| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Oscar enters The Daily Grouch poetry contest | |||||||
| Air date | May 3, 1972 | ||||||
| Season | Season 3 (1971-1972) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Tom welcomes the viewer and introduces one of today's letters - C. Big Bird arrives and remembers that something he wanted to buy from Hooper's Store begins with C, but he can't remember what. Tom finds various C-word items on the shelves, such as a comb, a deck of cards, an umpire's cap, and a clock. None of these is what Big Bird wants, but finally he remembers that he wants some strawberry ice cream... in a cone. |
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Cartoon | C is for clipper... and captain, crew, cargo, cookies, cantaloupe, cabbage, candy, cake, and corks that the crew eats (some by mistake). (First: Episode 0203) |
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Muppets | Monsters, including an early Grover, Cookie Monster and Beautiful Day Monster, pass on the message, "See." The wide shot reveals that the monsters were whispering about the Letter C. (First: Episode 0089) |
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Muppets | Simon Soundman has the viewers guess what sound he is making. He makes the sound of a train, car, and a horse. When Simon makes the sound of the horse, a cowboy uses his lasso to capture Simon, mistaking him for a real horse. (First: Episode 0294) |
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SCENE 2 | At the Fix-it Shop, Rafael gives Bob a Spanish lesson in the form of the song "No Matter What Your Language." |
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Cartoon | Adding up five ladybugs and five lizards (First: Episode 0277) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit and Brian talk about colors. (First: Episode 0130) |
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Song | "Doll House" (First: Episode 0131) |
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Muppets | Grover has a box that can make the sound "ding-ding". However Grover can't make it to sound right so he attempts to fix it. When it's fixed and says "ding-ding", Cookie Monster comes because he thinks he heard the dinner bell ring and eats the box. (First: Episode 0286) |
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Cartoon | Train #2 (First: Episode 0353) |
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Film | Kids identify pairs of animals in a zoo. (First: Episode 0364) |
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SCENE 3 | Susan and Bob try to help Oscar with the poetry contest in his Daily Grouch newspaper. The paper provides several first lines and the reader creates the second. Susan and Bob come up with nice rhymes based on their surroundings, including Reggie's kite and Brynne's balloon, but Oscar opts for more grouchy ones. He inadvertently comes up with a rhyme for "groan" when he tells everybody to leave him alone. |
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Cartoon | C - Cake (First: Episode 0153) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster sings "C is for Cookie." (First: Episode 0372) |
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Cast | Gordon and Bob assemble a letter C. (First: Episode 0153) |
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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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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates in and out. (First: Episode 0293) |
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SCENE 4 | Rafael puts his hand in a hat and pulls out a rabbit. Susan puts a coin in a machine and out comes a gumball. Bob throws a candy wrapper in Oscar's trash can, but Oscar tosses it out. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C - Cap (First: Episode 0154) |
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Cast | At a fancy restaurant, head waiter David teaches new hire Tom about the IN and OUT doors to the kitchen. This causes problems for fellow waiter Bob, as Tom can't remember which doors to use (and the song he was taught to remember it). Eventually, he comes up with a three-step plan - he applies the words IN and OUT to the doors, then he quits. (First: Episode 0363) |
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Muppets | Ernie finds a big yellow ball, which belongs to Herry Monster. (First: Episode 0191) |
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Animation | Bridge Dot & Hill A-1 (First: Episode 0146) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan and the kids swap drawings of children so that they properly go with the pictures of different kinds of weather. |
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Film | Kids count 20 penguins going down a slide. (First: Episode 0232) |
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Muppets | Grover and Oscar recite the alphabet. (intro dialogue cut) (First: Episode 0229) |
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Animation | Dot & Hill A-2 (First: Episode 0146) |
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Cast | Because the lid of a box won't stay open by itself, Gordon can't put a large beachball in it alone, and Bob can't put a large inflated beach animal toy in it alone. They discover that if one of them holds the lid the other can easily put his article in the box. (First: Episode 0296) |
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Muppets | Jerry Nelson narrates a letter F joining U and N to make the word FUN. They celebrate with streamers and confetti. (First: Episode 0178) |
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Cartoon | An ape escapes from the A train and heads over to a birthday party. (First: Episode 0293) |
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SCENE 6 | Big Bird uses the Hooper's Store pay phone to call his cousin Freddy, who resides in the bird house of the local zoo. Tom and the kids listen in as Big Bird gets connected to other exhibits and guess what they are based on the animals sounds. Tom finally gets through to the bird house, where Freddy tells Big Bird about Auntie Tondalea's new batch of eggs. |
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Muppets | The Martians find a telephone. |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Two is You and Me." (First: Episode 0375) |
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Cartoon | The uses of water (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0278) |
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SCENE 7 | Dexter Dolphin is using Oscar's swimming pool for tricks. Oscar tells Susan to watch closely... |
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Film | A dolphin walks backwards on the water. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0278) |
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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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Film | The Mad Painter #2 (First: Episode 0309) |
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Cartoon | The uses of water (First: Episode 0139) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper looks inside a paper bag and laughs and asks his next victim, "Wanna see?" The man says yes, so Harvey puts a letter C on him. (First: Episode 0294) |
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Cartoon | A man gets a letter C in the mail. (First: Episode 0294) |
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Animation | Dot & Hill A-3 (First: Episode 0146) |
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SCENE 8 | Bob and the kids watch and feed the rabbit from Rafael's hat as Susan announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, and Susan and Oscar hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
Notes[]
- In scene 1, Tom offers Big Bird a candle, which Big Bird doesn't want. He cites that his mommy told him not to play with matches and that children don't play with them, making this one of the earliest examples of directly addressing Big Bird's preschool age, previously only vaguely referred to.
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