'Sesame Street' likes traffic lights ('Sesame Street' Wednesday)

About 'Sesame Street': It cracked a roo.

Just kidding!

Seriously now. About 'Sesame Street': They just love traffic lights!

We're so lucky we have traffic lights. Damn lucky! And 'Sesame Street' agrees, as shown in this 1970 sketch:



(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY4AKbAV2aw)

Did the kids who did the voiceover for this clip also do the voices for Peanuts animated specials? Some of their voices sound almost identical to Peanuts characters.

Notice also that this sketch was made before New York City introduced a yellow lens to most of its traffic lights. The city reportedly added yellow in 1952, but apparently, not all of the pre-1952 signals were replaced yet in 1970.

If a skit like this was made today, they could replace the silent movie at the end showing the results of the lack of traffic lights with a new video of just about any road in suburban Cincinnati. In local suburbs, everybody just ignores traffic lights, so it's as if we don't even have any.