Crack Master- The Sesame Street Short Deemed Too Scary For Kids
Sesame Street isn’t known for having edgy or scary content, it’s a show with friendly content for the little uns and therefore tries to keep the tone of the show fun and upbeat.
However, back in the good ol’ BE (Before Elmo) days Sesame Street featured some far out psychedelic animated shorts that definitely had some edge to them.
Things weren’t totally shiny and happy in these animated worlds, but the message was always one of triumph over fear and learning to rely on your wits in time of danger.
Cracks (aka Crack Master) is an animated short from 1975 deemed too scary for kids, shown only eleven times before disappearing into the cracks in our minds. Now, thanks to the YouTubes we can see what all the fuss was about:
Didn’t seem very scary, did it? Definitely not any scarier than this psychedelic trip they played on Sesame Street when I was a kid- Lost Boy Remembers His Way Home. What the heck was that kid on?!
-Via Dangerous Minds
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The lost boy one does seem strange now. At the time I thought the "neighborhood" the kid was in, was part of the "Pinball Number Count song" place. Somehow the kid made it into the Pinball Number Count world.
Or that it was his hand that started the Pinball Number Count segment. I had always thought the two were connected.
The crack one, I recall trying to duplicate on paper, but my little kid intellect did not understand animation.
Both of these shorts would be great premises for horror movies.
I guess he was a crack master -_-