| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Another visit from Pete Seeger | |||||||||
| Air date | February 17, 1971 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Miguel meets with Pete Seeger at Big Bird's nest, where Pete has a steel drum he got from someone in Trinidad. He's just learning how to play it and explains to Miguel and the kids how it works, citing it came from a barrel much like the ones the kids like to play in. Pete shows Miguel some of the other instruments that the kids have: cans filled with pebbles, which Miguel and the kids shake in rhythm to a tune Pete plays on his drum. |
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Muppets | Ernie wants to borrow Herbert Birdsfoot's vacuum cleaner, but he worries about how Herbert will respond. Maybe Herbert's taking a bath, and he'll be so angry at Ernie for interrupting him that he'll tell everyone to never loan Ernie anything ever again! (First: Episode 0181) |
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Cartoon | "All right, now that you've eaten everything in sight, would you mind telling me what you plan to have for dessert?" (First: Episode 0006) |
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SCENE 2 | Miguel and the kids sing along as Pete plays his banjo and sings "Que Linda," with Miguel translating the Spanish lyrics. |
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Cartoon | A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion. (First: Episode 0029) |
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Cartoon | C - Cake (First: Episode 0153) |
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Film | City alphabet (Joe Raposo instrumental with kid voiceover) (First: Episode 0132) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor) (First: Episode 0029) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for carrot |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C - Cap (First: Episode 0154) |
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SCENE 3 | Susan sings "The UN Family Song" for Pete, with the kids supplying the initial letters of the words. Oscar provides running commentary throughout. |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet man holds up pictures and asks the viewer to find a square in each of them. Cookie Monster soon joins him when the man shows a picture of a cookie box, which Cookie Monster believes has cookies in it. (First: Episode 0143) |
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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. (First: Episode 0105) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #8 (First: Episode 0016) |
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Muppets | Two brothers, First and Last, sing about how their names affect how they do things. (First: Episode 0134) |
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Cartoon | Today's Secret Drawing: A camel. (First: Episode 0158) |
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SCENE 4 | Pete performs the "Bear Hunt" game with Gordon and the kids. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert thinks that Ernie has eaten his cookies, but it turns out that Cookie Monster (dressed as Ernie) ate the cookies. (First: Episode 0158) |
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Cartoon | Ten little Greeblies (bug-like creatures) keep getting separated by their group, teaching a lesson in counting backwards. (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | "Wonderful/Yucchy" (First: Episode 0177) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird has trouble counting the oranges he got from Mr. Hooper, so Pete helps him by performing "Ten in the Bed" while subtracting the oranges; Big Bird helps out by adding them again. |
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Cartoon | Jazz #8 (repeat) |
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Muppets | Lefty the Salesman wants to sell an 8 to Ernie, who ran out of money buying some 9s. Ernie then offers to sell Lefty his 9s. (First: Episode 0079) |
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Transition | Diamond transition (First: Episode 0007) |
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SCENE 6 | Oscar has Pete and Miguel guess what one of his favorite animals is: it's small, yellow, and has a stinger. They correctly guess it's a bumblebee, and Miguel points him toward the following with an "Abracadabra!"... |
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Film | A bumble bee Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0082) |
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Cast | Gordon and Bob assemble a letter C. (First: Episode 0153) |
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Cartoon | A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion. (repeat) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for carrot (repeat) |
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Cartoon | C - Cake (repeat) |
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SCENE 7 | Josh, Troy, and Sonia try to find hidden letter Cs in Gordon's picture of jungle animals. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for cat (repeat) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C - Cap (repeat) |
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Cartoon | A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion. (repeat) |
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Cartoon | C is for clipper... and captain, crew, cargo, cookies, cantaloupe, cabbage, candy, cake, and corks that the crew eats (some by mistake). |
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SCENE 8 | Pete talks to everyone about what makes them mad. Susan gets upset when Gordon leaves his socks lying around the house, and Big Bird sometimes gets angry when kids are playing in his nest when he wants to take a nap. Pete leads everyone in singing the Woody Guthrie song, "Don't You Push Me Down." |
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Film | A boy pretends a wagon is a bus. His friend tells him it's not a bus, and explains what her father, a real bus driver, does. (First: Episode 0181) |
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SCENE 9 | Big Bird asks Pete (whom he calls "Mr. Cigar") if he gets upset when people get into his nest. He then mixes up his words saying goodbye as Susan announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Gordon holds the Sesame Street sign with Susan and the Children's Television Workshop sign with Bob. |
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