'G'! Glue! ('Sesame Street' Wednesday)

"Nu nu nu nu nu nu nu..."

It's...the animated typewriter!

Fans of '70s 'Sesame Street' surely remember the animated segments featuring the red typewriter with arms that sings and types out the letter of the day.

Some say that Speak & Spell was influenced by this typewriter, for it too was red with yellow keys.

In this comical sketch, the typewriter gets mired in a puddle of glue!



The existence of this sketch heightens the long-held theory that the celebrated "'G'! Gum!" mantra at my high school was indeed inspired by 'Sesame Street'. As many things at my high school probably were.

Except maybe the time someone pissed all over library books and threw them out the window over by the art room. That probably wasn't inspired by 'Sesame Street'. But who knows?