The "S" is for savage. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the wildest things either done by or done to “Sesame Street” characters.
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00:00Hey, Ronald. This is Ronald Grump.
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:06And today we're counting down our picks for the wildest things either done by or done to Sesame Street characters.
00:13["Sesame Street Theme Song"]
00:18And go.
00:20Number 20, keeping Big Bird quiet.
00:23As Luis and Maria finally tie the knot, guests begin to celebrate.
00:27That includes Big Bird.
00:29However, his cheering is a bit loud, so Gina forcibly clamps his beak shut.
00:34I now pronounce you husband and wife.
00:38Yay!
00:39It doesn't help Big Bird that everyone else in the room is quiet.
00:42Weddings are a place for love and celebration, not unruly interruptions.
00:46Though it is a short scene, it quickly establishes how much of a boss Gina can be.
00:51In the end, nothing is going to stop her from making sure that Luis and Maria have the perfect wedding.
00:56Hopefully Big Bird learned his lesson.
00:58["I Wanna Be Near to You"]
01:05Number 19, Alan suggests sending the Cookie Monster to Canada.
01:09Preparing for an important gathering of cookie connoisseurs,
01:12things take a turn for Alan and Chris when Cookie Monster comes by.
01:15Alan jokingly suggests that Chris should take Cookie Monster to Canada to keep him occupied.
01:20Chris, why don't you take Cookie and go to a bakery or maybe Canada and buy him a couple of dozen cookies?
01:29It'd be understandable that he'd want to make sure he stays far away from his event,
01:33but that joke is still a bit extreme, don't you think?
01:36Of course, Cookie Monster doesn't actually get boarded off to Canada,
01:39but just imagine if he did.
01:41Suffice it to say, it's a long way from Sesame Street.
01:44You know, if you need help controlling yourself, be pretty good at it.
01:49Number 18, Kermit gets beat up by the letter W.
01:52Kermit's various attempts at providing an educational lesson prove to be a disaster in this scene.
01:57And you need a W to make such words as wash and woman and weeping willow and uh...
02:05When talking about the letter W, Cookie Monster starts eating the prop.
02:09While that's a savage moment on its own, that's not the real kicker.
02:12The even crazier thing is that afterwards, the letter comes to life and begins to attack Kermit.
02:18Uh, listen, oh, we couldn't spell watch it.
02:21Without, without the letter W, we couldn't spell wrestle.
02:24You have not truly lived until you've seen a letter of the alphabet pick a fight with one of the Muppets and win.
02:30It's just so utterly bizarre yet equally epic that we can't look away.
02:35Though this is ultimately about the letter W, it's also about L,
02:39because that's what Kermit takes with this beating.
02:41Number 17, Big Bird's sarcastic attitude.
02:45Oh hi, boy am I glad to see you because no one seems to be paying any attention to me today.
02:51Big Bird might be a pretty popular Sesame Street character, but you wouldn't know it just from the scene.
02:56He tries to make conversation with several people, but they all end up having to leave for various reasons.
03:01Repeatedly being left high and dry quickly starts to piss him off, so he begins to comedically rant.
03:08You are about to hear the loudest, angriest bird you have ever heard.
03:17Big Bird, we hate to break it to you, but you can't always be the center of attention.
03:21Maybe they should call Big Bird Big Diva instead.
03:24Regardless, it's definitely hilarious to watch his whining unfold.
03:28Let this be a lesson to always be patient and not overbearing.
03:32Number 16, Elmo's gonna sue.
03:35Remember kids, you're never too young to take legal action against someone.
03:39This won't be the last time we mention Elmo's 2008 appearance on Australian talk show Rove,
03:44since it really was that memorable.
03:46In the moment we've picked for this spot, he accidentally gets punched in the arm.
03:50Pretending to be severely hurt, Elmo then makes a pretty serious threat.
03:55Well, perhaps it wasn't serious.
03:57Yeah, Elmo has like a delayed reaction.
04:00Oh my god.
04:05Elmo's gonna sue.
