| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Oscar's noise machine; Big Bird looks after Hooper's Store | |||||||||
| Air date | January 12, 1973 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 4 (1972-1973) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Loud crashes, jackhammering, and bangs are coming from inside Oscar's trash can. Luis, Susan, Jay, and the kids gather and ask what's going on. Oscar says that he's making something... noise. Oscar finds it unfair when everyone complains, comparing his noise to that of Luis when he's working at the Fix-it Shop. Luis and Susan don't think he should make noise just for the sake of making it, and Oscar gets an idea. |
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Cartoon | Nancy the nanny goat nibbles her nails and notices noodles. Artist: Tee Collins (First: Episode 0240) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar continues to make noise inside his can, but this time he shows everybody it's because he's built something. He produces his new invention: a noise machine, which everyone else hates. |
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Cartoon | "Lowercase n" (First: Episode 0358) |
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Muppets | Old West sketches: A couple of cowboy Muppets meet the Alphabet Kid, who claims that he can write the alphabet faster than any man alive. To prove it, he quickly draws his crayon and speedily writes out the whole alphabet. (First: Episode 0307) |
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Film | Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball is ground up into a powder. (First: Episode 0254) |
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Cartoon | Eugene wants his talking crow Willis to name some N words, and Willis replies with "no," "nothing," "nobody" and "never." (First: Episode 0101) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: N - Nail (First: Episode 0040) |
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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 | Ernie & Bert — Ernie keeps taking glasses of water outside the apartment. Bert thinks of possible uses Ernie could have for this water. As it turns out, the kitchen faucet is broken, and Ernie's trying to get rid of the water before the apartment floods. (First: Episode 0425) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird watches Hooper's Store while David is away, briefly observing how cold the weather is getting. A Spanish-speaking girl comes in and asks for agua. She writes the word out for him, and Big Bird tries to figure out what agua means. He puts various things on the counter hoping they might be what the girl wants, but she rejects each item. Big Bird gets so tired from his work that he pours himself a glass of water, which the girl takes with a thank you. Big Bird realizes that "agua" means "water" in Spanish, though David wonders why the counter is littered with other stuff when he comes back. |
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Cartoon | Eugene wants his talking crow Willis to name some N words, and Willis replies with "no," "nothing," "nobody" and "never." (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0358) |
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Muppets | Grover asks Little Jerry and the Monotones (who are tired and don't seem to care about what they are doing) to hold up signs with letters that make up the word "walk". When Grover tells them what it spells, they walk over him. (First: Episode 0221) |
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Film | "Three Song (Song of Three)." (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | Grover walks past the letters that spell "walk" and tells the viewers what the word is. The letters then walk over Grover. (First: Episode 0221) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Eats." (First: Episode 0407) |
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Cartoon | L is for Ladder (First: Episode 0036) |
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Song | David sings Three of These Things: Three kids riding a one-seat bicycle, and two kids riding a two-seat bicycle. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — At the beach, Ernie notices that Bert is missing; all he sees is Bert's hat. Sherlock Hemlock helps find Bert, and in the process, discovers that Ernie accidentally buried Bert under the sand. (First: Episode 0278) |
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SCENE 4 | Susan plays "One of These Things" with the kids using dotted dice cards. |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates in and out. (First: Episode 0293) |
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Muppets | Three witches attempt their own individual spells, which don't work out to their liking. They decide to cooperate by bringing all of their ingredients together, thus making chicken soup. (First: Episode 0407) |
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Song | "Train Song" (First: Episode 0423) |
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Cartoon | Panels flip to reveal different ways things WALK. (First: Episode 0369) |
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Film | A letter N drives through a neighborhood. |
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Muppets | Grover, Herry Monster, and Billy rearrange themselves in different ways and count to three, until they get exhausted and faint. (First: Episode 0186) |
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Cartoon | Nancy the nanny goat nibbles her nails and notices noodles. (repeat) |
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Muppets | Grover, Herry, and Billy rearrange themselves in different ways and count to three, until they get exhausted and faint. (Spanish) (First: Episode 0364) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Somebody Come and Play". (First: Episode 0047) |
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Cartoon | L is for Lips (First: Episode 0147) |
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Cartoon | L is for Ladder (repeat) |
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Song | "Three Is My Favorite Number" (First: Episode 0429) |
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SCENE 5 | When some kids invite Oscar to play with them, Oscar answers by singing "I Don't Wanna." |
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Animation | A 3 looks for its house. (First: Episode 0304) |
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Film | Flamingos Music: Joe Raposo |
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Cartoon | "Lowercase n" (repeat) |
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Animation | The story of Dan and Nan, as told with words ending in "an." |
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Cartoon | A man jumps into a poster of Lake Lillian. (First: Episode 0347) |
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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 Count. The mailman wonders why there are so many letters. The Count says that he wrote them all himself, so he could count them... and then he does. (First: Episode 0420) |
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SCENE 6 | Luis, Susan, David, Jay, and Big Bird play a rhyming game, though Big Bird's rhymes are made-up words. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: N - Nail (repeat) |
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Muppets | Kermit talks about horns as a film of animals with horns plays behind him. (First: Episode 0112) |
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Film | Kids climb in and out of a tire. Music: Joe Raposo |
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Cartoon | L is for Lips (repeat) |
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SCENE 7 | Everyone plays as Susan announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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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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