| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Antonio's birthday | |||||||
| Air date | February 2, 1972 | ||||||
| Season | Season 3 (1971-1972) | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Mr. Hooper, wearing a circus ringmaster's top hat and cape, tries to balance four cans at a time. He immediately drops them afterward, only to show his prowess as a can picker-upper (via reversed tape footage). |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd counts four lions. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0300) |
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Muppets | Four Anything Muppet cheerleaders give four big cheers for the number 4. (First: Episode 0132) |
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Animation | Scanimate Films #4 (First: Episode 0132) |
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Muppets | Ernie wants to borrow Herbert Birdsfoot's vacuum cleaner, but he worries about how Herbert will respond. Maybe Herbert's taking a bath, and he'll be so angry at Ernie for interrupting him that he'll tell everyone to never loan Ernie anything ever again! (First: Episode 0181) |
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Cast | Mr. Hooper adds 3 chairs as a sportscaster narrates. (First: Episode 0288) |
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Film | A kid recites a poem about adding penguins. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0255) |
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Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin says his ABCs. (First: Episode 0103) |
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SCENE 2 | Luis asks Mr. Hooper, Maria, and Bob to help him plan a birthday party for Antonio. He'd like it to be Mexican themed and explains that they'll decorate the yard with flowers and colored paper, make Mexican food like tacos and enchiladas, and they'll have a piñata. Maria offers to make some pasteles, a Puerto Rican meat pie. |
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Cartoon | Clouds that look like things. (First: Episode 0211) |
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Cartoon | An N-terview with an N (First: Episode 0131) |
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Insert | Kermit gets to be all over the place. There's a frog in a nest and in a mailbag. There's a frog on the counter and on the trash can. There's a frog under the table and under the newspaper. (First: Episode 0295) |
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SCENE 3 | Luis teaches Susan and Maria how to make tacos, describing which ingredients go in the taco shells and on each other. |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates on top of. (First: Episode 0242) |
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Cartoon | Z for zipper (First: Episode 0025) |
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Cartoon | Z For Zebra & Zoo (First: Episode 0281) |
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Cartoon | Two alpine climbers hike up a letter Z and stake a claim on it. (First: Episode 0281) |
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Film | Kids count 20 penguins going down a slide. (First: Episode 0232) |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby tries to count 4 kids. (First: Episode 0176) |
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SCENE 4 | Bob and Luis sing "Bienvenidos!" as everyone gathers in the yard for the birthday party. |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster goes to the bakery for a special birthday cookie. The baker lists all the ingredients of the cookie, as Cookie visualizes it. The visualized image looks so delicious that he eats it. (First: Episode 0283) |
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Cartoon | A boy tries to count to twenty while playing with a paddleball, but gets interrupted by a bird. (First: Episode 0152) |
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SCENE 5 | Antonio arrives at the party with his mother and everyone points out all the things they did to contribute. |
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SCENE 5 cont'd |
As everyone begins to dig into the food, Luis brings some over to Oscar's trash can and asks Oscar if he'd like to try some. Oscar passes on the enchiladas and chooses a chili pepper, but Luis warns him that they're pretty hot. Oscar contrarily eats one anyway, dispels some smoke, and asks for another. |
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SCENE 5 cont'd |
Back in the courtyard, a mariachi band plays "Las Mañanitas" followed by "Feliz Cumpleaños." Everybody dances around in celebration, with Luis giving the birthday boy a ride on his shoulders. |
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Animation | A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found. (First: Episode 0268) |
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Animation | A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0277) |
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Muppets | Prairie Dawn invites Grover to dinner, but Grover can't come without Herry, who can't come without Cookie Monster, so Prairie invites all three of them until she learns that they are not cats. (First: Episode 0248) |
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SCENE 6 | Rafael blindfolds some kids while they swing away at a piñata that Luis holds from a pole. Antonio gets the final swing, releasing toys and candy all over the sidewalk. (Blooper: at the beginning of the scene, Luis refers to Rafael as "Raúl.") |
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Cartoon | "Poverty Z" -- A figure tries to sell a Z. His only customer stops him by locking him inside a zoo cage. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0085) |
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Muppets | Zs come out of Herry Monster's mouth as he snores. (part one) (First: Episode 0281) |
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SCENE 7 | Oscar likes the idea of a piñata, and presents to everybody his version for Grouches. When Oscar cracks his ugly-looking piñata open, everyone is repulsed when the contents include rubber snakes and spiders, old sneakers, dust, and rocks. |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet boy plays hide-and-seek with three letter Zs, who blend into his porch. (First: Episode 0200) |
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SCENE 8 | The mariachi band plays "Happy Birthday" again as Maria brings out Antonio's cake. After he blows out the candles, the band plays "Jarabe Tapatío" while two dancers perform a traditional hat dance. |
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Film | Kids use shapes to make a train. (First: Episode 0137) |
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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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Muppets | Little Jerry and the Monotones spell out RUN. (First: Episode 0226) |
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Cast | Gordon and Bob assemble a giant letter Z. |
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SCENE 9 | The band continues playing music as the partygoers make their way down the street; even Oscar enjoys it, dancing along with everyone. Susan announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Antonio and Rafael hold the Sesame Street sign, while Maria and Bob hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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