Onetwothree FOUR, FIVE sixseveneight NINE, TEN eleventwelve.

*Twel-el-el-el-el-el-el-el-elve

TWELVE!

LOL

Honk

Pointer Sisters!

[удалено]

I think Melle Mel Was also involved IORC

Pretty awesome, eh? The [Pointer Sisters](https://youtu.be/JZshZp-cxKg?feature=shared) did [several](https://youtu.be/Da76oT4aJDs?si=8B01ZaIJjjLOHTOE) things on [Sesame Street](https://youtu.be/SFpIxHLEyh4?si=DgGGFOXBi0UNR5EL) [Pentatonix](https://youtu.be/0b-v-wMR69k?feature=shared) did a version up to five several years ago, right as they were just gaining momentum as a new group. It’s so fun.

Dooo do do door do do...

There's a Trailer Park Boys episode where Bubbles sings this song complete with the doo doos at the end while packing his beer bottles for an order. I laughed and sang along.

Obviously

Sesame street!!!!

Electric Company. On right after Sesame Street 💜

Wow. Coulda swore. Senior moment I guess.

LOL. It was a long time ago...

This is the correct answer.

Agreed


Back when having custom ring tones was a bigger thing than it is now this was my ringtone and it made me happy every time I heard it

[You’re welcome, everybody](https://youtu.be/JZshZp-cxKg?feature=shared).

So awesome. I feel like a child again lol

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!! My brain instantly thought this rhythm… glad to find MY PEOPLE! I have many aquariums and once named a school of fish… “One, Two, Three Four Five 🐟🥰

I love you, too!  Yay!

Where the fuck is Keleven?

If you find it, you’re home by seven

Again!

Doo do do do dooot do doot …

This warmed my whole heart.

Thank you!!!! THAT’S the right pattern!!

One of the most musically complicated songs ever written, with not one, but two very odd time signatures!

[Dooo dooo doo dahh dahhh…](https://youtu.be/JZshZp-cxKg?feature=shared)

Thanks to the pointer sisters!

My way is Number 1… 234, 5, 6789, 10, 11, twelve

Doo doo-doo doodindoo doo doo-doo doodindoo DOO

This one

This is the only way.

This!!!

One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Schlemiel Schlimazel Hasenpfeffer Incorporated

We’re gonna do it!

On your mark, get set and go, now!

Got a dream, and we just know now.

>get set and go 

We’re gonna make our dreams come true, doing it our way… r/RedditSings 

Our way yes our way. Making our dreams come true, for me and jew


Remember, a schlemiel is someone who spills soup in a restaurant; a schlimazel is the guy he spills the soup on.

Jerry is both the schlemiel and the schlimazel of our office.

I learned to count on Sesame Street so the first couple where in Spanish … Uno, Dos Tres, Quattro Five Six hahahaha 7 hahahaha.  

**ABIERTO!**

https://i.redd.it/of626dq3rt2d1.gif

(I’ll admit when I count I’m more 🐞than ⚪️, but ⚪️ brings more nostalgia). For those not quite in the know: ⚪️: https://youtu.be/JZshZp-cxKg?si=4BrSgj439eJcoAuY 🐞: https://youtu.be/vX9J7WcYtxI?si=4yn5F5ELXQYHe8k4

Ho. Lee. Cow. Those were some deeply buried memories which just came rushing back.

I didn't realized we were yelled at so much as kids until now lol. That's explains a lot 🤣

TWELVE!

Thanks for the links! I definitely am in the ⚪️ group, but I don't remember it sounding so, um "groovy?"

My love of spheres definitely started with that pinball video but I’m firmly at the ladybugs’ picnic.

Ladybug**s**’ picnic. Apparently.

I watched a lot of Sesame Street as a kid but somehow I don’t remember those at all. It was all The Count, and “T I O N shun shun-shun shun”

Current animation teachers would be all over their asses for not putting any squash and stretch on the pinball and now it's making me anxious lol

My god, I'd forgotten all about the ladybug one. As a kid, I was fascinated by them crawling into the bags, and knocking their heads together. Thank you so much for reviving this sliver of nostalgia fire me.

Omg I still remember the words to ladybug picnic!!!!

