What sketches scared you as a kid?

What's ironic is the sketch was supposed to show kids that clowns are really people to, and there's no need to be afraid. But for some kids it seemed to have the opposite effect, lol. Now, I was always relieved to see the guy's real face at the end, but that didn't stop me from being freaked out every other time the clip came on!

That actually is one of my favorite SS songs . I use to sing along with it all the time

I must ad one thing... am I the only one who isn't afraid of clowns? I just didn't care way too much for them, outside of Krusty and Binky, of course....

But then again, weird things scare me, and weird things make me laugh.

But I forget if I said Scared the heck out of me... that horrible organ music.... and it took forever to end. I remember one time I hid in the other room until it was over.

I'm not afraid of clowns...but then I like mimes to

Well I was only afraid of clowns for like 2 seconds as a kid, that quickly went away. And I progressed to stranger fears like Gumby (no I'm not kidding!)

Yeah I can see that, and the way the bats sort of popped up from nowhere. Something about crude animation sometimes comes across a bit creepy, hehe. No offence to the animation, I do still think it's good.

Rofl that one is pretty darn wierd. No wonder you were scared of it.

Aw man! I used to love this clip! I used to hum that music and the number music all the time!

This one really scared me as a kid:



The burning fire and "dramatic" music in this one made this a scary clip for me back in the day. Glad it's finally posted

There was this sketch with this dude... uhh... the Muppet who was like Vincent Price- Vincent Twice, wasn't it? It might've been him, yeah, I think so. I think it was the Mysterious Theatre sketches. I mean, I haven't seen 'em fer over 10 years but if I remember rightly they were kinda freaky-deaky.

But then there's Harvey Kneeslapper..

Vincent Twice was definitley frightening, even now when i look back on them.

Agreed! I remember them just having this really scary vibe, quite a dark tone for a show that was supposed to be aimed at young kids, I should look up some sketches on Youtube, if it works. Haven't seen 'em in AGES.

I always knew as a kid that part of watching Sesame Street was occasionally getting scared to death, lol. I don't think adults quite remember how children perceive the world when they create things sometimes, lol. Still, somehow I always kept watching, because the good parts outweighed everything else. And I learned to face my fears.

Yeah, I was the same. Still am. I think it's a great thing to face your fears, it can help you conquer them, too. Yeah, but those Vincent Twice ("...Vincent twice") sketches were quite scary,I also remember seeing an ilustration of a woman dressed in black which was on SS before a sketch, perhapes before on of the Mysterious Theatre ones. It creeped me out.

Yes, that was the intro to Mysterious Theater. It was parodying the scene in the real "Mystery!" intro at the :10 mark in this clip...



As a kid I thought the "Mysterious Theater" intro was a little freaky, but I wasn't scared of Vincent Twice though. I only remember seeing two Mysterious Theater sketches when I was little ("Circle Search" and "The Missing Toast") but I often saw those two. I especially remember the "Missing Toast" one because of the surprise ending with Vincent Twice being the culprit! The segments mainly starred Sherlock Hemlock and his dog Watson. They were produced from 1989 to 1992, and continued to be rerun until 1999, when Sherlock Hemlock practically faded into obscurity.

I am currently using Mysterious Theater in a fanfic I am still working on, entitled "The Sesame Street Horror Special"

Hey, that's the one! I looked it up on Yotube... "The Case of the Missing Toast", maaan... I thought I imagined the lady dressed in black, in a nightmare or something when I was little! Yeah, Vincent Twice was actually a pretty cool character looking back, but it even has eerie music... and the intro is perty darn scary, too. Man, I haven't seen that for over a decade!

Oh, and I'm looking forward to reading your fan-fic.

Here is the link to Part 1...

http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showthread.php?t=31456

And as far as the music goes, yes, I agree it is rather eerie-sounding music, but it's tame compared to the music in THIS skit:



That is possibly the creepiest music I've ever heard on Sesame Street! Another eerie-sounding music piece I remember was some of the music that played during the fire scene in the 2002 episode with the fir at Mr. Hooper's store. It was almost as freaky as the Mysterious Theater theme music, IMO, but nowhere as scary as the music in that old Count von Count skit!

The one where Grover snuck up on "Ernie" scared me!

Wait a mintute.

isn't that the one where he sneaks into the apartment thinking Ernie's there but really Herry's there dressed and Ernie.

Or do you mean an entirly different segment?

Thats the one!

I recall a segment from the 70s,where the SS humans sat on the porch of the street,watching certain buildings being torn down(on seperate film).Or at least that's how I remember it,I could be wrong.And the SS humans responded with loud shouts of excitement.

Another segment scary segment that comes to mind,is one of Rossevelt Franklin's elementery school episodes,where he would say"everybody talk soft",and his students would reply"we're all talking soft.""EVERYBODY TALK LOUD.""WE'RE ALL TALKING LOUD."