| Sesame Street | |||||||
| A rainy day on Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | March 8, 1973 | ||||||
| Season | Season 4 (1972-1973) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | While opening Hooper's Store, David gets angry when he's almost hit by a stack of newspapers thrown at his feet by a newspaper deliveryman. The offscreen driver of the newspaper truck (voice of Caroll Spinney) apologizes to David, who handles the situation calmly and decides to get the second stack of papers handed to him instead (despite the broken twine tied around it). |
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Muppets | Little Jerry and the Monotones perform "Mad." (First: Episode 0240) |
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Cartoon | K for keyhole, ketchup, and kitten |
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Film | "Noises" A boy named Julio uses "magic glasses" to see invisible things that make noises, including a train, a cat, a fire engine, a saw, and a man whistling. Can you make those noises? (First: Episode 0004) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie has a pair of magic glasses, which help the wearer see things that are invisible. He decides he'll try them after he's finished eating his plate of cookies. Cookie Monster sneaks up behind Ernie and takes a cookie while he isn't looking -- and when Ernie looks around for it, Cookie Monster sneaks another one. Finally, Ernie puts on his glasses, and catches sight of Cookie Monster. Now he's convinced the glasses are really magic -- they let him see an invisible monster! (First: Episode 0055) |
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Cartoon | "Candy Man" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0359) |
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Film | Lizard! Music: Joe Raposo (same as "birds") (First: Episode 0418) |
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Cartoon | K is for kitten. (First: Episode 0040) |
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Muppets | Cheers: The Anything Muppets cheer for the letter K. (version #1) (First: Episode 0100) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird and Troy are at Hooper's Store when suddenly it starts to rain. Big Bird decides to carry the groceries while Troy carries the umbrella, but Big Bird finds it too difficult to stand underneath the umbrella. David suggests that the two of them switch what they're holding; that way, the umbrella will be high enough for both of them to stand under. |
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Cartoon | K is for Karate |
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Film | The Mad Painter #8 (First: Episode 0326) |
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Cartoon | The dot gets on top of the lowercase letter i. Artist: Fred Garbers (First: Episode 0462) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie and Farley are about to eat peppermint stick candy, but Cookie Monster passes by and points out that Ernie's is longer than Farley's, and Farley's is shorter. Cookie solves the problem by eating each stick, each time making the other one longer. He finally gets them the right size--but they are now eaten down to small stubs. (First: Episode 0260) |
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Cartoon | A clam tells a fisherman why he's not catching any fish: he pulled all the plants out of the pond. (First: Episode 0408) |
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Cast | Wally and Ralph: Wally thanks Ralph for a box of stuff he's been gifted, but worries about how he'll get home in the rain without getting wet. He empties the box's contents to use as a covering on his head, but now he has nothing to carry all that stuff with. (First: Episode 0359) |
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Cartoon | K-kick (First: Episode 0463) |
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Muppets | Three Anything Muppets (including George) individually try to sell lemons, water, and sugar. After all of their businesses fail, the three cooperate to start a lemonade stand. (First: Episode 0335) |
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SCENE 3 | A kid narrates as it rains on Sesame Street, pointing out the sounds it makes when it hits the Hooper's Store awning, the street, and the lid of Oscar's trash can. |
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Song | "Eight Song (Song of Eight)” (First: Episode 0016) |
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Muppets | Grover watches Mumford practice a trick, making a rabbit come out of his hat. Mumford has trouble getting a rabbit to come out of the hat, and both are oblivious to the fact that Grover is turning into a rabbit. (First: Episode 0407) |
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Cartoon | K for kite |
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Film | City alphabet (Joe Raposo instrumental with kid voiceover) (First: Episode 0132) |
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Animation | Counting six red balls (First: Episode 0278) |
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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. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Animation | "The King of Eight" (First: Episode 0225) |
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SCENE 4 | Luis and Bob find Oscar angrily yelling at the clouds. Luis sympathizes as he had just finished repairing a radio outside the Fix-it Shop, but the rain caused it to break again. Bob is upset as well since he had to quickly take down his drying laundry from the clothesline, but he dropped his clothes so they’re dirty again. As it turns out, Oscar is upset because he thinks he’s missed out on all the fun that the rain caused. He then throws some clothes on the ground so they’ll get wet, and sets out his own radio and turns it on so the rain shorts it out. |
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Cartoon | Two ducks look the same height when they're in the bathtub, but one duck (Joe Flynn) is short and the other is tall. (First: Episode 0303) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie is tall, Bert taller, and Big Bird is the tallest (and he also breaks the ceiling). (First: Episode 0284) |
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Cartoon | K for keyhole, ketchup, and kitten (repeat) |
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Cast | Kids comment as Bob's legs, torso, and head move into place. |
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Film | A warthog runs around. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0406) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird shares some poems about the rain, but Maria and the kids keep correcting him on the rhyming words. The rain stops, and Big Bird goes off to write a poem about the sun. |
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Muppets | Simon Soundman has the viewers guess what sound he is making. He makes the sound of a train, car, and a horse. When Simon makes the sound of the horse, a cowboy uses his lasso to capture Simon, mistaking him for a real horse. (First: Episode 0294) |
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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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Cartoon | An old woman emerges from the pouch of a bouncing kangaroo. She proclaims, "K! Kangaroo!" |
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SCENE 6 | Maria sings “One of These Things” in Spanish with Luis and the kids using pictures of three faces with mustaches and one without. |
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Cartoon | I-Ink (angry bird) (First: Episode 0462) |
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Film | African kids play at various activities, including a game with stones. (First: Episode 0136) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert asks Ernie to share a banana with him. Ernie gets the inside of the banana, and gives Bert the peel. (First: Episode 0464) |
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Cartoon | "Candy Man" (repeat) |
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SCENE 7 | David asks Bob to put up the awning of Hooper's Store as he puts the newspapers back outside, forgetting about the rain that had collected atop the awning. David gets drenched, but the two laugh it off as Maria announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, and Luis holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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