| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Somebody keeps squirting Bob and Luis with water | |||||||||
| Air date | December 15, 1972 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 4 (1972-1973) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Maria greets the viewer, and hears Oscar throwing trash out of his trash can. The sounds of his tin cans clanking to the ground puts him in a musical mood, so he sings “I Love Trash” to the kids. |
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Cartoon | The Story of Cowboy X, with the voices of Jean Shepherd (First: Episode 0325) |
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Muppets | Sherlock Hemlock sings "X Marks the Spot!" (First: Episode 0351) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: X for X-ray (First: Episode 0064) |
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Film | A magnetic scrapyard baler is used to lift cars into a compacter. (First: Episode 0024) |
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SCENE 2 | Mr. Snuffleupagus, having nothing to do today, sits beside the construction doors to Big Bird's nest. Bob and Luis are on the other side, preparing to work on some flowers. Snuffy decides to help water the flowers, but squirts Luis with his snuffle, making him think that Bob squirted him with the hose. Luis takes the hose, but Snuffy tries to help again and hits Bob with some water. The two men get angry with each other and refuse to work together, but after they prepare to leave they are surprised to see that somehow the flowers got watered anyway while their backs were turned. They wonder who could've done it as Mr. Snuffleupagus leaves for a bowl of hardy har har. |
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Cartoon | What if a frog and a fly switched bodies? What do you think would happen? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0406) |
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Animation | Scanimate Films #4 (First: Episode 0132) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #4 (First: Episode 0344) |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd counts four lions. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0300) |
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Cartoon | Violet climbs a vine with V words. (First: Episode 0389) |
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Cast | Part 1: Ms. Short (Maria) and Mr. Long (David) arrive at a restaurant for their date. Mr. Long plucks a short bit of string from Ms. Short's dress. She then pulls a long piece of string from his jacket. |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Grover helps Kermit demonstrate "long" and "short" by picking up a short ladder. Then Kermit says he'll help Grover bring in a long ladder, but Grover says he'll get it alone. He carries the long ladder past Kermit, who's amazed that Grover can get it all by himself. When the other end of the ladder passes by, Grover is holding that end too. (First: Episode 0276) |
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Cast | Part 2: The waiter (Bob) serves Ms. Short a short fish (with the appropriately sized utensils), and Mr. Long a long fish (with larger utensils). |
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Film | George the Farmer's ladder gets taller and shorter, as does his box of berries. (First: Episode 0289) |
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Cast | Part 3: The couple part ways after their dinner date, helping each other put on their short and long coats. |
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Film | Seals make noise. (First: Episode 0279) |
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Cartoon | The great Alphonso and his trained X's (First: Episode 0299) |
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Film | City alphabet (Joe Raposo instrumental with kid voiceover) (First: Episode 0132) |
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Film | Bridge #10 - Bricks Bridge A (First: Episode 0286) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Big Bird and Shola demonstrate a big stick versus a little stick. (First: Episode 0306) |
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Film | While watching her goldfish, a girl wonders what the world is like from her goldfish's perspective. (First: Episode 0288) |
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Film | Bridge #11 - Bricks Bridge B (First: Episode 0286) |
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SCENE 3 | Speaking mostly in Spanish, Luis and Derek try to replicate a picture of a beach scene by putting the appropriate items in a blank beach scene. |
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Cartoon | A boy tries to count to twenty while playing with a paddleball, but gets interrupted by a bird. (First: Episode 0152) |
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Muppets | Three Anything Muppets (including Farley) wait for a bus at a bus stop. To their surprise, the bus is very small, and two small Muppets get off of it. (First: Episode 0189) |
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Cartoon | The word BUS (First: Episode 0277) |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby tries to count 4 kids. (First: Episode 0176) |
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Film | Four Song (Song of Four) (First: Episode 0006) |
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SCENE 4 | Maria plays “One of These Things” with a couple of kids using pictures of houses (with only one having a chimney). |
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Cast | Wally and Ralph: Putting a cap on ready for baseball. (First: Episode 0373) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird recites a short poem about leopards. |
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Film | Footage of a leopard in the plain. (First: Episode 0364) |
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Song | Bob sings "Hi Friend" with two Martians. |
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Animation | Scanimate Films #4 (repeat) |
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Muppets | Guy Smiley hosts "The Trading Game" with contestants Oscar the Grouch and Sally Screamer. (First: Episode 0279) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: X for X-ray (repeat) |
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SCENE 6 | In response to Big Bird's poem, Oscar recites a short-but-sour poem about jackrabbits. |
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Film | Jack Rabbit Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0390) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie tries to put a pot on Bert's head. Bert asks Ernie why he's doing that, and Ernie says that he broke a cookie jar. Ernie has to put the cookies somewhere, so he put them in the sugar bowl – and put the sugar in the flowerpot, which meant that he had to put the flower in a milk bottle. He put the milk in the soda bottle, the soda into the fishbowl, and the fish in Bert's cowboy hat. Bert asks, "Now what am I going to wear when I want to play cowboy?" Ernie puts the pot on Bert's head and says, "Ride 'em, cowboy, Bert!" (First: Episode 0305) |
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SCENE 7 | The kids play in the yard as Maria announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Gordon and Susan hold the Sesame Street sign, and Bob holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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