It's amazing how these Sesame Street segments rush back to you even 50 years later. I always loved 5 (favorite number back then, because of my 5th birthday), but I most clearly remember the drama of 9 being washed away. I recognized Paul Benedict when I saw him on The Jeffersons a few years later, but I don't think I ever noticed Stockard Channing in this until just now!
Yep i am 52 and these vignettes were apparently in the deepest parts of my memories Because i remember them all. I think i recall the number 3 7 and 9 the most, especially 9 and the street washer ruining his 9 and the painter sadly and frustratingly say 9
Thank you, PBS. Thank you, CTW. Thank you Paul Benedict and Stockard Channing. Thank you, whomever composed this beautiful music. You all made learning so much fun when I was a child. Wow, these clips (which I have not seen in 50 years) are just so wonderful to re-experience.
I am 46 and I cannot believe how well I remember these. I was 3-5 years old and they are so vivid. The cake, the picnic, the umbrella, the doctors office. OH WOW.
In 1980 or so, when I was about 3, my dad let me help paint the garage door (my dad was awesome, and always let me "help" with grown-up chores, which I loved!). Anyway next to the garage there was a little wooden picket fence...it was bare wood, unpainted, only about 3 or 4 feet wide, between our garage and the neighbors cement block wall... Anyway, it was because of the "Mad Painter" that, in my 3 year old mind, I thought it would be a "good idea" to paint a #1 on one of the fence posts... I told my dad "I'm going to paint a one!" and we was like "okay" assuming that I meant *on the garage door,* that was being painted anyway... Well I took my dad's "okay" to mean that I could paint a "1" wherever I wanted (again, I was 3!) and before my dad realized what I was about to do, it was already done! He wasn't too thrilled about it, but I was too young for my dad to really be that mad at me, and I don't think I got in trouble... So throughout my childhood, there was the little fence with a "1" painted on one of the pickets! I had completely forgotten about that until watching this! 😂
A very young - and very hungry - Stockard Channing with the #3 one - neat! ...and #4...and #7....and #11. I remember most of these, and even remember most of the actors but it never clicked with Stockard being on the show.
I was this character for Halloween! Everyone kept calling me a Clockwork Orange! *sigh* Wish Paulie were still alive so he could have checked out the groovy costume I compiled by digging through my dad's handyman stash! Thank you for uploading these, Monsterpiece!
late Paul Benedict who can forget about him on the Jeffersons as Bentley interesting he used an English accent on The Jeffersons just like David Ogden Stires did on MASH when he played Sir Charles Winchester. RIP to both great actors
@@docadams7099 He wouldn't have been able to be knighted because Winchester was not a British citizen but instead a US citizen. Also it was Winchester the Third.
as a kid in the 70s' (I'm now 57), I do so love these skits in SS, as in all of them including the cartoon shorts. Thanks to all who made these happen.
I'm only learning this morning at ten am that THIS was the reason I always loved Stockard Channing was that I saw her in THESE as a child. FIFTY SOME years later I'm learning this! Paul Benedict everyone!
These were great homages to old silent slapstick films. The choreography of the bit with the cake was perfection. I love watching these again, they made a lasting impact on me as a kid. But as religiously as I watched Sesame Street, there are several of these I’ve never seen! I can see the TV censors maybe banning the gorilla cage one for encouraging dangerous behavior, lol
As I've come of age, I have a strong appreciation for the generation to which the original SS patriarchs belong for countless reasons, but among which is that they (and to some degree the boomers) really made a point to preserve the lineage of theater and music from earlier times. All of this while being on the cutting edge of developing and using new technology. And, oh yes, edutaining us.
The speeded up film and the apparent silent and sometimes magical way the Mad Painter moved made a very strong impression on me as a child, so I learned how be funny, creative, walk quickly and silently. These all came in very handy in my 25 year career as a teacher to men and women, girls and boys of all ages on four continents.
I never knew that Paul Benedict, best known as Mr. Benedict on The Jeffersons, played the painter. I headed here because I just now found out Stockard Channing, Rizzo from Grease, was also in these segments.
OMG! That's right! The _Mad Painter_ himself is none other than Paul Benedict, and the pretty young woman in some of the skits, like the #3, is none other than a youthful Stockard Channing...
May Jerome Raphael who appeared in most of the segments RIP. Passed away 11/12/2012 at age 87. He was also the baker who fell down the stairs from the 1-10 segments. I enjoy those segments 2.
I thought I had read (a bit of a while back) that the on-screen stunt person who played the baker in "Numerosity" was someone else, possibly Alec Stevens.
I hope you mind a little teasing, but: You mean … you're old enough to "remember" these, and yet *now* is when you watched Grease? Even if you were an 80's kid, Grease was a rite of passage for awhile, at least on TV, kinda like The Wizard of Oz. Sorry, it just struck me weird.
@@MonsterpieceTheatre Yes, strange as it seems. As a child, we only had 2 channels to watch. I think my childhood consisted of Doctor Who re-runs and binge re-watching the Muppet Movie and Star Wars taped on home video. Since getting Netflix, my husband has been helping me fill my cultural knowledge gaps.
Lol. (And pardon my failure to proofread my reply: that should've read "I hope you *don't* mind a little teasing …") I feel like I've aged 30 years in the last three.
Scarecroe did uploaded the image of Sesame Street time-lapse short of Beginning/End demonstrated of a woman makes a sandwich. Go take a look on Muppet Wiki by Fandom and see for yourself.
I'm 45 and I used to love watching these segments when I was a little wee guy. The first one I remember seeing was #8, I laughed my ass off when I was 2 or 3 watching this one. Who wouldn't laugh at a bald guy getting a #8 painted on his head while chilling in a swimming pool? 😂 To this day, it's still laughable, especially when you're high. Paul Benedict was great! And a shout out to the lovely Stockard Channing for her participation. She was hot as the nurse in #11.
Paul Benedict and Stockard Channing. ( aka Mr. Bentley and Rizzo!) 50 years later and I still love these… and I still want to eat that blue icing number 6… lol! By the way does anyone know who the mustached man was?
Looking at and remembering these old clips of my FAVORITE childhood show is so relaxing and soothing (especially with the music) and thinking it's probably where my huge crush on Stockard Channing first developed...I am now 58!!😊
I think the two people in the elevator who have the 7 painted on their stuff are Stockard Channing and Jerome Stephens, who played other characters in the other numbered skits.
HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just realized! You're the butler from Arthur 2 On The Rocks! Its one thing to be drunk and going down a Sesame Street rabbit hole after 45 years but its another to realize the voice and face are familiar from your adult life as well as your childhood!
The guy sat on the stool when the 10 was facing the other way (i.e. it was upside-down to him). See 11:07. However, it was pretty obvious when he got up that the 10 on his posterior had been neatly painted there, as the numeral 1 was right side up. Still funny, though.
I was told that one time he painted a 12 on a taxicab and it drove off just as he was finishing up the 2 in the 12, so the line at the bottom of the 2 extended.
You bring up a good point: per the format starting in 1970 (season 2), number segments ranged from 2 to 12, starting with the 2nd Henson series, and of course the Budd Luckey series (with two animations for the #9. If they filmed a "mad painter" for the #12, it had to have been either very rarely shown, or rejected altogether. Even the MuppetWiki page makes no reference to a "paint a 12" film. Maybe it's in a vault somewhere in New York.
+MichaelBrookham No, there were only Mad Painter skits 2-11. (There was no Mad Painter 1 skit because Sesame Street didn't feature number 1 at the time). However, I think the reason he is not seen to paint a 12 anywhere is because, after it showed him getting caught and pulled into the doctor's office in the 11 skit, the doctor probably did a full body checkup on him and saw there was a problem with him in the head for painting numbers on things and people he's not supposed too so the doctor probably took away his paint can and paint brush from him and put him in a hospital for crazy people which is why he is not seen again after the number 11 painter skit.
@@pahanley4 That's what I was thinking since the number 11 painter skit took place in a doctor's office where the nurse pulled him into the office where he was put away in a hospital for crazy people which is why he is not seen again after the number 11 painter skit.
The Mad Painter Sketches are not the only things that Stockard Channing did for SS. In addition to those sketches, there were two segments featuring Ms. Channing, playing the same role as in MP sketch 3 and a gorilla. One has her fleeing for her life from the ape screaming NO! as the word appears on screen. The other has the ape offering her bananas ,with her now saying YES! Both of those segment were done as silent movies with piano music. Finally, there was a sketch with her playing a grade school teacher, who has to leave for s meeting while she's gone, the kids draw on the blackboard with all drawing become animated.
