Sesame Street | |||||||
Linda moves to Sesame Street | |||||||
Air date | January 24, 1972 | ||||||
Season | Season 3 (1971-1972) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Tom opens Hooper's Store and remembers he forgot to clean up last night before closing. He counts eight dirty glasses on the counter that he has to wash. | |
Muppets | Two Anything Muppet kids "fix" an upside-down 8. (First: Episode 0282) | |
SCENE 2 | Big Bird comes across some furnture in front of the door to the apartments above Hooper's Store and guesses that someone is either moving in or out. He worries that everyone might be moving away, and he'd be living on Sesame Street alone. | |
Cartoon | A blue man (voiced by Casey Kasem) explains that “Q” starts the word “quarter.” (First: Episode 0046) | |
SCENE 3 | Susan, David, and Tom tell Big Bird not to worry about everyone moving away, it's actually Linda who's moving into a new apartment. Tom tells Big Bird to watch Linda as she speaks, but Big Bird asks what she's doing with her hands. David explains that Linda is deaf; she can read his lips and respond by making signs with her hands. She's asking everyone for help because some of her things are heavy, and some of them are light. Big Bird would love to help; he'll carry the things that are light. | |
Film | Penguins take a bath. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0233) | |
Cartoon | The great Alphonso and his trained X's (First: Episode 0299) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert hears the phone ringing inside a basket, and asks Ernie to answer it. Ernie goes through the basket, and finds a banana. He pretends it's a phone, and gives it to Bert to talk on. Ernie answers the real phone, and tells the caller that Bert can't come to the phone because he's talking on the banana. (First: Episode 0004) | |
SCENE 4 | Luis bumps into Linda on the street and asks how the new apartment is shaping up. She says she needs a few things that Luis happens to have in his toolbox: a doorbell, a wire, and a lighbulb. She explains that she can't hear a doorbell, but she can see the light when someone presses the button at her door. Luis agrees to wire it up for her. | |
Film | Close-ups of animals. Kids try to guess what they are. | |
Cartoon | Dot Bridge #14: Dots line up at the same time as some squares who ultimately dominate the board (First: Episode 0297) | |
SCENE 5 | Luis finishes wiring up Linda's doorbell and she tells everyone that she'll have a party once she's all settled in. She shows the adults and kids some signs for the food that they'll have, and they all guess what each one means. | |
Film | Joe Raposo sings "A Little Bit" over a film about tomatoes growing in a field. (First: Episode 0288) | |
Muppets | An Anything Muppet boy and girl have a conversation using the letters of the alphabet. (First: Episode 0273) | |
Film | Mad Painter #8 | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: X for X-ray (First: Episode 0064) | |
SCENE 6 | Linda tells Tom and Susan that she plans on inviting Oscar the Grouch to her housewarming party. They tell her not to expect a warm reaction from him, but she heads over to his can anyway. Responding to her invite, Oscar yells and asks why he'd ever want to attend a party with ice cream and games and fun. Linda returns to Tom and Susan, and explains that she had a hard time reading Oscar's lips, but he appeared excited. Tom thinks it's more likely that he had a grouchy reaction and the excitedness was probably yelling. Linda says that one advantage of being deaf is that when someone yells at you, you don't hear it. | |
Cartoon | Dot Bridge #15: Dots and squares converse and form pattern (First: Episode 0290) | |
Muppets | The Word Family Song: ET family (First: Episode 0139) | |
Animation | An orange pops out of a basket of fruits and gets "made up" as the face of Carmen, the role in the opera of the same name. While singing "Habanera," the famed aria from the opera, Carmen loses her "face" and can't resume singing until the wig returns. (First: Episode 0277) | |
Cast | Part 1: In limbo, and without dialogue save for a voiceover, Tom, Rafael, Gordon, and Bob all try to get a drink of water from the same tap, but they keep arguing and bumping into each other when they all reach for it at the same time. The result is that no one gets a drink of water. (First: Episode 0292) | |
Cartoon | "Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0048) | |
Cast | Part 2: The four men circle the water tap eyeing one another while the voiceover wonders what they will do. One of them holds the tap while the other gets a drink. The voiceover declares that some things are easy when you cooperate. (First: Episode 0292) | |
SCENE 7 | Linda and Luis show the kids how to sign Q words placed on the wall of Hooper's Store. | |
Muppets | Ernie demonstrates the letter Q with a quart of milk; Cookie Monster drinks the milk. (First: Episode 0047) | |
Muppets / Cast | Bob reads "The Queen's Questions". In the story, Queen Quinella, who lives in a Q-shaped palace and owns everything Q related, wants to give her fortune away to someone who loves the letter Q as much as she does. She meets a duck named Quincy and asks him some questions, which he answers with more Q words. She likes him so much that she gives him her entire fortune — a quarter. (First: Episode 0164) | |
Cast | In limbo, Luis tries lifting what appears to be a heavy weight. David comes along and pops the weights on either end of the bar. He lifts it up declaring it to be light. | |
Muppets | Ernie explains how a scale can determine what is heavier than another object. With the scale, he was planning to split some cookies with Bert, but can't figure out how to do it. Cookie Monster shows him his way of solving the problem: he eats the cookies off each side of the scale until there are no cookies left. Ernie is disappointed since all he's left with is a "really good scale". Cookie disagrees--he's tasted better. (First: Episode 0264) | |
Cartoon | Q -- that funny looking thing. (First: Episode 0131) | |
Muppets | Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with teachers and a newsdealer. (First: Episode 0276) | |
Animation | "The King of Eight" (First: Episode 0225) | |
Cast | David, Luis, and Linda count in different languages. | |
Cartoon | A guru counts to twenty. (English version) Producer: Ken Snyder; Music: Billy Taylor (First: Episode 0276) | |
Cartoon | A guru counts to twenty. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0276) | |
SCENE 8 | In the yard, David reads a poem written by Linda while she signs it. The poem explains how even though there may be other Lindas in the world who look and dress similarly to her, she is still one of a kind because of her body, thoughts, and feelings. | |
Muppets | Ernie finds a big yellow ball, which belongs to Herry Monster. (First: Episode 0191) | |
Cartoon | "Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself. (repeat) | |
Film | George the Farmer shows embedded shapes using drawing of geometric forms and household objects with the same shape. (First: Episode 0288) | |
Cartoon | A blue man (voiced by Casey Kasem) explains that “Q” starts the word “quarter.” (repeat) | |
SCENE 9 | Linda and a kid sign the sponsors while David speaks them in voiceover. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Tom holds the Sesame Street sign, while Susan and Bob hold the CTW sign. |
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