From Season 9 (1977-1978). Sonia Manzano = Maria = Chaplin (muppet.fandom....) deals with a now old-fashioned WALK/DON'T WALK sign. Voiceover by Roscoe Orman = Gordon. #ClassicSesameStreet #Season9 #MariaAsChaplin
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@jim68203 жыл бұрын
Pretty cleaver how the late Jim Henson created these segments. This one was funny 😆.
@winterjason814 жыл бұрын
So nice to finally see this clip again after so many years. Glad you found it today. I was the first one to view it today. I love it. At first this clip was a tad scary to me at first many years ago when I saw it on Sesame Street but then I got used to it. At least Maria’s character as Charlie Chaplin after so long and so much trouble ultimately managed to deal with modifying the walk/don’t walk sign so she could simply walk across the street to end the clip. Still a good lesson for kids to learn when it’s safe or not safe to cross the street.
@MonsterpieceTheatre4 жыл бұрын
I hear you; between the suspenseful start-&-stop music and the sudden bursts of traffic noise, that would be enough to scare any kid of that time.I actually don't remember having seen this as a kid.
@Paolo87724 жыл бұрын
@@MonsterpieceTheatre I honestly can't tell you if I remember seeing it before either, but , and yet it's the most vaudevillian Manziano's Maria doing Charlie Chaplin.
@avonee19764 жыл бұрын
This clip makes me chuckle now but yeah as a kid, it scared me a little bit too! Actually, I was a bit obsessed with all the Don’t Walk sketches. One thing I can honestly say, I learned as a two year old when it was safe to cross the street!
@ZakWolf3 жыл бұрын
@@MonsterpieceTheatre Yeah, the sudden traffic noises did startle me a bit the first time! It kind of reminded me of the 1969 "Pink Panther" animated short "Think Before You Pink," where the Panther has similar trouble crossing a street, complete with unruly pedestrian signal!
@MrJamieMurph4141969 Жыл бұрын
YES! This IS the segment I thought it was; it fit the summary perfectly. I mentioned this one years back in a comment on that “Surprise!” segment from 1975, hoping it would get posted. And now it has! Thanks!
@MrJamieMurph4141969 Жыл бұрын
In fact, I see this has been on KZfaq for almost THREE years!
@PeterSmith-lo4rd3 жыл бұрын
Maria made a great Charlie Chaplain impersonator!!
@613aristocrat2 ай бұрын
Yeah. I was looking at 'his' face and wondering why he looks so much like Maria. 😂
@afriendofbean4 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing this skit one time when I was very young and I wanted to see it again and it's great to see it here on KZfaq.
@rajnirvan33367 ай бұрын
Haven't seen this for years. Also not had a good bit of laughter 🤣 😂😂😂 . This sort of reminds me of Monty Python Silly Walks when trying to cross 😂😂😂
@avonee19764 жыл бұрын
Wow! I’ve been looking for this for years! Thank you for posting!
@xerotonin67762 жыл бұрын
I wonder why we never got Maria as Chaplin as The Great Dictator?
@dancepiglover Жыл бұрын
Forget about “walk.” You better RUN if the signal is that short.
@amymiller64333 жыл бұрын
I love this clip!
@afriendofbean4 жыл бұрын
At 3:08, it's weird out of nowhere Maria as Charlie Chaplin found a cover behind the pillar to cover the "Don't" just to cross the street so the other cars would get confused that the pedestrians now have the right of way.
@ZakWolf3 жыл бұрын
Yep. It's nothing like in my hometown of Brockton MA when a couple years after most of the traffic lights were upgraded to LEDs, thus replacing those old worded pedestrian signals with the newer symbolic ones, someone vandalized the "don't walk" hand symbol on one of them to look like it was flipping the bird! Then the fire department fixed it a while after that (here in Brockton the fire department maintains the city's traffic lights.)
@afriendofbean3 жыл бұрын
@@ZakWolf That's terrible someone messed up the crossing signals in your hometown where I'm sure if someone got caught doing that in real life could get arrested. Perhaps the main reason they got rid of the words "Don't Walk" and "Walk" because there's been news that some people who don't understand English weren't understanding what the words say and what they mean which is why they got replaced with symbols.
