Sesame Street 
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| Reading Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | |||||||
| Air date | April 3, 1970 | ||||||
| Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon has three pairs of shoes: one for babies, one for kids, and one for adults. He starts up a game with a kid as a shoe salesman, and pretends to be the customer trying on a big, bigger and biggest shoe. |
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Film | "Big, Bigger, Biggest" A junior car dealer displays cars of different sizes to people of different sizes. (First: Episode 0003) |
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Film | Tracks from a race car cross paths until most of the screen is blank. A pair of foot prints crosses the screen to blank out the last bit. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: K - Key (First: Episode 0040) |
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Cartoon | K is for kitten. (First: Episode 0040) |
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Muppets | Cheers: The Anything Muppets cheer for the letter K. (version #1) (First: Episode 0100) |
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Celebrity | Jackie Robinson says the alphabet. (First: Episode 0054) |
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SCENE 2 | Mr. Hooper reads the beginning of a book to Oscar and the kids: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig, about a donkey who finds a magic pebble and is cornered by a lion, then turns into a rock after making a hasty wish. Midway through, Oscar says he enjoys the story, as nobody has to bother a rock. Mr. Hooper asks the kids what it would be like if they were a rock, a lion, or a tree. He then points them to Bob and Gordon, who are observing a real donkey nearby. |
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Muppets | Two Anything Muppets sing "As I Was Going to St. Ives." (First: Episode 0045) |
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Film | "Seven Song (Song of Seven)" (First: Episode 0011) |
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Film | New Bridge #1 - Panel Drop |
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SCENE 3 | Bob continues reading the story, ending at the part where Sylvester's parents are miserable without him. Oscar enjoys this part, and remarks that Ernie is good at finding rocks. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie is going on a hunt for big rocks. When he tries to pick a really big one, the rock turns out to be the dome of a large monster. (First: Episode 0034) |
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Cartoon | Eugene wants his talking crow Willis to name some N words, and Willis replies with "no," "nothing," "nobody" and "never." (First: Episode 0101) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: N - Nail (First: Episode 0040) |
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Transition | A circle appears on screen, expanding like a balloon until it pops. |
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SCENE 4 | Gordon finishes reading the story, which has a happy ending. Oscar is disgusted by the happy ending, claiming that grouches don't know the meaning of the word "happy." Gordon points him to Kermit. |
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Muppets | Kermit tries to give a lecture on being happy, but Cookie Monster eats Kermit's happy face prop, which makes him mad. (First: Episode 0066) |
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Cartoon | Checkerboard transition cartoon |
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Muppets | Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Fireman and Postman. (First: Episode 0023) |
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Transition | The screen fills up with fluid. |
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Muppets | Game Show: Pick Your Pet Lucy Jones insists upon a pet that purrs, has silky hair, and likes milk... the Beautiful Day Monster. (First: Episode 0067) |
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Film | New Bridge #5 - Bounce |
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Muppets / Cast | Bob reads "The Story of Ira and Inez." (First: Episode 0034) |
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SCENE 5 | Mr. Hooper displays art cards of the capital and lowercase I, and explains to a kid the different sounds of the letter. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: I - ice cream. (First: Episode 0033) |
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Cartoon | A Gary Owens-voiced man attempts to discuss the letter I, but is jeered by an offscreen voice. The man uses him as an example of the word "impolite." (First: Episode 0032) |
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SCENE 6 | The credits roll, and the sponsors are announced. |
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