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Revision as of 02:49, 27 November 2019
Music by | Joe Raposo |
Lyrics by | Raposo, Jon Stone, Bruce Hart |
Date | 1969 |
"One of These Things" was a song regularly used on Sesame Street for sketches where viewers would be shown a group of four items, one of which was different from the other three, and they would have to identify the item which didn't belong. A similar song that asks the inverse question is "Three of These Things."
The game has been used in segments starring William Wegman's dogs, and in animated form, melody only, with footprints. It was also the basis for a game in one "Journey to Ernie" segment. A line of the song is included in the theme for the "This is the Game Today" segments, and some of the games from "This is the Game Today" include this song.
Versions
Picture | Singer | EKA | Subjects |
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Susan | Test Show 2 | First round: Three and three Ws Second round (sung as "One of These Shapes"): Three triangles and a circle According to research documents, the children complained when the camera zoomed in on one item at a time. | |
Susan | Episode 0001 | W and three Twos | |
Susan and Oscar the Grouch | Episode 0013 | Ice cream cone sizes | |
Bob | Episode 0030 | three small and one large O, three big and one large hand, three long and one short pencil, and three fat wedges and one thin wedge of cake | |
Susan | Episode 0043 | Shoe sizes | |
Susan | Episode 0078 | Letters and a tree | |
Susan | Episode 0123 | Capital and lower-case R's. | |
Susan, Bob and Grover | Episode 0131 | Circles | |
Cookie Monster | Episode 0174 | Number of cookies on each plate | |
Bob and the kids | Episode 0207 | Ds | |
Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus | Episode 0298 | Three cut-out drawings of Snuffleupaguses and a cup | |
Maria | Episode 0352 | cookies | |
Gordon | Episode 0394 | Upper and lowercase E | |
Susan | Episode 0514 | Happy and sad faces | |
David | Episode 0536 | Three starfish and one crab | |
Big Bird | Episode 0573 | Big and small bowls of birdseed. | |
Bob and Maria | Episode 0592 | Three triangles and 23 | |
The adults, Gladys the Cow, and the kids | Episode 1056 | People and a cow | |
Snuffy and Alice | Episode 2477 | Brussels Sprouts and Balls | |
Uncle Wally, horses | Episode 2578 | Uncle Wally and a singing group of horses. | |
Big Bird and the adults | Episode 2747 | One bird and six adults | |
Sidney | Episode 2755 | Three cans, one cup | |
A penguin | Episode 3145 | Four penguins - one of which has a clown nose on its beak, and one of which is Wolfgang in disguise. | |
Gina, Kids, Elmo and Baby Bear | Episode 3410 | A blue ball, a yellow ball, a blue pull-duck, and a blue block. | |
Big Bird and Gordon | Episode 3540 | The Squirrelles and a rabbit. | |
Elmo and Zoe | Episode 3872 | A number 1 and three socks. | |
Louie | Episode 4809 | Vegetables and meat | |
Oscar the Grouch, Rosita and Herry Monster | A Swingin' Sesame Street Celebration | Instruments and Grouch instruments | |
Susan and Bob | Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration | Three number 50s and an L | |
Bob (pretending to be John-John) and John-John (pretending to be Bob)[1] |
Feet animations
A series of animated segments from season 4 featured an instrumental of the song over visuals of footprints or shoes in a graph.
Releases
- Audio
- The Sesame Street Book & Record (1970)
- One of These Things/Up and Down (single, 1970)
- Somebody Come and Play (1974)
- 60 Favorite Songs from Sesame Street (1975)
- 25 Greatest Hits (1975)
- Susan and Bob Sing: One of These Things/What Are Kids Called (single, 1976)
- 10th Anniversary Album (1978)
- Platinum Too (1997)
- Video
- Play-Along Games and Songs (Cookie Monster version)
- Old School: Volume 1 (in episodes 0001, 0131, 0276, 0406, and 0536)
- Old School: Volume 2 (in episode 1056)
- Let's Play Games (kids with umbrellas version) (on bonus CD-ROM)
- 40 Years of Sunny Days (Cookie Monster version)
- Publications
- Sesame Street Songbook Vol. 1
- The Sesame Street Songbook (1971, 1992 and 2007 editions)
- Online
- YouTube (Cookie Monster version) (YouTube)
Mentions
- This song was included in a 2004 Subway commercial, where it was called "One of These Subs".
- Dave Grohl, from the Foo Fighters, admits that he was influenced by "One of These Things" while writing the song "The Pretender". (YouTube)
- The Mindless Self-Indulgence song "Unsociable" has the line: "One of these shapes is not like the other holes," which is very similar to this song.
- In the tour Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity, Peanut comments on Jose Jalapeno calling Jeff "Senor Heff" and then "Senor Cheff". Jeff Dunham says it's the same thing and Peanut replies "No it's not! Didn't you watch Sesame Street?" Then he sings a short clip of "One of These Things" singing "One of these things just doesn't belong here". Then he parodies the end of the show by saying that "this show was sponsored by the sound CH."
- Taylor Swift's song "ME!" references the song in the lyrics. (YouTube)