| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Snow — Another snowy day | |||||||
| Air date | January 30, 1973 | ||||||
| Season | Season 4 (1972-1973) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon, Mauricio, and Reggie count three snowballs, then throw them at the camera. |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings about three trios of animals who live on a fat lady's lap. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0299) |
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Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot invents a complicated machine, to test Cookie Monster's problem-solving abilities. Cookie Monster needs to pull the string to raise the glass cover off the plateful of cookies at the other end -- but when he lets go to retrieve the cookies, the cover will fall again. Herbert hears Cookie Monster approaching, and hides to observe him. Cookie investigates the machine for a moment, then gets the cookies by karate-chopping the glass cover. (First: Episode 0132) |
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Cartoon | Two men discuss who they love, as one man asserts that you can't love an ice cream cone. (First: Episode 0292) |
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Film | Male and female snow people narrate their own construction. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0277) |
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SCENE 2 | Sam the Robot sings "I'm Perfect" while Gordon and the kids shovel snow in the yard. Each time he stutters, Gordon punches him in the mouth to break the loop. |
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Cartoon | Letter I (Beep Beep) (First: Episode 0427) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon - I: An iron irons the word. (First: Episode 0314) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #3 (First: Episode 0343) |
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Muppets | Lefty the Salesman wants to sell Ernie a painting of a tree, which he says is a picture of four elephants. Ernie doesn't see the four elephants, so Lefty offers to show him the elephants if Ernie will buy the picture for a nickel. Lefty points out the elephants, which are actually spaces in the tree's branches. Ernie shells out for the picture. Ernie wants to pull the same trick on Bert, but Bert notices the elephants right away. (First: Episode 0292) |
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Song | "Three Is My Favorite Number" (First: Episode 0429) |
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Cartoon | Letter G drawing with kid voice-over (First: Episode 0306) |
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SCENE 3 | Susan has drawn most of the letters of the alphabet in the snow, but a couple of letters are missing. After Mark fills them in, they sing "The Alphabet Song." |
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Muppets | Little Jerry and the Monotones sing "Proud." (First: Episode 0408) |
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Cartoon | A boy and a dog fight over a letter "I." (First: Episode 0143) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Kangaroo Blues." (First: Episode 0277) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Rapunzel — Prince Charming attempts to rescue Rapunzel from the tower. (First: Episode 0409) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: I for Island. (First: Episode 0314) |
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Insert | Three of These Kids (upside-down girl) (First: Episode 0413) |
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Film | A dolphin walks backwards on the water. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0278) |
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SCENE 4 | Gordon, Joey, Amiko, and Mia play a “Three of These Things” game with lightbulbs. |
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Film | Footage of a baby learning to walk. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0427) |
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Muppets | Grover the Elevator Operator: Grover's elevator holds five people. |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #12: Square remains in corner, and third dot changes color (First: Episode 0296) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A bald eagle flies over houses, a beach, and other locations. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0411) |
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Cartoon | "I in the Sky" (First: Episode 0368) |
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SCENE 5 | Maria shows Joey a drawing with some letter I’s embedded in it. |
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Film | The Alphabet Dancers form a capital I. |
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Film | Elephants (African percussion soundtrack) (First: Episode 0389) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon - I: An iron irons the word. (repeat) |
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Cast | The Alphabet Dancers: Lowercase i |
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Cartoon | A pig sings "Pig's Love Song." (First: Episode 0407) |
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SCENE 6 | Mr. Snuffleupagus plays a "Three of These Things" game with the viewer using sports items and a cup-and-saucer set. Snuffy then leaves, looking for Big Bird. Right then and there, Big Bird and Maria encounter Snuffy’s large items, and Big Bird immediately knows who they belong to. Maria begins to lecture Big Bird on imaginary friends, without noticing Snuffy behind her. |
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Cartoon | Country 3 (repeat) |
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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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Cartoon | The dot gets on top of the lowercase letter i. Artist: Fred Garbers |
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Muppets / Cast | Bob reads the story of "The Princess and the Cookie". In the story, a king is looking for someone to marry his daughter, the small princess Eunice. He is having trouble, because all the princes in the kingdom keep bringing her cookies that are too big for her. Finally, the baker (Cookie Monster) enters with the smallest cookie in the kingdom, which the princess immediately wants. The baker is disinterested in marrying the princess, until the prince offers him the other three cookies that the princes brought. And they lived happily ever after. (First: Episode 0152) |
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Cartoon | A boy and a dog fight over a letter "I." (repeat) |
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Cartoon | I-Ink (angry bird) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper asks a man, "Do you want me to keep an eye on your hat?" The man says yes. Harvey then puts a letter I on top of the man's hat, crushing it in the process. (First: Episode 0288) |
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SCENE 7 | Gordon and the kids throw snowballs through an open tire while Snuffy announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Gordon and Susan hold the Sesame Street sign, while Maria holds the CTW sign. |
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