermit-Hey, how'd you guys find us?
Dr. Teeth-We just read the screenplay you left us "Exterior,
David Hirsch
He scared me too, but not on the Muppet show. On the early episodes of
Sesame Street, he was one of the monsters who showed up eating things,
kinda like Cookie Monster only scarier. One bit I remember is when he had
an umbrella and a suitcase. The umbrella was for lunch, and the suitcase
was full of ketchup.
Monster: Care for a bite?
Kermit: No thanks, I've eaten. Sheesh! (angered scrunch face)
-Dave
Eve Cunning
mrc...@nyc.pipeline.com (David Hirsch) wrote:
:In article <4m3jrm$5...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, Mr Scred writes:
:
:>I was always scared of the monster who was in the "got anything cheaper"
:>skit. I wasn't scared of anything he did, I was just scared of him in
:>general. (For those of you who own 'the works", he is on page 112, and in
:>the 2nd picture from the top, all the way to the left with the halo on his
:
: He scared me too, but not on the Muppet show. On the early episodes of
:Sesame Street, he was one of the monsters who showed up eating things,
:kinda like Cookie Monster only scarier. One bit I remember is when he had
:an umbrella and a suitcase. The umbrella was for lunch, and the suitcase
:was full of ketchup.
:Monster: Care for a bite?
:Kermit: No thanks, I've eaten. Sheesh! (angered scrunch face)
:
Boy, we should start a support group! That monster was the star of a
lot of my childhood nightmares. I think it was the eyebrows that made
him particularly scary. (BTW, remember on SS when he was flying
around to "Everyone Knows It's Wendy"? I think he was wearing a red
cape of some kind, perhaps with a hood?)
--Eve
Nancy Eilers-Hughes
Eve Cunning wrote:
> Boy, we should start a support group! That monster was the star of a
> lot of my childhood nightmares. I think it was the eyebrows that made
> him particularly scary. (BTW, remember on SS when he was flying
> around to "Everyone Knows It's Wendy"? I think he was wearing a red
> cape of some kind, perhaps with a hood?)
>
> --Eve
You talk about things that scare you; the song "Everyone Knows it's Windy" is a personal
nightmare to me <VBG!>! It was the first song I remember getting sick of (it
was overplayed to the max) as a kid! Yes, I'm "old" (40), and the thought of *it* (the
song) is still scary!
[Off topic!]
My childhood nightmares were from The Wizard of Oz: the Witch on the roof and the mass
of monkeys flying through the air, and the *sounds* of the movie "The Birds". My
brothers watched The Birds regularly, but I'd leave the room, even though I regularly
watched other sci fi stuff! I didn't realize for years that the sound effects were
scarier than the visual effects!
Nancy
CRIT
ecun...@nando.net (Eve Cunning) wrote:
>mrc...@nyc.pipeline.com (David Hirsch) wrote:
>:In article <4m3jrm$5...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, Mr Scred writes:
>:
>:>I was always scared of the monster who was in the "got anything cheaper"
>:>skit.
Yikes HIM!!!
>: He scared me too, but not on the Muppet show. On the early episodes of
>:Sesame Street, he was one of the monsters who showed up eating things,
Yeah, this is all starting to come back to me in a yucky kind of way...
>Boy, we should start a support group! That monster was the star of a
>lot of my childhood nightmares.
He didn't get me that badly...the thing that got me, which has been
mentioned onm the SS news group, is Oscars doll. it had a string or
something so that it made this _really_ unpleasant noise, urk. I feel
sick...that support group sounds like a great idea, count me in,
virtually... ;-)
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David Hirsch
In article <318755b9....@news.nando.net>, Eve Cunning writes:
>: He scared me too, but not on the Muppet show. On the early episodes
of
>:Sesame Street, he was one of the monsters who showed up eating things,
>:an umbrella and a suitcase. The umbrella was for lunch, and the suitcase
>:was full of ketchup.
>:Monster: Care for a bite?
>:Kermit: No thanks, I've eaten. Sheesh! (angered scrunch face)
>:
>
>Boy, we should start a support group! That monster was the star of a
>lot of my childhood nightmares. I think it was the eyebrows that made
>him particularly scary. (BTW, remember on SS when he was flying
>around to "Everyone Knows It's Wendy"? I think he was wearing a red
>cape of some kind, perhaps with a hood?)
>
>--Eve
>
The eyebrows of that monster were wacky, but what was scary about him
to me was his sharp pointy teeth. Especially since he ate anything and
everything. Here's a bit I remember: he finds a 45 record and shouts
"Record!!!!!!" then he eats it and pauses, because he knows what kind of
record it tastes like....."Beatles!!!!!!!!"
He also bothered Kermit during his lectures when Grover and Cookie
Monster weren't around.
-Dave
Jaime E Farrow
Nancy Eilers-Hughes (khu...@primenet.com) wrote:
: Eve Cunning wrote:
:
: > lot of my childhood nightmares. I think it was the eyebrows that made
: > him particularly scary
Does anyone remember a big blue monster who had black eyebrows
and a smooshed-in-beak-looking nose, and a BIG mouth full of pointy teeth...
he was on SS...I remember a skit where he learned about the letter B and
so he went around going "BUUUUUH!!" at people, scaring them away and
finally after he's scared away all the other muppets he turns to the TV
screen and you, the young and easily traumatized viewer ;) and takes a
deep breath and goes "BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHH!!" right at you and the
screen whites out around him as he's bellowing at you...the screen whites
out to the point that all you can see are his eyebrows and the pinpoints
of his eyes.