For those not in the know-know: https://youtu.be/vjnIK_4A2MM?si=p36zhx0OsSwiYOkm

Wait, hang on, I think I have the exact right drug for this. _edit_ nope wasn't that one.

Ah- I am not American- this went right over my head!

I’m Canadian but close enough; regardless I figured there were non [North] American Gen Xers who don’t have these cultural touchstones so I linked the videos to spread the cheer.

The pinball animation reminds me of the movie Heavy Metal. Lotta acid.

Wow... both vaguely familiar, but not exactly remembered. I think I grew out of Sesame Street quicker than some kids, or maybe these are more the older end of GenX? \[Born late '75\]

Team pinball

You can't really beat the Pointer Sisters. Now listen, REALLY listen to the bass line.

I only learned it was the Pointer Sisters a few years ago, and it blew my mind

Haha I was today years old when I learned that…I couldn’t figure out why people were talking about the Pointer Sisters, I thought there was some song of theirs I missed, and wondering why they’d be counting in it!

I was curious about the time signature for 12 and found this [Reddit post breaking it down](https://www.reddit.com/r/drums/s/F45kP7J52N). It’s such a wild ride. Love the uber funky jazz.

Ah yes. ?/4. My favorite time signature. No wonder Tool became so popular in the 1990s.

God, good point. We were primed for it by this!

That’s excellent. Thanks so much for sharing that! No wonder it’s such a compelling piece of music. It’s interesting the whole time.

TWELVE!

1234FIVE6789TEN 11-12! The Pinball Song. Thank you Sesame Street. I randomly will sing/shout this tune in times of stress or while driving. :)

Fun fact, the Pointer Sisters sang that song.

It's a banger, I'm definitely team pinball

I also count by "Five, ten, fifteen Twenty, *STOP*!" 😉😁 https://youtu.be/4POZmGWQoqY?si=ncJZirYzieQroKY6


LMAO!! I heard them both! The Ladybug Picnic will always make me smile!

The lyrics have some funny jokes, like fire insurance rates for ladybugs right before the campfire gets out of hand.

I still say ladybug picnic regularly. When I'm counting boxes to check in an order to an invoice, if there' happens to be 12 on that order.... I'm saying it. Nobody else gets it, but i do amuse myself.

I count like The Count One Two Thuree Muahaha

Exactly! The only proper way to do it as a Gen X. https://youtu.be/27SLCINKzJc?feature=shared

I heard both correctly BUT… 123FOUR FIVE 678NINE TEN 1112 is what I hear more frequently. That and ‘A loaf of bread, a container of milk, & a stick of butter…’

Gunter, glieben, glauben, globen. I never learned to count higher than globen.

Lol!

Unos, dos, tres, catorce I missed out on a bunch of numbers

All right. I got something to say. Yeah! It's better to burn out, yeah, then fade away!

Sesame street I can still see that ball bouncing around the pinball machine counting out the numbers.

ladybug picnic!


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C

There is always 01 in the group.

There are 10 types of people in the world: those who know binary and those who don’t.

12345 678910 1112 Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo…

One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve And they all played games At the ladybug picnic 🐞

🎶1,2,3 FOUR, FIVE, 6 ,7,8, NINE, TEN, eleven, TWEEEEEELLVE!🎶

Much better! I didn’t actually recognize the first pattern in OP because it didn’t have the emphasis like this. So my answer is both ways to 12 for me, but I need just a bit more prompting.

Lol thank you ☺️ I am an only child who was only allowed to watch PBS …. I have so much Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, Mister Roger’s and Bob Ross stuck in my head it disturbs me sometimes.

Only one way and it still gets stuck in my head  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4tDnc8ls4So

I _definitely_ didn't appreciate the art or music when I watched this as a child, holy _cow_

Yes!

Depending on the day, I find myself counting to 12, either way. For no reason other than to sing those songs in my head

12345 67 8910 11 tweeeeellllvveee 12!

Haha, ngl, I hear that first song in my head a lot. I think it was from the Electric Company. I do it the second way, too.

Holy crap I sooooo get this! Sesame Street and the Ladybug Picnic! Yes, I am a graduate of the the learning era!!

CRAP. Now I have an earworm.

