| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Oscar auditions new Grouches | |||||||||
| Air date | February 23, 1973 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 4 (1972-1973) | ||||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Maria and Luis greet the viewer, and Maria invites them to do some imagining with her. She imagines that she's almost as small as a group of jacks, and is worried that the enormous kitten that Luis is petting might want to eat her. |
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Cartoon | I Thought a Thought ... about small things. A man thinks about small things, and lists them. A sea monster thinks it is small, especially when compared to its father! Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0241) |
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Cast | Bob comes across a DANGER sign next to a frozen pond. Ignoring the sign, he skates on the ice (via pixillation) until it starts to crack. Bob then concedes the sign is there for good reason. (First: Episode 0279) |
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Film | "Ten Song (Song of Ten)" (revised version) (First: Episode 0021) |
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Cartoon | Adding up five ladybugs and five lizards (First: Episode 0277) |
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SCENE 2 | Mr. Hooper and Luis find Oscar in Hooper's Store, preparing to interview a number of Grouches lined up outside since he will be leaving for a few days and he wants a replacement Grouch. A Southern Grouch with a cowboy hat is the first applicant, and Oscar hands him a flowerpot with a flower in it, asking what he'd do with them. The applicant says he'd throw the flower in the wastebasket, but Oscar says a real Grouch would throw away the flower and the pot, and throw the dirt everywhere – which he does, to Mr. Hooper's dismay. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
The next applicant, a Grouch from Denver with bushy hair, comes in. Oscar asks him what he'd do with a dirty old torn shirt like the one he produces, and the Grouch says he'd wear it to the opera. Oscar counters that a real Grouch would tear the shirt up even further and hang it up on the living room wall. Next! |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
Oscar asks the third applicant what they'd do with a bunch of old newspapers. The mustached applicant proceeds to tear them to shreds, dirtying up the store even further. Oscar lauds this display of grouchiness, and gives the applicant the job – but the applicant makes the mistake of showing gratitude (a big Grouch no-no). Oscar concludes that it's up to him to keep Sesame Street grouchy. |
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Cartoon | A poem filled with T words, including a teacher, toys, Texas, and "turtles with brains". Voice: Bob Arbogast (First: Episode 0024) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #10 (First: Episode 0328) |
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Cast / Muppets | "The People in Your Neighborhood": Cleaner and Shoemaker (First: Episode 0436) |
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Cartoon | "Ten Turtles" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0425) |
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Muppets | Grover: Heavy and Light — Grover demonstrates heavy and light with a feather from Big Bird's head. (First: Episode 0406) |
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SCENE 3 | A voiceover instructs Maria to try to pick up Mr. Hooper, who is heavy, then to pick up Luis, who is light (because he's chroma-keyed into the shot). |
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Cartoon | Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover). (First: Episode 0222) |
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Insert | In voiceover, kids count out twelve in a deck of playing cards. |
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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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Celebrity | Flip Wilson shows how his teacher, Miss Johnson, taught the ABCs. (First: Episode 0151) |
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Film | The letter T is a very useful letter. (First: Episode 0402) |
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Cartoon | T for top Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0298) |
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SCENE 4 | Luis plays a "Here Are Some Things" game at the Fix-it Shop. What goes with the three big circles: the big square or the small circle? |
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Cartoon | Counting 10 to 1. |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Take a Breath." (First: Episode 0347) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: T for train (First: Episode 0022) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Statue of Bert — Ernie makes a clay bust of Bert, but runs out of clay for the nose. (First: Episode 0463) |
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Cartoon | A woman fixes her car by putting a letter r under the hood, and it goes "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" (First: Episode 0410) |
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Muppets | Kermit Lecture: Sorting Shapes — Kermit plays a sorting game with squares and circles, until Cookie Monster arrives and takes a bite out of the shapes. (First: Episode 0094) |
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Cartoon | La letra T es para tigre, tomate, taxi, toro, telefono, televisión, y el terrible tiburon. (First: Episode 0351) |
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Insert | The Alphabet Dancers form the letter T. (First: Episode 0454) |
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Cartoon | A wizard turns into R things. (First: Episode 0369) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird recites a poem he wrote after pretending to be a woodpecker: he banged his beak on a tree all day, and now it's bandaged. |
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Film | Knock knock. Who's there? The woodpecker! (First: Episode 0437) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Robin Hood's Merry Men — Ernie (playing Robin Hood) auditions Anything Muppets to be his Merry Men. |
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Cartoon | Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover in Spanish). (First: Episode 0277) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Cookie Monster asks David to read a DANGER sign. (First: Episode 0279) |
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Cartoon | T for top (repeat) |
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Animation | The story of Dan and Nan, as told with words ending in "an." (First: Episode 0450) |
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Film | A letter T drives through a tunnel. (First: Episode 0454) |
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SCENE 6 | After trying to play hopscotch with the kids, Mr. Snuffleupagus leads them into a game they can all play: "Doin' the Snuffleupagus." |
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Film | Kids watch a silent movie with a man resting on the train tracks with an oncoming trolley - DANGER! |
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Muppets | Grover: Danger Sign — Grover looks around for signs of danger. (First: Episode 0182) |
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Cartoon | A girl explains (in poetry) how she failed trying to make a snowman without using snow. |
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Animation | Drawing a chicken (child V/O in English and Spanish) (First: Episode 0451) |
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Muppets / Cast | Kermit Lecture: Bullfrog — Bob holds an American bullfrog and asks Kermit to talk about frogs. (First: Episode 0277) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and John-John count to 20. (First: Episode 0476) |
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SCENE 7 | Mr. Snuffleupagus gives hopscotch with the kids another try as Mr. Hooper announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Ernie and Bert hold the Sesame Street sign, and Maria and Luis hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
Notes[]
- Jerry Nelson performs all of the Grouches that Oscar interviews, as well as doing the narration for scene 3. The potential Grouches are all made from an extra Oscar puppet with features added and voices to differentiate them.
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