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* Look at most videos featuring [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Capf-AAP1B8 Placido Flamingo]] on Youtube. Half the comments are on how he terrified children.
** It was heavily rumored this was why the character is no longer used on the show, but it apparently was due to the puppeteer's death, which brings up a lot of questions entirely.
* In the original version of the classic [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNMwRH5UGYY "Monster in the Mirror"]] song, there's a surprisingly scary sequence in which Grover is walking down a street with his crudely-drawn reflection in the store windows. At one point, the reflection begins to grow and grin in a manner befitting a slasher villain.
* A frequently cited example of this is the sketch where Bert and Ernie are [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yiqGtZXCmQ exploring a pyramid]]. In it, there's a really creepy looking statue that looks almost identical to Ernie that moves and talks in a severely creepy voice when Bert's not in the room.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVktxm3p7gI "Count to Ten with Nobody"]]. An odd little sketch from the early years of Sesame Street, where a floating face with quite possibly one of the scariest voices ever heard on the show counts to ten while weird animations and sound effects play continuously in the background.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch-R1aIM-C0&feature=related The infamous "Geometry of Circles" segments]]. As mystical as they are, they simply aren't suited very well to an easily frightened young audience.
* The classic segment [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWMAYFNIAco "Daddy Dear"]] scared quite a few children back in the day. Of particular mention is the the roaring dandelion.
* The Monsterpiece Theatre segment [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vftf8TTve4s "Twin Beaks"]]. Sure, it's a hilarious segment, but the double-beaked birds just look plain ''wrong''.
** It's a parody of a David Lynch TV show. Would you expect anything else?
* A commonly mentioned one would have to be the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFZurjkjs6M "I Beam"]] sketch. The highly suspenseful music in the background is just plain unsettling.
* In the classic segment [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyGGvpUoF6k "Disco Frog"]], a really freaky looking ghostly silhouette of Kermit is featured.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSMNeqI30HY This]] creepy as hell segment. Whoever designed that bird must've been having one hell of a trip.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=bohpLiZHYfA "Annie and Arthur Look for an A"]]. You know what else begins with "A?" Aneurysm, and the announcer apparently drops dead from one at the end of the segment.
* There was also the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAiIBAeuVyU Mysterious Theater]] sketches from the early 1990s. Though the stories about Sherlock Hemlock and his sidekick dog Watson weren't so scary, the opening title card (featuring a sad woman in mourning clothes next to a gravestone with the title on it), the music, and the host Vincent Twice (a Muppet parody of former ''Mystery!'' host VincentPrice) scared many viewers during its run. It could be a reason why the segments have never been released on home video or rerun since 1999.
* Kermit's W lecture. The first part is unsettling with Cookie Monster ''trying to eat Kermit''. And in the second part, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN_0HDXCyNs the W becames sentient and attacks a struggling Kermit]].
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smuZ8bE3lEI The ending of Kermit's More-and-Less lecture]]. After Kermit scolds Cookie Monster and lightly threatens to "teach a lesson", a gang of creepy monsters start surrounding poor Kermit in a threatening manner. The eerie music does not help.
* This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RNkNI54TU0 short skit about the letter G]] certainly qualifies. "G" words were recited by Alice Margatroid on a stage with short cutscenes demonstrating the meaning of that word. It would have been completely forgettable if not for the last word spoken: "Gone", with a camera cut-back to the stage to show Alice gone. Sure, she could have just left, it being the end of her role...[[AlienAbduction but why are her clothes still on the chair]]!? And why does that giant "G" that comes up right after that look so menacing?
* There's a really old skit where the Count goes to Charlie's Restaurant, and asks Grover for hot dogs, just to count them. When Grover refuses to get more, because he won't eat them, the Count forces him by hypnosis. Then, Grover goes in fast motion for hot dogs until he faints. The Count's hypnotic power proved so scary for kids that CTW removed it.
* Another [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH62UQ8pSR4 old sketch]] has the Count sleeping over at Ernie and Bert's place, and keeping Ernie awake by counting sheep. In the morning, an extremely haggard, zombie-like Ernie emerges, in a daze and still counting. ("Forty-three thousand...eight hundred and ninety-one...forty-three thousand...eight-hundred and ninety-two...")