A few things people may or may not have noticed: After he paints the number 4, it looks different in some shots, as if it were a sticker instead of an actual painting of a number. When the man is reading the paper in the pool, the headline can clearly be seen "Painter Strikes Again". In the shot just before the painter comes up behind the man, the headline is shown on the other side of the paper. When the painter paints the number on his head, the headline is back to the top part of the paper. When the man sits on the stool, the number 10 is transferred onto his pants. It is not directly proportional to the way he sits on it. The painter looks like his is painting something else (perhaps another 3) just before the lady reaches over and he stops her. The painter paints the number 7's with his left hand while all the other numbers he paints with his right hand. The number 2 on the sailboat is bigger than the number 2 in his hand, as the number 9 is bigger on the road. The number 10 changes on the stool. When the painter holds the stool up to show his 10, the numbers are slightly bigger than he painted them as. Number 6 is the only one where he doesn't use his paintbrush, although the last pot that he measures the 6 on looks like it would fit the number 6 if he had painted it there.
I was waiting to see if you'd mention the inconsistencies of the 10 clip. The most obvious one would've been avoided had they just painted the 1 as a straight vertical line without the curve at the top.
I was wondering about the mystery why there was no 1? What there was supposed to be the first episode of the painter and what surface would he need in order for him to paint a 1 but it never materialized?
Great point, for the following reason: I think, at that time, the Workshop didn't include the number 1 in its teaching plan because 'you can't count to 1'. However, these films are not about counting; they are about familiarizing us with the image of the number. I know that Bill Cosby's name is a bit unpopular to mention these days, but in one of his comedy skits about kindergarten, he had a line in response to being taught that 1+1 = 2: "Yeah, yeah … what's a 2?" Conversely, not being shown what a 1 is can have the same effect.
0:46 Sea Captain: “Hey man, good morning” Burnout Mr. Bentley: “Good morning sir, look at your sail” “Up there”? “Yes, up there”. “Hey man, why did you do a number two on my sail”???
I have to ask, if the majority were to pick a fan favourite of all these number sketches, which would it be? In order from the top, my four favourites are #8, #6, #3, and #10.
For me, it is 10, not for artistic reasons, but because that's what I remember him saying. Sometimes, when I'm working on an idea and saying, "I think... I think..." I finish it with, "I think I'll paint a ten."
In its early telecasts, Sesame Street was presented not only to instruct very young children, but also to entertain young adults. At the time, it had a large viewership among college students. You might see why. The lead actor strongly resembles a character in a Monty Python skit. Part of the humor stems from how he garbs himself and strategizes in such detail for such a simplistic task. Sure, that's how a painter should dress....but he's just painting a number.
Lane Crooks And...when my table number disappeared at a restaurant and I said the Sesame Street number guy took it, they had no idea what I was referring to. Then I found these! Thanks to the posting party!!
It's just too bad that even though Sesame Street revolutionized edutainment, for the whole family mind you, most of its innovative qualities were largely ignored by those in the establishments of the day. Unless you were a grownup who admired any kind of artistic or social expression, or simply had a sense of humor, most people dismissed SS as just a kid's show, and unfortunately that's the narrative that still stands.
@@MonsterpieceTheatre Scarecroe did uploaded the image of Sesame Street time-lapse short of Beginning/End demonstrated of a woman makes a sandwich. Go take a look on Muppet Wiki by Fandom and thanks for the advice.
I remember when seeing the jeffersons and Mr Bentley..mom that's the painter guy on sesame street lol.......but never knew until 2024 Stockard channing was in some of these shorts too
It's amazing how these Sesame Street segments rush back to you even 50 years later. I always loved 5 (favorite number back then, because of my 5th birthday), but I most clearly remember the drama of 9 being washed away. I recognized Paul Benedict when I saw him on The Jeffersons a few years later, but I don't think I ever noticed Stockard Channing in this until just now!
I love being able to find old memories on TH-cam. I'm now 54 and I was watching these on Sesame Street when I was just a tot.
I'm blown away by this, I remember all these so well.
Well said. TH-cam can definitely be considered a time machine for nostalgia. Cheers 🥂
Same here!
