| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Big Bird tries to fit a barrel through his door | |||||||
| Air date | January 11, 1973 | ||||||
| Season | Season 4 (1972-1973) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird greets the viewer, wheeling a giant L that he borrowed from some workers who are putting a sign up on a building nearby. Before he can properly explain the shape of the letter L, Gordon arrives to take the L back to the workers. Big Bird becomes disappointed, then notices his dolly cart also looks like an L. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: L is for Lunchbox (First: Episode 0031) |
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Muppets | Grover uses a telephone booth to explain how a telephone is used. When he enters the booth, however, he finds that there is no phone in sight. An Anything Muppet boy arrives to use the telephone, and thinks that Grover is the telephone since he is the only thing he found in the booth. The boy proceeds and talks into Grover's mouth. (First: Episode 0146) |
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Cartoon | A janitor sweeps up his own footprints the wrong way, then the right way. Just then, a giant centipede leaves tracks all over the floor. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0247) |
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Cast | Bob and Mr. Hooper manage to get L in the right position. (First: Episode 0147) |
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Cartoon | L is for Ladder (First: Episode 0036) |
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Muppets | Sherlock Hemlock demonstrates the sound of the letter L. (First: Episode 0251) |
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Film | "Two Song (Song of Two)" (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 2 | Susan has brought a new barrel for the playground, and asks Big Bird to watch it while she leaves to get David. Big Bird uses a ruler to measure it, then determines that it won't fit through the door to his nest area. He prepares to knock down the wall, first getting his slegehammer; he reconsiders, opting for his 23-lb. hammer instead before settling on a lumberjack's hand saw. Susan and David arrive and show him that they can fit the barrel through the door by turning it sideways. |
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Cartoon | J family jamboree (First: Episode 0365) |
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Film | Kids identify pairs of animals in a zoo. (First: Episode 0364) |
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Cartoon | L is for Lips (First: Episode 0147) |
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Muppets | Caveperson Days: King Ernie has a problem -- the cavemen write everything on rocks, which are too heavy to carry around. He calls upon the Royal Smart Person to invent something lighter to write on. (First: Episode 0409) |
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Cartoon | A cat catches a TELEPHONE and eats it. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0154) |
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SCENE 3 | Bob and David play a “Three of These Things” game with the kids using pictures of flowers and an orange. |
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Cartoon | L es para luz (First: Episode 0373) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: L for Light (First: Episode 0147) |
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Muppets | Some AM kids get ready to play baseball. A Fat Blue (Jerry Nelson) brings a bat, Prairie Dawn (Fran Brill) brings a glove, and a Lavender (Caroll Spinney) brings a catcher's mask. A Hot Pink (Frank Oz) brings a hockey stick, and a tennis racket, before producing a box... which holds the baseball. (First: Episode 0193) |
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Cartoon | T es para telefono (First: Episode 0362) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet boy gives a brief lecture on the telephone, which Cookie Monster then eats. Soon after, it begins ringing inside his stomach. (First: Episode 0194) |
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Cartoon | A man jumps into a poster of Lake Lillian. (First: Episode 0347) |
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Film | There Once Was a Hand: Skip Hinnant narrates the story of an unhappy hand that wishes he could make a noise. (First: Episode 0007) |
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Cartoon | What if an anteater had the features of a giraffe? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0422) |
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Film | Js appear in a junkyard. |
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Cartoon | Train #2 (First: Episode 0353) |
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Cartoon | L is for Lips (repeat) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert sing "La, La, La." (First: Episode 0321) |
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Cartoon | A housewife screams because there is a mouse in her house. Her husband's solution is to continually bring in animals to chase it out, with each animal making an even bigger mess than the previous one. (First: Episode 0240) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "I'm an Aardvark." (First: Episode 0425) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: L is for Lunchbox (repeat) |
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Muppets | Grover demonstrates heavy and light. First, he picks up a heavy barbell. Then he tries to pick up a light feather, but he can't move it. It turns out that the feather is attached to the top of Big Bird's head. (First: Episode 0406) |
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SCENE 4 | Susan demonstrates the sound of the letter L. |
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Cartoon | L is for Ladder (repeat) |
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Insert | The Alphabet Dancers form a letter L. |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster goes to the carnival and plays the "test your strength" game. Unbeknownst to him, the carnival barker rigged the game so nobody can win -- until Cookie finds out what the prize is. |
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Film | "Doll House" (First: Episode 0131) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper is bouncing on a pogo stick. He asks a man if he'd like to try it, and the man replies, "I'd love to!" Harvey then slaps a big number 2 on the man's chest. (First: Episode 0417) |
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Cartoon | J family jamboree (repeat) |
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SCENE 5 | Bob complains when Oscar leaves a shoebox and a cinderblock outside his can. Oscar tells him that he's been having trouble with heavy and light, so Bob picks up each item to show Oscar, not realizing that he had been tricked into putting them away instead. |
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Cartoon | A man jumps into a poster of Lake Lillian. (repeat) |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover: Simon Soundman wants a chicken sandwich, which he orders as a "cluck-cluck" sandwich. Grover has trouble figuring out what his customer wants. |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Flies on Animals" over footage of animals bugged by pests. |
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Cartoon | A concert pianist shows up in a construction worker's lunchbox, singing the alphabet. |
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Song | Luis sings "Three of These Things" with three kids with umbrellas and one unlucky kid without one. (First: Episode 0408) |
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Muppets | Lefty wants to sell Ernie a scale. He uses two pounds of bananas and two pounds of apples to demonstrate how the scale works. Ernie is impressed. He already has a scale at home, but he'd like to buy the apples and bananas. |
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SCENE 6 | Gordon remembers practicing basketball when he was little. In a flashback he recalls being a very young kid (portrayed by Chris) and not doing very well. He kept practicing, and when he was older (portrayed by Jay) he got better and better. Now as an adult, he encourages the viewer to keep practicing whatever is too dificult for them now. |
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Cartoon | While fishing one day, a boy catches the letters of the alphabet. Frustrated at not having caught any fish to eat, he decides to use his catch for alphabet soup. (First: Episode 0004) |
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Muppets | Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with teachers and a newsdealer. (First: Episode 0276) |
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Film | An Hispanic boy gets up, gets dressed, and goes to school as Spanish music plays (A la luna no voy yo). (First: Episode 0429) |
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Film | "Two Song (Song of Two)" (repeat) |
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SCENE 7 | Gordon plays basketball with David, Bob, and Jay as Oscar announces the sponsors (despite refusing to do so). |
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CLOSING SIGNS | David, Jay, and Gordon hold the Sesame Street sign, and Susan and Luis hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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