Top 10 Creepiest Sesame Street Moments
These are the most creepy moments in history of Sesame Street."Count to Ten with Nobody" was responsible for my nightmares and fear of the dark until I learned a little more about our creepy friend here through a Jim Henson film called "The Organized Mind." Not only does the entire animation feel like an LSD or acid trip nightmare, but it also derives from the root phrase "Evil thoughts." After watching it, you may find yourself not wanting to organize your mind, suffering from nightmares, and developing a fear of the dark. Nighty-night!
This really freaks me out. Nobody is so creepy in this short. The eerie sounds and trippy Scanimate effects make for a very disturbing moment.
There's a film/educational skit similar to this called "And now...The Octopus!" It has creepy, distorted music as zoomed-in shots of an octopus play. You could say the Octopus educational film is even worse than the fish film.
Cookies with evil faces jump on Cookie Monster. It looks like the cookies are KILLING him.
"Bob, Luis, and The Train." Bob and Luis are trying to put two pieces of a picture together to create a train tunnel, but they keep messing it up. Finally, they get it right, and it becomes a real tunnel. They nearly get hit by a train, leading the two to throw the picture away and rip up the blueprint.
This was from Film Den's Creepy Sesame Street Moments video, and boy, was it a hell of an impact on Deena.
"Mysterious Theater" was so creepy, spoofing the "Mystery!" title sequence, that I did not like it at all. There is sinister, eerie music playing as a frozen painting of a woman in mourning attire drinks a glass of wine. The black tombstone with "Mysterious Theatre" is displayed alongside a skeleton. After a black flash, there are wolves howling and a cat whimpering as it zooms in.
The Crack Master is a lost short about a girl and the crack animals meeting face-to-face with the almighty Crack Monster. It was unused, banned, and made lost because it was reportedly too frightening for Sesame Street's target demographic. YouTubers like Blameitonjorge have found this lost media and shared the creepiness of this lost skit with the world.
It was, in fact, used. I believe it aired just a few times before being retired for being too scary. I saw it in the '70s before stumbling across it again on the internet 40 years later.
His eyes were the creepiest. You have to look up pictures of Snuffy from Sesame Street's first appearance.
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Goldilocks finishing the alphabet for Baby Bear tops the list as the creepiest moment in Sesame Street. It scared me just as much today.
The Lost Boy is a creepy skit firsthand, with the ghostly, strange shapeshifter man and the boy being lost, but it's all in good fun in the end.
I was scared by that weird shape-shifting man when I first watched it.
How Orange said that she can change herself into anything - yes, ANYTHING. A blob with a face is creepy enough.
I watched this one video called Film Den: Top 10 Scariest Moments on Sesame Street, where it mentioned the Count's Sleepover. The Ernie picture at 11:00 was creeping me out.
This is another Film Den, and it was creepy at the 11:00 timestamp where it showed the low-quality frozen picture of a zombified Ernie.
It's an innocent song about danger sung by Placido Flamingo. Everything crashes down by the end, but the actors and Placido are okay. I think the theme of danger may scare people.
The video title was shown when I looked up "Placido Flamingo." I would never watch it for the same reason you mentioned, but how did he look?
That flamingo is scary. I'm glad that they removed him from the show.
For those who don't know, in this episode, the Wicked Witch becomes stranded on Sesame Street after her broomstick goes missing. The witch, assuming someone stole it, goes around Sesame Street threatening to do some rather awful things to the people there if it isn't returned. It scared so many kids that it only aired once.
I looked this up on the internet, and I thought it was creepy. When the Wicked Witch said if the broom wasn't returned, she would turn David into a basketball and turn Big Bird into a feather duster, it really sent chills down my spine. Back in 1976, many parents reported that this episode was scaring their kids.
He is disturbing. His name is Fluffy. Search Fluffy Sesame Street, and you'll see what I mean. I think his trunk is only there because his head is big, but he's definitely creepy.
A short "educational interlude" teaching kids to count to 40 has a narrator singing the numbers in a creepy manner. It gets progressively more disturbing as it goes on, with the narrator literally screaming at the end.