| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Maria and Big Bird play a rhyming game | |||||||||
| Air date | December 1, 1972 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 4 (1972-1973) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon appears on Sesame Street with only his head, hands, and lower legs visible (as he's wearing blue against a chroma key background). The rest of his body is missing, and he takes his cue from the audience as to which parts are gone as they return (removing the blue pieces of fabric). |
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Muppets | Kermit tries to give a lecture on being happy, but Cookie Monster eats Kermit's happy face prop, which makes him mad. (First: Episode 0066) |
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Film | Five Song (Song of Five) (First: Episode 0006) |
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Film | Body part shout-out (First: Episode 0264) |
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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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Film | The Mad Painter #5 (First: Episode 0345) |
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SCENE 2 | Maria plays a rhyming game with Big Bird and the kids where she gives them a word and tells them to come back with an object that rhymes with it. Big Bird isn't too sure he'd be good at it, so Maria starts with the word "knock," and the other kids bring back a sock, a rock, a clock, and a block. Next she assigns them the word "hair"; all the kids return with a chair. Big Bird has made his way over to the garage where he finds a stair. The stair is nailed down, so he leaves to retrieve his tools. |
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Cartoon | A man creates an avalanche on the letter A. (First: Episode 0132) |
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SCENE 3 | Just as Big Bird is about to saw away a stair from the garage steps, Maria stops him and says he can't ruin the stairs for a game; he'll have to find something else that rhymes with "hair." Maria gives him a hint: it has four legs. After some thought, Big Bird resolves to go find a bear. |
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Cartoon | Words that begin with A, ending with ambulance (Spanish soundtrack) Animated by Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0371) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird has set out a series of honey jars leading up to his nest in order to catch a bear. He sits with his butterfly net and waits for his prey as Maria comes by and commends him on find the object that rhymes with hair and has four legs: a chair. |
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Muppets | As ominous music plays, The Count walks around his castle, checks out the mirror (he has no reflection), and greets his bats. The mailman (Jim Henson) arrives, with a bunch of letters for him. He wonders why there are so many. The Count says that he wrote them all himself, so he could count them...and then he does. |
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SCENE 5 | Luis exits the Fix-it Shop and notices a sign in the window that says "AGUA." Puzzled, he says the word and is drenched from above with water. |
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Song | "1-2-3-4-5!" (repeat) |
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SCENE 5 cont'd | Luis exits again with an umbrella and reads the "AGUA" sign. Nothing happens, so he reads it again. He lowers the umbrella, says it one more time, and gets drenched in water again. |
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Cartoon | A story about an ape and a bird, using the letter A. (First: Episode 0158) |
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Film | Squares are shown in close-up. |
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SCENE 5 cont'd | Luis beckons Maria over and indicates that she should read the sign. Maria reads "AGUA"... and nothing happens. Luis says the word, and is drenched in a third downpour. |
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Film | Five Song (Song of Five) (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover helps Polly count five fingers on her hand; he says she's lucky. |
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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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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit and Tracy count to 5. (First: Episode 0125) |
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SCENE 6 | Gordon points to a handkerchief that's in his pocket. He pulls on it (it's several feet long) and notes that it's now out. |
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Muppets | Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot recite the alphabet together. (First: Episode 0188) |
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Cartoon | Country Fiddler: #5 (repeat) |
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SCENE 6 cont'd | Susan shows that her foot is in her boot. She lifts her boot up by the top, revealing that it doesn't have a sole, so now it's out. |
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Celebrity | Flip Wilson counts from 1 to 20. (First: Episode 0147) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Penguins Five." (First: Episode 0245) |
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Cartoon | B is for bubbles, bubbles and more bubbles. And Bosco, who is taking a bath. (First: Episode 0355) |
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Song | David sings "I'm Pretty" over a film of fish and other sea creatures. (First: Episode 0389) |
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Song | "1-2-3-4-5!" (First: Episode 0155) |
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Muppets | "The UN Family Song" (First: Episode 0155) |
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Film | An osprey flies around. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0293) |
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Cartoon | A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is. (First: Episode 0006) |
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SCENE 7 | Susan and the kids play "Three of These Things" while sorting a saw, a shoe, a pair of pliers, and a hammer. |
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Muppets | A group of Muppets (including Herry Monster) split into two separate teams for a game based on whether they have letters or numbers printed on their shirts. However, one of the small ones points out that they've split into one team of big players and one team of small players. They eventually agree to play Tiddly-Winks. (First: Episode 0298) |
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SCENE 8 | In his nest area, Big Bird sings "The Sound of the Letter A" to the kids. |
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Muppets | Ernie finds an apple on a brick wall, and wants to know who it belongs to. Sherlock Hemlock helps solve the mystery, and realizes that Ernie has a brown paper bag with a hole at the bottom, and that Ernie had an apple in the bag, therefore the apple belongs to Ernie. (First: Episode 0137) |
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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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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie asks Bert to go play in the park with him. When Bert says no, Ernie wonders if he isn't feeling well and starts to examine him. (First: Episode 0124) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates in and out. (First: Episode 0293) |
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Cartoon | With one mighty blow of his baseball bat, a boy knocks several B items (including a basket, bandit, and ball) off of a wall. Voice: Casey Kasem (First: Episode 0237) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #2: Last dot is late and travels through the others (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 9 | The kids play volleyball in the yard as Luis announces the sponsors. The credits roll, with the sound of the kids continuing their game heard over it. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob and Susan hold the Sesame Street sign, and Maria holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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