"Wet Paint" is a song from Sesame Street performed by How Now Brown and the Moo Wave, as a single released from their third album Signs of the Times. The song describes what wet paint is and how it is properly used.
The music video is introduced by an SMV (Sesame Music Video) Hot Pink Anything Muppet VJ (performed by Fran Brill), who explains the band's backstory. The video features chroma-keyed background footage of paint continually splashing and dripping on solid white and blue back drops. It also features How Now Brown's feet in red galoshes dancing on a paint-smeared yellow tarp. By the end of the song, How Now Brown (wearing a chroma-keyed vest) becomes obsessed with wet paint, which begins to coat the screen as it slowly melts away (including the MTV-style captions).
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The SMV introduction would later be removed in further airings as early as Episode 2240. Both versions of the song were available for viewing on Sesamestreet.org until 2016.
While the televised version of the video has MTV-style captions that refer to "Splotchkat Records", the captions were changed on the Count It Higher: Great Music Videos from Sesame Street video referring to Signs of the Times and Mootown Records; the lyrics to this song were released on a songbook in the original release of the video.
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