| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Rafael's burglar alarm | |||||||
| Air date | April 5, 1972 | ||||||
| Season | Season 3 (1971-1972) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | At the Fix-it Shop, Richie brings a toaster for Rafael to fix. Richie asks Rafael why he keeps the door locked, and Rafael explains that it's to protect the shop from burglars. He demonstrates the burglar alarm, but realizes he has to go home to find the key to turn it off. |
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Muppets | "The Question Song" |
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SCENE 1 cont'd |
Big Bird hears the Fix-it Shop alarm ringing, and imagines that there's a burglar (played by Bob) in the Fix-it Shop stealing all of the broken items. |
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Muppets | Little Jerry and the Monotones spell out RUN. (First: Episode 0226) |
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SCENE 1 cont'd |
Bob hears the alarm in the Fix-it Shop, and enters to investigate. Big Bird mistakes him for a burglar and catches him in a butterfly net. Rafael comes back to turn off the alarm, and the misunderstanding is resolved. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — At the beach, Ernie notices that Bert is missing; all he sees is Bert's hat. Sherlock Hemlock helps find Bert, and in the process, discovers that Ernie accidentally buried Bert under the sand. (First: Episode 0278) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Touch and Feel." (First: Episode 0252) |
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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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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates above and below. (First: Episode 0262) |
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Cartoon | A penguin repeats the rhythms of the sounds it hears, which include a drum, a door knock, a saw and a typewriter. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0239) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet boy and girl have a conversation using the letters of the alphabet. (First: Episode 0273) |
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SCENE 2 | Rafael has Brynne, Antonio, Troy, Joey, and the other kids echo the rhythms he makes when nailing a conga drum. |
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Muppets | Herry Monster looks for a triangle. He first spots a rectangle first. 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. (First: Episode 0195) |
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Song | "1-2-3-4-5!" (First: Episode 0144) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Polly recite the alphabet. (First: Episode 0281) |
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Cartoon | Q -- that funny looking thing. (First: Episode 0131) |
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Muppets | Grover uses his airplane to demonstrate "above" and "below." (First: Episode 0149) |
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Film | Two kids cooperate on putting on smocks for painting. (First: Episode 0284) |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon sings "One of These Things" with the kids using pictures of carrots with different numbers of leaves. A couple of the kids count them in Spanish. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: World's Greatest Counter — Ernie proclaims himself to be the world's greatest counter, yet he counts very slowly, and starts all over again if Bert interrupts him. (First: Episode 0107) |
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Film | Kids play in the snow. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0292) |
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Cartoon | The great Alphonso and his trained X's (First: Episode 0299) |
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SCENE 4 | Brynne sings "One of These Things" telling the kids to point out which picture of chairs doesn't belong among the four. |
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Film | The Mad Painter #5 (First: Episode 0345) |
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Cartoon | A blue man (voiced by Casey Kasem) explains that “Q” starts the word “quarter.” (First: Episode 0046) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Penguins Five." (First: Episode 0245) |
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Cast | Wally and Ralph navigate a tube of toothpaste. |
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Muppets | Old West: The James Twins, who do everything together (even the speaking), arrive at the saloon and demand some "mu" and "sick." The patrons don't understand until they put the two parts together. (First: Episode 0328) |
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Film | Penguins take a bath. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0233) |
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SCENE 5 | Gordon finds a lowercase q on Oscar's trash can. Gordon guesses that it begins quarter, quart or quack, but Oscar says it's for wanting people to be quiet and quit hanging around his can. |
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Muppets | A long-haired hippie sings "Adding" to Cookie Monster. (First: Episode 0243) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #8: Dot can't stop coughing, then leaves (First: Episode 0295) |
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Muppets | Kermit asks the viewers to play a weather imagination game. First, Kermit imagines it's a warm, sunny day. Then he imagines that it's raining hard. Then he imagines that it's a snowy, windy day. (First: Episode 0325) |
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SCENE 6 | Big Bird recites a short poem about an octopus, but has a little trouble getting it to rhyme properly. |
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Film | Footage of an octopus. Music: "Pomp and Circumstance" (First: Episode 0291) |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings about animals in groups of five on a farm. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0323) |
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Film | Dot & Hill B-1 - A ball cannot travel up a steep incline. (First: Episode 0216) |
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Cartoon | Q -- that funny looking thing. (repeat) |
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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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SCENE 7 | The kids all tell Big Bird what they want to be when they grow up. Bob announces the sponsors as Big Bird offers everyone some birdseed. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Gordon holds the Sesame Street sign, while Antonio and Maria hold the CTW sign. |
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