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Yeah Sesame Mike, I recall the "land ho" animated segment and the skit where Ernie says he'll tear that fish fin from fin. Those bring to mind a few others that were a little on the bizarre side. Remember a 3 part sketch where David and Maria are about to be married by a minister (played by Bob, I think). David kept searching for the ring in his pocket and finally finds it when they are all very old and white haired. He puts the ring on Maria's finger and the two walk away happy.... but then drop dead of old age! And then the minister drops dead too. Then there was a muppet who was narrating a story involving other muppets. At the end of the story one muppet comes up from behind him and says, "You big mouth!" and hits him on the back of the head with some object and causes him to fall face down on the table he was sitting at. And old film footage of a train smashing into another vehicle ( I think the segment was teaching about short and long).
Sketches that scared me as a little one:
(1) Remember the sketch with red and green anything muppets taking turns saying the alphabet? The very beginning of it scared me because suddenly there was a blue screen and a loud booming sound and then the red muppet pranced up the screen and said "A". Something about that frightened me as a child. They used to repeat this segment fairly often and there was a period where I would cover my ears every time another segment was about to end ( in case this one was the next one!)
(2) When Ernie counts balloons (after sheep and fire engines). After the balloon pops Bert's scream was so intense!
(3) When Grover was afraid of his shadow, the part where Grover tries to tip toe away from it and then yells, "Oh he's still following me!" I knew the shadow was not real, but Grover managed to make it a scary thing!
(4) There was a boy muppet (possibly Farley) who was talking about various subjects like hoping. Then he hears a repeated knock on his door and says he hopes it's not a monster. (The continual knocks and the increased loudness of them scared me). And then he finds out it really is a monster and he immediately runs away. By the way, the final line is hilarious. The monster says, " Aw, I just wanted to know if he wanted to play with my dolly and me. Oh well."
Sketches that scared me as a little one:
(1) Remember the sketch with red and green anything muppets taking turns saying the alphabet? The very beginning of it scared me because suddenly there was a blue screen and a loud booming sound and then the red muppet pranced up the screen and said "A". Something about that frightened me as a child. They used to repeat this segment fairly often and there was a period where I would cover my ears every time another segment was about to end ( in case this one was the next one!)
(2) When Ernie counts balloons (after sheep and fire engines). After the balloon pops Bert's scream was so intense!
(3) When Grover was afraid of his shadow, the part where Grover tries to tip toe away from it and then yells, "Oh he's still following me!" I knew the shadow was not real, but Grover managed to make it a scary thing!
(4) There was a boy muppet (possibly Farley) who was talking about various subjects like hoping. Then he hears a repeated knock on his door and says he hopes it's not a monster. (The continual knocks and the increased loudness of them scared me). And then he finds out it really is a monster and he immediately runs away. By the way, the final line is hilarious. The monster says, " Aw, I just wanted to know if he wanted to play with my dolly and me. Oh well."
