| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Big Bird wants to say "adios" | |||||||||
| Air date | November 13, 1970 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Oscar the Grouch sings "Three of These Things" with a rancid sneaker, a tattered glove, a messed up sock, and a nice hat. Oscar tells Gordon and a nearby kid that the hat is the answer, but it won’t be nice for long, because he’s going to stick it in his egg beater and pour motor oil on it. |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit talks about the letter F. He wanted an F, but someone sent him an E. A monster asks what the difference is between E and F, and then solves Kermit’s problem by eating the bottom line of the E so Kermit can talk about F. (First: Episode 0033) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird enters the yard shaking a tambourine and clicking his beak like a castanet to a flamenco version of "Lady of Spain." The reason for this, as he excitedly tells Susan, is that he learned about the Spanish word "adios," and is anxious to say it. Susan tells him it's too early to say goodbye, so he goes back to his nest to practice it. |
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Muppets | Tony sings The Beatles song "Help!" because his date can’t go to the dance tonight and he needs someone to go with. |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #1: Dots appear uniformly (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cast | Larry and Phyllis argue about which of two photographs to put on the wall, ultimately choosing a third that they both like. They cooperate to hang the picture together. |
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Celebrity | The New York Mets make 10 hits in a row, but miss on the 11th. |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon introduces the AN family, and adds the missing first letters for pictures of things that end with AN. |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #2: Last dot is late and travels through others (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | A fairy godmother turns Cookie Monster into a handsome prince. He thinks it's ugly, and uses the wand to change her into her original form, Herry Monster wearing a wig. As monsters, they fall in love. |
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Cartoon | Casey Kasem narrates a cartoon about a frog, a fish, and a fly who are told by a fairy that the things they crave can be found within a cup in the sky. None of them can reach the cup on their own until they cooperate. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: F for Fly (First: Episode 0032) |
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Cartoon | Poverty F (First: Episode 0128) |
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Cartoon | F for Football Artist: John and Faith Hubley |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #3: Last dot shows up early (First: Episode 0001) |
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Film | A child narrates a series of black-and-white photos about how to bake a cake. |
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Muppets | "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked a Cake" (First: Episode 0031) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #4: Third dot wants to be red (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird asks Susan if he can say "adios" yet. She tells him to keep practicing as he waits. He repeats it to himself as his flamenco music plays. |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby counts to 20 with his "twin." |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster hangs his head down in sadness. Ernie gives a lengthy speech on how looking up is the key to happiness. While his head's in the clouds, Cookie looks up toward Ernie's cookie box and empties it, making him happier. |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby demonstrates sad. |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #3 (repeat) |
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Film | Kids narrate a film about water in hoses, fountains, puddles, streams, bathtubs, rivers, oceans, and other places. |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Cookie Monster helps Ernie match mittens, shoes, and gloves and put them away. Guess how he puts away two matching cookies. |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #5: All the dots turn red (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | Charlie is lost and finds a policeman. It's his Uncle Louie, but he doesn't recognize him in uniform. Without the uniform on, Charlie asks Uncle Louie to find him a policeman. |
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Cartoon | F for Football (repeat) |
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Cartoon | F for fly and frog (First: Episode 0034) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird is afraid he'll forget to say "adios," but Susan reassures him he won't. |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #6: Dot blows a raspberry (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | Tom Smith meets Alphabet O'Malley, whose full name consists of twenty-six first names, each one starting with a different letter of the alphabet. |
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Cartoon | Casey Kasem narrates a cartoon about a frog, a fish, and a fly who are told by a fairy that the things they crave can be found within a cup in the sky. None of them can reach the cup on their own until they cooperate. (repeat) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: F for Fly (repeat) |
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Celebrity | The New York Mets make 10 hits in a row, but miss on the 11th. (repeat) |
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SCENE 6 | Bob displays a birdhouse he just finished making, explaining how he's screwing the bottom of it instead of nailing it. He then shows the kids some pictures of a bird family who could live there, and has them add up the birds. They talk about how some birds are hatched in an incubator, and that their beaks are made to peck out of the shells. |
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Cartoon | Poverty F (repeat) |
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SCENE 7 | Susan alerts Big Bird that it's finally time to say goodbye, but he's forgotten the word. Sally and Ricky remind him, and Big Bird joyfully repeats the word "adios." After the credits roll, he continues saying it to the kids at his nest, as they play in the barrels. Bob announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | The Sesame Street sign floats above Ernie and Bert, while Susan and Oscar hold up the CTW sign at the end. |
Notes[]
- The credit sequence for this episode appears on Old School: Volume 1.
- Scene 2 appears (dubbed) in the Sesamstrasse special Am Anfang War Das A: 25 Jahre Sesamstrasse.
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