04:08All kinds of shenanigans occur throughout the interview, but few are topping this one.
04:13He might be the childlike and innocent poster boy for Sesame Street,
04:16but he can also be a ruthless manipulator out to make a quick buck and destroy lives.
04:20Okay, maybe that's a little bit of an exaggeration, but still, do not mess with Elmo.
04:25We're not done with him for the rest of the night.
04:26Not just yet, Elmo!
04:36While hanging out on the beach,
04:37Ernie tries to show Bert the impressive hole he's dug in the sand.
04:41But to his shock, Bert's nowhere to be seen.
04:43Sherlock Hemlock here, the world's greatest detective.
04:47What seems to be the trouble?
04:49Oh, my friend Bert is lost.
04:51Lost?
04:52Yes.
04:52With the help of Sherlock Hemlock,
04:54he learns that his digging accidentally caused Bert to get buried alive underneath a pile of sand.
04:59Though he rescues him, he inadvertently buries Sherlock in sand too.
05:02Like, seriously?
05:04This is reckless behavior.
05:11Maybe burying Bert was a mistake, but also burying Sherlock?
05:14Come on, Ernie.
05:15You gotta be more mindful of your surroundings.
05:20Come on, Elmo.
05:21Don't you wanna play?
05:24What are you doing?
05:25Elmo!
05:26In this unaired hot and cold parody, Elmo plays fast and loose with Katy Perry's heart.
05:31Well, at least that's how it looks.
05:33Perry thinks that Elmo has bailed on their playdate.
05:35The famous pop singer begins to chase Elmo down frantically while singing.
05:40Even though it's revealed that he was just trying to play tag,
05:42his seemingly ditching the clingy singer like she's a scorned ex-girlfriend is hilarious.
05:54How many other Sesame Street characters can say that they had a celebrity fawning over them?
05:58Even if there are a few others, none are as entertaining as this.
06:02Perry is downright obsessed with finding Elmo,
06:05and it makes the entire parody instantly iconic.
06:08And perhaps even a little creepy too.
06:10Boundaries, Katy Perry.
06:12Boundaries.
06:13Number 13.
06:14Not helping with groceries.
06:22When you see someone struggling to carry their groceries,
06:24it makes sense to try to help them out.
06:26Basic social etiquette is a foreign concept to Ernie.
06:29After Bert asks him for help with the groceries, Ernie shrugs him off.
06:33He claims to be doing other stuff, but we have trouble seeing the validity in those excuses.
06:44This behavior isn't just savage, it's downright mean.
06:50It's moments like these where Ernie's condescending nature comes into play
06:53that we wonder why Bert puts up with him.
06:55You can do better, dude.
06:57Number 12.
06:58Elmo gets attacked by Larry David.
07:00While simply minding his own business on the Today Show,
07:03fellow guest Larry David makes the bold decision to attack the Muppet.
07:14It doesn't just shock Elmo, the various hosts and all of America,
07:19but also Elmo's own father.
07:20It's quite the moment of savagery and a terrifying experience
07:24that will probably take years for Elmo to recover from.
07:26It's also a bizarre plot from Larry David's show
07:29Curb Your Enthusiasm playing out in real life.
07:32Look, maybe Elmo's not everyone's cup of tea,
07:34but the moral of this story is that violence is not the answer.
07:43Thank you, Larry.
07:44That's very big of you.
07:45Elmo accepts your apology, Larry.
07:47Number 11.
07:48Oscar the Grouch puts a bus stop sign in Kermit's living room.
07:51If you ever want to completely derail someone's life,
07:54just do what Oscar did in this sketch.
07:56Legs, this is your lucky day.
07:58What?
07:58Because we're going to put a new bus stop sign right here in your living room.
08:02As part of the Department of Grouch Transportation,
08:04he takes his job pretty seriously.
08:07As such, he gets a bus stop sign placed inside Kermit's living room.
08:11It goes about as well as you would expect,
08:13with multiple other grouches finding themselves in Kermit's home.
08:16Don't get us wrong, the scene is pretty freaking funny,
08:19but also totally deranged.
