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 a green-screen effect behind the band playing the song, showing paint continually splashing the scene, eventually leading to the paint coating the camera lens, while the screen slowly melts away as well (even causing the MTV 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 shortened-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 an extended-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.

Releases

 * Audio
 * Sesame Road (1995)
 * Sesame Street Best (1997)
 * Video
 * Count It Higher: Great Music Videos from Sesame Street (intro and outro cut)
 * Online
 * Sesamestreet.org Short Version:  Long Version:
 * Hulu (Currently Shortened Version only)