What Sesame Street segments scared you as a kid?

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I KNOW there's other people out there who were afraid of certain segments on "Sesame Street". I've seen threads about it posted online in various places. Anyway, I'll list some of the ones that scared me first so you can get an idea:

- the one where this guy is counting 40 dots, but his voice starts out eerily low, and then it just gets ridiculously high by the time he gets to 39 like he's screaming it or something!

- a cartoon where the letter F is burning and there's intense minor-key violin music in the background

- a couple of the cartoons from the late '80s or so that featured a bellhop whose tasks always involved numbers - in particular the one where he has to carry 8 steamer trunks scared me 'cuz the trunks fell on him and hurt him - poor guy

- a cartoon that teaches that "G" is for "gorilla", in which a man appears and then he unzips himself and reveals he's a gorilla - the noise the gorilla made scared me, as well as how I thought that back when I watched it that the gorilla ATE the man (which really he didn't )

- a live action segment where this lady (turned out to be vocal jazz artist Blossom Dearie) sings a song about milk which consists almost entirely of just the word "milk" - the way she sang it creeped the heck outta me!

- any segment with the Muppet monster Frazzle 'cuz I thought he was the devil back when I watched the show - literally!

- a song where three Muppet kids in punk rock clothes talk about how they cry even though they look "tough" 'cuz I thought that crying was "wrong" when I was a kid

- similarly, there were two other segments about crying that freaked me out - one was about a baby Muppet who sang about how he cried 'cuz he couldn't talk (sung to the tune of The Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop"), and another that was a cartoon about people saying "goodnight" where there was a crying baby in the middle of the cartoon

So I've said what scared me on the show. What scared YOU on Sesame Street back when YOU were a kid? (That is, if you even watched it back then)

I was a deprived child. I never watched sesame street. My dad was disabled and a stay at home dad. During the days of summer being home/out of pre-school/kindergarten the TV was never tuned to anything but Baseball games or news.

My second phrase was "no semmie-feet!" All Sesame Street scares me. Horrible show..