| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Big Bird learns how to play baseball | |||||||||
| Air date | March 1, 1971 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Miguel, dressed in baseball clothes, is about to play a guessing game with Chris about what he was just doing. Big Bird overhears and wants to join in. After a bit of trouble trying to exit the construction doors, Big Bird watches as Miguel removes items from his bag: a baseball glove, a bat, and a baseball. Big Bird puts all the clues together and eventually gets the right answer. He says he'd like to learn how to play, and quickly gets the idea to get everybody to help him (including Gordon, Susan, Bob, "Mr. Looper," and John). Miguel relents, and Big Bird excitedly starts running down Sesame Street recruiting neighbors. |
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Cartoon | Jazz #5 (First: Episode 0007) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird watches as Gordon takes his turn at bat, with Miguel pitching, Bob catching, and Mr. Hooper as the umpire. Once it's Big Bird's turn, he gets worried he won't be able to hit the ball, but everyone encourages him to keep trying. Mr. Hooper calls out two strikes from Miguel's pitches, but Big Bird hits a home run when he tries to swat a fly, helping win the game. |
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Song | "1-2-3-4-5!" (First: Episode 0144) |
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Muppets | Kermit Lecture: More and Less — Several of Cookie Monster's pals gang up on Kermit. (First: Episode 0004) |
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Cartoon | Rocket countdown: The rocket shoots water. (First: Episode 0022) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster: Pile of Cookies — Gordon and Cookie Monster make selections from a pile of cookies. (First: Episode 0153) |
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Cartoon | Rocket countdown: The rocket doesn't go off until a few seconds after the countdown commences. (First: Episode 0148) |
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SCENE 3 | Bob sings two rounds of "Here Are Some Things." The first round has kids playing toy instruments, and the next round is kids holding toy items that can fly. Bob hears something real flying above... |
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Insert | Alphabet Bates makes the letter E. (with commentary from Bob and kids) (First: Episode 0061) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Cookie Cabinet — Bert and Ernie try to figure out who owns a cabinet containing cookies. (First: Episode 0019) |
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Cartoon | E for elephant, eat, eagle, everybody, empty, and egg. Voice: Casey Kasem (First: Episode 0002) |
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Cartoon | Clouds that look like things. |
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Cartoon | "E Imagination": A surreal story of a boy eating a peach atop an eagle witnessing a queen on her knee, dreaming of eating ice cream in a land of steam. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 4 | Miguel introduces Oscar to Mauricio and Gillian, explaining that when a boy is your friend in Spanish, he is your amigo, and that a girl is your amiga. Oscar indulges the lesson, asking how to say "go away and leave me alone" in Spanish, and slams the lid of his can shut. |
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Muppets | Lefty the Salesman: Stop Sign — Lefty tries to sell Ernie a stop sign. (First: Episode 0134) |
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Cartoon | Rocket countdown: The director's hat blasts off instead. (First: Episode 0148) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: E for egg A cow hatches a chick, which says "Moo." (First: Episode 0002) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird's alarm clock rings, signaling it's rhyme time. He recites a poem titled "Babies" about how babies are different from grown-ups. Verses include: "...You can't play baseball with 'em / Or share a soda pop / And sometimes when they start to cry / You think they'll never stop." |
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Film | A mom and her son comment on a film of various animal babies and their moms. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0096) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Apple Mystery — Ernie finds an apple on a brick wall and wants to know who it belongs to. (First: Episode 0137) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #5 (First: Episode 0007) |
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Cast | In front of a prop cutout of the sun, Gordon and Mr. Hooper eat ice cream cones wearing heavy sweaters. Without using dialogue, the two communicate to one another that it's hot out and agree that they should both remove their sweaters. After struggling for a moment, kids in voiceover tell them to cooperate, and they get the task done. (First: Episode 0193) |
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Muppets | Three Anything Muppets sing "Everyone Likes Ice Cream" (First: Episode 0026) |
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Film | Kids narrate a film about water in hoses, fountains, puddles, streams, bathtubs, rivers, oceans, and other places. (First: Episode 0135) |
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Muppets | Grover: Three Monsters — Grover, Herry Monster, and a little pink monster rearrange themselves in different ways. (First: Episode 0186) |
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SCENE 6 | Bob counts pennies and explains the use of a piggy bank to Big Bird, Farley, and Chris. Bob explains that he's going to save up his pennies until the bank is full, then break it and buy something with the money. He asks the kids what they'd buy, and Big Bird says he'd buy a new piggy bank to replace the broken one. |
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Film | Two boys each have five cents - one has five pennies, one has a nickel. They see a dime along the way, which is worth ten. They ask the man at the store for change for the dime, and he gives them a nickel and five pennies. They spend their pennies, but then they want to buy an ice cream for ten cents and the machine only takes dimes. They give the store man their nickels in exchange for a dime and they share a fudgesicle. (First: Episode 0132) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit and Tracy recite the alphabet. (First: Episode 0120) |
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Cartoon | E for elephant, eat, eagle, everybody, empty, and egg. (repeat) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: E for egg (repeat) |
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SCENE 7 | The kids play baseball near Oscar's trash can while Oscar calls out a strike. He tells Gordon he loves the job since the umpire is usually the one who nobody likes. Gordon signs off and Susan announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Gordon and Oscar hold the Sesame Street sign while Bob holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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