@ZakWolf3 жыл бұрын
@@afriendofbean Yep, that is why the symbols are now the norm. We now have only one intersection left here in Brockton with worded pedestrian signals, but there are plans to redo the intersection in the future, so they're obviously going to be replaced with new countdown pedestrian signals or something.
@afriendofbean3 жыл бұрын
@@ZakWolf If they still have it worded as "Don't Walk" and "Walk" for your hometown, hopefully they will change it to symbols for the sake of people who don't understand English. For example, I'm American living in the United States and if I was taking a vacation to a foreign country like China, Japan, Korea, India, etc. and if the crossing signals were worded in a different language, I would be confused whether it means to walk or not walk where I guess I would have no choice but to cross a street in a crowded group and following whatever the people do but I think symbols would be better than words.
@ZakWolf3 жыл бұрын
@@afriendofbean Oh, I'm sure they will redo the intersection soon and replace those old worded pedestrian signals. Most of the others worded pedestrian signals here in Brockton got replaced with symbolic ones in fall 2003 during a citywide LED traffic light upgrade.
If they updated it, They would use symbols. The red "Don't Walk" sign would be replaced with a red hand symbol, and the green "Walk" sign would be replaced with a green full body symbol. It even has a timer. The red hand symbol would flashing to warn you it's about change back to don't cross the street. I remember in the old day,s We used to have alarm bells to signal it's safe to cross the street. Now, We have a voice box that announce "Walk sign is on! Walk sign is on!"
@afriendofbean4 жыл бұрын
@BuddyBoy600alt That's right. Back in the 80s and 90s they had those pedestrian crossing signals saying "Don't Walk" and "Walk" replaced by a red hand and a green pedestrian. The red hand not flashing would mean "Don't Cross" and the red hand flashing would also mean "Don't Cross" but would mean if you were in the middle of crossing and it flashed to finish crossing and the green pedestrian would mean to start crossing but watch for turning vehicles. Perhaps the voice box to announce that it's safe to cross is for blind people whether they have a walking cane and/or a guide dog.
@ZakWolf3 жыл бұрын
Yep, I remember one of the intersections in my hometown of Brockton MA having alarm bells ringing when "WALK" was on. But now it makes an electronic "cuckoo" type sound during the walk signal, which is now the white body symbol. Also in Brockton we have the countdown pedestrian signals at certain busy and/or dangerous intersections.
@riley10492 жыл бұрын
The pedestrian crossings in my hometown, Post Falls, Idaho, has those electronic voice boxes. "Spokane Street. Walk sign is on to cross. Spokane Street."
@ZakWolf Жыл бұрын
@@riley1049 Yep, those are integrated into those fancy accessible pedestrian pushbuttons that vibrate and make sounds for the visually impaired. We have them at some intersections in Brockton MA, and they also have TONS of them in major cities like Boston and New York. Sometimes instead of a voice message when the walk signal is on, they make this ticking noise.
@julieneild45052 жыл бұрын
Whilst taking a stroll down Sesame Street ( First generation and proud ) I stumbled across this video. Have u ever seen anything as cute?❤
@MonsterpieceTheatre2 жыл бұрын
👍🏼 Same here about the first gen status and pride.
@JL-sm6cg3 жыл бұрын
In case anyone wonders, the irising out to the pedestrian signal was added later. As Charlie/Maria is crossing the street, he shakes his booty at the sign to the cowbell you hear before continuing on. I'm guessing later on that became offensive so they did the irising out thing.
@belindamolina61402 жыл бұрын
Chaplin looks familiar he reminds me of someone
@riley10492 жыл бұрын
It's Sonia Manzano (Maria) portraying the late silent film star. The real Charlie Chaplin died the same year this skit aired (1977).
@ZakWolf3 жыл бұрын
Chaplin should've just started crossing the street the moment the signal changed to "WALK." They're also supposed to have "DONT WALK" flash on and off after the "WALK" phase to get pedestrians already in the crosswalk to hurry and finish crossing (and on modern pedestrian signals that used the hand and man symbols, a countdown timer may accompany the flashing phase so pedestrians know how much time they have left to finish crossing the street.)
@colleen4ever3 жыл бұрын
3:00- He did! (who;'s timing that sign anyway?!)
@marvinthemaniac76983 жыл бұрын
This was in 1978, exactly one year after Charlie Chaplin died.
@riley10492 жыл бұрын
Chaplin died on Christmas Day 1977 in Switzerland.