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOCExQ2lrO4 The Vishnu Sketch]] showed a four-armed Hindu god or some such counting to twenty on his fingers while a female voice-over sang the numbers to a vaguely Indian-sounding tune. When you're 2, there is something indefinably creepy about that.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xHsY6GftAs (starts at 2:55) In one episode]], Cookie Monster resists his temptation to eat Big Bird's birthday cake...by eating everything else on Sesame Street. Not all the food. ''[[ExtremeOmnivore Everything]]''. At one point, he was shown actively eating a lamp post. The show cut back from one of the skits, and the camera panned over Sesame Street, [[DesolationShot which looked more like a war zone]].
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc20vMz0V7Q There was a standalone Elmo sketch]] where British comedian Ricky Gervais appears at Elmo's bedtime to sing him a "celebrity lullaby". After some funny {{parental bonus}}es, Ricky then begins the song, centered on the letter N--which begins by gently singing about nighttime and nightgown... to SCREAMING "NAHNAHNAHNAHNAH" at the top of his lungs at a traumatized Elmo, who responds with a theme-appropriate "No!" and ends up too terrified to sleep.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PA98cH94U  This short]] that tried to teach kids about pattern completion. The sound that plays when the missing space is revealed is ''horrifying''.
* [[http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/9/9b/Firstsnuffy.jpg The first Snuffleupagus puppet]]. Just... what were they thinking?!
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG-0_p_yefg Orange Singing Carmen]].
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XJ8qeyqGoc It's the V-Train of Doom]]!
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_trSIBCgF0 The Yip-Yips]]. Creepy background music before and during their appearance? Check. Ability of teleportation? Check. Unsettling way of speaking? Check. Make no mistake, it's some serious Nightmare Fuel for a kid who's just now learning how to talk properly!
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P9sQvPJuSU The Wegman Dogs.]] For some, their first introduction to UncannyValley - either a dog's head on a human's body, or human hands on a dog that's walking erect for some reason, all wearing clothes and wigs and speaking in creepy monotone. Some people look back fondly on these sketches. Still, just as many admit to shuddering upon viewing the shorts today.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xfciIXD-sg Wet Paint]]. The [=YouTube=] comments speak for themselves.
* The unsettling [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzjM67rS9ZM 39 Stairs sketch, a ShoutOut to Alfred Hitchcock]]
* Two cosplayers showed up to Dragoncon 2012 dressed up as a realistic-looking Ernie and Bert. Unfortunately, it ended up looking VERY [[UncannyValley uncanny]], to the point where the article calls them "Childhood Ruining Nightmare Fuel". See the photos [[http://now.msn.com/ernie-and-bert-cosplayers-at-dragoncon-look-terrifying here]] and [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9r5o6S8SS1rppmouo1_500.jpg here.]]
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq7PrsITTnc "Teeny Little Super Guy"]]. Sure, he dispenses good, down-to-earth advice... but damn it if he isn't creepy. The way he rises up and down from solid surfaces like a ghost, his gravely smoker voice and the choppy, awkward animation make his very unsettling to watch.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Rhm7kp-tk This particular sketch]], which was first transmitted around 1986, is pure NightmareFuel. It features creepy wind-up toys doing things of their own accord and a mechanical arm that plays piano and spells out "SESAME STREET", intercut with footage of satellites. To top it off, it's all set to Janko Nilovic's "Portrait d'Un Robot", a creepy-as-heck piece of music (for any Australian fans playing at home, it was also the "Rocket Clock" theme from ''PlaySchool''). It's implied that its purpose is to somehow teach kids about machines and mechanics, but it just ''smacks'' of WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs.
* Rosita originally had wing flaps as she was a fruit bat. After several seasons they removed the flaps and she became a Monster. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot4mVTR5e7k in-series reason]] is she was gliding through a cave with her family and it was so windy that they ''blew off''. Let that sink in for a moment. The fact she said it wasn't painful despite all this, and that she hates to think about it, makes you think it was such a bad injury that her body blocked out the pain the same way you do when you get a large injury.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJiU6dHtxLU This is a big letter V.]] Not bad until the very end. Ow. Ow. Ow.(And did I mention ow?)


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