The Bizarre Search For Cracks: Sesame Street's Lost Nightmarish Short | blameitonjorge
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- Опубліковано 13 гру 2019
- Today we explain one of the most bizarre searches in lost media, the infamous Crack Master short!
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The Bizarre Search For Cracks: Sesame Street's Lost Nightmarish Short | blameitonjorge
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Thanks for watching the video! This is definitely one of the strangest and most famous pieces of lost media I’ve covered on this channel. It’s really needs an entire documentary dedicated to it.
I’ll probably have one more video by the end of 2019. Heading into 2020, lots of changes will be made. The major one being that I will primarily be doing documentaries instead of lists. Maybe an occasional one here and there, especially for the lost media updates videos, but I’m hoping to do mostly documentaries from now on. The topics will be darker (thanks COPPA!) and center around television/movies and online mysteries. I feel a lot more proud of this work rather than the list videos, and I think the majority of you guys like the documentaries more. They certainly garner way more likes.
Anyways, those are my plans. I really hope you guys enjoy this one, and I’ll see you next time!
I love all your documentaries. keep it up 🖤.
blameitonjorge gotta love it
I can't wait I love darker scarier things
Yes
These vids are the reason I love you haha
"I wanna be a Crack Creature!" she cried. "Make me a Crack Creature!" But the Crack Master said nothing, he just kept on cracking
Mysterious _ ngl, he’s just straight cracking.
“He just kept YO-ing”
Lmao
Lol
Mysterious _ watch when this is a real quote from the short video thing but we just don’t know and they’re laughing at us while we think it’s a joke
"So, yeah, a dead end. But he got a pretty bitching drawing of Scooby Doo."
I'd call that a win.
ThatDudeWithBoobs heh heh I just imagined Morgan freeman saying that line
Pretty rad right?
@@obiwankenobi3529 The man. The myth. The legend.
Also dude, your new voice...what?
"I see this as an absolute win"
Yep
Reasons everyone thinks the short was kept hidden:
Weirdness
People thought it was freaky
It's Cursed Footage
If you watch it, you need to pass it on or in 7 days Big Bird will crawl out of your TV set and sing to you
Actual reasons it was kept hidden:
Didn't want to be famous for coining the term Crack Monkey
Lmao
🤣🐒🤣🐒🤣🐒
Or crack monster.
🤣🤣🤣
That’s gotta be it.
I wanted to say “what terrible timing,” but there couldn’t be “good timing” for an addiction epidemic. 😕😔
Besides that the monster ended up being a little too scary for the kids...
🤣🤣🤣
Isn’t it kind of coincidental how she says “we will see the cracks again someday” when the short was lost for a long time and then was found again
*We did get to see the cracks again someday though*
@@Ifarmplasma yes indeed we did
@@evaneibach *(:*
Hello! You appear to have misused the word "IRONIC"! Situational irony points to something unexpected or opposite of what is expected. Verbal irony means saying the opposite of what you mean (E.G. Sarcasm). Dramatic irony means that the audience knows something the characters don't! It's not ironic that what she said came true in its own way, but it's certainly cool!
Well she wasn't wrong
“I called him Crack Master.” I call him my dealer.
🤣
Nice pfp
*_"You're godamn right!"_*
@@lelakurayami3727, Yes, really appealing to the human eye.
@The Amarican man .pls why
"Did you 'crack' the code?"
"No, but we got a pretty bitching picture of scooby doo"
Honestly that's a win in my eyes
Agreed
Combine 12:39 Better than cracking the code
Damn, that's alotta likes... why?
@@orbitaloutcast9878 you made a fun quote I guess. Idk. Any comment can randomly get a ton of likes.
Her voice is beautiful. She seems like such a calm and kind woman, I genuinely love how she sings.
yeah same.
she would be very good at telling stories to little childrens
the album is incredible, give it a listen
@@lucymtork YES PLEASE
@@lucymtorkwhat album
You can genuinely hear the happiness in her voice knowing that there are a group of people honestly interested in the short
“The crack monster” oh that naked guy standing outside of Walmart talking to his shoe
VAMPVHS Nah, it’s just your average, friendly neighborhood drug dealer.
Bro I think I’m that guy.
Nah, the Albertsons in my neighborhood has crack heads galore.
I wasn’t naked I had on a flesh toned thong & it wasn’t my shoe it was a banana
The shoe speaks!
The shoe knows all!!
Edit: Hark! The magical shoe speaks! It says to me, "more people will like this comment!"
The short was nowhere near as creepy as the build-up implied and that's hilarious.
Sometimes something that looks ordinary, bland even, to an adult, can be deeply unsettling or terrifying to a child.
Remember the lost Clockman short?
Turns out it wasn't disturbing as they said!
Dyna Stix123 yeah but that still feels a bit creepy, at least to me even as an adult
When i was a kid those fucking "do not redistribute" screens scared me, it made me feel some sort of isolation ig
@@purplepickle6921 omg same.
"He destroyed himself trying to be mean" i love this
It’s a short about how kids in poverty will amuse themselves on rainy day, but whilst doing so they are listening to the yelling from the other side of the wall. Could be the neighbors or their family. Domestic violence causes cracks & is the Master that destroys itself from trying to be angry.
Then the kid tells their imagination good bye & thanks for the ride. I’m gonna go play outside now. I’ll see you again. Another time when I have to escape the captivity & use the cracks in the walls as friends. Just so I can make since of the reality I live within.
I get it!! Way too much!
Great analysis!!! I didn’t even think of something like that
Noha Thanks. The only reason I was able to make the analysis is because I have been in this situation. You make friends with the wall paper, the cracks, & create a story in your mind that makes since. Eventually you learn to just go play outside in the rain because the acoustics are better. No angry yelling. Just rain drops and pavement.
Sense, not since.
@@why2goatdagame Sense, not since.
Princess Maxine a minuet difference that is essentially unnecessary to explain. Sense vs. since is a mere spelling different. Technically you can’t since anything with out your senses so I don’t bother differing the spelling. It makes more sense 👍
"He destroyed himself trying to be mean." That's actaully really deep
I destroyed myself being mean without even trying
Sounds like the Democratic Party
@@SonofTiamat i mean if you're inbred maybe
Son of Tiamat
y’all gotta bring politics into everything huh
@Crynaotlod you just did
"He destroyed himself trying to be mean" I guess the moral is to not be mean, that and, of course, don't do drugs.
Don't BE Drugs
Drugs can make you mean.
@@tonybalony1811 drugs give chill, stupid people make you mean
" I guess the moral is to not be mean, that and, of course, don't do drugs.
"
One or the other. You can't have both.
Ginger Dog or you’ll BECOME a crack monster 🤣
I remember seeing this, because afterwards i looked for faces and things in the walls. I found a monster in the concrete wall of my basement and refused to go down there alone after that. How bizarre to see it 40 years later.
I could only imagine, i’m only 22 and it’s already surreal to see people discuss things i grew up with like artifacts
@@tiecoonracoon3630 as someone who was born around when the search started, I remember viewing it as a child. Its so weird
@@tiecoonracoon3630 Pretty crazy how vast the void of oblivion is, isn't it? Every day something is being lost and forgotten, many of these things never to be recovered again.
It's a constant struggle of humanity just trying to remember everything we create! Personally I have an old Beyblade Plug & play console from the early 2000s that's now pretty obscure. Who knows what else other people have from just the 2000s that's on the verge of being lost?
Lol what did the monster look like?
I watched it in the late 90s and it definitely made me go and try to find weird shapes on cracks and stains on the walls. It was a conscious thing too like everytime i found a strange shape i remembered this short, pretty crazy.
I really like the Cracks short. I don’t think it’s that disturbing. I think it’s really cool and arty
Same
Agreed.
They mostly took it down because... you know.... *c r a c k*
Same
I could see how the loud increase in the music volume could startle kids but other than thats it's not inherently creepy
"Crack monkey" for sure sounds like a slur
Fun fact: in Spain camel is an euphemism for a drug dealer
Xavier Couoh Why camel? That’s so random 😭😭
clout fiend im guessing that camels can deliver and carry a lot of payload or cargo. So basically a drug dealer if the camel delivered drugs
@@soulsearcher7077 I've heard dealers lackeys be called mules before it's basically the same idea.
She also called him Monkey Crack. Lol
“Crack master” is the final boss of a New York City alleyway.
Gold
*giornos theme starts playing*
I am you but right side up
Crack Master is YOOOOOOOOOUUUU
First and best comment I saw on this vid.
Imagine the shows we watch today that’s going to be someone’s scary lost media content one day lol..
that being said before y’all start freaking out in 2075 Mr Meaty was a real show😭
I miss it!
All God's creatures, fresh off the grill!
Mr meaty is unfortunately easy to find and I wish it was just a fever dream
@@sweetstrawbies55 🤣🤣🤣
That was the first damn show that came to mind. That tapeworm episode was something else
It's crazy to think that a good chunk of lost media is just sitting in a warehouse or archive somewhere, in some cases that could be easily accessed by someone and shared again to the public
“Crack master” I call him master of crack
gat0r-creator I call him a dealer.
@@nicholasfarrell5981 tells me to be safe out there before giving me the stuff
The ladies call me the "crack master" if you know what i mean ;)
my uncle
gat0r-creator 😤😤😤😤
"crack monkey" is the most racist sounding term I've heard come from sesame street.
That's probably why they hid it.
