Sesame Street Episode 847 with Margaret Hamilton

[Oscarfan]

Still, it was pretty pointless to bring up. Why talk about it if you're not going to show it?

Jimmy Fallon has played video games on his show instead of coming up with any actual material. Questioning why they do anything is a pointless task.

 

[Blue Frackle]

Is there a video link for this?

Just an article:

Episode of 'Sesame Street' allegedly removed for being too frightening is posted to social media

“I wish you wouldn’t put that witch on ‘Sesame Street’ anymore because ... I have been dreaming [of] that witch," a viewer named Rebecca wrote to "Sesame Street" in 1976.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Gordon Matt]

I must have overlooked it in the guides, but I had not realized that David was only refusing to give the broom back until she gave him some respect. All this time, I thought he was just afraid of what she would do with the broom (and he does seem that way when she finally gets it back), I thought him making her, in her old lady form, say "please" was more to see if that was actually her (thinking she would not say the word).

I also thought that the characters recognized her from the movie, but there's no such fourth wall breaking there.

In the last few days I had been thinking about how back then, The Wizard of Oz was not available on home video (which was not much of a thing back then) and only broadcast once a year. Maybe there was some Super-8 releases, but really, now the film is a lot more easily accessible to the public than it was in 1975, so maybe back then kids were a lot less used to the witch (though it was prominent enough to be the focus on an episode of Mister Rogers Neighborhood to show how it was done).

Kind of weird at the end, the broom falls back on Sesame Street, and David is crying because he knows he'll have to go through it all again, even though he did get her to say "please" and saw that if he had just given her the broom she would have left. I mean, when she comes back, just give her the broom immediately! Kind of hilarious (or harsher) in hindsight when the witch says she'll never come back to Sesame Street, considering they chose not to rerun it and it's only now available for fans to watch.

I haven't read through all this so I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but I finally watched the whole thing yesterday and I liked the reference (which parents of the time would have caught) where David asks her if she'd like a cup of coffee, and she says no, she doesn't drink coffee.

 

[crackmaster]

I bet that’s what scared the kids.

That ain't scary. Looks like a KISS music video or something.

 

[crackmaster]

Now that I think about it, I'm working on a DC Comics fan project, and the vibe of this episode would fit PERFECT for a Space Ghost crossover (helps Gary Owens' I segment was on it.) The villain in my crossover will be Tansit (the #1 underrated HB character), and I imagine the heavy metal chords when the Witch first appears would suit him just fine.

But the crossover won't have Scanimate outlines. I'll save that for one of Brainiac's many appearances.