Rubberband Face creature

[ElectricDisk]

I have a question about the "rubberband faced" man / creature that I used to watch on old sesame street shows. I found that he is called "limbo" (from an old Johnny carson episode I found on Youtube)

I cannot remember if he only counts to 10. Does he count to "9" or "7" or whatever?

I used to watch ss just to see this clip but that was a very long time ago. I think the music and the weird quasi-computer graphics were what got my attention.

Johnny Carson introduces Jim Henson as "Jim Jenson".

 

[JoeyMuppet]

I already mentioned that...

I have a question about the "rubberband faced" man / creature that I used to watch on old sesame street shows. I found that he is called "limbo" (from an old Johnny carson episode I found on Youtube)

I cannot remember if he only counts to 10. Does he count to "9" or "7" or whatever?

I used to watch ss just to see this clip but that was a very long time ago. I think the music and the weird quasi-computer graphics were what got my attention.

Johnny Carson introduces Jim Henson as "Jim Jenson".

I already talked about that Jim Jenson thing.But you probrably didn't know,thats o.k.

 

[fuzzygobo]

counting to 10

This topic has been discussed before, but it does bear repeating. In the book Jim Henson: The Works, the character is referred to as Nobody, because he has no body.

There's a similar clip to the Carson one from the Mike Douglas Show in 1967, where the character was called "Idea Man". Same premise. The character invites you into his mind to explore all kinds of freaky scenes- some nice, some not so nice.

On the Sesame clip where he counts to 10, the quasi-computer graphics were provided by a program called Scanimate. This is primitive by today's standards, but in the early 70's was as state-of-the-art as you can get. still looks impressive. But it took a LOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGG time to program the various effects. There were only eight Scanimate machines ever built, and each one must have cost a small fortune. But sometimes with Jim, money was no object.

Nobody never counted to any other number, but his voice was used in a similar clip counting to 4.

It's been also posted elsewhere that this clip scared a number of kids (myself included). And to a three-year-old, Nobody was a creepy dude. I always thought he looked like death, and his voice freaked me out.

Once, right before this clip, they showed the Paul Benedict/painter clip of him painting a 10. Then I got spooked by Nobody. He scared me so much that I got a brilliant idea. I got a can of paint out of the basement and painted over the screen of our then-brand-new Magnavox console. Needless to say Mom and Dad were not happy with their toddler's handiwork.

But I got to paint a 10 of my very own. How many of you can say that?