| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Jay uses crutches to walk | |||||||
| Air date | April 24, 1972 | ||||||
| Season | Season 3 (1971-1972) | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Bob greets the viewer, and counts his seven towels as he removes them from the clothesline. |
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Film | The Mad Painter #7 (First: Episode 0314) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #7 (Spanish) (First: Episode 0281) |
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Muppets | "The ET Family Song" (First: Episode 0139) |
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SCENE 2 | At the Fix-it Shop, Big Bird invites Jay to play some baseball with him, but Jay has a sprained ankle and can’t play. Rafael displays the crutches that Jay’s doctor gave him, and explains to Big Bird how they help someone walk. He doesn't quite understand, so Jay demonstrates by walking around a little with the crutches to show how they work. |
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Cartoon | A man has a J under his hat. (First: Episode 0231) |
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Muppets | "J Friends" (First: Episode 0339) |
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Film | Joe Raposo sings "A Little Bit" over a film about tomatoes growing in a field. (First: Episode 0288) |
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Cartoon | The letter J Artists: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0133) |
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Cartoon | J family jamboree (First: Episode 0365) |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon encounters Jay learning to walk on his crutches, and encourages him to keep practicing. He walks far away from Jay, giving Jay a chance to walk toward him, which makes him feel proud. |
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Cartoon | A man talks about the letter J with a jack-in-the-box, whose lid ends up crushing him. (First: Episode 0071) |
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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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Transition | Bridge #14 - Hourglass Slow/Fill (First: Episode 0303) |
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SCENE 4 | Bob has Katzie, David, and Antonio figure out which vehicle correctly belongs in the various pictures he has displayed. |
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Film | Detective Fred (Joe Raposo) is sent by his boss (Danny Epstein) to locate the number 20. Throughout the office and on the streets of New York, Fred tracks down the numbers 11 through 18 in numerical order by spying his surroundings. When he finds his way to Apartment 19, he discovers it is occupied by a gorilla, who leads him directly to the elusive 20. (First: Episode 0277) |
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Cartoon | O limerick (First: Episode 0146) |
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Muppets | Two Anything Muppet kids argue over a cookie. Cookie Monster arrives and says that the smallest person should get the cookie, and then, as the kids argue over which one is smaller, Cookie Monster shrinks himself. (First: Episode 0253) |
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Cartoon | A turtle, a bird, and a butterfly demonstrate small, smaller, and smallest. (First: Episode 0371) |
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Cast | Bob is dressed for the snow, but is on the beach. Gordon is dressed for the beach, but is out in the snow. The two switch places in the split-screen. (First: Episode 0206) |
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Cartoon | A cowboy tries to lasso a rolling letter O. (First: Episode 0286) |
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SCENE 5 | Gordon sings "Here Are Some Things" and asks what belongs with a dog house, a bird’s nest and a fish bowl – a barn or a bicycle? |
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Muppets | Snow White accidentally visits the cottage of the six dwarves. (First: Episode 0279) |
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Insert | Mr. Hooper, Susan, Gordon, Bob, and three kids are counted (in voiceover by Fran Brill) as they rearrange on the stoop. (First: Episode 0258) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #7 (Spanish) (repeat) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Run." (First: Episode 0372) |
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Cartoon | A man has a J under his hat. (repeat) |
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SCENE 6 | Oscar has a conundrum: he recently repaired the cement tier around his trash can, but he can’t reach the Mudman’s six-pack mud delivery because of the wet cement. Rafael suggests throwing the bottles, but Oscar points out how that won't work. He doubts Jay's plan of using one of his crutches like a crane to hand over the pack of mud bottles to Oscar, and is surprised when Rafael is able to do so. He invites the two for a cup of hot mud to celebrate, but the others immediately rescind the offer. |
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Film | "Hey, let's make a road!" Kids do so at the beach, while a construction crew does the real thing. (First: Episode 0295) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert play tricks on each other in order to sit in the TV chair, until they realize they both fit in it. Herry tricks Ernie and Bert into leaving their chair so that he can sit in it. Ernie and Bert decide that if the chair can hold two, it can hold three as well, so they cram their way into the chair with Herry. When they realize that they're watching something only Bert would enjoy, they leave Bert alone. (First: Episode 0207) |
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Transition | Bridge #16 - Hourglass Slow/Empty (First: Episode 0360) |
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Film | Male and female snow people narrate their own construction. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0277) |
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Cartoon | The letter J (repeat) |
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SCENE 7 | In the yard, Bob sings "What Can I Do?" with the kids, who suggest what they can all pretend to be. |
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Film | A man spins in circles while riding in his kayak. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0297) |
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Cartoon | J family jamboree (repeat) |
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SCENE 8 | Big Bird has somehow squeezed himself through one of the barrels in the playground, where he introduces a film of one of his silly relatives... |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A widow bird flies from one tree to another. |
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Cartoon | Jughead Jones's J story (First: Episode 0231) |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover: Mr. Johnson wants a bowl of hot alphabet soup, and he really wants it to be hot. He looks to make sure that each letter of the alphabet is in his soup, but he is missing some. By the time Grover brings in all the missing letters, the soup is cold. (First: Episode 0276) |
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Cartoon | J for jack-in-the-box (repeat) |
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SCENE 9 | An even more contorted Big Bird signs off, saying he should be out of the barrels by tomorrow. Gordon announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Antonio and Rafael hold the Sesame Street sign, while Oscar holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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