![]() Maria suggests ignoring her and asks David for a glass of water. Despite being spooked by the Witch and already having seen her use magic twice, David still refuses to give her the broom until she shows him some respect. Maria reacts condescendingly as the Wicked Witch teleports in with a puff of smoke, proving him right. Curses! With a twirl of her cape, the Witch promises sweet, sweet vengeance until she gets her broom back, and promptly disappears.ĭavid returns to Hooper’s Store and recounts the story of meeting the Witch to Maria and a couple kids. It seems that she forgot the arbitrary rule that she can’t touch the broom while someone else is holding on to it. The Witch grabs it from him, and there’s a disturbing (and, in modern terms, cheap-looking) video effect that makes it seem like the Witch is being electrocuted. David refuses to give her the broom until she shows him a little respect. The Witch doesn’t care and just wants her property back. She recounts that the wind blew the broom out from under her, and now she’s not in Oz anymore – she must be over the rainbow! She sees David with her broom and she marches over to demand it back from him.ĭavid and the Witch begin bickering – David tells her to be more careful with it, and that it almost knocked him over. Suddenly, a few electric guitar chords play as the Wicked Witch of the West appears from behind Hooper’s Store. ![]() ![]() The wind immediately stops, and David claims “Never look a gift broom in the mouth,” as he uses it to start sweeping up the garbage in front of the store. And then he notices that something is falling from the sky, and it’s coming fast.ĭavid ducks and (in a legitimately impressive move by Northern Calloway) catches a falling broomstick with one hand. He admits there’s something spooky about it. ![]() David comes out from Hooper’s Store to… look at the wind, I guess? “Something must be going on up there with the weather,” he observes astutely. The episode begins during a blustery day on Sesame Street. As much as I love seeing these rare Muppet productions for myself, it’s rarely worth it if I’m not able to share with my fellow Muppet fans, and I plan to share as much as I’m able. (I suspect several of you will be writing to ask for a copy of the video, and I’m telling you now: I can’t help you.) But we are able to tell you what we saw, complete with photos. Unfortunately, we have been sworn to keep the video to ourselves. I’m pleased to report that we have seen the Wicked Witch episode in its entirety. But throughout it all, a mystery was formed and Muppet fans everywhere hoped that one day they’d be able to see it for themselves. ![]() Wiccans rightfully complained about the perpetuation of the negative stereotype of witches. The terrifying nature of an evil villain on Sesame Street was too much for a preschool series. Angry parents wrote letters claiming that the episode frightened their children to tears. It doesn’t get much more rare than that, with a few exceptions, notably the holy grail of Sesame Street.Įpisode #0847 is infamous for having aired once in 1976, and then immediately put into the vault never to be seen again. So we decided to review a few of the best, strangest, and rarest episodes out there in our new Sesame Rewind series! We covertly began the series back in June with our two-part review of the lost “Out to Lunch” special, featuring the crossover casts of Sesame Street and The Electric Company. Unfortunately, there aren’t 50 more seasons to discuss, but there are over 4,500 episodes out there, many of which are primarily lost to the fans. We had a blast diving deep into Sesame’s history – both distant and recent – and we decided that we really like the idea of writing about Sesame Street every week, so why not keep the party going? Through all of 2019, ToughPigs celebrated Sesame Street‘s 50th anniversary with “50 in 50”, an epic year-long project in which we reviewed every season of the show. ![]()
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