Yeah I saw a couple of reasons to hide it..... not well thought out at all. (On top of traumatizing kids)
Almost died laughing that's fucked
At the time Crack wasn't really a well known term for a drug so it's not like it was intended as a racist term
Not only that, but I think the idea of kids playing with plaster and paint could influence kids to eat or mess with lead paint which is something that was common not too long ago, especially in poor city areas.
Being a child in the 70s and 80s and having watched Sesame Street, i can confirm that Sesame Street during those years had some REALLY weird segments. Many of which i can recall right now after not seeing them for nearly 40 years.
I found a playlist full of them
A lot of TV in general did back then, even the Disney Channel. They used to show the Canadian cartoon The Raccoons (as well as other productions which I only learned years later were also Canadian, like The Edison Twins and Danger Bay), as well as other rather offbeat non-Disney productions like The Phantom Tollbooth, The Point (which was actually inspired by Harry Nilsson having an acid trip), and Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure (best known for a terrifying sequence featuring an amorphous monster made of taffy called The Greedy).
I love how the narrations make a 37 year old man searching desperately for a sesame street clip sound like a loose cannon cop that plays by his own rules.
Hahaha! Wait...I actually love that.
This is probably one of the strangest searches I’ve ever heard
Wait does he heart it if we call the vid disturbing?
It happened to me.
A Day Out With Spongebob honestly sounds more suspicious and disturbing.
How is it disturbing
Go for a punch is more disturbing
How "disturbing"?
The "Crack Master" is definitely a worse name than "Crack Monster".
WeegeeSlayer but they had to rhyme “master” with “plaster”
Maybe the title is something after all, you have a vivid memory you can not recall, relatively abstract, something by the name of Crack Master.
Then this comes from the same peculiar names like *_"Master/Crazy Hand."_*
I’m the 420’th like
WeegeeSlayer 666 likes. Kek
Cookie Monster vs. Crack Monster when?
He destroyed himself trying to be mean!
That's a good message, I was expecting something much worse and scary
"Cracks" isn't as elusive as this video leads one to believe. I just watched it again and as an adult gained a much deeper understanding. It's about finding beauty in poverty. The writers did a wonderful job and this short cartoon.
ya, because they found it, as is said in the video. once you find the thing its not that hard to circulate. beforehand it wasnt possible to view
I'm not sure why you'd assume that a short that has already been found would continue being elusive?
@@HyLion He's not talking about the video itself, he's talking about the meaning behind it being elusive. I think it was pretty obvious myself, but not a lot of people seem to understand what the video was about.
@@ninja_tony it was seen by a bunch of young children, likely only a single time, like 40 years ago.
Of *course* the meaning wasn't obvious to those that remembered it.
@@jaceybella1267 it’s not really that hard to figure out if you take a minute to think about it. I first heard about it from Jorge’s Lost Media Iceberg video and it pretty immediately registered what the theme was just with his vague explanation. Sesame Street usually doesn’t do things purely for entertainment value, and especially not for the sake of being creepy. I think people just want to find things that aren’t there, you see it a lot in this corner of the internet.
This is just like Clockman, the descriptions are way creepier than the actual short haha
I y a n a the actual clock man short has been found???
Pasta Yeah! I thought it would be scary but it was cute, and I'm a person who gets scared fairly easily haha
the shorts too me are really cute lmao
Right!,the person who voices this short honestly sounds similiar to the one who voiced the clockman
Except if you look at literally any freeze frame of him and then i feel like he wants to lure me into his white van
“he destroyed himself trying to be mean”
i love that.
its so mf deep honestly. it really hits home to me. it reminds me of my father. idk why but i almost cried hearing that.
Beauty
The song of the short is super cuute, the woman's voice is super calm and precious
I actually agree
He destroyed himself trying to be mean.
he sure did
Honestly, the part that freaks me out the most was the anonymous person who mailed the DVD.
Yeah
Yeah
His name was Steve and he has a foot fetish.
Exactly, the short itself is a little weird but pretty tame
It doesn't make any sense. Why do it? What did they get out of it, especially after warning people not to show anyone else (although they must have known they would)?
Lost media is the coolest thing. I just love discovering different things that never made it.
Exactly, Jorge is the man when it comes to this stuff
@@cnrsfilmsone thing I like is he doesn't upload constantly, therefore I'm never bored.
Lost media is creepy though.
Incesticide.
Or made it then fell into the void of history to never be seen again.
I lived in poverty as a child. I understand this short. I cried. I always found adventure in random things around me.
As someone who's spent their life on the constant brink of homelessness, I actually quite love this little short. It's relatable - when you're poor enough to live in a house that's falling apart, you often don't have much to keep yourself busy. You let your imagination wander, and you daydream a lot. That's exactly the kind of thing I used to do as a kid, but for me, it was usually water stains on the ceiling rather than cracks in a wall.
