Wet Paint (Cerf/Stone)



"Wet Paint" is a song from Sesame Street, performed by How Now Brown and the Moo Wave. The song tells about what wet paint is and how it is used. The music video features footage of paint continually splashing and dripping chroma-keyed in the background (which repeatedly changes from white to blue). By the end of the song, How Now Brown (wearing a chroma-keyed vest) becomes crazy over wet paint, and paint begins to coat the camera lens while the screen slowly melts away (including the MTV-style captions).

The music video also features two brief shots of How Now Brown dancing on a yellow tarp with paint smeared on the floor, showing that he dances in it while singing about it.

There were two versions of the video. One of them starts with the red "WET PAINT" logo, and ends with yellow and orange paint-splatters. The other variant is longer, featuring a brief MTV-parody intro by a Hot Pink Anything Muppet (performed by Fran Brill) and an extended ending that closes on a varied mix of colors.

Releases

 * Audio (album version)
 * Sesame Road (1995)
 * Sesame Street Best (1997)
 * Video
 * Count It Higher: Great Music Videos from Sesame Street (1988, new captions)
 * Online
 * Sesamestreet.org short version: long version:  --MTV-parody intro edited
 * Hulu short version:
 * SesameStreet's YouTube Channel short version: