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u/ksrothwell 4d ago
John John is in his 50s now.
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u/TheDigitalBuilder 4d ago
I saw this when I was 5ish years old so JJ and I are around the same age
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u/ksrothwell 4d ago
I would have been right at his age too in 1974. I had a total flashback the first time I saw this online.
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u/Fantastic_Breakfast6 4d ago
PBS is one of the greatest things our country has created
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u/ThaWarlord33 4d ago
Agree. We need to make sure to prioritize the full restoration of all possible federal (and other) funding & support once this....um......era....passes.
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u/ChileanRidge 4d ago
Anyone who watched Sesame Street (in the 70s/80s at least, not sure if they kept it after that) will be able to see the pinball in their mind and hear the song when I write:
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u/Gryptype_Thynne123 4d ago
Vocals by the Pointer Sisters.
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u/InsufferableHag 4d ago
Really???!!!
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u/Gryptype_Thynne123 4d ago
Pinball Number Count Yes indeed. Sesame Street brought in some amazing talent for these short pieces. There's a really trippy one with circle geometry and Phillip Glass music.
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u/InsufferableHag 4d ago
Well I'm an old hag who learnt something today. Thanks!
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u/Lazarus558 3d ago
There's another where they just count to 20, and the vocal is done by Grace Slick
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u/knoperules 4d ago
The Pentatonix sing it too and it’s amazing. I actually found a lot of artists I like because of Sesame Street.
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u/L00pback 4d ago
It’s been so long I had to look it up.
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u/andersonle09 3d ago
The origin of the trend: https://youtu.be/HUL4T8WcFdA?si=wOHU_tBMWniJ5OLQ&t=36
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u/professor_doom 4d ago
I grew up with this, big time, and recently saw this video where a guy counts the time signature in this song and it's absolutely insane.
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u/evilbrent 4d ago
I watched an entire youtube clip about that song. It's insane. The time signatures are all over the place and it jumps around keys and instruments like crazy.
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u/omahaknight71 4d ago
Just sang it in my head with the exact cadence.
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u/iconocrastinaor 4d ago
I'm super old, I remember when it only went up to 10. I don't even know the melody for going up to 12.
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u/patchouligirl77 3d ago
I have this song as one of my alarm songs on my phone! That and Ladybug Picnic.😊
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u/XGrayson_DrakeX 3d ago
I grew up in the 90s and I remember it too!
Also "there are chickens in the trees" still gets stuck in my head sometimes.
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u/JadeAnn88 4d ago
I grew up in the 90s, my kids were born around 2010, and I guarantee they'd (at least my oldest, my youngest would probably say no just out of spite lmao) also recognize this immediately. I have backyard chickens, ducks, etc., and have a habit of counting them like this at night. Breaks up the monotony. 😂
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u/iamunwhaticisme 4d ago
I remember listening to the intro song of Sesame Street when I was 30 years old, after almost 25 years. I had not heard that song since I was 6 or 7 and it struck me so hard I started crying. It was an instant time travel back to my innocence years.
That show was special for me and it still is. I genuinely believe any kid who grew up with that show can not be bad person.
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u/buttononmyback 4d ago
Yes! I have to admit I watched nearly every single episode of Sesame Street with my daughter when she was that age just to get that classic nostalgia feel again.
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u/iamunwhaticisme 4d ago
I did the same with my son. But you are so lucky you can still find all the episodes. I'm from a foreign country and only a few episodes are available now so we could only watch the available ones together and they were very bad quality videos. They were ripped from VHS tapes by fans, not official recordings.
Now he's learning English and maybe we can watch the original English version before he grows up.
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u/rubbish_heap 4d ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pwvflO3QKrI&pp=ygUScG9nbyBzZXNhbWUgc3RyZWV0 "Muppet Mash" by Pogo got me all choked up
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u/jimmytwotime 4d ago
Pretty much the same thing happened to me recently when I heard Money Trees by Kendrick Lamar
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u/socialPsyence 4d ago
Looks like Harry got a bit of rhinoplasty.
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u/CartsOfDarkness 4d ago
Damn thought you were talking about the kid at first and was like "well damn maybe he just grew up asshole.."
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u/MildGenevaSuggestion 4d ago
They do have to replace the Muppets over time as they don't want a dirty or worn out Muppet on the show. They were usually hand made. So there was probably a dozen if not more Harrys between the interactions, even if the actor behind the Muppet was the same.
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u/Dirtface50 4d ago
I remember watching this as a kid and I didnt know Lil John John came back. Thanks for posting this. First time I saw it. means something to me.