"...not suitable for a younger audience."
*The short was made for a younger audience.*
H m m .
I require the source of your profile picture
It's for COPPA
@@williamsmith6921 Yeah COPPA is obnoxious and is continuing to remove the "You" in "UA-cam"
@@williamsmith6921 Jorge has always put that before his videos. I have no idea why, but it adds to his aesthetic.
@@anueutsuho7425
Honestly UA-cam has been doing that for years
Copa was just the final nail
"It was causing mental distress and I don't believe that"
*thinks about it for the next past 30 years*
FedoKing He doesn’t believe the story of how it disappeared. He knows that the “reason” is true.
>next past
🤔
It grew into an obsession with free jazz vocal music. Oh no!
the WORST part of this story is the anonymous fax to his workplace, and the fact that the dvd was dropped personally in his mailbox. this man broke a promise to someone who doxxed him and ill never get over it
he didn't though. someone else did it for him
@@tsm688 Thank you. No, I didn't break any promises.
@@jarmond1 Jon? Is that really you?
@@montyheisenberg36 The one and only
@@jonarmond8270 omg! How have you been doing as of recent? Still in touch with Jennifer Bourne?
Expectation: Horrific, scary, decrepit house with a monster possessing the walls
Reality: "He destroyed himself from being too mean"
The story behind this is insane but the short itself is actually cute
It’s kinda trippy
Sheep
I actually found it it’s not that creepy but the crack monster is scary
Water Park!?
Agreed! It reminds me of when I was a kid, making shapes out of the patterns in wood grains, cracks, granite, tree branches, etc
I find it really sad lol
I think the short is really beautiful and tells a story of life as a child in poverty, and how your imagination can help keep you entertained. The fact that it started out so obscure is what made it so creepy to so many people I think.
I agree completely, I think it's more endearing than scary.
Hunter Jarvis idk but you said that so beautifully and true
also 'he destroyed himself trying to be mean' is an interesting message... i can imagine they tried to take the childrens fear away of their fantasy running wild in their room, in the dark/in cracks/in patterns etc. (you know when you were little and that pile of clothing suddenly looked like a scary monster?) too bad it backfired badly lol
Plus, completely innocent stuff from the 70's now seems creepy just because of the dated animation
Hunter Jarvis i find certain lines scary oops
At the beginning I thought I remembered this short. When the real short played the memories of it snapped back vividly. I was sitting on the living room floor in front of the big console tv with my favorite blanket drinking a glass of milk while my grandmother was crocheting in the rocking chair behind me. I remember being mesmerised by it. Though it didn't scare me. I really liked it. It was one of my favorites.
Man if I had a nickel for every time an old cartoon short about a child being plucked from their bedroom by a strange creature in their wall went missing, I'd have two nickels... which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
The Virgin Squidward's Suicide
The Chad Cracks
The Virgin Clock Man
The Chad Crack Master
Jake P you’ve faced ultra Chad now you must face mega Chad
It’s clear why this short is shrouded in secrecy : it’s too real. It’s about a young girl suffering the misery & desperation of poverty. Her only escape from reality is her imagination. Even though the villian destroys itself from hate, in reality she’s still in that decrepit room. It’s dark as f.
You're absolutely correct. It scared children because of the dim visuals, but it frightens adults because they can draw some rather dark conclusions about the situation being portrayed. However, the short ends with the girl remarking that the rain has stopped outside... that might be a metaphor for better times coming her way. She's able to leave that decrepit room because there is finally light and warmth beyond it, and so her situation isn't one of complete despair. For both children and adults, the final lesson is that there's hope.
phutura2049
You can literally find the clip on UA-cam. I just searched for Sesame Street crack and it was the 3rd result
Mad Maverick I think you’re reading too much into it. The segment strikes me as being about making the best with what you have - even if all you have is a barren room, a child can still have fantastic adventures with nothing but the cracks on the wall.
+phutura2049 Wow,that's just sad,poor girl
I think it's really cute. It's raining outside, if anything this place is her refuge and its just boring, so she made a story about her walls. I did that as a kid all the time. I had this peeling bit of wallpaper in my room and I imagined ripping it all off one day and finding something magical that they covered up with paper. I also had a tree branch that scraped the side of my house, which was objectively unsettling but I got so used to it that it became comforting. I think the creepiest part is that it's so poorly animated
I was expecting something horrific to come to light, but when I saw the short, the narrator’s voice and sweet animation gave me such a warm and nostalgic feeling. It’s a beautiful little short about finding fun and beauty in the ugliness around you. Such a shame that it had to be put away because of its unintended profiling, but I am glad it was found.
Unintended profiling? I heard it had to be put away because of the word 'crack monkey'
@@billblaski9523 Yes. That is the unintended profiling.
