Sesame Street - Furry Happy Monsters (1998, 60fps)
Furry Happy Monsters parodies the lyrics of R.E.M.'s "Shiny Happy People", about monsters being happy, then sad, and then cheering up to their happiness, backed up by a Muppet version of Kate Pierson using AM Monsters from Monsters in Daycare, and the Two Headed Monster, joined with R.E.M.
Standard variant
National Public Television variant
Sesame Street - Furry Happy Monsters (1998, 60fps)
Standard "Smooth" version
REM Furry Happy Monsters
Standard "Interlaced + Fadeless" version
Sesame Street- Happy Furry Monsters Song with R.E.M
Standard "Interlaced" version
Sesame Street - Furry Happy Monsters (1998, 30fps)
Portions of the segment, appears as clip, with it's audio playing throughout the SamHill Group reel on the director's Vimeo profile.
On the DVD release of Singing with the Stars, the first seconds of the beginning footage is cut off.
The entire music video, without the fade in/out exists, where the end stays at the closeup of the background longer before cutting to black.
Music/Sound Variants[]
At the end of the music video used on PBS Kids commercial breaks, the volume reduces to announce "You're watching channel 8, National Public Televison".
Availablity[]
Rare, has been on the following releases:
Syndication: Rendered in smooth 60 frames per second, it was used for original airings of Sesame Street produced for the PBS Kids era from 1998 until 2007. Original pre-2012 DVDs also had it intact on Elmo Loves You and Singing with the Stars (being one of the only DVDs from the 2010's to have this variant). The music video also appeared as a promo for the PBS Kids program breaks promoting the WNPT channel.
Online: Post-2012 uses of the song was deinterlaced, this time in 30 to 25 frames per second, can be found on online re-releases of previously aired episodes as of today where Episode 4033 was also included as a bonus feature for The Cookie Thief on DVD, it also appears on re-prints of the aforementioned DVD releases including the song, as well as 50 Years and Counting albeit frame blended. For it's official YouTube channel, uploaded in Feburary 2, 2019, remained interlaced.
The music video, also interlaced like the official YouTube channel's post, was posted on the director's Vimeo profile without the fade transitions applied from January 4, 2021, albeit deinterlac-able using media players (with bob support) back to it's original broadcast framerate as an upgrade to the poor interlaced quality recording included with the other clips on his 21 minute compilation of his Sesame Street work from a decade before this occurred.
