Ominous Sesame Street skit.

[SesameMike]

A street scenario where a witch magically puts a big nose on Oscar.

That's right. The witch said the spell would only be broken if Oscar does something nice. Understandably this was quite difficult for Oscar, good deeds being against his nature. But the nose disappeared with a Mumford-style puff of smoke when Oscar spoke a kind phrase to Susan. After that, Oscar started bad-mouthing the adults as usual, and the nose came right back. It remained on the rest of the episode, despite Oscar's other efforts. For example, one adult asked him to hold on to a vinyl record for a few minutes. Oscar noticed that the record was scratched, so he tried to do a good deed of sandpapering them down! ("Well, the grooves are coming off. And so is the label. But so are those scratches!) Oscar even did the closing credits "...and by the rotten number ___. Nope, that didn't work (to get rid of the nose)."

A wedding where the bride and groom take so long to get married, they become older in each scene. By the time they finally get married, they are both very old and hobble away. Ironically, the ones getting married were David and Maria

I remember it as them both keeling over (dying of old age?) along with the preacher, Bob. The organ music was out of tune by that time. The reason the wedding took so long was because when Bob told David to place the ring on her finger, he kept pulling out other round objects. By the end, the church was littered with everything round: Hula-Hoops, a 45-rpm vinyl record, a pizza, etc. Maria shouted "I'VE BEEN STANDING HERE FOR 76 YEARS AND YOU STILL CAN'T FIND THE RIGHT RING. I'M LEAVING YOU!" At that point, David spotted the real wedding band amongst the other round junk and the cobwebs, at which point he bent over fished it out.

Early episodes with the Count Von Count.

I was a little unnerved by all the bats fluttering around his place. Until the episode in which the bats bitterly protested "It's our turn to count!!" The count answered, OK, you count Counts (1), and I'll count batty bats (6). ("Ha ha, fooled them again.") By seeing the bats as normal beings they no longer seemed to scare me. Maybe that was just the idea.

 

[Dantecat]

SesameMike,What Year Was That Skit Of David And Maria Trying To Get Married?

When Maria Talked,Did She Sound Exactly The Same Or Different? Did Bob Look So Old,What Did He Look Like?What Did Maria And David Look Like When They Were So Old,And What Was That Skit Really Really Really About

5 Questions Please!

 

[Censored]

I remember it as them both keeling over (dying of old age?) along with the preacher, Bob. The organ music was out of tune by that time. The reason the wedding took so long was because when Bob told David to place the ring on her finger, he kept pulling out other round objects. By the end, the church was littered with everything round: Hula-Hoops, a 45-rpm vinyl record, a pizza, etc. Maria shouted "I'VE BEEN STANDING HERE FOR 76 YEARS AND YOU STILL CAN'T FIND THE RIGHT RING. I'M LEAVING YOU!" At that point, David spotted the real wedding band amongst the other round junk and the cobwebs, at which point he bent over fished it out.

No, I don't think they died of old age (it wasn't that bad), but as old as they were when they hobbled out of the church, you got the feeling that their death would not be that far away. Of course, the whole scenario was ultimately ludicrous and absurd, but age progression jokes like that just bothered me.

 

[Censored]

That's right. The witch said the spell would only be broken if Oscar does something nice. Understandably this was quite difficult for Oscar, good deeds being against his nature. But the nose disappeared with a Mumford-style puff of smoke when Oscar spoke a kind phrase to Susan. After that, Oscar started bad-mouthing the adults as usual, and the nose came right back. It remained on the rest of the episode, despite Oscar's other efforts. For example, one adult asked him to hold on to a vinyl record for a few minutes. Oscar noticed that the record was scratched, so he tried to do a good deed of sandpapering them down! ("Well, the grooves are coming off. And so is the label. But so are those scratches!) Oscar even did the closing credits "...and by the rotten number ___. Nope, that didn't work (to get rid of the nose)."

It's good to hear someone else who remembers that episode in detail. Although it upset me then and I couldn't watch it all the way through, I'd love to see it today. It was a pretty weird scenario though. It sounded like some of the plot may have been inspired by the story of Pinocchio.

One thing that was different back then was that an episode could end with Oscar having a nose and the next episode would start with Oscar looking his regular way, as if the whole thing never happened. Today, they would probably stretch the plot out for several episodes (or maybe even a whole season like they did with Slimey going to the moon).

 

[Vic Romano]

I think it's the time period. For those of us in this thread who found the same things weird NOW in retrospect, we were born in the late seventies, early eighties. Your talking to a generation that watched HR Puffinstuff, landed in the "Empire Strikes Back" era and is now the the age of the average video-gamer, let's face it, we grew up at the end or shortly after the Vietnam war when things just decided to get... freaky. I used to be unerved by the Count's environment too, but when I saw that 'hey, this is how things are', I just accepted it and thought; 'okay, I'll go along with this', but looking at it now in the early 21st century, I say; 'Man, that was some crazy %*@#!

 

[SesameMike]

For Dantecat, re: Skit Of David And Maria Trying To Get Married

I want to say this was in 1975.

Maria sounded basically the same, maybe with an unconvincing "crackle" attempt in her voice. The others talked kind of slow and jerky, but otherwise with the same voices.

Bob and David were given a makeup job with the emphasis on gray hair. Maria really had long gray hair, almost like Lily Munster. There were lots of cobwebs around. Extra-thick and elastic, prop cobwebs.

David had to struggle to bend down an pick up the ring when he found it, because of his "age".

What was the skit really about? Remember, the preacher kept saying "place the ring on her finger", and David kept taking out of his jacket all manner of round things, such as a full-size rubber tire. It was just a slapstick sketch to teach about round things.