"We'll go and see the cracks again someday." Yes... much later than anticipated, but yes. Again we did.
There is something oddly hypnotic about how it's half-spoken and half-sung, with some of the lines rhyming in an odd pattern. I can kinda see why it would stick with people so much, especially if it just disappeared like that
@Caramel Johnson
Same reason Star Wars has lost its mythic magic for many people.
@Caramel Johnson I remember watching the Trapdoor as a kid. Never disappeared but no more or less creepy than Cracks, so I think you're right. I expected something worse with all this kerfuffle.
@@SashyGryphyth damn thats a show I havent heard of in like a decade.
Yeah is it just me or is something a bit Laurie Anderson about her delivery? Kinda...Sharky's Day-ish? I dunno.
CTW was amazing in a time of relative innocence.
“but he got a bitchin’ drawing of scooby doo”
very good
What a pleasant surprise, hi sweetie
:0
@@abyss1315 .....
Hilariously, pretty much what I said at the time when dycaite shared that note on a chat board. I mean, not only did he wind up unearthing a lost Sesame Street cartoon, but he also got original, personalized artwork from someone in the animation industry. Gee, I hope he got it framed.
@@benos1799 What? Is it suddenly illegal to say hi to my baby?
@@abyss1315 ?
That animation artist who sent him a letter brought so much joy to my day I love it I would've framed that and hung it up on my wall omg
Anyways, I think what caused kids to become distressed is the extremely weird, almost amphetaminic pacing combined with near constant speech, causing sensory overstimulation which if they were slightly older would have been reacted to with annoyance, but as small kids - distress
This point honestly why little kid's shows are awful. It's often sensory-overloaded nonsense that the child can't even begin to properly comprehend. Not to say that this specific short is awful on its own, it's just that this stuff shouldn't be experienced if you're too young....and I definitely was.
The crack monster lives at my house, he’s asking me for money
lol
😊
No Crack Monster, no! Crack Monster go away, away, away. No money Crack Monster, no no no! No Crack no blow, no go no show!
@That guy its 8008
Hehe
Ahhh the “crack master” my old high school nickname
Ah yes
My Elementary Nickname was "girl who cries alot" :(
Mine was "stop crying and take it from your uncle, little boy"
@@danton1 in High school? So, like, you were into it?
Mine was Snorlax because I'd fall asleep in class and snore plus I liked Pokémon so yeah
When it comes to Sesame Street's "missing" piece, for me personally, it's of one of those short song segments, the beginning goes _"my friend.. the animal"_ and the video shows children with farm animals, kind of like a petting zoo. Seems like it was made in the late 70s/early 80s, as 1 of the children was wearing that multicolor horizontal striped turtleneck with a semi bellbottom denim. It's a happy song, and unlike the guy who searched for closure of his somewhat "traumatic" experience, I wish to see and hear it again to reconnect with my childhood. Been trying to find it, but to no avail. If anyone has info, it'll be awesome 😙😙
I remember a clip of Elmo's World where Dorothy goes missing so Elmo goes inside this door that they never go into, just usually things come out of. Elmo thought Dorothy might have gone in there. It's all foggy and Elmo warns the viewer that they can't stay for too long or else they'll be trapped. That's all I remember.
@@ElizabethMidfordHatesCops that is horrifying thank you
I know I saw this! All my life (I'm 52) I've been looking for pictures in the "cracks" and now I can remember why!
Sesame street used to be different than it is now, the creators believed in exposing children to very real, sometimes scary situations that was extremely beneficial to my generation's growing up. Instead of protecting kids from the real world they'd scare the crap out of them then explain their feelings, how adults can feel the same way and how to deal with issues. Brilliant! When Mr Hooper died, I was heartbroken. This was I think, their best episode... deep sadness, the finality of death, and the message that life continues on.
That woman's voice is so nice, feels so familiar, as if I'm expecting her to read me a story. I'd like her to read me a story
i agree! and to think it was rehearsed a capella.
Sounds like the singer on “Interjections” from School House Rock
I think she also sings this
ua-cam.com/video/kU7XxcT9zj8/v-deo.html
There’s something sad about her melody.
She vaguely reminds me of Shelly Duvall
"A pretty bitchin drawing of scooby doo" sounds like a quest item
Sounds like something from Kingdom of Loathing.
Well, anything sounds like a quest item when you give it parentheses.
troncrash7 "Yellow Gunk" "Old Newspaper" "A Single Cucumber Slice"
Reminds me of Shag n Scoob and how a picture of Goku was a plot point
I’ve listened to some of the music from Dorothy’s band (The United States of America), and it’s actually pretty good. There’s definitely some quality psychedelic rock tunes from the one album that the band released.
