| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Luis recalls his first day on Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Air date | December 17, 1971 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 3 (1971-1972) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Tom stands before an alphabet sign and names all the letters. He can't recall, however, which specific letter is being highlighted today. The letter Q flies off the sign and lands on Tom's shoulder (then nose), indicating to him the letter's significance. |
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Muppets | Ernie demonstrates the letter Q with a quart of milk; Cookie Monster drinks the milk. (First: Episode 0047) |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby demonstrates happy. (First: Episode 0142) |
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Cartoon | A bully says the alphabet to a mild-mannered gardener, who hits him in the face with a pie at the end. (First: Episode 0279) |
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SCENE 2 | Mr. Hooper has some boxes set in front of the store's front door, with a fresh box of rubber balls on top. He is forced to use the back door to set out the newspapers, then rushes back around to tend to the phone that has no answer by the time he picks up. He then has to use the back door again to bring out Susan's newspaper, rushing back the same way when the phone rings again (still with no answer). Mr. Hooper rests easy knowing he didn't accidentally knock over the boxes. Suddenly, Big Bird barges through the door and spills everything, having been trying to call the store twice already. |
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Cartoon | Q -- that funny looking thing. (First: Episode 0131) |
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Muppets | Caveman Days: Some Muppet prehistoric cavemen search for the door that leads out of their cave. The Royal Smart Person invents the word "EXIT" and puts it over the door. |
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Animation | Scanimate Films #4 (First: Episode 0132) |
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SCENE 3 | Tom and Paul wrap up a game of catch before going to Hooper's for a soda. Tom notices they have identical baseball gloves and if they leave them outside, they might mix them up on the way out. To prevent the problem, Tom whips out his "trusty felt-tip pen" and writes their names on the gloves so they'll know whose is whose. |
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Cartoon | Two lines intersect at the middle of the screen and have an argument; they cooperate by making a cross. (First: Episode 0276) |
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Film | Apples grow on a tree. (First: Episode 0093) |
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Cartoon | The great Alphonso and his trained X's (First: Episode 0299) |
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SCENE 4 | Luis sings "One of These Things" in Spanish, with houses of different sizes. |
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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. (First: Episode 0280) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan takes a turn singing "One of These Things" in English, with a new set of house pictures. |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd counts four lions. Artist: Bud Luckey |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby counts three kids, but a fourth keeps hiding behind him. (First: Episode 0154) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A kid recites a poem about adding penguins. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0255) |
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Muppets | Herry Monster looks for a triangle. He first spots a rectangle. Grover tells Herry it isn't a triangle, and becomes frustrated. Next he spots a square, Grover tells him it isn't a triangle, and once again is frustrated. Grover suggests that Herry should cut the square in half and make two triangles. (ending edited) (First: Episode 0195) |
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SCENE 6 | While playing in the dirt, the kids (including Paul, Brynne, and Shola Lynch) spot an airplane overhead. It's Alphabet Bates, the Sesame Street skywriter. The plane writes the letter Q (First: Episode 0047). |
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Cartoon | "Poverty Q”: A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself. (First: Episode 0048) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie is happy because he is about to eat his cookie, but Cookie Monster is sad because he hasn't had a cookie all day. Ernie gives him his cookie, but now Cookie is happy and Ernie is sad. The two keep passing the cookie to each other as both their emotions exchange. When the two decide to share they cookie, both end up breaking it, and now neither of them are happy! (First: Episode 0172) |
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Cartoon | Things that are the same or different are displayed like a slot machine. (version #1) |
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SCENE 7 | Luis asks Chris, Desiree, and Antonio what they want to be when they grow up. Luis notes that all those professions are important, but even now as children, they are important people too. He explains what he means by describing his very first day on Sesame Street... |
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SCENE 7 cont'd | In a flashback, we see Luis sometime ago wandering around his new neighborhood. However, he doesn't receive a very strong reception from anybody at first; Susan is rushing to get home, Oscar the Grouch is naturally unwelcoming, and Mr. Hooper has to deal with customers. Only Antonio gives him a proper welcome to the street and brings him around to meet everybody. |
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SCENE 7 cont'd | As the scene returns to the present, Luis observes, "And that's why children are very important people in the neighborhood." |
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Cartoon | Birds appear around the numerals one through twenty as jazz music plays. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0134) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit counts four eggs. A chick hatches out of one egg, so he counts the three eggs -- then two, then one. Then he counts the four chicks. (First: Episode 0282) |
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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. (First: Episode 0280) |
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SCENE 8 | Tom (in voiceover) tries to identify a squeaking sound. It's not Oscar blowing on his bugle. It's not Susan banging with her hammer. It is Mr. Hooper washing the glass on his front door with a squeegee. |
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Cartoon | Q -- that funny looking thing. (repeat) |
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Muppets | Twin Anything Muppets find they're identical, except for their voices. (First: Episode 0277) |
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Film | Two box-beings make each other look same and different by piling different objects on each other. (First: Episode 0226) |
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SCENE 9 | Big Bird disposes of some trash, when Luis tells him why it's important not to leave the lid off the can; it attracts a swarm of flies. Big Bird does the right thing and Luis compliments his smarts (which is immediately negated when Big Bird walks into his doorframe again). |
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Cartoon | The great Alphonso and his trained X's (repeat) |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby demonstrates sad. (First: Episode 0135) |
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SCENE 10 | Susan has some jacks, but no rubber ball. She encounters Brynne with a rubber ball, but no jacks. They cooperate to play jacks together. |
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Animation | Scanimate Films #4 (repeat) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie can't sleep, so Bert tells him to count sheep. Ernie tries to count sheep, but it's dull -- so he starts counting fire engines. The noise from the imaginary fire engine wakes Bert up. Bert says that Ernie's waking up the whole neighborhood, and tells him to count something quieter. Ernie counts balloons -- but the balloon gets bigger and bigger, finally bursting with a huge explosion that wakes Bert up again. (First: Episode 0276) |
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Film | The kids form a triangle and a square. |
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SCENE 11 | Susan, still playing jacks with the kids, signs off. Tom announces the sponsors and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Sherlock Hemlock poses with the Sesame Street sign, and Mr. Hooper and Susan hold the CTW sign. |
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