| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Oscar takes a vacation | |||||||||
| Air date | March 26, 1971 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon welcomes the viewer as he gets the paper from Hooper's Store. He and the kids look up in the sky and see Alphabet Bates skywrite the letter E (First: Episode 0061). |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #2" (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | Ernie cries because he loves the number 2 so much. Bert snaps Ernie out of it and introduces a letter E film...causing Ernie to cry again, since E happens to be his favorite letter. (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cartoon | E Imagination Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cartoon | E for elephant, eagle, everything, and egg. (First: Episode 0002) |
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SCENE 2 | Susan and Gordon come across Oscar humming "Sentimental Journey" as he reads some travel brochures. He has them guess where he’s going on vacation: it has gorgeous scenery and nice breezes. They guess the mountains or the seashore, but Oscar reveals he’s going to the Mud City Town Dump, located just thirty miles South of Sesame Street where it rains all the time. Oscar shows more brochures that advertise places like Lake Lousy and Rancid River. |
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Film | New Bridge #1 - Panel Drop (First: Episode 0105) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: What Happened Here — Ernie shows drawings to Bert, and Bert has to guess what happened. (First: Episode 0030) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar asks for Bob’s help in packing for his vacation. He hands Bob a tattered old carpet bag he got from his great-great-grandfather and goes through his inventory. Bob makes sure he has his ticket (via Garbage Express), and Oscar packs an umbrella (full of holes, naturally), a pail and shovel, some Attract-a-Bug spray, a can of fly food, and a broken camera. |
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Cartoon | Today's Secret Drawing is a fireman. (First: Episode 0200) |
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Film | Kids comment on a film of the process of peanuts being made into peanut butter. (First: Episode 0194) |
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Cartoon | E for elephant, eagle, everything, and egg. (repeat) |
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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 4 | Susan takes the opportunity to play a “Here Are Some Things” game using toy transportation modes: a jet plane, a boat, a train, and a horse. Oscar then does his own version of the game, using more toy transportation modes. Included is a garbage truck, which Grouches prefer to travel in. Oscar goes on to brag about how the ugly stewardesses serve coffee, tea, or mud. Susan gives him a rotten send-off, which Oscar admires. |
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Film | "Doll House" (First: Episode 0131) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Blows a Fuse — Ernie and Bert are watching TV, but Bert gets bored and decides to play a record. (First: Episode 0003) |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby tells his young friends a story that involves "over" and "under". He mixes the words up, and the kids correct him. (First: Episode 0136) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan reads a postcard from Oscar to Gordon and Bob, saying that he's met plenty of grouchy friends and is having a horrible time. The others discuss how sometimes it's difficult living with someone so irritable. |
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Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot demonstrates "over" and "under" by having Grover lie over a mattress. Then Grover lies under the mattress, and Herbert drives the point home by adding more objects over Grover. (First: Episode 0198) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates over and under. |
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SCENE 6 | The gang is surprised to see Oscar home from his vacation so early. Oscar reveals that the Mud City Town Dump had become too clean for him, and it didn’t even rain. Despite all this, he still gives everyone a souvenir: jars of mud (which Gordon mutters smell like Tyrone, Pennsylvania). |
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Muppets | Tony sings "Lulu's Back in Town". Lulu turns out to be the Beautiful Day Monster, with a wig. (First: Episode 0030) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #1: Dots appear uniformly (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | Hunt for Happiness: Helen Happy tells Harold Happy that she has mud on her sneaker. (First: Episode 0112) |
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Celebrity | The New York Mets make 4 hits in a row, but miss on the 5th. (First: Episode 0161) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #3: Last dot shows up early (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | Grandmother Happy suggests that Helen wipe the mud off her sneaker with a rag... but now... there's mud on the rag! (First: Episode 0112) |
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Celebrity | The New York Mets make 14 hits in a row, but miss on the 15th. (First: Episode 0167) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #6: Dot blows raspberry (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | Grandmother Happy tells Harold to wash the mud off the rag with soap. It works... but now there's mud on the soap! Grandmother Happy gives up. (First: Episode 0112) |
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Celebrity | The New York Mets make 15 hits in a row, but miss on the 16th. (First: Episode 0167) |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #2" (repeat) |
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SCENE 7 | Susan talks about the number 2 with some kids, and they comment over the following film... |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A series of zoo animals are shown in pairs. (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: E for egg (repeat) |
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Film | Jerry Nelson introduces the letters U and N. Other letters join them and become SUN, RUN and FUN. |
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Celebrity | Pat Paulsen says the alphabet. (First: Episode 0067) |
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SCENE 8 | Oscar still has some vacation time left, so he looks through the other travel brochures. He also considers going to Bilge Gulch and Slobonia and signs off before he starts packing again. Bob announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Oscar holds the Sesame Street sign, and Bob and Susan hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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