"King of crack" is what our friendly neighborhood crack addict used to call himself
when you always pronounce it "George" because you're illiterate like me
Omg I'm not the only one thank god
uni i know it’s pronounced Hor Hey but my mind always goes to George
gyro sleep gyro sleep
gyro sleepin
what hes dreaming about doe
i read it like "george" because i have a friend named Jorge and we always say his name like "george" because substitute teachers would always pronounce it wrong and it just became his nickname 😂
Imagine sending an untraceable fax to someone, getting a DVD copy of an obscure short from the 70s, going all the way to their house just to deliver it and warning them to never show it to anyone else only to then send it to another person through email
It's likely that it was a different employee that sent it. That's just my theory, though.
Imagine being *A Crack Master*
E L S E W H E R E 😦😧🤯
i feel like the first guy who made the documentary was lying about the circumstances he got it in, i feel like he reached out, got the rejection letter than got emailed it too, then probably burned it to a dvd to make it seem more spooky so he could sell his fucking documentary as some kinda scary spooky mystery, wouldve worked great if the other guy didnt go and ask too, get the same response and video and actually posted it, instead of creating a bullshit contract etc.
@@danielfinley-pesti6661 haha!
I saw this as well. My grandfather saw it with me and became upset that this clip was aired on a children's show. My family decided that Sesame Street was not allowed at my house. I was too young to understand what i saw. To me this clip stood out as a very scary thing that created nightmares.
Thanks for finally setting my mind at ease finally.
Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry you missed out on such a wonderful program. Early Sesame Street was really the best influence on me. It was filled with lessons on being a happy, responsible, loving person.
Why would ur grandpa get upset at this clip? Legit curious
@@billblaski9523 probably cause of the term "crack monkey"
THIS... JUST... I... I'm SHOCKED... I totally forgot this short film, when I saw it I got chills... It was buried in the back of my mind, I can't believe I'm watching this several years later (almost 20+ years). I'm from Mexico, so this was dubbed in Spanish and also, I'm not quite sure if it was on Sesame Street, but instead in a kids' content channel called Canal Once, which used to broadcast the weirdest, nightmarish things I've ever seen, and I recall I used to feel scared of this particular animation and I watched it several, several times, not just once... And watching it again, it is still very creepy. I can't believe I'm seeing it again in the most random possible way ever... Thank you, I guess? It pulled me back to my childhood, no doubt, but I also now understand why I like creepy stuff so much! Haha.
Too late my Dad has owned the name “Crack Master” since the 60s
Oh I’m so sorry 😔
lawsuit time. lol
I can’t tell if that’s a joke or true so I’ll do both responses I had
-lol
-I’m sorry!
Lol
I hope it's because he's a plumber. Or a guy who fixes windshields, or house foundations.
PLEASE READ FOR A SIMPLE EXPLANATION: I went to art school and was friends with Big Bird's son and daughter (twins). They grew up on the Sesame Street set. The crack monster video was removed and put in storage because the makers didn't realize the negative connotations of the language "The Crack Monkey".
Once they realized it. They immediately stopped airing the clip. This was a simple mistake. The people involved immediately regretted and took action to resolve it. The creatives didn't want to destroy it because they don't believe in burning the past, but the lawyers don't want it "out there" because it was such a stupid blunder. The reason the library will "never release" it AND why you didn't get a second response is simply that they are under a gag order, so cannot legally say anything not supplied by the makers of the vid.
Yeah, I thought the names “crack monkey” and “crack camel” were funny because just like they said in the video, now it’s associated with drugs. I realized crack wasn’t really a street name for drugs when the video was aired so it makes sense why they had no problem releasing it when they did. At the same time, I don’t understand why they would make this a short on a children’s show. It was clearly made to be creepy even if there was no story behind it. The animation, the narrator singing/speaking at the same time and then the music in the background. Im 24 right now and the video made me feel uncomfortable I can’t imagine how I would’ve felt if I was 3 years old watching this lol. It just has a super unnerving and uncanny energy.
creepy indeed
sesame street used to have a ton of weird stuff, so this doesnt feel that out there to me. given that the show was originally created to fill educational gaps and appeal to poor, lower-class kids, the idea of a short playing around with cracks in the wall and ultimately deconstructing the idea of a scary monster kids might see in the cracks in the dark makes perfect sense to me.
@Humphrey Hogan my job isn't to enlighten you on why I find a story creepy or not. Why don't you get a life and stop replying to every passing comment you see that doesn't fall in line with your own beliefs. Don't talk to me.
@Humphrey Hogan Why do you think it was a farce?
“It’s weird it was delivered on a Sunday.” As a mailman, I must say that’s cute. I work every Sunday delivering packages and sometimes mail 😂
In what country? I'm just curious, because in the US, the postal service doesn't run on Sundays.
