The Horrors of Vintage Sesame Street
Vintage Sesame Street
How do such creepy skits get made for children’s shows? Was it just that back then in the 70’s and 80’s creepy was considered normal or humorous? The first Sesame Street video is a case in point:
“Bride of Frankenstein”
It is a creepy enough premise that a purple skinned muppet is so desperate for love that he will create it Pygmalion style, woo it, (and perhaps later, force himself upon it), but the skit only gets worse. The creature he assembles is not even good looking by muppet standards! And when the creator is spurned, he actually disassembles the object of his affection by ripping off her/its face! The denuded head, having enough, stalks off and the creator is left to fend off the advances of a piece of cloth! Utter madness I say. Would you let your 5 year old kid watch this? I’m in my twenties, and even I think I’ll be having nightmares from this one!
“Requiem for a Snufflupagus”
The next entry isn’t as horrifying, but is still pretty creepy.
Have you ever heard that comedy routine by Dave Chappelle where he describes Snuffy the Snuffleupagus as a junkie? He imitates the hairy beast’s groaning way of speaking and desperately calls out to big bird for one more hit–”Hi Bird, I’m Sick Bird, I need some smack Bird!”
Well the orignial vintage Sesame Street Snuffy comes close to Chapelle’s exaggeration, as can be seen here in the brown beast’s tv debut. Note the haunted and deadend eyes of the addict as he stalks the behemoth fowl…
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