Wet Paint (Cerf/Stone)



"Wet Paint" is a song from Sesame Street, performed by How Now Brown and the Moo Wave. The music video features paint continually splashing the scene, eventually leading to the paint coating the camera lens, which How Now Brown becomes crazy over, while the screen slowly melts away as well (even causing the MTV-style captions to melt away too). It also features 2 brief shots of How Now Brown dancing on a yellow tarp with paint smeared on the floor, thus showing that while he's singing about wet paint, he's dancing in wet paint as well.

There were 2 versions of the video. One version features a short version of the video, with the intro beginning with the red "WET PAINT" logo, and the ending cutting off with yellow and orange paint-splatters on the camera lens. The other version features a long version of the video, featuring a brief MTV intro, with a Hot Pink Anything Muppet performed by Fran Brill, and an extended ending, featuring a mix of colors as the song ended after the yellow and orange paint-splatters cover up the camera lens. Both versions can be found on the video section at Sesamestreet.org.

Trivia

 * The music video has a bare resemblence to the music video for "Freeze Frame" by J. Geils, particulary because both music videos contain paint-splashing in the backround.
 * The splashing paint in the backround was done with a green-screen effect.
 * On the television version of the song, the video has MTV-Captions that refer to as "Splotchkat Records", while on the "Count It Higher: Great Music Videos from Sesame Street" vhs, the video has MTV-Captions that refer to as "Mootown Records".
 * By the end of the song, before the melting effect, they show How Now Brown wearing a green-screen vest, mainly to make it look like yellow paint was thrown at him.
 * This is the only song about wet paint, where the lyrics are about what it is, and how it is used, rather than a usual warning song to stay away from wet paint.

Releases

 * Audio
 * Sesame Road (1995, album version)
 * Sesame Street Best (1997, album version)
 * Video
 * Count It Higher: Great Music Videos from Sesame Street (1988, intro and outro cut)
 * Online
 * Sesamestreet.org short version:  long version:  (Half of the MTV intro is cut off)
 * Hulu short version: (Hulu)
 * SesameStreet's YouTube Channel short version: