Thank you so much for sharing your work on KZbin like this! These shorts are so unique and fun

Omg I thought this was some fever dream when I was a kid

watching your channel high will either be the best of times or the worst of times

😅

1:10 is that a tree with 4 eyes?!

Curious if there is a likelihood in the future of a new transfer of this cartoon scanning and distributing at a moderm resolution

I just discovered your work while looking for short films, and im absolutely captivated by your art!!

Wow...youtube has everything...just thought of this song and decided to search. PBS was great back in the day

This is amazing

They don't make music like this no mo

Hey, you’re the owner of abstract count, right?

LOL

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you released this short two months after my mother was born (November 1977) and posted this KZbin video two months after my brother was born (August 2006) pretty neat!! Anyway, I love this, it's so outlandish

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such beautiful creativity! this was epic. really felt authentic to a random ass short in a dvd full of them youd find at goodwill. very wonderful!

I've been showing this era of Sesame Street to my daughter (she is 8 months, I am 40) - it's what I was raised on, such enriching and uplifting content. Not too saturated or hyperactive, like the rest. This particular animation and song... I'd completely forgotten until we came across it, then every bit of it came rushing back in to my mind. When I was very little though, I did't underatand the resolution into "above below," but I still remember having my tiny perceptual mind expanded by this art!

This has been my all-time favorite cartoon for over a decade. Ms. Cruikshank, bless you.

I UNDERSTAND WHY THE LITTLE GIRL IN THE HELL SCENE DONT LIKE ANIMATION BECAUSE ITS CREEPY \ SAD

I love Anita's laugh

Anita sit here

Theme

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For some reason I do not remember this skit but looking at it reminds me of the opening to the 1987 movie Mannequin

This is one of the all time best animated shorts. Just as mesmerising on rewatch. I'm so glad this exists

Your animations taught us so much

The best

2006-2007

so glad to find a kids video with the comments enabled,even if i didn't watch the show as a kid,this song is stuck in my mind since i heard it for the first time

This is how sore throats feel to me, very weird and freaky.

This is my first time going down this art rabbit hole, but this is genuinely so BEAUTIFUL!!!

I really loved this cartoon, though I thought it was from the 1960s or something older, lol. Really reminds me of Picasso.

Deep childhood nostalgia just got unlocked in my mind. 😭 Really love this music piece. I know this is coming to 18 years since you uploaded this. I want to say Thank you for showing this great piece of 90s nostalgia. 😊

that was insane

I'll have what she's having.

Sally, this has got to be one of the best animations you've made, alongside the Abstract Count animations, as soon as I came across this animation from 1988 I thought it looked mildly interesting, and the second I began listening to it, I was SO emotional! This sounds like something I'd play over and over again as a 5 year old, I am an individual the younger generation, after all. Even though I haven't heard nor seen this animation anywhere, I unfortunately don't remember it, either, I can already imagine child me smiling big and wide at this song! The C major key and colorful, complex visuals match that of a children's show's intro that I would've watched that stretched from 1988 to 2017. Thanks, Sally, you truly are a legend in animation!

Saw this when I was 8 years old and boy did it scare me. That said, I really love how you captured that old surreal and often times nightmarish Fleischer Bros vibe in this and how wonderfully fun your other animations are. Thanks for sharing it! I'm surprised I don't see see the opening to "Lover Boy" or "Mad House" on your site also!

you were probably my introduction to surrealist focused animation and why i kept drawing i use to see stuff like this as street art on buildings hospitals and whatnot as a kid so i cant really pull back from those memories

Wait YOUR 75 😱

1:56 I can't be the only one who finds Kermit vibing in the Submarine funny

This is one of the most incredible cartoons I've ever seen!! Wow

Sally, I just wanted to say how much your animations mean to me. I grew up with them as a kid and had admittedly forgotten about most of them for the longest time. I vaguely remembered seeing something about a crocodile skydiving though I wasn't sure if it came from Sesame Street or Between the Lions. All my life, I had wondered what that beautiful piece of animation from my childhood was. Until recently, when I was suffering from serious depression, and I stumbled upon Above It All here on KZbin. Just seeing the thumbnail, a wave of nostalgia went over me. That was it! I finally found this beautiful, almost dream-like cartoon. I've since rewatched your entire Sesame Street portfolio. I later showed this clip to my mom, and we shared a heartfelt moment remembering it. It first aired long after she had outgrown Sesame Street, but she remembered it from my childhood. Your artwork is absolutely beautiful, and you helped me through some dark times. You helped me get off my island of emotions, that's for sure. Did you catch the reference? Lol.

This reminds me of when I was totally into ispy 🔍

Some are saying they find this creepy but I just find this hilarious. The rapid fire visual puns (and the punchline at the end) are very Looney Tunes.

Insanely catchy

this animation is genuinely one of my favorite things ever, and not just because of dannys song---i love how colorful and ‘surreal’ this is, and its so fun to watch !! I occasionally come back here and rewatch it a few times a day, depending on if i remember that it exists,, which this isnt hard to forget considering I've watched it so many times now it baffles me how fluid everything is and how it works so well together. i also love to doodle dannys character when im bored at school<3 the designs are so fun and i genuinely cannot get enough , this is great :)

Words can’t express how much I love the mood of this film. So evocative of that time, when 1930 was only 40 years ago (like 1984) and your Mars-y style was so stylish, dreamy and wild.

the best way i can describe this is, if yellow submarine and fleisher cartoons had a baby

As i was reviewing with my daughter about the plot of a story, this song came rushing back to me. I am now 40, and i am so grateful that i grew up in a error where our kids tv shows were both entertaining and educational. I let my daughter listen to this song and i know it will her to remember the different parts of a story. Thank you so much for this beautiful memory of my childhood

ive been singing dont go in the basement at random parts of the day for years now.. i cant believe this is almost 40 years old its so vibrant and memorable and timeless!