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'''''Ernie and the Pumpkin Seed Candy Salesman''''' (usually shortened to '''''Ernie and the Candy Salesman''''') is a sketch that originally aired during ''Sesame Street'' "Episode 264" (during Season 2) on May 13, 1971 (exactly a day after the ''Tales from Muppetland'' special "The Frog Prince" premiered).<ref>[http://www.muppetcentral.com/forum/threads/lost-ernie-and-bert-sketches.30732/ A Muppet Central forum post of supposed lost Ernie and Bert sketches.] Retrieved 16 Feb '19</ref>


'''"Ernie and the Pumpkin Seed Candy Salesman" '''(usually shortened to '''"Ernie and the Candy Salesman"''') is a sketch that originally aired during ''Sesame Street'' episode 0264 (during Season 2) on May 13, 1971 (exactly a day after the ''Tales from Muppetland'' special "The Frog Prince" premiered).<ref>[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_0264 muppet.wikia.com page on ''Sesame Street'' episode 0264.] Retrieved 4 Mar '17.</ref>
In this sketch, a candy salesman approaches Ernie and tries to sell him some pumpkin seed candy. Ernie tells the salesman that he doesn't really like pumpkin seed candy, perhaps because it is icky. He goes on to pitch to Ernie the smaller sizes of pumpkin seed candy he has until he finally sells him the tiniest piece of pumpkin seed candy that he even can't see it as if it was invisible. It almost looks like Ernie is looking at the camera in a closeup shot of the tiniest piece of pumpkin seed candy.


In this sketch, a candy salesman comes up to Ernie and sells him some pumpkin seed candy. Ernie tells the salesman that he doesn't really like pumpkin seed candy, perhaps because it is icky. He keeps selling him the sizes of pumpkin seed candy until he sells him the tiniest piece of pumpkin seed candy that he even can't see it as if it was invisible. It almost looks like Ernie is looking at the camera in a closeup shot of the tiniest piece of pumpkin seed candy.
==Availability==
The sketch was known to have aired in two episodes on ''Sesame Street'' (#264 and #301) during 1971. Other airings of the segment remain unidentified, other than in foreign co-productions including Folge 2033 of ''Sesamstraße'', Episode 70 of ''Iftah Ya Simsim'', and Episode 35 of ''Rechov Sumsum'' so far.


There are no video copies of this sketch available online, but the German-dubbed version from a ''Sesamstraße ''episode that used to be uploaded to YouTube several years ago had been deleted in 2014. As a result, mostly no one has the German-dubbed clip saved to their hard drives, and it has sadly not resurfaced since. As the clip is believed to be lost from Sesame Workshop's vault, only two poor-quality stills of this segment have survived and are provided below. A MuppetCentral forum user, SesameMike, has listed the segment as one of the rare/lost Ernie and Bert sketches.<ref>[http://www.muppetcentral.com/forum/threads/lost-ernie-and-bert-sketches.30732/A link to the MuppetCentral forum post.] Last retrieved 30 June '17</ref>  The only two known episodes to have this clip were Episodes 264 and [http://www.muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_0301 301]. In foreign co-productions, Folge 2033<ref>[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Folge_2033 muppet.wikia.com page on ''Sesamstraße'' folge 2033, the only known foreign airing of the "Pumpkin Seed Candy Salesman" skit.] Retrieved 30 Jun '17.</ref> of the German co-production ''Sesamstraße'' was the only known international episode to have the sketch. The sketch was also claimed to have aired in the (lost) Italian co-production ''Sesamo Apriti.'' However, from watching a Greek dub of the clip on YouTube, a user by the name of "Sesame Street Finder" has confirmed that the sketch also aired in Sousami Anoikse, the Greek co-production, and that the Greek dub was once uploaded by Erniefan1998 (who has already been suspended from YouTube). The Greek dub had an alternate ending where the candy salesman facepalms and sighs.
The clip was once uploaded in German, likely circa 2006, and lasted on YouTube for a while before being removed in 2014. An English version of the skit was commercially released for the first time in a ''Sesame Street'' compilation on ''Sesame Street'''s official YT channel in 2015 but said compilation has been taken down since May 2017. There was also an alternate take of this in DVD quality with a KiKA watermark in 2006, but like the other Sesamstraße clips that were pulled in February 2007 as a result of Viacom at the time, that one was pulled also.


As of June 2017, no person on the internet appears to have the German dub of this clip backed up on their computer before it was deleted from YouTube in 2014, and it is still completely unknown if any upcoming YouTube uploads of full episodes for foreign co-productions (i.e. Barrio Sésamo, Rechov Sumsum, etc.), besides Sesamstraße, will ever have this extremely-scarce clip included by surprise. For a time, it was rumored that Sesame Workshop held a copy, but this is simply false; a user has emailed Sesame Workshop, and they said that the clips he requested (one of them being this scarce Ernie sketch he sought) were not available. Judging by this, the user has confirmed that the video footage of the skit is not known to still exist and also can't be accessed on the official Sesame Street website<ref> [http://www.sesamestreet.org The official Sesame Street website.] Retrieved 1 Jul '17.</ref> -- not even as a Throwback Thursday classic clip on Sesame Street's official YouTube channel<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoookXUzPciGrEZEXmh4Jjg Sesame Street's official YouTube channel.] Retrieved 1 Jul '17.</ref>.
Following its deletion from YouTube, the clip remained missing again throughout the summer until YouTube user JFriendsFan96 had finally reuploaded the video for the sketch, in English, on August 26, 2017.


