Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-28713855-20160524215311/@comment-28396600-20171102053950

This isn't supposed to be funny, but it is VERY interesting.

Behold! The real world Candle Cove:The Crack Master.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y0ffj__R4g

Why is it the real life Candle Cove? Because it was completely lost for years. People thought that there were no copies of the skit even avaliable, we assumed that Sesame Workshop just destroyed every last tape of it that they could find. Even when it was airing, this skit only aired 11 times. Most Sesame Street animations (The Ladybugs Picnic for example) have aired close to 50 times, which is a big difference when compared to the Crack Master. Nobody ever talked about the skit until a blogger made a brief mention to it on her blog which started somewhat of a conversation from people who remember the skit scaring them as kids. The few people who had been exposed to it during at least one of the 11 times it had aired were shocked to find someone else who remembered it. A common thing for people to say about this short on forums and blogs is that they didn't even think the skit was real. Plenty of people assumed it was a nightmare/hallucination rather than a real legit Sesame Street cartoon due to it's dark nature and extreme rarity (stop giggling bronies, not THAT Rarity!). But anyway, one time someone had received the short from an unknown person who had mailed it to them. They made him sign paperwork and basically swear that he will NEVER post so much as a screenshot of this cartoon online. That only made people even more interested in the short because it made the skit seem even more mysterious than before. There had to have been a reason Sesame Street doesn't want anything to do with this skit but honestly, to this day we have no idea what caused it to be so elusive or why Sesame Street's writers tend to freak out at the sheer mention of the skit. I bet if you mentioned the Crack Master to a longtime Sesame Street writer, you'd get a similar reaction to if you went up to Giggles and polluted right in front of her but there's still no logical explanation that has been found yet as to why Sesame Street absolutely hates this short like they do. On Christmas 2013, the video was finally posted to the Internet after an anonymous source had emailed it to a random Australian YouTuber who does videos about lost media. He never said that the 'tuber couldn't post the video, so he did and it's been there for the world to see ever since. Which is even weirder because nobody at Sesame Street has so much as said a word about the short resurfacing over YouTube much less tried to take the video down or anything.