Me too. Ha.☺🤗🤗
Yep i am 52 and these vignettes were apparently in the deepest parts of my memories Because i remember them all.
I think i recall the number 3 7 and 9 the most, especially 9 and the street washer ruining his 9 and the painter sadly and frustratingly say 9
Thank you, PBS. Thank you, CTW. Thank you Paul Benedict and Stockard Channing. Thank you, whomever composed this beautiful music. You all made learning so much fun when I was a child. Wow, these clips (which I have not seen in 50 years) are just so wonderful to re-experience.
The music was composed and performed by Robert Dennis.
Not to forget Jerome Raphel (or Raphael), who played "Mac".
Stockyard Channing. I should’ve known that. Woman looked the same through her whole career.
Yes,thank you PBS for helping us relive our childhood memories!
@@MonsterpieceTheatre Thank you for the information. I thought it might be Joe Raposo.
I love the nostalgic feeling in get from watching these. Innocent times.
I am 46 and I cannot believe how well I remember these. I was 3-5 years old and they are so vivid. The cake, the picnic, the umbrella, the doctors office. OH WOW.
In 1980 or so, when I was about 3, my dad let me help paint the garage door (my dad was awesome, and always let me "help" with grown-up chores, which I loved!). Anyway next to the garage there was a little wooden picket fence...it was bare wood, unpainted, only about 3 or 4 feet wide, between our garage and the neighbors cement block wall... Anyway, it was because of the "Mad Painter" that, in my 3 year old mind, I thought it would be a "good idea" to paint a #1 on one of the fence posts... I told my dad "I'm going to paint a one!" and we was like "okay" assuming that I meant *on the garage door,* that was being painted anyway... Well I took my dad's "okay" to mean that I could paint a "1" wherever I wanted (again, I was 3!) and before my dad realized what I was about to do, it was already done! He wasn't too thrilled about it, but I was too young for my dad to really be that mad at me, and I don't think I got in trouble... So throughout my childhood, there was the little fence with a "1" painted on one of the pickets! I had completely forgotten about that until watching this! 😂
He was probably just happy that you didn’t paint an “8” on the top of his head 😊
@@quarantineclips488
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They didn't have a video for #1 on this, because you had already done that one for them.
That piano is AMAZING!!!! Thankyou for these absolutely priceless memories, Sesame Street.
Robert Dennis, sadly he passed in 2017.
@@jasonpp1973RIP. Same guy who composed the great music for the Sesame Street short “Milk”.
A very young - and very hungry - Stockard Channing with the #3 one - neat!
...and #4...and #7....and #11. I remember most of these, and even remember most of the actors but it never clicked with Stockard being on the show.
Whoa! Good call! I was about to post how the #3 girl is really cute. No wonder!
I wander if he ever clashed with the🦇? 🤔🤔
For me it also didn't click that the painter and Mr Bentley from The Jeffersons was the same actor.
Next? Next? Next?
I was this character for Halloween! Everyone kept calling me a Clockwork Orange! *sigh* Wish Paulie were still alive so he could have checked out the groovy costume I compiled by digging through my dad's handyman stash! Thank you for uploading these, Monsterpiece!
....interesting hearing Paul Benedict's true American accent, after mostly seeing him as English neighbor Harry on THE JEFFERSONS.
That's awesome. He was one of my favorite characters on Sesame Street. Also got me into some trouble.....
Was Pauly your dad or grand-dad?
@@MonsterpieceTheatre No relation which is funny, same name. :') but hey there's always those genealogy pages I could look into.
@@MonsterpieceTheatre HBO Max is here.
Still love watching these great shorts after all these years. May Paul Benedict(The Painter) RIP. Passed away 12/1/2008 at age 70.
I totally forgot about this but when I heard the music it was all familiar again. Amazing how that happens.
I like that old style piano music accompanying the painter:)!
Composed by the late Robert Dennis. May he RIP. Passed away 8/30/2018 at age 85. Composed a lot of musical scores on Sesame Street.
This was one of my favorite parts of Sesame Street. I never realized the actor who eats the sandwich in the number 3 segment is Stockard Channing!
She really put that whole thing away! I hope she took an Alka Seltzer.
And 4. And 7. And 11.
But was the red 3 edible? No calories or carbohydrates (lol!).