@@ninja_tony in the US. It’s crazy right now. I won’t go into specifics, but I’ve been working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week since the summer
I thought the offices are closed for input, but mail still gets sorted and stuff.
I think maybe it's the state. I live in Ohio, and I know there's no mail on Sundays here.
At the time, it was weird to get mail on Sundays. But same day and special Sunday delivery from Amazon and such was enough to change that
The mystery party who had the copy was probably the Henson estate. A lot of Sam & Friends was lost because of the common practice of wiping old tapes. Jim wasn't happy about it, and probably set about hiring an archivist to prevent his work being lost again. Also explains why they were so secretive about it. I mean if you potentially had access to the entire Henson library, would you be able to restrain yourself?
I actually really like the idea of a young girl making imaginary adventures with cracks in the wall, it's something I feel underprivileged kids could relate too. I totally get why theyd pull it after the Crack Cocaine epidemic though.
Exactly
@xisobelx373 duhhh we gotta play w imaginary crack animals cause our underprivileged mamas couldn't afford to buy us no tv
I like the idea too of using cracks on the wall. I used to do that in school when I was forced to face the wall while standing all day. Except I used the bumps in the paint to draw pictures like stars.
xisobelx373 oh shut up, go be offended somewhere else or cry in your room, no one cares
@@pandaitis0157 we could've watched it at somebody else house 🤷🏽♀️
I guess you could say he took a crack at finding it
Stitch Unicorn ha
Not Funny, Didn’t Laugh
Funny. Laughed
@@ChoomOfDoom ua-cam.com/video/WpLHMHrlDRQ/v-deo.html
Now I have another task for you… I DID see Cracks back in the late eighties or early nineties, but the version I saw was in spanish. I am from Mexico (born 1986) and the Sesame Street we got was adapted for a Mexican audience so the audio was in spanish, not in english. The voice of the woman singing was very similar. Actually the bit that I remember and that is stuck forever in my mind is when they meet the monkey: “Buen día, buen día, que alegre compañía…” This means that someone in Mexico (specifically Televisa, the biggest tv network in Mexico and Latin America) must have a copy of the show with the dubbed audio.
The Spanish version is also on UA-cam, my mom says she also saw it but she isn’t sure if she saw it in Mexico or in the States. She insisted she saw it with me as a kid around 2005 to 2009 on pds kids/ reading rainbows in English but talking to her now she says she might have seen it in Spanish in Mexico but in the early 2000’s. Do you know if it was regularly shown around that time in Mexico?
Here you go: ua-cam.com/video/vSqDV4h-prY/v-deo.html
That voice actress is so sweet, I love how not only did she sound so personable to the stranger calling her but also dove headfirst in to the mystery herself with such enthusiasm.
why does dorothy sound so humbling
like a mother reading stories to her younglings
I wouldn't be surprised, her voice is gorgeous.
"Grandma! Grandma!"
"Yes, darling?"
"You got famous online!"
"Oh yeah, you heard about that?
"Yes! Oh, also apparently you were on Sesame Street?"
"Yep, I did one of the skits."
"Can you tell me that story again Granny?"
"Sure, sit down right next to me."
And so that night was filled with warmth, singing and laughing.
I like how that animator hand wrote a personal letter to the guy thats so nice lol
Born 1972. As I was watching this, I thought, hmm, sounds slightly familiar. But when the actual short started playing and the crack camel gets "fleshed out" so to speak, it came back to me. It's weird and powerful feeling when you're nearly 50 and something as simple as random cracks taking the form of a camel suddenly floods you mind with things you haven't thought about since you were in single digits. Almost like memories that aren't actually yours, but at the same time, definitely are.
I THOUGHT the name "Dorothy Moskowitz" sounded familiar! Her old band, The United States of America, was what you'd get if The Velvet Underground were L.A. acidheads instead of NYC speedballers. Very much ahead of their time in their sound. Thanks for posting this video.
“So yeah, a dead end. But he got a pretty bitching drawing of scooby doo.”
I love when people use "bitching" in that manner, we should bring that back.
The last time I was this early Bert and Ernie were “just friends”.
Let’s be honest, they were never just friends 😂
A. L. Michael yes! But they officially came out in like 2016/17 on Times magazine.
Lost I’m pretty sure they’re blood brothers who just live together
@Ben Meszaros Nah man look it up, theyre dating
I was today years old when I found out Bert and Ernie weren’t “just friends”.
Honestly, I personally think the Cracks short was very charming in a way. It had a unique idea for a short story, and the woman's voice was very relaxing!
“Said the Camel Crack, ‘Climb upon my back.’” As a young girl in the 1970s, I loved Sesame Street so much. As the video began, I was unsure if I’d seen the cartoon. Hearing that line, I felt chills, the chills you feel when you connect with a lovely piece of music. Thank you for reminding me of the all too brief innocence of childhood.
