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The clip was once posted in German around 2008, but nobody knew the clip was rare and never saved the video, as the video title was in German and would've been hard to find since it was before mostly anyone used Google Translate; The German video lasted on YouTube up until mid-2014, and it was also found in a Sesame Street compilation from 2015-late 2017, but both video links were hard to search for and now got deleted off of YouTube, and the clip itself has not resurfaced since. Fans who claimed to have saved the clip had lost it from harddrive crashes or unrealizingly trashing their old videotapes that had it on there.
The clip was once posted in German around 2008, but nobody knew the clip was rare and never saved the video, as the video title was in German and would've been hard to find since it was before mostly anyone used Google Translate; The German video lasted on YouTube up until mid-2014, and it was also found in a Sesame Street compilation from 2015-late 2017, but both video links were hard to search for and now got deleted off of YouTube, and the clip itself has not resurfaced since. Fans who claimed to have saved the clip had lost it from harddrive crashes or unrealizingly trashing their old videotapes that had it on there.


On August 26, 2017, PumpkinJFriend finally uploaded an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86gmMR_xg20 English version of the clip to YouTube] after a former SW employee heard of his search effort for this clip and was kind enough to provide a copy.
On August 26, 2017, PumpkinJFriend finally uploaded an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86gmMR_xg20 English version of the clip to YouTube]. The clip, judging by a sesamestreet.org watermark on the bottom right corner of the screen, is said to derive from a Sesame Street compilation that was ojnce posted on Sesame Street's official YT channel.


The video is also uploaded on a Google Drive. http://tinyurl.com/y8wwpvfw
The video is also uploaded on a Google Drive. http://tinyurl.com/y8wwpvfw

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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 0264 (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 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.

A user has listed the segment as one of the rare/lost Ernie and Bert sketches on a Muppet Central forum thread.[2]

Thanks to documents found at the CTW (Children's Television Workshop) Archives, the clip was known to have aired in two episodes on Sesame Street (#264 and #301) during 1971. Other airings of the segment, especially in foreign co-productions, remain unidentified, but the only known international episode to feature the segment in its foreign dub was Folge 2033 of Sesamstraße.[3] It is also rumored that there were other foreign airings of the clip which also had an alternate ending where the candy salesman facepalms and sighs, but so far, no physical evidence of this has been put forward.

The clip was once posted in German around 2008, but nobody knew the clip was rare and never saved the video, as the video title was in German and would've been hard to find since it was before mostly anyone used Google Translate; The German video lasted on YouTube up until mid-2014, and it was also found in a Sesame Street compilation from 2015-late 2017, but both video links were hard to search for and now got deleted off of YouTube, and the clip itself has not resurfaced since. Fans who claimed to have saved the clip had lost it from harddrive crashes or unrealizingly trashing their old videotapes that had it on there.

On August 26, 2017, PumpkinJFriend finally uploaded an English version of the clip to YouTube. The clip, judging by a sesamestreet.org watermark on the bottom right corner of the screen, is said to derive from a Sesame Street compilation that was ojnce posted on Sesame Street's official YT channel.

The video is also uploaded on a Google Drive. http://tinyurl.com/y8wwpvfw

Gallery

Ernie and the Pumpkin Seed Candy Salesman

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