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

"Ernie and the Pumpkin Seed Candy Salesman" (usually shortened to "Ernie and the Candy Salesman") is a sketch that originally aired during Sesame Street episode 0264 (during Season 2) on May 13, 1971 (exactly a day after the Tales from Muppetland special "The Frog Prince" premiered).

In this sketch, a candy salesman comes up to Ernie and sells him some pumpkin seed candy. Ernie told the salesman that he doesn't really like pumpkin seed candy, perhaps like it was icky or something. He keeps selling him the sizes of pumpkin seed candy until he sells him the tiniest piece of pumpkin seed candy that he even can't see it like as if it was invisible. It almost looks like Ernie was looking at the camera in a closeup shot of the tiniest piece of pumpkin seed candy.

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 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, no YouTube users appear to have the German dub of this clip backed up on their computers before it was deleted from YouTube in 2014 and it is still completely unknown if Sesame Workshop will ever release this clip or if anymore upcoming YouTube uploads of full episodes for foreign co-productions (i.e. Barrio Sésamo, Rechov Sumsum, etc.), besides Sesamstraße, will ever have this extremely-scarce clip included by surprise.

It can also be really challenging to try to acquire copies of long-unseen clips (especially this one) from Sesame Workshop-- not only you would have to fill out a content request form along with fax paperwork, but the problem is that they'll charge a fee of $250.00 (an expensive cost of money) to allow you to acquire one single video clip, allow only a 30-second minimum for all clip licenses, and may also ultimately contractually prohibit you from posting the clips anywhere online due to licensing purposes.

There's a very small chance anyone will ever get to see this clip especially, since the only copy of it in German is now removed off of the Internet, and Sesame Workshop has no intention of releasing this segment (along with other rare, long-unseen segments) at all, perhaps due to the following reasons: either these segments are believed (by fans) to be lost from Sesame Workshop's archive to make room for more newly-produced episodes during 1974-1975, or there are certain legal issues keeping the majority of classic segments privately stored away.

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