{"id":121,"date":"2009-11-04T17:51:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T17:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2023-07-14T20:18:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T20:18:05","slug":"trippy-sesame-street-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/misc\/trippy-sesame-street-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Trippy Sesame Street: part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sesame Street was created in the late 60&#8217;s and takes place in a zero-crime urban area where giant birds and talking monsters are normal. Even by those standards, some of the animated segments shown on Sesame Street in those early days are mind-bogglingly trippy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s explore, shall we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lost Boy Remembers His Way Home<\/strong><br>How this kid managed to get lost after biking in a straight line for five minutes is beyond me, but the truly strange thing here is they&#8217;re teaching children that listening to shape-shifting pimps is a good idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sesame Street: Lost Boy Remembers His Way Home\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nqPcQeMEnFc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Geometry of Circles (must by Philip Glass)<\/strong><br>As far as I can tell, there&#8217;s no educational content to this video. The animators got a box of paint, a compass, and a ruler and ate a bunch of shrooms. The music makes the whole thing inexplicably creepy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ch-R1aIM-C0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1 to 20<\/strong><br>Maybe this would seem less crazy in Hindi?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sesame Street - 1to 20\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HOCExQ2lrO4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>My Martian Cutie<\/strong><br>Just trying to wrap one&#8217;s head around this one has been known to induce a hallucinogenic state. Don&#8217;t think about it for too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sesame Street - My Martian Cutie (Number 9)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rOAthOufeIU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Madrigal Alphabet<\/strong><br>I&#8217;ve always found this one strangely hypnotic. Watching this might help you sober up and take a nap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sesame Street - Madrigal Alphabet\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2eLPPxSdwJw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s all for now, bye everyone! (This post was brought to you by the letter E and the number 9.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This is Part 1 in my series on trippy Sesame Street animations. Part 2 is online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/misc\/trippy-sesame-street-part-2\/\">here<\/a>. 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