http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkgs_A_c2sw
I'm guessing this was from Sesame Street's first season, because these Anything Muppet cheerleaders were in one of my very early Sesame Street activity books as a youngster. I'm also guessing it was from the first season because they obviously didn't yet have the budget to create full-body stuffed recreations of the puppets to throw around, or at least Muppets with legs and feet. (Think of the karate-chopped Kermit on The Muppet Show.) I wonder if any children were freaked out by the legless body suddenly arising into the air, or it passed so fast that no kids caught on. It doesn't look like they could even afford an additional Muppeteer to operate the loosely-hanging right arm of Beautiful Day Monster (the furry blue guy). I love his "I don't wanna do dis!" at the end. It seems like there was a lot of that sentiment in the 1970s Sesame Street sketches, not just from Oscar, but from some of the other characters in reaction to forced participation in a song or educational activity. Now the show is so sugar-coated and nicey-nicey (go to Hell, Elmo) it resembles a lobotomy ward more than the gritty, snotty show I grew up on. Maybe that's where my generation got our independent nature and lack of team spirit. Not a bad thing, I must say.