08:21Uh, is this the bus stop?
08:22No.
08:23No, it is not the bus stop.
08:24It sure is.
08:25Look, can't you read the sign?
08:26Let's see, bus stop.
08:28Public transportation is definitely important,
08:30but in what way is this a convenient place for a bus stop for anyone?
08:35Plus, do they even know how hard it's going to be
08:37for Kermit to get tire marks out of his rug?
08:40This is just a disaster waiting to happen.
08:42Number 10.
08:43Cookie Monster pushes Kermit over the edge.
08:46Cookie Monster has a hard time making friends sometimes,
08:49thanks to his addiction to cookies.
08:51In this season one episode,
08:52Kermit's lesson on happiness quickly takes a turn when Cookie Monster arrives
08:57and proceeds to eat his visual display,
09:00which unfortunately resembles a large cookie.
09:02Now let's talk about some of the things that might make you feel happy.
09:06Now that is not the kind of thing that makes you feel happy.
09:10Kermit then changes his topic to anger,
09:13and goes on a tirade of insults,
09:15calling him a stupid rotten monster among other things.
09:18You think I'm stupid rotten monster?
09:21You make me so mad I don't believe it.
09:23You are without a doubt one of the nastiest monsters I've ever seen.
09:26The real sting comes when the frog says he'll tell everyone how rotten Cookie is,
09:30and that no one will want to play with him.
09:33Nobody's gonna ever play with you anymore.
09:34Nobody's gonna even talk to you anymore.
09:36Ouch Kermit.
09:37Number nine,
09:38Oscar's rude cell phone lesson.
09:41In this episode,
09:42Oscar shows us his new device,
09:44a cellular phone.
09:45Cellular means that you don't have to have any wires to it,
09:48so you can use it anywhere.
09:50Remember it's the 90s,
09:51so don't expect an iPhone.
09:53In the guise of testing out the phone,
09:55Oscar calls Hooper's store repeatedly,
09:57interrupting Gina's work every time.
10:00It's me, Oscar.
10:02Just got a cellular phone and I wanted to see if it works.
10:06Well, I can hear you, Oscar,
10:08so I guess it does.
10:09On the third call,
10:11Gina tells him not to call as she's busy.
10:13Still checking.
10:15Oscar, your phone works, okay?
10:17So stop calling me.
10:18I am very busy.
10:18I'm doing a lot of dishes, okay?
10:20The store's owner, Mr. Hanford,
10:22comes by and asks to use the phone to call his store.
10:25I just want to call Gina in the store.
10:27Oh, did you say you wanted to call Gina in the store?
10:29Yes.
10:30Well, why didn't you say so?
10:32Oscar gladly hands it over,
10:34and Gina picks up the phone and is rude,
10:36thinking it's Oscar again.
10:38If you do not stop calling me.
10:41Gina?
10:43Mr. Hanford?
10:45Gina, are you always this grouchy
10:47when you answer the phone in my store?
10:50No.
10:51No, Mr. Hanford, I'm not.
10:52Oscar is delighted at his mischief once again.
10:55Who hurt you, Oscar?
10:57Why did you have me do that when you knew?
10:59Well, what are you talking about, Hanford?
11:02It was your idea.
11:04Number 8.
11:04Elmo's Got Two Minutes
11:06Elmo is a popular little red monster
11:09and has made quite a few appearances on talk shows.
11:12He appeared a couple of times
11:13on the Australian talk show, Rove,
11:15and on these visits,
11:16Elmo was a little more candid.
11:18Elmo's going to swim with the dolphins.
11:21Really?
11:21Where are you going to be doing that?
11:23Oh, Elmo has no idea.
11:24At one point in the previously mentioned 2008 interview,
11:27Elmo misunderstands a cue from a producer
11:30and thinks he had only two minutes left on the show.
11:32What do we got, two minutes?
11:34We got two minutes?
11:36Did she say two minutes?
11:37No, we've been talking for two minutes.
11:38Elmo came this far and he gets two minutes?
