| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Construction workers fill Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Air date | November 19, 1971 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 3 (1971-1972) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | As Bob welcomes the viewers, Sesame Street is suddenly beset with an outburst of jackhammers and roaring compressors. Maria and Tom come by and see that workmen are fixing the street, and they complain about the noise. Oscar pops up wearing a hard hat and says he's heading to where they're digging, not wanting to miss all the noise, dirt and mess. |
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Cartoon | An N-terview with an N (First: Episode 0131) |
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Song | "Starfish" |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar shows Maria the items he retrieved from where the workmen were digging. Maria plays "One of These Things" with Oscar's trash, pointing out that the one rock doesn't go with the other pairs of things. She then helps him store it in his can. |
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Cartoon | Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes displays a G, for "good." She gets kissed by a monster, who says, "Gee, that was good!" (First: Episode 0279) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Plays the Drums — Ernie repeats Bert's knocks on the door with drum beats. |
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Cartoon | Nancy the nanny goat nibbles her nails and notices noodles. Artist: Tee Collins (First: Episode 0240) |
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Muppets | Sherlock Hemlock presents the letter N. (First: Episode 0253) |
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SCENE 3 | Rafael makes the letter N with a folding ruler, and teaches the kids how to say N in Spanish and English. Oscar appears to demonstrate some of his favorite words that start with N: nasty, noise, no, and nag. Rafael prefers the words nice, neat, and new. Oscar only has one word to say to that: nuts! |
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Cartoon | N is naughty, nice, nodding, nickel, noon, nibbling, nest, nut, nose, night, nine, and nursing. (First: Episode 0140) |
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Animation | The Queen of Six explores her garden. (First: Episode 0223) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #6 (First: Episode 0011) |
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Muppets | Grover the Assistant: The Amazing Mumford's pineapple subtraction act |
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Cartoon | A black cat chases after a white bird, until a white lion steps in. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0255) |
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SCENE 4 | Rafael and the kids make a triangle and a rectangle with the folding ruler. |
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Cartoon | G is for Glue Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0279) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird shows walking forwards and backwards. He's stuck on something he's supposed to teach about walking backwards. He continues to walk backwards until he crashes offscreen. He remembers that one should be careful when walking backwards because it's hard to see where you're going. |
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Film | A very busy man is asked by a voice what "forwards" and "backwards" means, but the man doesn't have time to listen. Instead, he is shown what "backwards" means by watching everything around him go in reverse motion! (First: Episode 0166) |
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Celebrity | Listen My Brother sings their own version of "The Alphabet Song." (First: Episode 0228) |
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Cartoon | Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes displays a G, for "good." She gets kissed by a monster, who says, "Gee, that was good!" (repeat) |
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Film | A baby monkey Music: Joe Raposo |
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Cast | Bob narrates a short story of how Tom, Rafael, Maria, Oscar and the kids cooperate to create a library on Sesame Street. |
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Celebrity | Flip Wilson counts from 1 to 20. (First: Episode 0147) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Wrong Patient — Ernie's doctor makes a house call to examine him, but soon learns that he has the wrong patient. (First: Episode 0137) |
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Cartoon | A girl wonders what would happen if she popped her balloon. She imagines it would scare her sister, who would end up breaking a vase and getting in trouble. |
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SCENE 6 | A kid named John instructs the others to draw a 6 on a white cardboard. Bob helps them count the six sixes, six crayons, and six children. Bob then asks what happens when you have six Twiddlebugs, segueing to the next segment. |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit counts six Twiddlebugs. When he's done, the Twiddlebugs have a party. |
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SCENE 7 | Rafael shows how to read the word LOVE, comparing reading from left to right to driving on a one-way street. |
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Cartoon | Nancy the nanny goat nibbles her nails and notices noodles. (repeat) |
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Animation | The Queen of Six explores her garden. (repeat) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #6 (repeat) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Tries Not to Wake Bert — Ernie comes home to a sleeping Bert and tries to think of things to do that won't wake him up. |
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Cast | In a series of quickies, Bob hammers in a nail, Rafael holds up a napkin, Maria has a medallion around her neck, and Tom has lined up some nuts on the counter in the shape of an N. |
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Cartoon | N is naughty, nice, nodding, nickel, noon, nibbling, nest, nut, nose, night, nine, and nursing. (repeat) |
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Muppets | Some Muppet kids (including Farley) plan to decorate their clubhouse, but each one is only able to find one item. They are upset at their individual failures, until they see what a difference each item makes when they're all hung up. |
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Cartoon | An N-terview with an N (repeat) |
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SCENE 8 | Oscar has Maria and the kids imitate the rhythms he beats out on his can. He's surprised when everyone is able to match his rhythms, so he does a longer, more complicated one and enjoys the noise everyone makes. |
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Muppets | The Miss Muffet Play: Little Miss Muffet rehearses for a play about her nursery rhyme. At the "Along came a spider" clue, Muffet's co-star enters wearing a number of different animal costumes, including a rabbit and a duck. Miss Muffet becomes increasingly annoyed -- and when he shows up as a fish, she grabs the parts of his fish costume off of him, and puts his spider outfit on. Naturally, once she sees the spider costume on him, Miss Muffet is frightened, and a crazy chase ensues. |
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Cartoon | G is for Glue (repeat) |
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SCENE 9 | Bothered by the lack of noise now, Oscar says goodbye and bangs out some "goodbye rhythms." Rafael announces the sponsors, and the credits roll over the kids playing in the yard. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Oscar holds the Sesame Street sign, and Bob holds the CTW sign. |
Notes[]
- The credit sequence for this episode appears on Old School: Volume 1 and was also used on the HBO Max edition of Episode 0276 (despite that episode having originally aired on a Monday).
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