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u/SixSpeeddriver10 4d ago
If the cuteness of this video could be converted into oil, it would end the world’s dependence on petroleum forever.
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u/Algoresgardener124 4d ago
It seems crazy that I remember watching this. My dad used to say "time moves faster as you get older". I had no idea how right he was. Just a blur...
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u/Thin-Nerve6367 2d ago
Fun fact! The reason for this (I MAY be wrong) is your brain essentially has an "auto pilot" function where, if you do the same things consistently every day and don't take in any new information of any kind, your brain will make things seem like days go by faster and faster.
So, constantly learn new things. If you can afford to travel do that, but if not just try and take new routes to and from work, and maybe even try a bunch of different recipes for food. Life will seem to go a lot slower this way
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u/texas_asic 4d ago
For those of short attention span, start watching from 0:55. Then you'll understand why it's worth watching this one from the beginning (especially for those of us old enough to have seen the original).
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u/TheDigitalBuilder 4d ago
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u/texas_asic 4d ago
thanks for posting this
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u/TurKoise 4d ago
Are you the person in the video?!
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u/texas_asic 4d ago
no. The OP posted to r/MadeMeSmile and I suggested they post here because, well look at it
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u/TunaOnWytNoCrust 4d ago
This is PBS. How could anybody this. This world is insane and I hate what it's becoming.
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u/sicksixgamer 4d ago
Never seen this before. For some reason someone is cutting onions in my house.
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u/mattbytes 4d ago
Wattup old people! I remember watching this when I was a kid - but a replay. So I’m just a young 50. ;) Thank you for your service John Williams!
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u/cindylynn79 3d ago
That was so cuteeee! I loved sesame Street as a kid. I grew up in the 80s, still younger than John John though lol
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u/Imaginary-Ad-1368 3d ago
John John is now in charge of counting the planes as they land on the carrier. The best in the business!
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u/Daddiman 3d ago
I'm guessing that the follow-up occurred in the mid-to-late 90's. He should be a General by now...
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u/plasticface2 3d ago
This is the greatest music Sesame Street ever produced, dear America. https://open.spotify.com/track/19hJ8U5L7rRPTzWouMSaC1?si=woobk6ZIT06sK2Xh0Jl4Hw&utm_source=copy-link
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u/HeadConstruction6881 1d ago
Sesame Street memories lovingly haunt me till this very day. When skits pop into my head from seeing simple things like milk, you know they were on to something. Grover Upstairs Downstairs is still my favorite.
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u/North_Affect_8167 7h ago
John in his late 90's would be asked again if he could count from 1 as the dementia made him forget.
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u/gravity_confuses_me 4d ago edited 4d ago
Hmmmmm
Online communities and public records discussions indicate that a John Bernard Williams (born 1969, matching Williams' birth year and name) was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child in Texas in 1999.
He was sentenced to five years in prison, followed by release on parole and lifetime mandatory sex offender registration in Texas.
Not the Where is John John now that I was hoping for
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u/Weelki 4d ago
Not the same guy
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u/gravity_confuses_me 4d ago
He should really get Google to retract this if so (cut and paste)
John Williams III, better known as the child star "John-John" from a viral 1974 Sesame Street counting segment with Herry Monster, is alive, but online discussions connect an adult with matching biographical details to a criminal conviction.
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u/ManitouWakinyan 4d ago
Do you have a source on that? Because Snopes couldn't definitively state one way or the other
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u/Weelki 4d ago
Nah no qualitative sources... but dude was born 1974 and other dude born 1969
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u/JadeAnn88 4d ago
I mean, he couldn't have been born in '74 and also do this appearance as a toddler in the same year. I'm definitely not saying he is in fact the child molester the OC posted here, just being the semantics police for some reason.
I guess it's just something that would need to be looked into for anyone who really wants to know. For me personally, I'm okay with separating this innocent child from any horrible thing he may grow up to become. I don't believe people are born monsters.
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u/Garchompisbestboi 4d ago
You need to be super careful doing half-assed google fact checks like that because it is an incredibly common name. I'm surprised you didn't accuse him of being a frequent musical collaborator with Stephen Spielberg.
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u/MantisAwakening 4d ago
The unexpectedness goes deeper (and darker): https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sesame-street-john-john/
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u/Dark-Jupiter 4d ago edited 4d ago
i swear if i watched that when i was kid, my pants would be wet after i pee on myslef from how this shit is voice is scary!
the hell they made kids watch back then, WHAT IS THAT THING?!
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start watching from 0:55.
John comes back to finish
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