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| Oscar conducts the Grouch Philharmonic Orchestra | |||||||
| Air date | April 18, 1973 | ||||||
| Season | Season 4 (1972-1973) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Riding his delivery cart, Mr. Hooper stops in front of Oscar as he begins to conduct an orchestra inside his trash can, the Grouch Philharmonic. Instead of musical instruments, the members of the orchestra make the sounds of a train played by Melbourne, an airplane played by Brisbane, and a fire engine played by Tasmania. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert go to bed, but they hear water dripping. Bert asks Ernie to do something about the sound, so Ernie puts the radio on to drown out the dripping sound. But that doesn't work, so Ernie also turns on the vacuum cleaner. When Bert finally gets the vacuum cleaner, the radio, and the water off, he finally can go to sleep...until he hears Ernie snoring. (First: Episode 0131) |
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Animation | Scanimate Films #4 (First: Episode 0132) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A turtle swims in a tank. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0283) |
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Cartoon | A concert pianist shows up in a construction worker's lunchbox, singing the alphabet. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Celebrity | Joe Namath and his team of kids make a football pass after counting to 1. |
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Cartoon | A girl inflates a balloon in the shape of an S. (First: Episode 0414) |
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Celebrity | Joe Namath passes on 2. (First: Episode 0438) |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd counts four lions. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0300) |
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Celebrity | Joe Namath passes on 4. |
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Cartoon | A girl shows how good she is at drawing buildings. (First: Episode 0454) |
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Muppets | Grover the Assistant: The Amazing Mumford's pineapple subtraction act (First: Episode 0280) |
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Cartoon | A drummer precedes C.T. Wordsworth who presents today's word: STREET. He sings about it with a boy who wears a crown. (First: Episode 0309) |
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SCENE 2 | Maria, Big Bird, and some kids are out on the street looking for things that start with the letter S. Big Bird can't think of anything as quickly as the kids are finding them, so he goes his nest where Mr. Snuffleupagus offers to retrieve some things from his cave that start with S. |
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Cartoon | Things that are the same or different are displayed like a slot machine. (version #2) (First: Episode 0335) |
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SCENE 3 | Snuffy brings some giant items back from his cave: a sailboat, a bar of soap, and a suitcase. Snuffy also points out that Snuffleupagus begins with S, so Big Bird asks him to hide so he can surprise Maria. Big Bird brings Maria into his nest area so she can meet Snuffy, but he's nowhere to be seen. Big Bird insists that he's hiding and will come out soon. After Maria scoffs and leaves the nest, Snuffy jumps out and yells, "Surprise!" |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: S - Snake: A snake charmer irritates the snake. (First: Episode 0063) |
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Film | Counting the circus clowns. (First: Episode 0501) |
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Cartoon | S - Serpiente (First: Episode 0382) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Cookie Monster shows David a sign that says STREET. (First: Episode 0423) |
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Film | The Great Chango, man of one thousand costumes, puts on outfits of various professions. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — It's a sunny day at the beach, and Bert remembered to bring everything. Ernie, however, only brought an umbrella in case it rains... which it does. (First: Episode 0284) |
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Film | How milk is made, featuring the song "Hey Cow." (edited) (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cast | Luis, dressed as a magician, demonstrates addition by conjuring up the correct numeral when David and Maria arrive. As each person leaves, Luis switches the numerals to present subtraction. (First: Episode 0485) |
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Cartoon | Footprints move over to the tune of "Here Are Some Things". (First: Episode 0505) |
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Muppets | "Sammy the Snake" (First: Episode 0278) |
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SCENE 4 | The Count stops by the Fix-it Shop to see how his grandfather's clock is doing. Luis says that it's almost fixed and sets it to 4:00 to test it out. The clock chimes four times, as Luis expected. The Count isn't interested in it telling time, so he makes an adjustment in the back and tests it again. Now, the clock chimes continuously so that the Count can continue counting them. |
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Cartoon | Superman demonstrates the letter S and some of the words it stands for. (First: Episode 0136) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Animals with tails. (First: Episode 0017) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie can't sleep, so Bert tells him to count sheep. Ernie tries to count sheep, but it's dull -- so he starts counting fire engines. The noise from the imaginary fire engine wakes Bert up. Bert says that Ernie's waking up the whole neighborhood, and tells him to count something quieter. Ernie counts balloons -- but the balloon gets bigger and bigger, finally bursting with a huge explosion that wakes Bert up again. (First: Episode 0276) |
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Transition | Bridge #5 – 4 Corner Bridge C (First: Episode 0282) |
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Film | A man takes a group of blindfolded kids to a construction site so they can feel around to guess where they are. (First: Episode 0510) |
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Transition | Bridge #6 - 4 Corner Bridge D (First: Episode 0282) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Me." (First: Episode 0421) |
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SCENE 5 | Letter S quickies: |
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Muppets | Kermit asks the viewers to play a weather imagination game. First, Kermit imagines it's a warm, sunny day. Then he imagines that it's raining hard. Then he imagines that it's a snowy, windy day. (First: Episode 0325) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A kid recites a poem about adding penguins. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0255) |
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Cartoon | Would you mind closing our OPEN? (First: Episode 0438) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Kids narrate what a bald eagle sees when it flies over islands. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0424) |
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Muppets | Twin Anything Muppets find they're identical, except for their voices. (First: Episode 0277) |
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SCENE 6 | Maria sings "Here Are Some Things" with pictures of clowns and an elephant. |
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Film | Kids compete in a speed skating competition (version three). (First: Episode 0460) |
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Muppets | A female Anything Muppet discusses the concept of "same" using her reflection in the mirror. The reflection begins speaking on its own. The girl faints and the reflection decides to do the same. (First: Episode 0376) |
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SCENE 7 | Big Bird sings "Here Are Some Things" for the kids who sort letters and numbers. |
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Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School: Roosevelt Franklin has his students stand up and sit down to learn about the opposites. |
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Cartoon | A cowboy tries to lasso a rolling letter O. (First: Episode 0286) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #4 (First: Episode 0344) |
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SCENE 8 | Big Bird tells the kids it's time to say goodbye and begins playfully fighting over the tire swing with Troy. Maria announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | The Count holds the Sesame Street sign, while Mr. Hooper holds the CTW sign. |
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