Classic Sesame Street animation: Monster in the dark
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- I took this from Episode 871. I wonder why he was so repulsed at the end when he saw the monster, and not by the fact that they had dead birds and sardines lying around the floor?
And wasn't there a similar cartoon used for either the Electric Company or 3-2-1 Contact? I vaguely remember that.
This is my favorite "co-operation" themed Sesame Street shorts because of the set-up and payoff. You have an unseen figure, but with a *very* friendly sounding voice and yellow eyes, trying to help out the other person. After everything is all said and done, the guy seemed to prefer his companion in the dark. :)
In the late '80s and early '90s, I usually would refer to this piece as an analogy of what it was like meeting someone in person after only knowing them through email or message boards (back at a time when being online was still primarily text based). Sometimes people looked better behind the computer screen as plain text.
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I'm so obsessed with this. It sounds like they improvised in this skit. This is some of the best acting I've ever seen.
it sounds unrehearsed like part with the sardine they talk over each other uh no i wouldnt want to stand on sardine --HEY it feels like a box
The animators got off easy. It was in the dark during all that awesome improv
Don't recall seeing this as a young boy but I love it-the voices sound like two friends helping each other and,to me,the dialogue sounds like they're improvising as they go along wonderful sketch love the twist ending Auckland New Zealand 2022
I used laugh so hard at this as a kid! Great set up-pay off! XD
Yucch! The monster probably thought the same thing
Good stuff - finally the FULL, uncensored version...
I remember, back in the late 90s watching this, and the final line, when the guy says, "Yuccchhh", was omitted - - - possibly because it was decided that looking at someone, or 'something' different and expressing disgust was sending kids the wrong social message, and endorsing prejudice.
Nice morals, but this original version, in full, is just too cute!!
I remember THIS 😂 "Yuck!" *Turns light back off*😂
1:04 air raid warden: "put out that light!"
Probably my favorite cartoon from Sesame Street aside from the Gahan Wilson Bridgekeeper segments!
I love this sketch! :D Its the naturalistic dialogue that does it.
ya almost unscripted like i told you id fall ..im sorry hey look this a sardine ..no i wouldnt want to stand on sardine-HEY a box sounds as naturtal as 2 ppl talking over each other with out it sounding phoney and reading a script
I misread the title as "Monsters in the dark" and thought it was two monsters. I was confused when I saw that one guy wasn't a monster. Then I realized the title was "Monster in the dark" not "monsters."
The monster sounds like the guy who did Garfield's voice bofore it fell to Bill Murray.
That would be the late and uber talented Lorenzo Music (also the voice of Peter Venkman in The Real Ghostbusters).
@@kjemradio
Yeah that’s Lorenzo Music!
If such a cartoon was ever on 1970s TEC, I don't recall it offhand. I never really got into 3-2-1 Contact, so I can't help you there, Monsterpiece Theatre.
:44 is HILARIOUS, as the man falls, after trying to stand on the box-"WISE GUY! I TOLD you I'd fall!"
I like the part where the man said "Yuck!"
This is funny
One of my favorites!
When I first saw this as a kid, I thought he was saying "Gosh Donna" at the beginning.
I remember the way the eyes looked when the one (who turned out to be the monster) said '...full of feathers...'
1:02 Bet he didn't see that coming.
tune on the light
sue!
I could never see the sardine on the floor anywhere.
And one thing that I always overlooked, until seeing this on TH-cam, was the reason why the man who turns on the light ends up saying,"Yucch!" at the end-NOW, of course, I know, partly because of the title,"MONSTER in the dark." I mean, somehow I just never noticed that the second man had turned out to be a monster, or some other ugly looking creature. Saw this many a time, in the 1970s, as well as the plethora of other Old School SS classics.
Gosh darn it
Man Turns On The Light
@cstoczyn ...Bob Arbogast voiced the monster (he voiced the "moral of the story" clips such as the Lion/Leopard one, the ant and archer, and the boy fishing for alphabet letters).
AMAZING STUFF!!!
SS promotes cooperation, yet condones lookism. That poor monster wasn't anything but friendly.
Sardines on the floor? Is there a cat there, too?
When first saw this skit as a kid i thought it was kind funny but never did understand the true meaning or moral of it...can anyone tell me ?
Cooperation, maybe.
Im talking about the end of it with the mans reaction when he sees that the other guy is a monster
Just a classic comedic punch line after the moral.
Dont judge a book by it's Cover?
Another weird thing about this clip (overlooked by me for a long time) is the incorrectly chosen sound effect of a 2-way toggle switch vs the pull string for the light.
***** I know; bad cropping job by a visually impaired SS fan (me).
MonsterpieceTheatre It depends on how old the switch is. Years ago I heard quite a few of them on the farm (which was built in the late 1800's and had the first electricity so I was told, in the 1940's.) that sounded pretty close to that. Maybe that's it.....?
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I love this one. I always thought the monster was the one with the white eyes because he was taller
gosh darn it! lol
That's almost exactly how my first date went
Lol I've had quite a few of those!! 😄
Hey it does!
Hey dead birds aren't full of feathers, that'd have to be a pillow or cushion
He was working with a MONSTER?!
This wouldn't be shown todays dumbed down Elmo Show/ Sesame Street cause the guy is saying "yuck" which is saying that the monster is ugly & could be taken as bullying to todays overly sensitive world.
Tim O'Brien ikr. Censors nowadays are just crybabies.
Not to mention, it's ''scary''. There's comments hear about that, lol.
Who Animated This Cartoon?
I would not be saying yech if I saw that thing!
@d72jjpilc I used to think that what was full of feathers was supposed to be Big Bird!
@ShadesBelow03 RIP Bob Arbogast
Oh Man! i used to be so scared of this one! I don't know why they would show kids the monster in the dark.....lol!
bella 2012 d f. The uu
Haha, I loved it as a kid, gotta have something for all the different kind of kids out there!
Same
This is so funny.
PMSL!! :42 to:43 what ever he said when he fell of the box! This clip is hilarious! I had the taped on one of my cassette tapes and I would always rewind it to the part when he fell off the box cuz what ever he said made laugh til I cried! My 19 year old thinks its hilarious, too same part that makes me laugh, something about "bags" I guess is what he said as he fell!
he said "tout bagi" when he fell
1:02 monster
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I Don’t know who animate this sketch. But that looks funny.
My guess would be Poverty Pictures, the animators of a lot of the earliest cartoons made for the show; it features the same voice actors.
@@MonsterpieceTheatre And what voice actors are those, pray tell?
I'm pretty sure it's Bob Arbogast and Jim Thurman, @@Garrettk41.
@@MonsterpieceTheatre I don't think so. I know Thurman's voice when I hear it, and I'm getting pretty good about recognizing Arbogast's as well. Those guys don't sound anything like them.
Who Are The Voices In This Cartoon?
What's the point of this??
Haha
Things aren't always what they seem, you silly! You're a bit dense if you couldn't figure that out by yourself.
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