| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Polly Watson is lost | |||||||||
| Air date | March 9, 1971 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Bob greets everyone he meets, including the viewer, when he suddenly comes across a sad little Muppet girl named Polly Watson (Fran Brill), who is lost and can’t find her mommy. Bob takes her over to Oscar, so Oscar can keep an eye on her while Bob looks for her parents. Oscar isn’t sure he can make a sad girl happy. |
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Cartoon | "Imagination V" -- A surreal segment involving the Venus de Milo statue, a violin, a vampire, and vigilantes. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0050) |
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SCENE 1 cont'd |
Susan encounters Oscar and Polly. Oscar gives examples of what makes him happy, including a record of sad violin music, weeds, and an ugly doll; none of these cheer Polly up. Susan lists things that make most people happy, all of which end up making Oscar sad. |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby demonstrates sad. (First: Episode 0135) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: V for Violin A musician plays a violin, which instantly breaks. (First: Episode 0052) |
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SCENE 2 | Bob returns with some good news: he located Polly’s mother, who’s on her way over now. Mr. Hooper gives Polly a strawberry ice cream cone, and finally Polly’s mother (Caroll Spinney) appears to take her home. Everyone is happy witnessing all this, and Oscar grudgingly admits he’s happy too. |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby demonstrates happy. (First: Episode 0142) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — During the rain, Ernie stands under an umbrella explaining how the weather makes him feel happy, sad, and mad. Bert has been trying to get under the umbrella with him, telling Ernie that all it has made him feel is wet. Ernie wonders why he doesn't have his umbrella; Bert explains that it's because Ernie is using it. Ernie thanks him and leaves Bert sneezing in the rain. (First: Episode 0137) |
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Cartoon | Two men, one named Virgil Veep, discuss the letter V as they stand atop a capital V. (First: Episode 0110) |
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Muppets | The Hands count to 11. |
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Cast | Bob and Gordon erect an 11. (First: Episode 0183) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet girl shows the viewers that the number 11 is the same right side up and upside down. (First: Episode 0183) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Reading the Newspaper — Ernie has a question but decides to wait until Bert is done reading the newspaper to ask. (First: Episode 0042) |
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Cartoon | Small v ... for voom, voice, violin, etc. Artist: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0167) |
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Muppets | The Anything Muppets sing "All Together Now". (First: Episode 0015) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird attempts to help Mr. Hooper put a “DANGER” sign by a big stack of boxes that he doesn’t want anyone bumping into –– which is exactly what Big Bird does when he tries to find the perfect place to put the sign. |
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Muppets | Grover reads a sign that says DANGER and looks around for said danger. He doesn't find it anywhere until he trips and falls on the sign. (First: Episode 0182) |
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Cartoon | "Imagination V" (repeat) |
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Muppets | Ernie tries to count his balloons. The balloons are arranged in a circle, so he continues counting around the circle, and counts some of them twice. Grover has a solution -- he pops each of the balloons as he counts them. (First: Episode 0133) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: V for Violin (repeat) |
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Muppets | Little Bird plays an imagination game, closing his eyes and imagining he hears sounds. At the end of the game, he imagines that he hears a scary monster -- and when he opens his eyes, Herry Monster is there, growling at him. (First: Episode 0148) |
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SCENE 4 | Imagination quickies: Can you guess what they’re doing?
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Animation | A hungry head eats four circles one by one. |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster sings "One of These Things." (First: Episode 0174) |
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Muppets | Gordon asks Ernie to put three balls and a balloon into four small boxes. When Ernie learns the trick, he tries to play the game with Cookie Monster. (First: Episode 0008) |
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Film | A female voiceover counts 20 backflips performed by a monkey. |
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SCENE 5 | Oscar doesn’t like monkeys, but prefers pigs. |
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Film | Baby pigs run in a field, and drink their mother's milk. (First: Episode 0169) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: The Mysterious Nose-Snatcher — Bert and Ernie get closer to the camera to observe "The Mysterious Nose-Snatcher." (First: Episode 0005) |
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Cartoon | Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes is far away, while a monster is near. She gets closer to the monster and accidentally steps on his foot, then ends up in his jaw. (First: Episode 0076) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie has a plate full of cookies that is near him. Ernie walks away from the cookies that is far from him. While Ernie is far, Cookie Monster eats the plate full of cookies. |
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SCENE 6 | Susan and some kids put together a picture puzzle of a policeman to match the one on the wall. |
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Muppets | Ernie tries to find another cookie with a criss-cross of icing. He has trouble matching cookies, but Cookie Monster "matches" them by eating them (putting them all in the same place, his stomach). (First: Episode 0169) |
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Song | "Fireman Ready to Go" (First: Episode 0131) |
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Cartoon | Small v (repeat) |
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SCENE 7 | Gordon, Bob, and the kids continue playing imaginary basketball as Susan announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Mr. Hooper and Bob hold the Sesame Street sign and Gordon holds the CTW sign. |
Notes[]
- Clips from Scene 1 (dubbed) appear in the Sesamstrasse 50th birthday retrospective special Tausend tolle Sachen! - Die 70er. Lisa Feller and Bernhard Hoëcker watch and comment on Oscar's ill-fated attempts to cheer up Polly Watson.
- In the Sesamstrasse dubbed airing, Oscar's record plays the "Good Morning Starshine" music instead of a sad violin.
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