There's a ''very'' small chance anyone will ever get to see this clip especially since the only copy of it in German is now removed off of the Internet, many fans have trashed their VHS recordings of the clip, and Sesame Workshop has no intention of releasing this segment (along with other rare, long-unseen segments) at all, perhaps due to the following reasons: either these segments are believed (by fans) to be lost from Sesame Workshop's archive for making room for more newly-produced episodes during 1974-1975, or there are certain legal issues keeping the majority of classic segments privately stored away.
As of January 5th, 2018, abuwahab 3 uploaded an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WhBI8hj_Dw Arabic ''Iftah Ya Simsim'' episode] containing the sketch in its Arabic dub at 4:49. The video got deleted due to abuwahab 3 closing his account later that year. However, on January 29, 2019, [https://youtu.be/89r97uNiroc?t=306 another copy of the episode] was uploaded on YouTube by دبي زمان HD, where it can be seen at 5:06.


The clip however isn't lost, but outside of Sesame Workshop keeping a copy of the clip privately stored away and never converted to digital format with all the other old shows, no one has come forward with anymore VHS recordings of the clip, so it is more than likely believed in public that all the fan recordings of the clip (recorded from television broadcast) are forever lost due to losing the clip from harddrive crashes and trashing the old videotapes that had the clip recorded on them, and it is unknown if anyone will ever come forward with a bootleg copy of the clip.
On March 1st, 2019, YouTube user archionir2 uploaded [https://youtu.be/AOCOblJBwZk?list=PL4aJIw-QctLtCSUxP7WfEjb55EKSEnRMY&t=218 the 35th episode of ''Rechov Sumsum''] containing the sketch in its Hebrew dub at 3:38.


A user by the name of Radioactive Wizard has posted a thread on Scratchpad stating that a YouTuber by the name Rohail Hashmi has confirmed on Facebook that he has the German dub of the "Ernie and the Pumpkin Seed Candy Salesman" (along with the longer version of the "Surprise!" song in Hebrew) saved and will upload it back online by the end of July.<ref>[https://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:528157 Scratchpad forum thread about the clip's exact re-upload date.] Retrieved 8 July '17.</ref>
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==See Also==
*[https://lostmediawiki.com/Sesame_Street_(partially_lost_children%27s_educational_TV_series;_1969-present) Sesame Street (partially lost children's educational TV series; 1969-present)]


==Gallery==
==External Links==
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*[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_0264 A Muppet Wikia page on ''Sesame Street'' "Episode 264".] Retrieved 04 Mar '17
Ernie&Salesman (1).jpg
*[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Folge_2033 A Muppet Wikia page on ''Sesamstraße'' folge 2033.] Retrieved 03 Jul '17
Ernie&Salesman.jpg
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==References==
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Revision as of 20:16, 18 January 2020

Ernie&Salesman.jpg

Screenshot from Sesamstraße.

Status: Found

Date found: 26 Aug '17

Found by: PumpkinJFriend

Ernie and the Pumpkin Seed Candy Salesman (usually shortened to Ernie and the Candy Salesman) is a sketch that originally aired during Sesame Street "Episode 264" (during Season 2) on May 13, 1971 (exactly a day after the Tales from Muppetland special "The Frog Prince" premiered).[1]

In this sketch, a candy salesman approaches Ernie and tries to sell him some pumpkin seed candy. Ernie tells the salesman that he doesn't really like pumpkin seed candy, perhaps because it is icky. He goes on to pitch to Ernie the smaller sizes of pumpkin seed candy he has until he finally sells him the tiniest piece of pumpkin seed candy that he even can't see it as if it was invisible. It almost looks like Ernie is looking at the camera in a closeup shot of the tiniest piece of pumpkin seed candy.

Availability

The sketch was known to have aired in two episodes on Sesame Street (#264 and #301) during 1971. Other airings of the segment remain unidentified, other than in foreign co-productions including Folge 2033 of Sesamstraße, Episode 70 of Iftah Ya Simsim, and Episode 35 of Rechov Sumsum so far.

The clip was once uploaded in German, likely circa 2006, and lasted on YouTube for a while before being removed in 2014. An English version of the skit was commercially released for the first time in a Sesame Street compilation on Sesame Street's official YT channel in 2015 but said compilation has been taken down since May 2017. There was also an alternate take of this in DVD quality with a KiKA watermark in 2006, but like the other Sesamstraße clips that were pulled in February 2007 as a result of Viacom at the time, that one was pulled also.

Following its deletion from YouTube, the clip remained missing again throughout the summer until YouTube user JFriendsFan96 had finally reuploaded the video for the sketch, in English, on August 26, 2017.

As of January 5th, 2018, abuwahab 3 uploaded an Arabic Iftah Ya Simsim episode containing the sketch in its Arabic dub at 4:49. The video got deleted due to abuwahab 3 closing his account later that year. However, on January 29, 2019, another copy of the episode was uploaded on YouTube by دبي زمان HD, where it can be seen at 5:06.

On March 1st, 2019, YouTube user archionir2 uploaded the 35th episode of Rechov Sumsum containing the sketch in its Hebrew dub at 3:38.

Gallery

Ernie and the Pumpkin Seed Candy Salesman

The German dub, re-uploaded by Rohail Hashmi.

Iftah Ya Simsim Episode 70 uploaded by دبي زمان HD (starts at 5:06).

Rechov Sumsum Episode 35 uploaded by archionir2 (starts at 3:38).

See Also

External Links

Reference

  1. ↑ A Muppet Central forum post of supposed lost Ernie and Bert sketches. Retrieved 16 Feb '19
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