11:41Now, Elmo knows how important he is
11:43and calls out Rove for only granting him two minutes
11:46when he came so far.
11:48Do you know how much it costs to fly, though?
11:52He asks Rove if he's aware of the cost of travel
11:55or the cost of fuel.
11:57Elmo turns on the tude and we're behind him.
12:00You know how much petrol costs?
12:06It doesn't pay to throw a fit
12:08and Big Bird finds out the hard way
12:11in this clip from Sesame Street.
12:12Well, I guess Big Bird really let it all out that time.
12:18When Granny Bird cancels a visit,
12:20Big Bird goes from sad to angry
12:22and grumbles a bunch of nonsense in his frustration.
12:26Bob does his best to help,
12:27but nothing can console the bird.
12:30When Granny actually does show up,
12:32Big Bird is behind a wall still grumbling.
12:35She's right here waiting for you.
12:36Come on out.
12:37No, I'm still angry at her.
12:43When informed that she has arrived,
12:45he refuses to come out as he is still angry.
12:48So Granny Bird just leaves.
12:50Oh, I guess there's only one thing for me to do.
12:54Bye-bye.
12:56Big Bird finally emerges,
12:58only to get even angrier that she's gone.
13:00Granny ain't putting up with no sass, Big Bird.
13:02I thought you said she was here.
13:04Well, she was here, Big Bird, but she left.
13:08She left?
13:10She left?
13:14Oh, wow.
13:17Don't worry.
13:18It turns out well in the end, of course.
13:23In recent years,
13:24parodies of Donald Trump have been a dime a dozen.
13:28However,
13:28did you know that Sesame Street was throwing shade
13:31in the business mogul's direction long before anyone else?
13:34In 1988,
13:36the show aired an episode in which they introduced
13:38a crooked little Muppet known as Ronald Grump.
13:41This here is a picture of a building made of trash cans.
13:45I call it Grump Tower.
13:48Grump convinces Oscar the Grouch to give up his area
13:51in order to build Grump Tower,
13:52a Grouch apartment building.
13:54You get one can upstairs and one can downstairs.
13:58It's a duplex candominium.
14:01Amid the protests of other inhabitants of the street,
14:04Ronald builds his tower.
14:06Oscar regrets his decision,
14:08and Grump tries to charge him an exorbitant sum
14:11for the return of his area.
14:12I'll move my cans out of here and you can have your old can back.
14:16Oh, yeah, you will.
14:17Yeah.
14:18Yeah, but you gotta pay me 40 bags of trash.
14:22We see what you did there, Sesame Street.
14:24But that's all the trash I got in the world.
14:26It's my trash savings.
14:30Number 5.
14:31Grangetta eggs them on.
14:33Gordon and Susan argue over the dishes.
14:36Oscar isn't the only Grouch on the block.
14:38In fact, he has a girlfriend named Grangetta.
14:41She's just as pleasant as he is, of course.
14:43In a 1984 episode,
14:45Grangetta was invited to dinner at Gordon and Susan's house.
14:49Following the meal,
14:50the couple gets into a bit of an argument
14:52over whose turn it is to do the dishes.
14:54I don't think it's my turn to wash the dishes.
14:56I think it's your turn to wash the dishes.
14:58Oh, no, no, I'm pretty sure I washed them yesterday.
15:02Grangetta loves negativity
15:04and actually cheers them on to continue the argument.
15:07If you're not washing the dishes, guess what?
15:10They're not gonna get washed.
15:11Woo!
15:12Oh, you guys are great!
15:14Keep it up!
15:14Keep going!
15:15She then imagines the fight carrying on for years
15:18as the dishes pile up and the argument gets very heated.
15:21If you don't wash these dishes,
15:24they won't get washed for 18 quadrillion years!
15:29She's kind of a sadist.
15:31I can just imagine what a fight all those dirty dishes!
15:37Luckily for the couple, her plans backfire.
15:40We get being friendly and all,
15:42but perhaps don't invite her next time?
15:45Number 4.