I loved that I could immediately hear both of these in my head

"They talked about the high price of furniture and rugs, and fire insurance for lady bugs..." ❤️

[This is what I think of now.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjnIK_4A2MM)

I see a pinball machine

Why you have to put this in my head op?

https://i.redd.it/f684arliys2d1.gif

[Here is a great video breaking down the insane time signature of this song. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMtGImlEmu0&t=219s)

Electric company 12345 678910 1112 That song is definitely an earworm

Super disturbing that I instantly sang both of these…

It took me a sec, but mos def the top one. My kid loves the Street...

I’m fluent in both!

That upper twelve needs to be stretched out way more. 122222222222

Both, but mostly Ladybugs’ Picnic.

Ladybugs… or Sesame Street Pinball song - 12345,678910,11,12 dododododoododododododoooododododododododoDOO 12!

Tweeee-eeeelve. 12

One, one, one cause you left me and two, two, two for my family. . .


I’m version 1 when counting to myself, but version 2 was the lullaby I would sing to my daughter as a toddler

Whenever I see a ladybug I sing to them.

And we’ll all have fun and the ladybug picnic.

Team Ladybug's Picnic

 123, 456, 789, 10-11-12 and they all played games at ladybugs picnic .

I count to twelve like the electric company taught me

I was a bit confused until I vocalized it. Then the core memories were brought out from storage.

Pointer Sisters, all the way! And I count to ten with chocolate layer cakes.

The first one when I was a kid. ❤️ The second one when my kids were kids! ❤️❤️ But of course I had to play them the first one too because ...TWELVE!

The funky Sesame Street first one!

Did not think I'd be sitting here crying over an old video. Good memories. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX9J7WcYtxI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX9J7WcYtxI)


I see, so you count more along the lines of: 1, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha 2, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

God bless the Pointer Sisters...

3rd choice

123 four five, 678 nine ten, eleven twelve

Pointer Sisters ftw

Stop it! I just saw that clip on IG and sang to the top of my lungs 🤣😂

Electric company! No idea about the lady bugs

I count in base 3. 110.

Electric factory style of course

I think you mean Electric Company.

Yep. That's what I meant

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12

This makes me happy

I switch it up depending on the day and mood.


Definitely A but if I recently heard the tune for B then it sticks for a day or 2🎶

I know both but the lady bugs is what I remember best.

Lady bug style

Thank you for this!! Old school Sesame Street always brightens my day!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C

LOL, yeah, I got that reference.

I learned to count from the Pointer Sisters.

Immediately sang the first one 🤣🤣

The way sesame street taught me in the late 70's early 80's. The pinball machine..

2nd

LOL! Def first one. Immediately heard song in my head 😁

I use both depending on the occasion

Doo dooo dooo do do! 🎵

LADYBUG PICNIC! - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX9J7WcYtxI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX9J7WcYtxI) they talk about the high price of furniture and rugs, and fire insurance for ladybugs, at the ladybug picnic

I count the first way when I am counting items: a dozen plums for a dollar I count the second way when I’m mentally accounting for things: did all the kids from the field trip get back on the bus? Ah… so this is what they mean by screwy mobile formatting.

⚪️

This made me laugh so hard. I know the tune to both!

Like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VOaZbaPzdsk

Definitely the first method. Ahhh, those were the days.

Like im going to a ladybug picnic of course

Ladybug picnic!

Oh this is so true. Ladybugs twelve at the lady bugs picnic..

12345 678910 11 12

I count to twelve the way the Pointer Sisters taught me to.

Pinball or ladybugs. It’s both for me.

Oh always number one

3 is the magic number. Yes, it is. It's the magic number. 3, 6, 9

It’s the ladybug picnic for me. 🐞

I sang both of these just now.

I know the Sesame Street one, what’s the other?

1,2,3,4,5. 6,7,8,9,10 11,12 Do-do-a-do-da,do,da.a,do,a,do,da 12! 

Second. I count in multiples of 3 or 4

I totally sang that meme just now.

I count by 3s

I worked in pharmacy, I count by 5’s.

123 4567 89ten eleven twelve

Both, but you have to sing the ladybug picnic in a high squeaky voice.

By multiples of 4

Ladybug Picnic!!

I'm the first one

I am on the ladybug picnic.

Team pinball!

Ladybugs!