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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Jun 11, 2020 1:58 am



From "Sesame Street"

The animated segments are always worthwhile. They would hire different animators for these segments, whether established studios (Hanna-Barbera and Filmation did a few segments, for example), or weird indie animators that's not otherwise associated with children's TV, like Sally Cruikshank, or in the above video's case, Vincent Collins.

I'm not kidding about how weird Collins' animation is :-I

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Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:48 am

I don’t have any memories of that segment but yeah, now that I think of it, Sesame Street is a treasure trove of indie/experimental animation.

This segment was nightmare fuel for five-year-old me:

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Post by Madeline (?) » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:15 am

Jim Simon did some really cool and expressive animation for PBS


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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Jun 11, 2020 1:03 pm



Here's a Sesame Street segment featuring Batman. Produced at Filmation. Voices by Olan Soule and Casey Kasem.
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Jim Simon did some really cool and expressive animation for PBS
Jim Simon is someone I really want to know more about. This is such a wonderful segment.

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Here's one by Sally Cruikshank. She produced some really great (and weird) indie animation

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Jun 11, 2020 1:18 pm

If anyone hasn't seen Cruikshank's "Quasi at the Quackadero", you're in for a trip



It's like if Fleischer Studio was still around in the 1970s.

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This one has a talking letter "J". Made by Fred Crippin (older animation fans might remember a show he did, "Roger Ramjet"). Voices include Gary Owens and Bob Arbogast.

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Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Thu Jun 11, 2020 2:00 pm

Oh yeah, Roger Ramjet! With his sidekicks Yank, Doodle, Dan, and Dee!
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Post by Octavia (?) » Thu Jun 11, 2020 2:55 pm

This is the Sesame Street animation I remember more than any other:

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Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Thu Jun 11, 2020 3:34 pm

I remember that too! But you know what’s weird, hearing it now I think I appreciate it more than as a kid.

Like as a kid everything’s just pleasant noise, but as an adult I can have thoughts like “Wow, Sesame Street is funky” and “Ooo, steel drum!”

So I guess I’m a Sesame Street hipster. The show is wasted on the target audience, they don’t get it the way I do. :twiright:
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a loaf of bread, a potato of milk, and a stick of butter

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Jun 11, 2020 4:08 pm



The character featured is "Tiger", a comic strip that started in the 1960s. For a while Sesame Street had animated segments based on characters from King Features comic strips (they also did one with Beetle Bailey and Krazy Kat).

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Post by Octavia (?) » Thu Jun 11, 2020 7:01 pm

My older sister was TERRIFIED of the "yipyipyipyip" aliens. As soon as they came on screen, she'd flee the room.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:47 pm

How's this for terrifying?



This was such a nightmare fuel that they removed this in later reruns

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:57 pm

Seriously, everything about this segment is creepy, including behind the scenes. We don't even know who made this, and there was an investigation for it.

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Post by The Ghost of Ember (?) » Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:49 pm

i didn't even realize that one was obscure, i know i saw it as a child
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Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:27 am



This is the Sesame Street cartoon I always remember.

"I am a nightingale!" :allears:




And the Pink Panther making a guest appearance.
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Post by Pocket (?) » Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:30 am

Mechanical Ape wrote:
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This segment was nightmare fuel for five-year-old me:

That one set me off like nothing else. I must have watched it exactly once before I insisted on bolting from the room whenever it came on.
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Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:35 am

Crack Master has nothing on Rubberband Mouth Orange
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:05 pm

PonyHag714 wrote:
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This is the Sesame Street cartoon I always remember.

"I am a nightingale!" :allears:
This is cute :allears:

This made me wonder who made this. It's Tee Collins, one of the first black animators to open their own studio (Jim Simon, linked earlier, was another). "Sesame Street" was great for hiring animators with diverse backgrounds.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Jun 12, 2020 3:55 pm

Here's another neat one:



This was animated by Whitney Lee Savage, with his son Adam voicing the little boy.

Adam would grow up to have a big career in television like his dad, on a little show called "Mythbusters".

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:12 pm



From 1973, this looks like something Hanna-Barbera would make, although I don't know if the studio did it or not. At the very least, it was made by someone who worked at the studio.

That's Hal Smith doing voices. He was a character actor who did a lot of voices in animation around this time, but his most famous role is probably Otis the town drunk in "The Andy Griffith Show". He also briefly took over as Elmer Fudd's voice after his original actor, Arthur Q. Bryan, died.

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Post by Pocket (?) » Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:59 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:
Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:35 am
Crack Master has nothing on Rubberband Mouth Orange
I'm leaning toward the theory that the phrase "crack monkey" became a problematic thing to be saying in a kids' show by the '80s. Though I'm sure the scary face coupled with the implication of a living thing falling apart didn't sit well with a lot of kids either; there was an incident involving a car dealership's elephant statue that messed three-year-old me up badly enough to set off a chain reaction of minor phobias.

Speaking of freaky Sesame Street stuff, here's one that's also before my time but is apparently pretty infamous.



by the way if mods want to split this off into a new thread I feel like we could have some fun with that
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:02 pm

Pocket wrote:
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by the way if mods want to split this off into a new thread I feel like we could have some fun with that
Agreed, I think this warrants its own thread!

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Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Jun 13, 2020 7:34 am



Probably the Holy Grail of these number segments.

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Post by Octavia (?) » Sat Jun 13, 2020 7:28 pm

This song has been in my head for 30 years or so

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Post by Pocket (?) » Sat Jun 13, 2020 8:07 pm

I was hoping someone would bring up one of those, because they were sung by none other than the late Bud Luckey—the Pixar animator who created the short Boundin' as well as doing a few voices for them over the years. He played the clown in Toy Story 3 and the g-man in The Incredibles.

Here's the full list of which ones were his, by the way. They appear to have all been animated by the same team, as well.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sun Jun 14, 2020 10:48 am

I love Bud Luckey's segments! Here's one of my favorites:


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Don't know who made this one, but I wonder if the animator worked for Hanna-Barbera. They certainly had access to the studio's sound effects library.

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One of my favorites, and a great way to explain the seasons. Image




I think this was the first ever animated sequence to appear on the show.
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Post by diribigal (?) » Sun Jun 14, 2020 10:28 pm

Not animation, but well done :gotcha:
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Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:51 am

:speakest: "Broil the biggie!"
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The history of Cookie Monster is wild. Before this Jim Henson made a test commercial for Wheels, Flutes and Crowns. The commercial never aired, but that Wheel Stealer would have a bright future elsewhere.



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This one had some pretty sharp writing.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Jun 15, 2020 8:18 pm



This makes me convinced that Jim Henson was the original Michael Bay. :-I

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