You fellow Gen X-ers out here are gonna love this. The villain Clownster, Clown Prince of Evil, is hiding somewhere behind a circle. Will the brave Batmonster and his excitable sidekick Rubble find and capture him in time? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouSUj-B8Onk
The great Casey Kasem performs the narration duties in this legendary Fred Calvert clip teaching that T is the first letter in TV. As we all know, everything's good 'til Casey starts to think he should sing "O Sole Mio". The conductor thinks otherwise... clean broadcast quality copy at last. Sorry for the wait!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxJR1I44Cqs
Thank you to everyone who helped, to the National Homeschool Association for distributing us, and to our courageous Letter Bees and Daddy Bees for protecting us online (contact us to learn how to become a Letter or Daddy Bee). This new show is dedicated to American freedom-loving parents and their little pre-Ks. Grab a one-episode DVD for your kids for $19.99 by contacting the producer-director at directorheatherferreira@gmail.com. Yes, we PayPal! (Use the same email address! And please don't forget to include your mailing address!)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwoDWtHvLbQ
This is a spooky one. No wonder they tried to censor comments on this one! Hattie Winston and Melanie Henderson share a Joe Raposo-composed song asking viewers to "think" and imagine "if the world went rinky-dink". Among the impossible-seeming, crazy scenarios both women sing for us to imagine are a world where bleach is used to make food clean and, chillingly presciently, "you have to wear a mask to watch TV". There's other eerie similarities to the year 2020, but I'll leave them to you to discover.
LYRICS
Think! Just think...
What would happen if the world went on the blink!
If you heard your mother saying, "Call the doctor double-quick!
"I'm beside myself with worry, hope he gets here in the nick
"Because my daughter's looking healthy and he's got to make her sick..."
Oh think! Just think!
Think! Just think...
What would happen if the world went rinky-dink?
If you had to take your groceries to the laundromat each day
Where they bleached each English muffin and they'd starch each fish filet
And for dinner you'd have drip-dried pie and soapsud consomme
Oh think! Just think...
What would happen if the world went on the brink?
If you went one day to see the new rhinoceros at the zoo
Where you saw too late the keeper was a well-dressed kangaroo
When he put you in the cage and let the rhino stare at YOU
Oh think! Just think!
Think! Just think...
What would happen if the world went down the sink!
If you had to wear a raincoat to go swimming in the sea
Or you had to put on boxing gloves to trim the Christmas tree
Or a monster mask while watching the Electric Company
Oh think! Just think!
If they had to watch a monster mask while watching you and me
Oh think! Just think!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ge8LIiLNg
One of my favorite segments when I was a little girl. I first remember seeing it in fall of 1973. How about you? Anyway, Joe Raposo gives us the bright, incredibly upbeat and happy music cue you hear with it, and the animation, so simple I could render it in a day, simply says it all. How can you not just LOVE the letter P after watching this? This was Joan Ganz Cooney's entire aim creating Sesame Street: to create TV ads for letters and numbers that make little ones fall simply in love with "the product". I'd say she succeeded. And what I wouldn't do at 54 to go back to that chilly October 1973 afternoon I first saw this. Final upload of the night. Thanks, gang!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2kC92exPLg
I never noticed as a child, but here in adulthood, I kind of feel for this dainty, cute little girl mouse. What happens to her is precisely and exactly what happens to me every single time I show any guy that I like him.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rz-T64bnqg
Lee Chamberlin and Judy Graubart attempt to teach children the possessive using apostrophe-S, but then things go wrong at a precise point you can see Judy sense when the two ladies begin tugging what should be a reinforced doll! Creche Horror ensues, hahaha...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRnHZLzgBIQ
Jeremy Tristan was cool as fuck. Great little actor, dedicated, and an extreme professional. He and his actor-musician girlfriend Zoe were two of the bright spots of joy on this production. Here is a little scene I'm proud of. The shoot itself could have been a bit easier: the location tossed a pricey nonfiring firearm prop in their fish garbage and it wound up missing for an hour, stretching the shoot time and budget. Of course they assumed and paid for no responsibility for that. If there hadn't been security cameras installed throughout the building we would have never have found it. But we did, and just in time -- and the scene went nicely in the can.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbX4WVCozz0
Jim Simon and Wantu Studios (and yes, Mr. Simon is still with us, animating) bring us this memorable short about a little brown boy who bathes with his baby bear Bosco and makes bubbles. Tell me you don't remember this one!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxkI7ioaGrw
Both segments, together at last. If you see this uploaded anyplace else but on this channel it was stolen. Alert me and send the link and I'll pay you. I'm sick of content thieves.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZyvUjVEI7M