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| Maria and Susan miss seeing Mr. Snuffleupagus; Tom cleans his air conditioner. | |||||||||
| Air date | March 31, 1972 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 3 (1971-1972) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird tries to get Maria and Susan to stay long enough to meet Mr. Snuffleupagus. Maria doesn't want to hear about it anymore and leaves, while Susan expresses how concerned she is about how much Big Bird talks about his imaginary friend. Once everybody else leaves, Snuffy enters and is so tired that he plops down in the yard for a nap. Big Bird ends up getting sleepy watching him and dozes off, using Snuffy as a big, soft pillow. |
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Cartoon | Two lines intersect at the middle of the screen and have an argument; they cooperate by making a cross. (color changes from blue to cerise to blue) (First: Episode 0276) |
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SCENE 1 cont'd |
Maria and Susan re-emerge and talk about Big Bird imagining a Snuffleupagus with the viewer, not noticing that they're both sleeping behind them. They leave to go to the movies, while a car horn wakes the sleeping duo up. Big Bird and Snuffy continue their search down the street for someone to meet Snuffy. |
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Cartoon | Letter U salesman (First: Episode 0202) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie has an important note for Bert, but he can't find it. He looks through the trash can for it and finds the note, which is a reminder that it is Bert's day to clean the apartment. (First: Episode 0255) |
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Film | Kids identify pairs of animals in a zoo. (First: Episode 0364) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella (First: Episode 0038) |
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SCENE 2 | Bob and Susan sing “I've Got Two” with some kids. |
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Cartoon | A guru counts to twenty. (shown in Spanish, then English) (First: Episode 0276) |
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Muppets / Cast | Bob tells the story of a mother who had a loud child (who screamed all the time) and a quiet child (who whispered all the time). The Amazing Mumford casts a spell to reverse their afflictions. (First: Episode 0305) |
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Cartoon | P is for Puppy (First: Episode 0199) |
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Film | "Doll House" (First: Episode 0131) |
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Cartoon | A dog learns about U. Artist: John Paratore (First: Episode 0131) |
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SCENE 3 | Tom checks the air conditioner filter at Hooper's Store, showing Marty how tiny particles of dirt and air pollution get trapped on it. He soaks the filter in some water, which instantly turns black. |
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Cartoon | P is for Pillow (First: Episode 0374) |
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Cast | Gordon and Mr. Hooper have ice cream on a hot day, but can't remove their sweaters by themselves, until they cooperate. (First: Episode 0193) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Two is You and Me." |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings a two-step for pairs of animals. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0342) |
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Cast | Wally and Ralph have to figure out which of two cans has peaches and which one has spaghetti. The pictures on the cans should be enough help, but aren't. |
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Cartoon | "Poverty U” (First: Episode 0036) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet presents the letter U. Another Muppet repeatedly insists, "That's not a 'me,' that's a U!" (First: Episode 0048) |
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SCENE 4 | Bob shakes a baby rattle, introducing the next segment... |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Footage of a rattlesnake (First: Episode 0294) |
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Muppets | Game Show: The Remembering Game (First: Episode 0310) |
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Cartoon | Train #2 (First: Episode 0353) |
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SCENE 5 | Maria saws a board near Oscar's trash can, where Oscar complains about all the loud noise. She switches to using sandpaper on the board, but Oscar thinks it sounds louder than the sawing. Maria decides to take a break and read a magazine, but even her page-flipping is too noisy for Oscar. When it is finally quiet enough to his liking, Oscar is able to concentrate on what he is wanting to do - practice his tuba. |
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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) |
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Animation | A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found. (shown in Spanish, then English) (First: Episode 0268) Spanish: (First: Episode 0277) |
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Cast | A Howard Cosell-type voice narrates Terrific Tom as he subtracts one chair from three chairs. (First: Episode 0315) |
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Muppets | Grover appears in a library to tell the viewers about what a library is. The librarian, however, keeps telling Grover to be quieter, until he can barely even be heard. (First: Episode 0287) |
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SCENE 6 | Bob plays “One of These Things” with the kids using pictures of three small sailboats and one large boat. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie answers the telephone. Bert overhears the conversation, which involves a baseball game, a rainy day, and a gorilla stealing a bologna sandwich. When Bert asks who just called, Ernie says it was a wrong number. (First: Episode 0305) |
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Cartoon | P is for Puppy (repeat) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Prairie dog Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0283) |
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Cartoon | A dog learns about U. (repeat) |
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SCENE 7 | Tom and Bob cross paths as they respectively drive their delivery cart and bicycle. Oscar announces the sponsors (pointing out how appropriate the letters P and U are), and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, and Susan holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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