Sesame Street 80s Music Mashup Parody
Sesame Street Presents the 80s is an original Sesame Street web video, featuring a series of song parodies, released on the show's official social media accounts on July 27, 2017. The YouTube version contains the full, six-minute video, while all other accounts trim down to just the musical portions. The shorter edits also re-arrange the order in which the songs appear.
In the video, Prairie Dawn prepares for the Sesame Street Glee Club's performance. Cookie Monster consumes the lyric sheets as well as Grover's phone, where the music is kept. From inside his tummy, Cookie inadvertently starts up Grover's playlist of songs from the 1980s while the cast performs parodies of the tunes.
The video was written by Andrew Moriarty and Maxwell Nicoll.[1]
Songs[]
- "Loose Goose", based on Kenny Loggins' "Footloose"
- Grover with Abby Cadabby, Rosita, and a goose
- "Colors (There's Like a Million)", based on Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon"
- Rosita, Count von Count, and monsters including Elmo
- "Two Heads are Better Than One", based on Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
- "Count to Nineteen," based on Dexys Midnight Runners' "Come On Eileen"
- Count von Count with various numbers
This portion was later released on the video Cool Counting Collection.
- Count von Count with various numbers
- "Super Grouch", based on Rick James' "Super Freak"
- Two grouches (performed by Jennifer Barnhart and Tyler Bunch) with Oscar the Grouch
- "Bake Cookie", based on a-ha's "Take On Me"
- Cookie Monster with a Bunty Bailey Muppet
- "Don't Stop Your Reading", based on Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'"
- Abby Cadabby and books
- "Always Gonna Be Your Friend", based on Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up"
- Rick Astley Muppet with the ensemble
- Other songs/albums referenced (some through dialogue) include:
- Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust"
- Madonna's "Material Girl"
- The B-52s' "Love Shack"
- The Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up"
- Hall & Oates' "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)"
- Wham!'s Make It Big
- Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over"
- Europe's "The Final Countdown"
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