Wet Paint (Cerf/Stone)

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Written by	Christopher Cerf & Jon Stone
Music by
Lyrics by
Date	1984
Source
Publisher	Splotched Animal Music Company

Earliest Known Appearance: Episode 2847

"Wet Paint" is a song from Sesame Street, performed by How Now Brown and the Moo Wave. The music video features paint continually splashing the scene, eventually leading to the paint coating the camera lens, which How Now Brown becomes crazy over, while the screen slowly melts away as well (even causing the MTV-style captions to melt away too). It also features 2 brief shots of How Now Brown dancing on a yellow tarp with paint smeared on the floor, thus showing that while he's singing about wet paint, he's dancing in wet paint as well.

There were 2 versions of the video. One of them begins with the red "WET PAINT" logo, and ends with yellow and orange paint-splatters on the camera lens. The other version is longer, featuring a brief MTV intro, with a Hot Pink Anything Muppet performed by Fran Brill, and an extended ending with a mix of colors as the song ended after the yellow and orange paint-splatters cover up the camera lens. Both versions can be found on the video section at Sesamestreet.org.

How Now Brown's feet dancing in wet paint, as shown in the middle of the song, and at the end of the song, during the melting effect.

Beginnings/endings

Image	Beginnings/endings
	Beginning of the short version of the video (with the red "WET PAINT" logo).
	Beginning of the long version of the video (with the MTV intro).
	Ending to the short version of the video (with the yellow and orange paint splatters covering the camera lens).
	Ending to the long version of the video (with the mix of colors).

Trivia

The music video has a bare resemblence to the music video for "Freeze Frame" by J. Geils, particulary because both music videos contain paint-splashing in the backround.
The splashing paint in the backround was done with a green-screen effect.
On the television version of the song, the video has MTV-Captions that refer to as "Splotchkat Records", while on the "Count It Higher: Great Music Videos from Sesame Street" vhs, the video has MTV-Captions that refer to as "Mootown Records".
By the end of the song, before the melting effect, they show How Now Brown wearing a green-screen vest, mainly to make it look like yellow paint was thrown at him.
This is the only song about wet paint, where the lyrics are about what it is, and how it is used, rather than a usual warning song to stay away from wet paint.