Video: Red Ball roller-coaster from Sesame Street

I was always so jealous of that little girl. I loved Maraschino cherries as a kid.

1. [guy_jin]

   this is one of my favorite ever sesame street clips. But the pinball counting to 12 with the pointer sisters is the best.

2. [Joel Johnson]

   Guy_Jin: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=h-YcBVEnLT8

3. [strider_mt2k]

   Beloved clips of my youth.

   All good, the red ball, the pinball…all of it.
   

4. [usonia]

   This is what I love youtube for. This and teh counting one that always ended with the guy falling down the stairs with dessert.

5. [styrofoam]

   I totally forgot about the ending to this, but as soon as I saw them roll out, I had instant recall of that girl scooping the cherry out. She was a lucky lady.

   I love the pinball more than the next guy, but I apparently didn’t realize how spastic the counting was. As an adult, it makes my head hurt, trying to follow the rhyme and reason behind the ordering of the numbers there.

   Four! Two! Nine! Eleven! I don’t see groupings of objects or anything that would suggest the numbers that are being counted. This is probably the reason this doesn’t show up on Sesame street anymore. Kids think it’s awesome, but it doesn’t work so well for the adults trying to overthink the educational value.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wxHeWaXa_I&feature=related

   There’s TEN… CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKES!

   Keep searching for Baker #X and you should find most of them.

6. [guy_jin]

   @2: have it bookmarked already

7. [zuzu]

   Back when Sesame Street was awesome, before all that Elmo crap.

8. [folkclarinet]

   I always (and still do) wanted one of those roller coaster thingys. The tactile nature of the cone-shaped ball-receivers always makes me happy.

9. [Banksynergy]

   “…as a kid.”

   You mean, until you learned about where Carmine comes from? =P Admittedly, I *think* the norm is to use FD&C Red 40 these days.

10. [Chris L]

    This is the one I remember, but apparently the little girl and the cherries was not the original ending.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewalHF0T0GY

11. [guvnor]

    I remember the ground-up ball version as well, and distinctly remember being freaked out by it.

    Old School Sesame Street was educational *and* rocket-grade nightmare fuel all rolled into one!

12. [snax]

    It’s so weird…I can’t remember thinking of this clip as an adult, but as soon as it started playing, it all came back to me.

    memories are weird…

13. [J France]

    11: Seasame Street introduced me to psychadelic…anything.

    And i don’t remember cherry girl…. I thought the ball got ground up or smashed?

14. [Stevezilla]

    This was always one of my favorite Sesame Street segments, but I remember the ball being ground up. It never disturbed me, I thought it was delicious, delicious Tang. Mmmm. The beginning of the ‘Falling Baker’ counting segments actually gave me nightmares of numbers flying at me… (yes, just like Bender).

15. [devophill]

    Three things-

    1) The falling Baker was Jim Henson!

    2) Those cherries don’t look like they have any artificial color in them; they just look like Bings to me. No carmine!

    3) The whole “transformation of a rubber ball into something edible” (or whatever that powder was meant to be) disturbed me also.

    Three! Three things! Ah! Ah! Ah!

16. [Gev]

    “Back when Sesame Street was awesome, before all that Elmo crap.”

    This.

    It’s interesting that the DVD sets of the Sesame Street I grew up with comes with a notice that it’s not appropriate for children and that it’s merely for nostalgia purposes.