Didn't like that one one bit.
-J-
(who still has to leave the room when the alien things come on too)
mrc...@usa.pipeline.com
In article <4mm9p6$s...@nic.umass.edu>, Jaime E Farrow writes:
>Nancy Eilers-Hughes (khu...@primenet.com) wrote:
>: Eve Cunning wrote:
>:
>: > Boy, we should start a support group! That monster was the star of a
>: > lot of my childhood nightmares. I think it was the eyebrows that made
>: > him particularly scary
>
> Does anyone remember a big blue monster who had black eyebrows
>and a smooshed-in-beak-looking nose, and a BIG mouth full of pointy
teeth...
>he was on SS...I remember a skit where he learned about the letter B and
>so he went around going "BUUUUUH!!" at people, scaring them away and
>finally after he's scared away all the other muppets he turns to the TV
>screen and you, the young and easily traumatized viewer ;) and takes a
>deep breath and goes "BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHH!!" right at you and the
>screen whites out around him as he's bellowing at you...the screen whites
>out to the point that all you can see are his eyebrows and the pinpoints
>of his eyes.
>
Bingo! That's the culprit! That's just one of those things I didn't
like about that monster. I wonder: was he a nightmare of Henson's who he
later inflicted on us viewers?
> Didn't like that one one bit.
> -J-
I didn't like it much either. Had to turn the volume way down until
that skit was over.
>(who still has to leave the room when the alien things come on too)
>
-Dave
Bethany Ramirez
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Jabberwocky!
Looking back, I see how the skit was more hysterical than scary,
but as a child, some big floating monster *really* scared the [non-CDA
approved] out of me. If I remember, doesn't the head just kinda' float
there at some point?
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Bethany "Bitty" Ramirez http://www.amherst.edu/~bkramire/menu.html
GO/MU -d+ -p+ c+++ l u+ e+(*) m++(---) s-/+ !n h+ f g+ w++ t r x+(+*)
"Me fail English? That's unpossible." - Ralph Wiggum
"Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" - P&theB
Jeffrey Lampert
In article <4mvemt$n...@tom.amherst.edu>, bkra...@unix.amherst.edu
(Bethany Ramirez) wrote:
> I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Jabberwocky!
>
> Looking back, I see how the skit was more hysterical than scary,
> but as a child, some big floating monster *really* scared the [non-CDA
> approved] out of me. If I remember, doesn't the head just kinda' float
> there at some point?
Yup, that got to me. Also, the masks in the Harry Belafonte finale. Watching
it now moves me as one of my favorite songs of all time on the show, but
at 4 years old that scared the hell out of me. The Japanese Kabuki-ist
was another one (and again, I love watching that now).
- Jeff
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ti...@cs.wisc.edu
Lisa Marie Graves
Persoanlly, I think the guests they had were more frightening to me when
I was a kid than the monsters. But I do remember holding my hands over my
ears when Gonzo would do those weird things behind that curtain, you know
with his head popping out and a horn...Sometimes he flew outta there, and
I was always scarded he died or something.
Bethany Ramirez (bkra...@unix.amherst.edu) wrote:
: I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Jabberwocky!
: Looking back, I see how the skit was more hysterical than scary,
: but as a child, some big floating monster *really* scared the [non-CDA
: approved] out of me. If I remember, doesn't the head just kinda' float
: there at some point?
: --
: Bethany "Bitty" Ramirez http://www.amherst.edu/~bkramire/menu.html
: GO/MU -d+ -p+ c+++ l u+ e+(*) m++(---) s-/+ !n h+ f g+ w++ t r x+(+*)
: "Me fail English? That's unpossible." - Ralph Wiggum
: "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" - P&theB
--
Take care, loves'n'hugs, Lisa&Co.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kerry Robin
Everyone once in a while a skit will hit just right and I'll be holding
my sides, laughing so hard.
One of t hose skits was the "Rhyming Song" skit on the original Muppet
Show. It was so unexpected we howled and laughed for days afterwards
just thinking about it!
Kerry
David Levy
The song "Fuzzy and Blue" from Sesame Street. When Frazzle insists on
being in the song, I chuckled. When Grover added "and orange" to
compensate lyrically, I laughed hysterically. When Frazzle roared
something that sounded like "and orange," my sides split, spilling guts
all over my carpet, which has since been replaced. :)
(Yet one more reason why "Monster Hits" is my favorite SS video.)
David
jc...@slic.com
Nancy Eilers-Hughes
The closing skit of the Chris Langham episode, when he did "Hawaiian
Cowboy" while locked inside a wardrobe (a movable closet) onstage! The I
Heard it Through the Grapevine skit with Gladys Knight. Or Beverly Sills
getting coached in the fine art of hanging a spoon on the end of her nose
(by Gonzo, of course)!
Nancy
Sharon L. Casteel
That MT skit with the rats playing Celtic-style music while cheeses are
flung into a fondue pot in the background. I was watching this with a
friend who also enjoys Celtic music, and we were absolutely rolling on
the floor laughing before the skit ended.
--slc
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that
something else is more important than fear. -Ambrose Redmoon