The five Sesame Street monsters that used to scare me

Growing up in the 1970s and early ’80s, I was raised on old school Sesame Street. We didn’t have Elmo… and Cookie Monster only had one food in his diet. We plus had monsters– Lots of ‘em! When you look back at all the old episodes, there are a lot of sketches with unnamed monsters in them. There were Monster Discos and even Monster albums.

Most of those Sesame Street monsters scared the holy hell out of me when I was little. When

a monster came on that I didn’t like, I’d high-tail it into the kitchen where I would listen for the sketch to conclude. soon after, I could resume my Sesame Street watching with friendly characters like Bert and Ernie and Big Bird.

Although, I was not an equal opportunity monster-hater. For instance, I adored Cookie Monster. He was and still is my favorite Muppet. I was additionally cool with Telly, Grover, and Oscar the Grouch. Here are the monsters that scared me the most when I was little:

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1 Comment so far

  1. Nantuckerin June 21st, 2007 2:51 pm

    Okay, this blog made me laugh out loud. My 3-year-old son is scared to death of the Big Bad Wolf that appears on Sesame Street every once in awhile. Like, will run out of the room when he appears on the screen. Go figure.

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