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| Oscar and his tin cans; Big Bird learns the importance of admitting an honest mistake | |||||||||
| Air date | November 20, 1972 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 4 (1972-1973) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon and Susan water the plants on their windowsill. Oscar thinks they're yucky to look at, and tells them to get rid of them. Gordon says it's their window so Oscar doesn't have a choice. Oscar tells Joey that he thinks their flowers are stupid, and he would prefer to have something nice to look at ouside his trash can. He gets inspired when he rummages through some old, rusty tin cans, and starts pitching them onto the street. |
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Film | "Seven Song (Song of Seven)" (First: Episode 0011) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar has created a pile of tin cans for himself to look at outside. Gordon and Susan inform him that while he may like to admire the cans, unlike their flowers the cans interfere with foot traffic. Oscar figures out a place where they're out of people's way. |
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Muppets | Cheers: The Anything Muppets cheer for the letter K. (version #1) (First: Episode 0100) |
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Cartoon | K is for kitten. (First: Episode 0040) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar has now put the tin cans on a nearby tree, which means they won't interfere with foot traffic. Susan argues that the tree isn't Oscar's; it belongs to everybody. Oscar doesn't care, and is especially happy when Gordon suggests that the sound the cans make when the wind blows will keep everybody from sleeping. Oscar remains stubborn, but Susan gets an idea ... |
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Cartoon | The Alligator King Artist: Bud Luckey |
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Muppets | Kermit the Frog attempts to talk about the letter K, but it falls off the wall. (First: Episode 0044) |
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SCENE 4 | Susan checks Gordon's Grouch costume, and Gordon makes his way to Oscar's. Pretending to be Isaac the Grouch, Gordon marvels at the "tin can tree" and starts picking some off to keep, which bothers Oscar. Susan explains to "Isaac" that the cans do belong to Oscar, so "Isaac" suggests that Oscar put the cans somewhere where he can look at them real close so no one can take them. Oscar thinks that the crate next to his can is a better place to put them. |
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Muppets | Kermit attempts to talk about the letter K again, but the top half of the K collapses. (First: Episode 0044) |
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Film | Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A barber gives a boy a hair cut. (First: Episode 0387) |
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Muppets | Kermit attempts to talk about the letter K again, when a monster comes by. Kermit tells off the monster, until he learns that the monster wants to help him. Kermit talks about K words (including his name), while having the monster display the items he's mentioning. Finally, the monster karate-chops the K. (First: Episode 0044) |
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SCENE 5 | Oscar finishes arranging the tin cans on his crate. The Count shows up and in a slightly echoey voice, he dramatically counts Oscar's two eyes and one mouth, which pesters him. The Count agrees to split if he can count Oscar's cans. He counts all ten of them, re-positioning them as he does so onto Oscar's can lid. When Oscar opens his lid, the tin cans fall on the street, and an annoyed Gordon tells him to pick them up. When no one is looking, the Count does it instead, counting them as he puts them back on the crate. Gordon thanks Oscar for picking them up, but Oscar denies any responsibility. |
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Muppets | Ernie tries to help a mailman deliver a letter to Mrs. Mary Ann ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. (First: Episode 0038) |
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Film | A bald eagle flies over houses, a beach, and other locations. Music: Joe Raposo |
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Cartoon | Men in boxes sound out the word RUN. (First: Episode 0369) |
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Film | Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A man paints a picture. |
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SCENE 6 | Mr. Snuffleupagus has just finished playing with Shola, so he asks Big Bird to fetch a ladder to get her down from atop Snuffy's back. The ladder breaks, so Big Bird looks for help elsewhere. Meanwhile, Snuffy and Shola notice a stack of barrels that can help Shola get down. Big Bird approaches Luis in the Fix-it Shop and asks for help. Luis sees Shola sitting on what Big Bird believes to be Snuffy, as he doesn't see him because of the construction doors. They enter, only to reveal that Snuffy is gone and Shola is sitting on the barrels instead. |
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Film | No matter how they're arranged, George the Farmer always has three barrels, four milk jugs, and five cartons. (First: Episode 0278) |
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Muppets | Two Anything Muppets sing "As I Was Going to St. Ives." (First: Episode 0045) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #7 (First: Episode 0314) |
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SCENE 7 | Big Bird thinks he can figure out what Mr. Hooper is doing: he has a light bulb in his hand, and he's going to screw it into the lamp. Big Bird offers to do it for him so Mr. Hooper can do other tasks, so Hooper gives him a chance and hands him the bulb. Big Bird ends up dropping the bulb while Mr. Hooper is away, and is worried that he will be upset with him. He gets an idea and runs off... |
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Cartoon | The Pink Panther - K For Karate (First: Episode 0241) |
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SCENE 8 | Big Bird disguises himself as Mr. Hooper's lamp (with the shade on his head and a flashlight in his mouth) to avoid telling him that he broke the bulb. Mr. Hooper gets wise to it, and is not upset with Big Bird since he admitted to his mistake. |
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Muppets | Japanese Stories: Japan is being victimized by an Evil Prime Minister, who boasts that the only way an emperor (or empress) can be chosen is for someone to show him something unique. Villagers bring flowers, fans and hats, identical to those owned by the prime minister, but a young girl is able to prove that she herself is different from anything else. (First: Episode 0346) |
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Song | Sesame Street Animal Films: Caroll Spinney sings "Rock-a-bye Baby" to a sleepy koala. (First: Episode 0048) |
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Cartoon | A woman fixes her car by putting a letter r under the hood, and it goes "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" (First: Episode 0410) |
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Film | Joe Raposo: On the beach (instrumental) |
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Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin and his mother sing "Roosevelt Franklin Counts". (First: Episode 0068) |
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SCENE 9 | Susan sings "Stop!" with the kids in the yard. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie is painting a portrait of Bert, but paints Bert with curly hair, glasses and a beard. When Bert gets angry about this, Ernie takes him behind the easel and puts curly hair, glasses and a beard on Bert. (First: Episode 0365) |
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Film | Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - Kids wait in line at a movie theater. |
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Cartoon | The Alligator King (repeat) |
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Cartoon | The Pink Panther - K For Karate (repeat) |
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Film | Topi antelopes nod "yes." (no graphic) Music by Joe Raposo |
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Film | "Seven Song (Song of Seven)" (repeat) |
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SCENE 10 | Luis sings "Here Are Some Things" in Spanish, asking which is a number, a K or a 7? |
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Cartoon | Three frogs show first, middle and last while hopping over each other. |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #11: A lone square appears, so the dots all gather in a tight group (First: Episode 0296) |
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SCENE 11 | The kids play leapfrog as Susan announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Mr. Hooper and Susan hold up the Sesame Street sign, while Big Bird holds up the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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