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| Air date | March 16, 1973 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 4 (1972-1973) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | As David rides by on his delivery bike, Oscar asks him to hold a rope while he goes to get a glass of milk. David overhears Oscar making a table, then sewing a napkin, then milking a cow — which is attached to the rope he's holding. |
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Muppets | Kermit talks about "top" and "bottom" using a stack of boxes Grover carries. (First: Episode 0434) |
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Cartoon | A man gets a letter C in the mail. (First: Episode 0294) |
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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 | 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 | 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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Cartoon | C is for clipper... and captain, crew, cargo, cookies, cantaloupe, cabbage, candy, cake, and corks that the crew eats (some by mistake). (First: Episode 0203) |
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Film | Knock knock. Who's there? The woodpecker! (First: Episode 0437) |
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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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SCENE 2 | Oscar sneaks up from behind Susan and shouts “BOO!” to scare her. Susan says that’s not nice; how would he feel if someone did that to him? Oscar boasts that he's not afraid of anything; he wouldn’t be scared of facing a lion, or being alone in a dark house on Halloween with footsteps behind him. It starts to thunder, and he suddenly wants to hold Susan’s hand. |
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Muppets | Grover the Elevator Operator: Grover's elevator holds five people. (First: Episode 0462) |
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Film | "Three Song (Song of Three)." (First: Episode 0001) |
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Film | C is for cars on the highway. (First: Episode 0469) |
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Cartoon | I've Got a Mind: Wind-up toy (First: Episode 0255) |
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Cast | Wally and Ralph: Wally brings home a new waste basket inside a paper bag, but doesn't know how to discard the paper bag once he's removed the waste basket from it. (First: Episode 0318) |
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Cartoon | The word AGUA fills up with water. (First: Episode 0448) |
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Film | Counting to 20. (First: Episode 0421) |
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Cartoon | A boy needs a letter U to complete the word UP. (First: Episode 0416) |
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SCENE 3 | Bob sees that Big Bird has packed a wagon with all the things he wants to do today. He goes through the things in his wagon as he takes them out to show Bob what he'll do today, including sewing a hem on his tablecloth, fixing a lamp, play football, and so on. Bob thinks that Big Bird has packed too much in his wagon, so he suggests that Big Bird plan to do one thing per day. Big Bird already knows what he’ll do today: clean up the mess he just made. |
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Cartoon | A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion. (First: Episode 0032) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert plan to go to the zoo tomorrow, but Ernie can't make up his mind. What would happen if Ernie bought a balloon, but then lost it when he gets frightened by a buffalo? Then he remembers that the zoo is closed on Wednesdays. (First: Episode 0137) |
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Cartoon | Three men in a horse costume want three cups of coffee. (First: Episode 0473) |
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Film | Two kids help an old man (Taro Yashima) get his dragon kite in the air. (First: Episode 0444) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor) (First: Episode 0029) |
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Film | Iguanas Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0047) |
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Cartoon | A man gets a letter C in the mail. (repeat) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster sings "C is for Cookie." (First: Episode 0372) |
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SCENE 4 | Luis encounters Oscar with a hatchet, attempting to chop down the tree in front of the Fix-it Shop. Luis explains the usefulness of trees, but Oscar isn't convinced, so Luis uses a different approach. He agrees with Oscar that it should be chopped down, since the birds in the tree wake him up in the morning, the leaves fall down and have to be raked away in the autumn, and the winter wind makes a spooky noise as it blows through the tree. Luis tries to chop it himself, but Oscar stops him, suddenly protective of the tree. |
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Cartoon | C is for clipper... (repeat) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper looks inside a paper bag and laughs and asks his next victim, "Wanna see?" The man says yes, so Harvey puts a letter C on him. (First: Episode 0294) |
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Film | "Three Song (Song of Three)." (repeat) |
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Insert | Three of These Kids are wearing winter gear in the cold, but one is not. (First: Episode 0463) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: What do birds eat? |
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Cartoon | C for cat (repeat) |
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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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SCENE 5 | Luis plays "Here Are Some Things" in Spanish with Willy, using pictures of pairs of foods. |
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Cartoon | U for Ugly: A man removes his mask, revealing a hideous monster face. (First: Episode 0468) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit talks with Chris about teaching his little sister, Stephanie, to talk. Chris practices the alphabet. |
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Cartoon | Three men in a horse costume want three cups of coffee. (repeat) |
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Film | The celebration of Chinese New Year |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings about three trios of animals who live on a fat lady's lap. (repeat) |
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SCENE 6 | Willy makes his way down the street as Bob and the kids pet and play with a neighborhood dog. Luis announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, and David holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
Notes[]
- Most of this episode's street scenes are all either remakes or rewrites of scenes from previous episodes. Scene 1 is a remake of scene 9 in Episode 0094, scene 2 is a rewrite of the second scene in Episode 0133, scene 3 is a rewrite of scene 5 in Episode 0165, and scene 4 is a rewrite of scene 4 in Episode 0174.
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