JonSea31 --

Very interesting! I don't remember that one. Would you happen to have a YouTube clip? I might remember it if I saw it again.

JonSea31: I watched the "Goldilocks has a Bath" segment. I still don't remember it, even though I probably did see it when I was little. The segment does seem too adult for a kids' show. You practically saw her naked; they showed her topless in the tub. I wonder if the segment was later banned or if it's still shown on TV?

Some scary segments I had encountered:

1. Two segments which involved the set rotating 180 degrees:

a. A blonde Anything Muppet girl demonstrating how the number 11 appears right-side up or upside-down. Surprising there was not one such segment for the number 8.

b. Herbert Birdsfoot and his infamous letter M segment. When the M flipped to resemble a W, Herbert was frustrated and decided to rotate the set 180 degrees and decided to explain the letter W instead. I would think this was an extremely rare segment, only seen on episodes that featured the letters M and W. Interestingly, a scene from early in the 2006 movie Aquamarine reminded me of that segment.

How can we forget the nightmare-made-flesh that is "Monster Cookie"? Looking back, it's amusing, but as a 5-year-old, one tends to take something like that more literally... aside from that, there wasn't anything on Sesame Street that really scared me, since I never watched it often. I only saw select episodes. I was more interested in stuff like Mr. Rogers and Reading Rainbow. I do remember a short segment with the subject of "-at" words fascinating me, though. It was a dark and kind of moody animation of anthropomorphic animal characters, all ending in "-at" of course (ex. a bat, a cat, a rat) and the music was little to none; only a voice (that sounded like Spike Spiegel from what I remember) reciting a poem about these characters. I recall the bat looking like a stereotypical beatnik (think Judy from Doug.)

Rosequartz2000

How can we forget the nightmare-made-flesh that is "Monster Cookie"? Looking back, it's amusing, but as a 5-year-old, one tends to take something like that more literally... aside from that, there wasn't anything on Sesame Street that really scared me, since I never watched it often. I only saw select episodes. I was more interested in stuff like Mr. Rogers and Reading Rainbow. I do remember a short segment with the subject of "-at" words fascinating me, though. It was a dark and kind of moody animation of anthropomorphic animal characters, all ending in "-at" of course (ex. a bat, a cat, a rat) and the music was little to none; only a voice (that sounded like Spike Spiegel from what I remember) reciting a poem about these characters. I recall the bat looking like a stereotypical beatnik (think Judy from Doug.)

"And that was that. At." I remember that too!

JonSea31

Some scary segments I had encountered:

1. Two segments which involved the set rotating 180 degrees:

a. A blonde Anything Muppet girl demonstrating how the number 11 appears right-side up or upside-down. Surprising there was not one such segment for the number 8.

b. Herbert Birdsfoot and his infamous letter M segment. When the M flipped to resemble a W, Herbert was frustrated and decided to rotate the set 180 degrees and decided to explain the letter W instead. I would think this was an extremely rare segment, only seen on episodes that featured the letters M and W. Interestingly, a scene from early in the 2006 movie Aquamarine reminded me of that segment.

Just want to clarify, I checked Muppet Wiki a while ago, and discovered that the M and W segment in question was never featured in the two known episodes that had M and W as sponsors - aired late in Season 10, and again in the mid-1990s. In fact, there are four known occurrences of that particular segment.

- The initial appearance was known to have M as the lone letter sponsor, early in Season 2.
- In January 1982, the segment was shown and the accompanying letter was I.
- In April 1985, the segment was shown again in an episode in which the other sponsored letter was R.
- One final appearance in March 1994 had the accompanying letter being X.

Also, there was a segment about an upside-down eight, but it had two Anything Muppet kids. I probably would have had no problem with this one, unlike the upside down eleven and the M and W segments; but due to my ban on watching the show, I am unable to view it.

Also, while not scary, Herbert did do another letter M segment, but it had Grover making repeated "Mmmmm" sounds, and Herb had Grover tell a story using M words. The reason for Grover's "Mmmmm" sounds was because his mouth was stuck together after eating peanut butter. I believe that such segment was shown a lot more often than the "M and W" segment.