I think this is where my obsession with fonts and numbers came from
Lol me too but got in trouble for it lol
When Mr. Bently was a cool hippie who hung out with Stockard Channing.
Well said,@jett woodward!!!! LOL!!! HA!!! :) :) :) :)
Rizzo!
Somehow I never made the connection that he was Mr. Bently, even though I watched Sesame Street and The Jeffersons.
late Paul Benedict who can forget about him on the Jeffersons as Bentley
interesting he used an English accent on The Jeffersons just like David Ogden Stires did on MASH when he played Sir Charles Winchester.
RIP to both great actors
That's MAJOR Charles Emerson Winchester III from Boston. Of course, Winchester would have loved being knighted by the Queen of England.
@@docadams7099 He wouldn't have been able to be knighted because Winchester was not a British citizen but instead a US citizen. Also it was Winchester the Third.
as a kid in the 70s' (I'm now 57), I do so love these skits in SS, as in all of them including the cartoon shorts. Thanks to all who made these happen.
I'm only learning this morning at ten am that THIS was the reason I always loved Stockard Channing was that I saw her in THESE as a child.
FIFTY SOME years later I'm learning this!
Paul Benedict everyone!
The chase around the pool is a riot!
And so is the music! Peace.
The best part is when he throws the raft at the Mad Painter.
The chase made me think of many endings of The Benny Hill Show.
These segments are like modern day silent movies,but for kids.
These were great homages to old silent slapstick films. The choreography of the bit with the cake was perfection. I love watching these again, they made a lasting impact on me as a kid. But as religiously as I watched Sesame Street, there are several of these I’ve never seen! I can see the TV censors maybe banning the gorilla cage one for encouraging dangerous behavior, lol
As I've come of age, I have a strong appreciation for the generation to which the original SS patriarchs belong for countless reasons, but among which is that they (and to some degree the boomers) really made a point to preserve the lineage of theater and music from earlier times. All of this while being on the cutting edge of developing and using new technology. And, oh yes, edutaining us.
Sean Capone, are you related to Al Capone?
Amazing watching this as an adult thinking how weird this is when it seemed so perfectly normal and fine as a little kid.
Yeah, back then I was like, "The man's gotta paint a 3 so he's gonna paint a 3. It's his JOB!"
Haha! Exactly.
Lol right?! Like ' it's HER food she paid for!" At the picnic 3 😁
Thank you so very much for the painter installments from Sesame Street. ❤❤❤❤
I like the piano music so much!
It's my Dad's.
Robert Dennis. He performs the music in these tracks, too. For Sesame Street, he also did the Milk segment that everyone seems to remember.
That's the one!
kim m. BiBO 🚘
jett woodward brio cars
Stockard Channing reminds me of Elizabeth McGovern.
A precious compilation of an important part of my childhood. Thank you!
To this day, every time I have yellow mustard I try to paint a 3 on whatever I'm eating.
2020
Love to watch these as a kid brings back good memories
First one aired on my birthday February 23 1972
I was 2
Noticed how he quickly turns the chair on 10 around before it's sat on so the number 10 shows correctly instead of an 01 when he stands up!
He was bently the Jefferson neighbour.
Paul Benedict and Stockard Channing did these sketches on PBS's Sesame Street in the early 1970s.
Holy cow this opened up some long forgotten memories! Wonderful!
Piano music sounds like a silent films that have Charlie Chaplin I would suppose it's the same kind of piano playing music
Sounds like a Steinway no?
This was a trademark style of Joe Raposo.
Oh my god!
I haven't seen this guy since I was 4 and I'm 49 now.
Its incredible to have something dug so deep from your mind!!!!!!!!!
SAME HERE. I can't believe how well I remembered all these. The cake, the picnic, the umbrella. WOW!
You mean you never watched The Jeffersons ? The Mad Painter (Paul Benedict)
The speeded up film and the apparent silent and sometimes magical way the Mad Painter moved made a very strong impression on me as a child, so I learned how be funny, creative, walk quickly and silently. These all came in very handy in my 25 year career as a teacher to men and women, girls and boys of all ages on four continents.
Notice the gorilla and painter give each other 5 as well at the end?
Maybe the gorilla was related to Paul from the Electric Conpany.
@@gregschell1094 Proves Darwin's evolution theory.