15:46Elmo Meets Ricky Gervais
15:48In honor of the show's 40th anniversary,
15:50many guest stars appeared on Sesame Street.
15:53One seemingly unlikely guest star was comedian Ricky Gervais,
15:56who spent quite a bit of time with Elmo.
15:59In some of the outtakes from an Associated Press interview,
16:02Elmo got a little sassy.
16:04At one point, he asks the interviewer where the interview was lost
16:09as the banter between Elmo and Gervais gets out of hand.
16:12Why do you wear pajamas when you're going to play,
16:14but you're naked the rest of the time?
16:15It doesn't make any sense!
16:17Elmo also schools Gervais when the latter asks
16:20why the little monster wears pajamas to bed,
16:23but is basically nude the rest of the time.
16:26Elmo responds with...
16:32He also warns Gervais not to touch him at one point.
16:35What a diva!
16:41Number 3.
16:42Grover the Waiter vs. That Customer
16:44Anyone who's had to deal with customer service work
16:47is familiar with this particular kind of customer.
16:58In a series of skits, Grover works as a waiter
17:01and always finds himself having to serve a blue guy
17:04who can only modernly be described as a male Karen.
17:08Picture has potato chips,
17:09but there are no potato chips on my sandwich.
17:12In one instance, the customer sits and almost immediately yells waiter,
17:16then orders a sandwich and returns it multiple times
17:20as it doesn't exactly match the image on the menu.
17:23There's an olive in the picture, but no olive on my sandwich.
17:26Yes, sir.
17:28Yes, sir.
17:29I'm going to get you a new olive.
17:31In another skit, the customer complains
17:33that there are certain letters missing from his alphabet soup.
17:36Now the O is missing.
17:37I don't want this soup without an O.
17:40That's a bad day for you, isn't it, sir?
17:42Okay, I'll get you the O. I'll be right back.
17:44Grover knows this man is ridiculous and is all of us in his frustration.
17:49I don't have time to eat it now.
17:50See you tomorrow.
17:55Charlie, I quit!
17:56Number 2.
17:57Oscar Gets Johnny Cash's Name Wrong
18:00Johnny Cash appeared on Sesame Street a few times.
18:03His first appearance was in 1973.
18:06In the episode, he met a few friends and sang a couple of tunes,
18:09one of which was to Oscar the Grouch.
18:12Cash knocks on Oscar's garbage can
18:14and serenades him with a song called Nasty Dan.
18:17He'd frown a bunch, he ate nails for lunch, and he'd never laugh.
18:21Well, I'd like him.
18:22Oscar really enjoys the tune, as it's about a pretty terrible man.
18:26And the only words that he ever said were,
18:29I don't like you at all.
18:31Yeah, right on.
18:32Oscar can't stay nice for long,
18:35and when the song ends, he asks the man in black,
18:37Aren't you Johnny Trash?
18:39Cash corrects him, unenthused, and continues on his way,
18:43wishing Oscar a rotten day.
18:45Aren't you Johnny Trash?
18:47Cash.
18:48Cash, Cash.
18:49Have a rotten day.
18:51Wow, that was my kind of guy.
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19:14Sometimes the Muppets are a little too relatable.
19:22In 1975, a man by the name of Gary Dahl made millions selling pet rocks,
19:27which were exactly what you think, a rock in a box.
19:31However, some kids have a lot of imagination.
19:34One such kid is Sesame Street's own Zoe, good friend to Elmo.
19:38She has a pet rock named Rocco, whom Elmo is not a fan of.
19:52As the day progresses, Elmo grows more and more frustrated
19:56with what he considers to be nonsense.
19:59Rocco can apparently talk, eat, etc.
20:04Rocco says that he wants the oatmeal raisin cookie.
20:11Elmo is having none of it and is not hiding his feelings at all.
20:24He finds the entire concept ridiculous,
20:26openly laughs at Zoe, and points out all the nonsense.
20:30And we love it.
20:34Oh no! Elmo is not playing with Rocco or you anymore!
20:39Elmo is going to play by himself!
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