The Crack Master (GT Mini Fails)
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
An animated short aired on Sesame Street in December 1975, then disappeared. The search to find the elusive cartoon, and why it only made a few appearances, gained a cult like following online.
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| 0:00.0 | A cartoon that slipped through the cracks. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton. |
| 0:04.5 | And this is Ghost Town. The crack just growled instead and made himself look very big and mean. |
| 0:25.0 | He said, I am crack master. |
| 0:27.0 | But just then the wall plaster began to crumble to the floor and where the monster stood were only beams of wood. He destroyed himself trying to. In 1975 a popular children's show known as Sesame Street. Oh. |
| 0:43.9 | had a cartoon animated short as part of it. |
| 0:48.9 | And Sesame Street was known for repeating the same content over and over. |
| 0:54.3 | Yeah, remember the crayon factory one? |
| 0:56.2 | You got to remember that. |
| 0:58.0 | But they go to a crayon factory and make crayons. |
| 1:00.5 | I don't remember that. |
| 1:01.3 | What? |
| 1:01.7 | I feel like I've seen that 400 times and I haven't watched |
| 1:03.8 | Sesame Street in like 30 years. So there's this one animated short, okay. That |
| 1:19.7 | disappeared. It was there and then it was gone. Nobody talked about it and then it became somewhat of a cult phenomenon on what it is and trying to find it. |
| 1:31.4 | What? Let's start from the beginning. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm going to tell me, I'm going to get you there, Rebecca. |
| 1:37.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:38.0 | Please. I have so many questions. |
| 1:40.0 | There was an animated short called Cr officially, unofficially, and it was the story of a girl, |
| 1:49.1 | and it was sung by a, you know, the voice over person, it was like a kind of a sing songy thing and it was about a girl who was just at home. |
| 1:58.0 | It was a rainy day, she couldn't go outside, so she looked up at the cracks in her wall. |
| 2:03.0 | This is, we're talking in 1975. |
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