As a grade school kid watching these in the 1970s, I was always impressed at how he could make such well-formed numbers using a paintbrush.
Same here! I remember trying to recreate it in kindergarten and never quite got the hang of it with a big brush.
I never knew that Paul Benedict, best known as Mr. Benedict on The Jeffersons, played the painter. I headed here because I just now found out Stockard Channing, Rizzo from Grease, was also in these segments.
*M. Bentley
Loved this guy growing up. Awesome
OMG! That's right! The _Mad Painter_ himself is none other than Paul Benedict, and the pretty young woman in some of the skits, like the #3, is none other than a youthful Stockard Channing...
May Jerome Raphael who appeared in most of the segments RIP. Passed away 11/12/2012 at age 87. He was also the baker who fell down the stairs from the 1-10 segments. I enjoy those segments 2.
I thought I had read (a bit of a while back) that the on-screen stunt person who played the baker in "Numerosity" was someone else, possibly Alec Stevens.
Finally watched Grease for the first time and thought "I know that girl from somewhere". This was it!! haha. I remember all of these.
I hope you mind a little teasing, but:
You mean … you're old enough to "remember" these, and yet *now* is when you watched Grease? Even if you were an 80's kid, Grease was a rite of passage for awhile, at least on TV, kinda like The Wizard of Oz. Sorry, it just struck me weird.
@@MonsterpieceTheatre Yes, strange as it seems. As a child, we only had 2 channels to watch. I think my childhood consisted of Doctor Who re-runs and binge re-watching the Muppet Movie and Star Wars taped on home video. Since getting Netflix, my husband has been helping me fill my cultural knowledge gaps.
Lol. (And pardon my failure to proofread my reply: that should've read "I hope you *don't* mind a little teasing …") I feel like I've aged 30 years in the last three.
The mad painter was always my favorite
This jolts back memories I didn't know I had. So fun.
When she takes the mayonnaise 3 and he does, HMMMM, it cracks me up even to this day! Sesame Street was my heart back in the day!
Thanks for sharing these! Great memories!
Scarecroe did uploaded the image of Sesame Street time-lapse short of Beginning/End demonstrated of a woman makes a sandwich. Go take a look on Muppet Wiki by Fandom and see for yourself.
I remember watching every one of these when I was little! Thank you for putting this together!😁
Hello Mr.J!! Rip Harry Bentley!!
Loved these long ago, like the way he announces the number he's gonna paint so offhand "Gonna paint a 2"
Well, so you know what number it is.
The facial hair looks really nice on him.
To think this is Bentley from The Jeffersons! He moved on up as well to the eastside in the deluxe apartments.
a young Stockard Channing in the 3,4,and 11 segments
+KPCarter2000 She was also in the 7 segment.
afriendofbean She also has some minor speaking roles, all she said was “next!” in the 11 segment.
@@InformationEMG I know.
She's gorgeous
I'm 45 and I used to love watching these segments when I was a little wee guy. The first one I remember seeing was #8, I laughed my ass off when I was 2 or 3 watching this one. Who wouldn't laugh at a bald guy getting a #8 painted on his head while chilling in a swimming pool? 😂 To this day, it's still laughable, especially when you're high. Paul Benedict was great! And a shout out to the lovely Stockard Channing for her participation. She was hot as the nurse in #11.
Mr Bentley on Sesame Street wow
Paul Benedict and Stockard Channing. ( aka Mr. Bentley and Rizzo!) 50 years later and I still love these… and I still want to eat that blue icing number 6… lol! By the way does anyone know who the mustached man was?
Mr Bentley!!!!!!!😮 I do remember him on Sesame Street but I couldn’t remember his character. And here it is!!! 😮😊
Wow, there is a memory for this. Probably thats the reason why I moved to be a Graffiti Artist … ;-).
lol yeah, Mr. Bentley. That piano music takes me back. :D
Looking at and remembering these old clips of my FAVORITE childhood show is so relaxing and soothing (especially with the music) and thinking it's probably where my huge crush on Stockard Channing first developed...I am now 58!!😊
Great memories…. 👍🏽
my mum showed me and my sister this and it's probably the funniest way for kids to learn number
I think the two people in the elevator who have the 7 painted on their stuff are Stockard Channing and Jerome Stephens, who played other characters in the other numbered skits.
