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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.
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.


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.
A user has listed the segment as one of the rare/lost Ernie and Bert sketches on a Muppet Central forum thread.<ref>[http://www.muppetcentral.com/forum/threads/lost-ernie-and-bert-sketches.30732/ muppetcentral.com forum on a list of rare Ernie and Bert sketches.]</ref> Another user has emailed Sesame Workshop requesting a copy of this segment, and unfortunately they didn't want this segment in the public. This is, more than likely, because they have a policy to <u>not</u> send out tapes.  


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>.
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''.<ref>[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Folge_2033 muppet.wikia.com page on ''Sesamstraße'' folge 2033.] Retrieved 3 Jul '17.</ref> 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.


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.
Despite most Sesame Street classic footage and episodes being converted to digital format, it is a theory that, other than the [[Sesame Street Episode 847 aka The Wicked Witch of the West Episode (1976)|847th episode with the Wicked Witch]], this could be another one of the long-unseen footage being kept stored away and never converted to digital format with all the other old shows. For an unknown reason, Sesame Workshop has intended to not release or re-broadcast ''every'' classic insert or episode of the show in the public, because these inserts and episodes either lacked an educational concept on the show, are not available at this time in favor of a smaller, more licensee-friendly package, or are being privately kept hidden in storage due to legal issues (especially involving song covers or existing children's books, which got edited out of many home media releases).


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.
There have been multiple search effort issues with this clip. 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. Rohail Hashmi, who uploaded many Sesame Street full episodes and inserts on YouTube (and sometimes reposted other users' videos), claimed to have saved the deleted German dub of the clip on a harddrive and promised to re-upload it sometime in mid-2017, but some users were unable to approve this because the clip has ''<u>NEVER</u>'' turned back up online after it was deleted since nobody knew/heard about this skit ever since. Other fans and/or collectors have messaged multiple online users of whom may have copies of any long-unseen clips (including this). However, it is more than likely that this segment is now forever unwatchable due to people who claimed to have the clip trashing their old videotapes that had it on there.
 
As of August 2017, no one has come forward with any backups of the clip, not especially from that now deleted Sesame Street compilation, and it is unknown if anyone will ever come forward with a bootleg master tape of the clip from Sesame Workshop's storage.


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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 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] Another user has emailed Sesame Workshop requesting a copy of this segment, and unfortunately they didn't want this segment in the public. This is, more than likely, because they have a policy to not send out tapes.

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.

Despite most Sesame Street classic footage and episodes being converted to digital format, it is a theory that, other than the 847th episode with the Wicked Witch, this could be another one of the long-unseen footage being kept stored away and never converted to digital format with all the other old shows. For an unknown reason, Sesame Workshop has intended to not release or re-broadcast every classic insert or episode of the show in the public, because these inserts and episodes either lacked an educational concept on the show, are not available at this time in favor of a smaller, more licensee-friendly package, or are being privately kept hidden in storage due to legal issues (especially involving song covers or existing children's books, which got edited out of many home media releases).

There have been multiple search effort issues with this clip. 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. Rohail Hashmi, who uploaded many Sesame Street full episodes and inserts on YouTube (and sometimes reposted other users' videos), claimed to have saved the deleted German dub of the clip on a harddrive and promised to re-upload it sometime in mid-2017, but some users were unable to approve this because the clip has NEVER turned back up online after it was deleted since nobody knew/heard about this skit ever since. Other fans and/or collectors have messaged multiple online users of whom may have copies of any long-unseen clips (including this). However, it is more than likely that this segment is now forever unwatchable due to people who claimed to have the clip trashing their old videotapes that had it on there.

As of August 2017, no one has come forward with any backups of the clip, not especially from that now deleted Sesame Street compilation, and it is unknown if anyone will ever come forward with a bootleg master tape of the clip from Sesame Workshop's storage.

Gallery

  • Ernie&Salesman (1).jpg
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References

  1. ↑ muppet.wikia.com page on Sesame Street episode 0264. Retrieved 4 Mar '17.
  2. ↑ muppetcentral.com forum on a list of rare Ernie and Bert sketches.
  3. ↑ muppet.wikia.com page on Sesamstraße folge 2033. Retrieved 3 Jul '17.
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