"A cartroon about a home with broken walls could have been seen as insensitive."
I disagree. The cartoon would have told kids that a cracked wall was common & nothing to be embarrassed about. (You should see what the foundation settling did to my wall in the office).
I also thought it was something kids could relate to; they probably saw shapes in the patterns of cracks on the walls all the time. I remember seeing monsters and faces in the wood grain of the kitchen cabinets at a house I lived in when I was little...to know other people saw them too would have been comforting.
PeanutButterZombie00 Yeah, when I was younger I would see faces and figures in textures like on carpets and tables and stuff. I think I still do sometimes.
Also, Sesame Street was originally targeted for children in low-income, inner-city homes. That's probably what a lot of those kids' houses looked like.
I use to see a seahorse and a boot in the pieces of ceiling that fell off in the bathroom and as more fell off I'd create more things.
@@PeanutButterZombie00 pareidolia turning shapes into faces its something our brain automatically does. I always saw stuff in the wood grain the bathroom door too when I was a kid.
This is almost like a sequel to The Search for Clockman.
Yeah wonder what's next
The Search for Crackman
I can tell
The DLC for this lost media searching game
cody CRACKMAN I CAN’T😂😂
I didn't start watching Sesame Street until the early 1980s, when my daughter was born - but I had a similar relationship with a video clip decades earlier, when I was 10.
Middle of the day, I'm sitting on the living room floor (I think). The TV is on, but I'm not really watching - maybe my mom's watching her soaps. Then there's a station break - strange, ominous music makes me look up at the set - a shock montage of frightening, twisted, distorted, near-human faces - so terrifying I couldn't look, so mesmerizing I couldn't look away. Then a man's voice: "This week, on the Twilight Zone"...
What I'd seen, of course, was a promo for the TZone episode "Eye of the Beholder", first aired on November 11, 1960 - but I wouldn't learn that until years later. It wouldn't see the episode until I was 15 and the show in syndication - and even then, at that age, the climactic scene towards the end was like an electric shock, even though I knew it was coming. I've got the boxed DVD set of the entire series, and have long made peace with that episode - but man, those faces stayed with me a long time.
"he destroyed himself trying to be mean"
Crack master dies,
All the other cracks: they went to bed knowing all is well
Epic
Surprisingly, Sesame Street does have creepy moments. There was this one episode involving a witch or something, and it got banned for being " too scary for children ". There was another moment where this rubber band face was showing kids how to count to 10, seems normal enough, but the appearance of the face was so unsettling for some reason.
I think the creatures name was Nobody
@@sagehodgens8497 You are completely right. The video is UA-cam.
Harrison Dye count to 10 with nobody
@Rachel M Nothing was scarier as a kid than Heffalumps and Woozles was.
@Harrison Dye unsurprisingly
I remember seeing this as a child but hadn't thought about it since then. Funny it had such an effect on so many
Thank you for reminding me! I remember this. I wasn't afraid of it. I didn't notice that she was poor or nappy because on Sesame Street there was no judgment. Thank God for Sesame Street! It broadened my horizons and showed me the world
Sesame Street has already HAD a character to teach about addiction...Cookie Monster
Andy Belt true😂
The actual sketch was kinda beautiful. I loved when kids shows used to challenge me. This gave me Courage the Cowardly dog vibes
Remember, being mean will be your downfall
It's art.
Cool. Mystery solved. Another mystery reveals it's self- a mysterious woman with an odd "vaguely Hippy-ish" name who resembled a living blouse! Now what new Slenderman kinda freakishness is this I have to wonder???
I didn’t find this scary at all even as a child.. I actually remember it. I found the Bert and Ernie in a Tutankhamen pyramid seen absolutely terrifying though.
This is so bizarre and dramatic, it’s like an IRL candle cove.
It's not creepy.
What’s a candle cove
Rebel Trooper Hoth hands down the best of the classic creepypastas. google it, it’s not a very long read and pretty good.
this wasnt creepy it had a good moral. being mean for no reason will distroy you
THAT LADY’S VOICE IS SO CALMING 🥺
blameitonjorge's voice can make any story creepy and perfect to watch
Not really on topic, but Dorothy seems nice, like someone who'd read to young children in a library.
You oughta check out The United States of America. Only made one record in '68, one of the first rock bands to make electronics a core component of their sound. As mentioned, she was in the group.
Exactly what I thought seems like a really freaking sweet person
to be honest, it was actually beautiful to me. the part that hit most was, "we'll see the cracks again one day", as if they knew that these kids that saw it back in the day would search until they finally saw it again one day.
With all the mystery surrounding it, it sounds like that might have been the intention even. Like some kind of ritual (whether actually 'magic' or just one that worked because of the mystery) to bring the people who saw it together for whatever reason.
When Dycaite joins the search you know it’s getting serious