Jerome Raphael
Thanks for posting this compilation ❤ remember some of these 😊
Miss these days, I was watching and loving my childhood!, if there only were a way to go back.
HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just realized! You're the butler from Arthur 2 On The Rocks!
Its one thing to be drunk and going down a Sesame Street rabbit hole after 45 years but its another to realize the voice and face are familiar from your adult life as well as your childhood!
I told you that Bentley was weird Weez!
11:42 Sitting on a 10 should produce a 01.
The guy sat on the stool when the 10 was facing the other way (i.e. it was upside-down to him). See 11:07.
However, it was pretty obvious when he got up that the 10 on his posterior had been neatly painted there, as the numeral 1 was right side up. Still funny, though.
I was told that one time he painted a 12 on a taxicab and it drove off just as he was finishing up the 2 in the 12, so the line at the bottom of the 2 extended.
You bring up a good point: per the format starting in 1970 (season 2), number segments ranged from 2 to 12, starting with the 2nd Henson series, and of course the Budd Luckey series (with two animations for the #9. If they filmed a "mad painter" for the #12, it had to have been either very rarely shown, or rejected altogether. Even the MuppetWiki page makes no reference to a "paint a 12" film. Maybe it's in a vault somewhere in New York.
+MichaelBrookham No, there were only Mad Painter skits 2-11. (There was no Mad Painter 1 skit because Sesame Street didn't feature number 1 at the time). However, I think the reason he is not seen to paint a 12 anywhere is because, after it showed him getting caught and pulled into the doctor's office in the 11 skit, the doctor probably did a full body checkup on him and saw there was a problem with him in the head for painting numbers on things and people he's not supposed too so the doctor probably took away his paint can and paint brush from him and put him in a hospital for crazy people which is why he is not seen again after the number 11 painter skit.
@@afriendofbean Maybe he didn't paint the number 12 because they suspended his paint and paintbrush.
@@pahanley4 That's what I was thinking since the number 11 painter skit took place in a doctor's office where the nurse pulled him into the office where he was put away in a hospital for crazy people which is why he is not seen again after the number 11 painter skit.
@@afriendofbean I'll paint the number 12.... I just need a piano player and a brush....
Wow, haven't seen these since i was a wee lad, but they all came back to me..
The Mad Painter Sketches are not the only things that Stockard Channing did for SS. In addition to those sketches, there were two
segments featuring Ms. Channing, playing the same role as in
MP sketch 3 and a gorilla. One has her fleeing for her life from the ape screaming NO! as the word appears on screen. The other has the ape offering her bananas ,with her now saying YES! Both of those segment were done as silent movies with piano music.
Finally, there was a sketch with her playing a grade school teacher, who has to leave for s meeting while she's gone, the kids draw on the blackboard with all drawing become animated.
It would be interesting to see that.
In loving memory of Paul Benedict and Eli Noyes.
i remmber all of these
A few things people may or may not have noticed:
After he paints the number 4, it looks different in some shots, as if it were a sticker instead of an actual painting of a number.
When the man is reading the paper in the pool, the headline can clearly be seen "Painter Strikes Again". In the shot just before the painter comes up behind the man, the headline is shown on the other side of the paper. When the painter paints the number on his head, the headline is back to the top part of the paper.
When the man sits on the stool, the number 10 is transferred onto his pants. It is not directly proportional to the way he sits on it.
The painter looks like his is painting something else (perhaps another 3) just before the lady reaches over and he stops her.
The painter paints the number 7's with his left hand while all the other numbers he paints with his right hand.
The number 2 on the sailboat is bigger than the number 2 in his hand, as the number 9 is bigger on the road.
The number 10 changes on the stool. When the painter holds the stool up to show his 10, the numbers are slightly bigger than he painted them as.
Number 6 is the only one where he doesn't use his paintbrush, although the last pot that he measures the 6 on looks like it would fit the number 6 if he had painted it there.
I was waiting to see if you'd mention the inconsistencies of the 10 clip. The most obvious one would've been avoided had they just painted the 1 as a straight vertical line without the curve at the top.
What an eye for detail! I also thought he painted numbers so skillfully, shapefully, and no drips whatsoever!
I was wondering about the mystery why there was no 1? What there was supposed to be the first episode of the painter and what surface would he need in order for him to paint a 1 but it never materialized?
