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| Snuffy spills Luis' can of tacks | |||||||
| Air date | January 3, 1973 | ||||||
| Season | Season 4 (1972-1973) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Outside the Fix-it Shop, Luis welcomes the viewer while putting tacks into a coffee can. He leaves for the bank, and Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus find the coffee can. Snuffy thinks it’s a perfect thing to keep his peanuts in, but he accidentally knocks it over. Big Bird wonders what to do, and Snuffy gets the idea to find Luis and tell him the truth about the accident. Big Bird darts off to locate Luis, while Snuffy also gets the idea of picking up the tacks with his snuffle. |
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Muppets | Ernie is on a hunt for big rocks. When he tries to pick a really big rock, the rock turns out to be the dome of a large monster. (First: Episode 0034) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird realizes what could happen if he told Luis that Mr. Snuffleupagus had spilled the tacks. In his imagination, Big Bird pictures an overdramatic Luis, Bob, and Maria discovering the tacks on the ground and not believing who really spilled them, accusing Big Bird of the accident. Luis angrily puts up a “NO BIRDS ALLOWED” sign on his shop door, and Big Bird gets shunned by Maria and Bob who try to keep him away from their precious goods. In reality, Big Bird deals with his conflict by quietly calling for Luis. |
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Cartoon | A boy can yell and yodel, and his dog can yelp and yowl. They can both yawn. (First: Episode 0353) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird finds Luis, who notices he’s worried about something. Before he can tell Luis what happened, Luis goes into Hooper's Store to buy some things. Meanwhile, Snuffy shows Big Bird that he is able to put the tacks back into the coffee can before he heads out. When Luis returns, Big Bird comments that whatever his problem was, Luis wouldn't have believed him anyway. |
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Cartoon | A boy talks about his pet letter Y, named Yetta. |
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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 | Poor Solomon Grundy washes a different part of the left side of his body every day, but at the end of the week, "he's still half dirty!" (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cartoon | A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion. (First: Episode 0029) |
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SCENE 4 | Maria has been working on a paper for school, but she needs a fresh sheet of paper to start over. She asks Oscar for one, but he hands her one that's crumpled up, unlike the smooth one she has. He finds a fresh, uncrumpled sheet on his Steinway and gives it to her. Maria then crumples up her used sheet, which Oscar now wants since it'll become a matched pair with the first paper he offered her. |
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Cartoon | A girl tries on big, bigger, and the biggest shoes. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0252) |
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Cast | Wally and Ralph: Wally has a new pair of pants, but they're too big for him. Ralph has a belt, but isn't quite sure how to secure it. Ralph ultimately suggests Wally eat a lot of bananas until he's big enough to fit into the pants. (First: Episode 0353) |
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Cartoon | Y for yawn (First: Episode 0301) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie wants Bert to pretend to be mad, but Bert says that he can't, because he has nothing to feel angry about. Ernie asks Bert to pretend that he borrowed Bert's paper clip collection, and lost his favorite paper clip. The thought makes Bert really mad. Bert gets tired out, and tells Ernie that he can't get mad anymore. Ernie makes a confession -- he really did lose Bert's favorite paper clip. (First: Episode 0216) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor) (First: Episode 0029) |
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SCENE 5 | Kate plays guitar and sings "The Pets" with David and the kids. |
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Cartoon | The life of a Yellow Yahoo (First: Episode 0043) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #7 (First: Episode 0314) |
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Cartoon | A farmer plants big, bigger and biggest trees. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0284) |
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Muppets | Two Anything Muppets sing "As I Was Going to St. Ives." (First: Episode 0045) |
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Cartoon | "Egg Chant": A girl skips rope as a boy sits with an egg on his knee. They recite an alphabet poem together. The egg hatches and a dancing lizard emerges. (First: Episode 0003) |
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SCENE 6 | In Spanish, Luis wonders where Maria is before he labels a drawing of a house with the word "CASA." He hears a knock, and opens the drawing's doors to reveal a miniature Maria who apologizes for being late. |
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Cartoon | A drummer introduces C.T. Wordsworth who challenges a contestant to guess the secret word: store. |
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Muppets | Old West: Sinister Sam is looking for the biggest man in the saloon. The frightened customers point him towards Big Barney, who's cowering under the table. When Sam discovers that Barney is the biggest man there, he gives him a hat: "This ol' hat here don't fit me. I thought maybe you could use it, huh? I'll see you, fellers." Sinister Sam leaves the baffled customers behind. "Now, that's a nice gesture," one says. "He's a little weird, but he's okay after all, isn't he?" (First: Episode 0281) |
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Cartoon | The Alligator King Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0411) |
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Film | A pride of lions feasts on an animal carcass. (First: Episode 0407) |
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Cartoon | A man gets a letter C in the mail. (First: Episode 0294) |
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SCENE 7 | Oscar enlists Sam the Robot to guard a box that he wants to add to his trash collection, while he goes downstairs and makes room for it. Oscar gives Sam the command to stop anybody at all who tries to take the box. The robot immediately blows a whistle, flashes spotlights, blares his sirens, and captures Oscar with a butterfly net when he comes back up to take the box downstairs. |
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Cartoon | Big, bigger and biggest elephants (First: Episode 0389) |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover: Grover serves Mr. Johnson a bowl of chicken soup. Johnson says that he can't eat the soup, and Grover can't guess why. "That settles it," Johnson sighs. "From now on, I'm bringing my lunch to work in a paper sack." He finally explains to Grover that he can't eat the soup because he doesn't have a spoon. (First: Episode 0358) |
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Cartoon | Y for yawn (repeat) |
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Film | A rhino and her baby (First: Episode 0408) |
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Cartoon | The life of a Yellow Yahoo (repeat) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Bert tells John-John that he's lost his paper clips, and he feels sad. He asks John-John to show how he looks when he feels sad. Then Bert feels angry about losing his paper clips, and John-John acts out that emotion. Bert remembers where he left his collection, and John-John acts happy, too. |
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Cartoon | A yak discusses the letter "Y" on a stage, and is insulted when it is called a "Yakkity-yakkity-yak". (First: Episode 0301) |
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Cast | Marvelous Maria rides her trike in 10 circles (then backwards). |
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Film | "Seven Song (Song of Seven)" (First: Episode 0011) |
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Muppets | Grover the Assistant: The Amazing Mumford's pineapple subtraction act (First: Episode 0280) |
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SCENE 8 | The kids play street hockey in the yard as Big Bird announces the sponsors (ending with a "Hello!"). |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Big Bird holds the Sesame Street sign, and Oscar holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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