Sesame Street's “Scary” Episode Surfaces on Social Media

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It wasn't a bad dream: that lost 'scary' episode of Sesame Street has leaked online.

maintained a frustrating gag that the wooly mammoth-like Snuffleupagus could only be seen by Big Bird, and whenever our large, yellow-feathered avian friend tried to show him off to others, the slow-moving brown quadruped would disappear. Oh, how this brought many a Gen X child severe crises of anxiety!

Anyway, in 1985, after 14 years of this, Snuffy finally met the rest of Sesame Street’s residents. When the summit happened, Big Bird, and all of us watching at home, had a cathartic moment of “, an episode of the children’s show from 1976 that aired only one time has been yoinked from the vapor of half-remembered childhood, and posted to YouTube and Reddit. In it, Margaret Hamilton reprises her role as the Wicked Witch of the West while trying to find her lost broomstick.

The episode reportedly caused a rush of negative feedback from parents who said the episode was too scary. It never aired again.

 

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I think it would now make a fun Halloween special.

And to think this episode was banned early on cuz the parental viewers were more spooked by it than the kids were back then ...the adults didn't seem to know the difference between real and pretend 🙄🙃

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