Great point, for the following reason: I think, at that time, the Workshop didn't include the number 1 in its teaching plan because 'you can't count to 1'. However, these films are not about counting; they are about familiarizing us with the image of the number.
I know that Bill Cosby's name is a bit unpopular to mention these days, but in one of his comedy skits about kindergarten, he had a line in response to being taught that 1+1 = 2: "Yeah, yeah … what's a 2?" Conversely, not being shown what a 1 is can have the same effect.
They didn't a segment for the number 1 because 1 isn't such a spiffy number.
Yes it was just the other day I thought about the painter from watching sesame street it just poped in my mind out of know where such fond memories.
I think #6 and #8 and #10 are the funniest ones!
I was no more good when he painted an 8 on that man’s bald spot 😂😂😂😂
That bald man’s real name was Jerome Raphael. He passed away on 11/8/2012 at age 87. May he RIP.
@@jim6820 RIP to him and Paul.
0:46
Sea Captain: “Hey man, good morning”
Burnout Mr. Bentley: “Good morning sir, look at your sail”
“Up there”?
“Yes, up there”.
“Hey man, why did you do a number two on my sail”???
I have to ask, if the majority were to pick a fan favourite of all these number sketches, which would it be?
In order from the top, my four favourites are #8, #6, #3, and #10.
For me, it is 10, not for artistic reasons, but because that's what I remember him saying. Sometimes, when I'm working on an idea and saying, "I think... I think..." I finish it with, "I think I'll paint a ten."
In its early telecasts, Sesame Street was presented not only to instruct very young children, but also to entertain young adults. At the time, it had a large viewership among college students. You might see why. The lead actor strongly resembles a character in a Monty Python skit. Part of the humor stems from how he garbs himself and strategizes in such detail for such a simplistic task. Sure, that's how a painter should dress....but he's just painting a number.
I noticed at 2:56, the lady in the crowd looks like she has an 8 painted on her bag.
My little brother needs the classic Sesame Street vibes!!
Does anyone know where the elevator segment was filmed?
My guess would be that it was filmed in some average NYC office building.
My childhood right here!!! I guess that’s why they called him “The Mad Painter”!
That piano!!
I almost forgot about these!
Lane Crooks And...when my table number disappeared at a restaurant and I said the Sesame Street number guy took it, they had no idea what I was referring to. Then I found these! Thanks to the posting party!!
It's just too bad that even though Sesame Street revolutionized edutainment, for the whole family mind you, most of its innovative qualities were largely ignored by those in the establishments of the day. Unless you were a grownup who admired any kind of artistic or social expression, or simply had a sense of humor, most people dismissed SS as just a kid's show, and unfortunately that's the narrative that still stands.
@@MonsterpieceTheatre Scarecroe did uploaded the image of Sesame Street time-lapse short of Beginning/End demonstrated of a woman makes a sandwich. Go take a look on Muppet Wiki by Fandom and thanks for the advice.
What’s the name of the bald guy with the mustache who appears in quite a few of these segments?
Remember jazz numbers ?
Grace Slick was the vocalist for them.
"Six, don't you want somebody to love you ? " could have happened...
It's funny how most of the outdoor segments were mostly cloudy days.
I don't know if they were shot all in 1 or 2 days.
Wonder if that was jim Boyd playing paul the gorilla for the number 5 segment?
I always liked the Painter (Paul Benedict) He was also funny on The Jeffersons.
I know that cast star. Stockard channing the Rizzo cast star from grease!!
Mr. Bently From The Jeffersons Yeahhhh!👍👌🍷🍻
Man that sailor got mad about that 2!
There's Stockard Channing too
4:48 Paul from the Electric Company?
I hadn't thought of that until now that you mention it, but I suppose it's possible.
OMG!!! I remember these segments!!! :)
The Mad Painter wears Converse Chuck Taylors!
I remember when seeing the jeffersons and Mr Bentley..mom that's the painter guy on sesame street lol.......but never knew until 2024 Stockard channing was in some of these shorts too
I just learned that salting a banana is a thing.
I noticed that number 11 is the only one where someone speaks.
And the lovely Stockard Channing!!!!
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I remember this guy from when I was a kid and I just realized it was Mr. Bentley from Jeffersons. Mind blown.
"Next" - I remember that skit !