Ernie and the Pumpkin Seed Candy Salesman (1970 Sesame Street sketch)

"Ernie and the candy salesman" is a sketch that originally aired during Sesame Street episode 0264 (during Season 2) on May 13, 1971.

In this sketch, a salesman tries to sell Ernie a piece of pumpkin seed candy for a nickel. Ernie doesn't like pumpkin seed candy, so the salesman offers him a deal: a smaller piece of pumpkin seed candy is better because it will not disgust Ernie as much, and he can have that one for a nickel, too. This continues, until he succeeds in selling Ernie a piece of pumpkin seed candy so small that Ernie cannot even see it.

There are no video copies of this sketch available online, but the German-dubbed version from a Sesamstraße episode that used to be uploaded to YouTube several years ago sadly had been deleted in 2014. Only a couple of screenshots (both taken from the deleted German dub) have been found. A user has listed the segment as one of the rare/lost Ernie and Bert sketches on a MuppetCentral forum thread.

As of March 2017, it is currently unknown if this clip will ever resurface back online (especially in English), or if any YouTube users appear to have the German dub of this clip backed up on their computers before it was deleted from YouTube in 2014.