| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Gordon and Susan's new car | |||||||
| Air date | December 13, 1973 | ||||||
| Season | Season 5 (1973-1974) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Bob, Maria, and David join Susan as she eagerly watches for a big surprise coming down the street. It turns out to be Gordon, pulling up in his brand new Volkswagen. |
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Cartoon | The story of an old woman who lived in a nine. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0512) |
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Film | George the Farmer shows embedded shapes using drawing of geometric forms and household objects with the same shape. (First: Episode 0288) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Putting the Basketball Away — Ernie comes up with a way for him to remember to put his basketball away before he goes to sleep. (First: Episode 0134) |
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SCENE 2 | Gordon polishes his new car and admonishes his neighbors as Bob and Jay carelessly let a basketball bounce off it, Maria uses it to lean on for writing, and David gets a drop of ketchup on it. Oscar overhears all this and gives Gordon an invitation to join the Disagreeable Order of Grouches. Gordon realizes how unkind he's been acting and apologizes to everyone, to Oscar's dismay. |
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Cartoon | "I Can Remember": A little girl remembers what to buy at the store (A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter) by visualizing her mother giving the instructions. Artist: Jim Simon (First: Episode 0408) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Somebody Come and Play." (First: Episode 0047) |
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Cast | No matter how you arrange these nine people, they're still nine people. (First: Episode 0413) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #9 (First: Episode 0137) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #9 (First: Episode 0338) |
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Muppets | Grover volunteers to assist the Amazing Mumford in his suspension act. Grover will get on top of a platform, and Mumford will pull the pillar off from underneath, and the platform will not fall. The trick works, so Grover decides to try it himself, with Herry Monster as his assistant. Grover can't pull it off, and Herry falls. (First: Episode 0292) |
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Cartoon | Kids hear an L poem. (First: Episode 0198) |
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Cast | At the circus, Ringmaster David introduces the tightrope walker, the Fabulous Flying Fleegle. Instead, his replacement, Floogle (Luis), shows up and struggles to walk on the tightrope. |
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Cartoon | Counting 10 to 1. (First: Episode 0480) |
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Film | Jack Rabbit Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0390) |
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SCENE 3 | Susan shows Chris pictures of different parts of the Volkswagen and he identifies them, then finds them on the car itself. The final image is of herself in the driver's seat, but since there's no driver in the car right now, Susan hops in and invites Chris for a spin. |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit comes across the word "Telephone", spells it, and then teaches the word to the viewer. When an Anything Muppet boy who stands too far away says that he can't hear Kermit, Kermit dials the T, and the boy answers with the last E. (First: Episode 0314) |
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Celebrity | The New York Mets make 10 hits in a row, but miss on the 11th. (First: Episode 0135) |
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Cartoon | A drummer precedes C.T. Wordsworth who presents today's word: TELEPHONE. (First: Episode 0314) |
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Celebrity | The New York Mets make 12 hits in a row, but miss on the 13th. (First: Episode 0136) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet boy gives a brief lecture on the telephone, which Cookie Monster then eats. Soon after, it begins ringing inside his stomach. (First: Episode 0194) |
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Cartoon | A disobedient jacket illustrating words that begin with the letter J annoys an off-screen narrator, which reveals two kids named Jenny and Jeff inside of it. (First: Episode 0527) |
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SCENE 4 | David and Maria are surprised to hear that Oscar is preparing to dust his can. He hands them a number of items he's moving out of the way so he can dust, such as his cracked vase, his spider collection, a flattened fish, and a giant tire. When the area finally is cleared, he grabs a cardboard box to begin dusting, as in throwing dust all over the can. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert sing "La, La, La." (First: Episode 0321) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: L for Light (First: Episode 0147) |
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Cartoon | L es para luz (First: Episode 0373) |
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Film | Kids use shapes to make a train. (First: Episode 0137) |
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Muppets | Grover and Oscar the Grouch recite the alphabet. (First: Episode 0229) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Families." (First: Episode 0454) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #9 (repeat) |
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Insert | The Alphabet Dancers form a letter L. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Film | Kids narrate what a bald eagle sees when it flies over islands. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0424) |
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Film | Marching Band forms a square (First: Episode 0514) |
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Muppets | Old West: Five good men are needed to form a posse and catch Bad Bart, the meanest man in the West. The sheriff counts five men in the saloon, and tries to organize them. But it turns out that there are only four good men -- one of them is Bad Bart! |
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Film | Js appear in a junkyard. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Monster Steals Cookies — Ernie gets blamed for Beautiful Day Monster stealing Bert's cookies. (First: Episode 0041) |
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Celebrity | The New York Mets make 13 hits in a row, but miss on the 14th. (First: Episode 0161) |
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Muppets | A group of Anything Muppets enter, with one saying, "Some of us are here, but not all." They leave, and say that now none of them are there. They re-enter with a few more, saying that some of them are there but not all, and leave again, saying that none of them are there. Many Muppets appear, including Bert, Grover, Scudge, Billy, Oscar and Cookie Monster, who all say, "Now we are all here!" (First: Episode 0061) |
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Cartoon | A disobedient jacket illustrating words that begin with the letter J annoys an off-screen narrator, which reveals two kids named Jenny and Jeff inside of it. (repeat) |
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SCENE 5 | Jay narrates as the cast piles into Gordon's new car, demonstrating some, none, and all. Big Bird wants to go for a ride too, but there's little room for him in the car. Gordon tells him to "make a wish," and Big Bird suddenly appears in the car (with his head through the sunroof). They drive away saying goodbye as Jay announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | David holds the Sesame Street sign, while Bob holds the CTW sign. |
Notes[]
- A One of These Things-style game written in chalk can be seen on the front of Oscar's trash can, though nobody makes reference to it during the episode.
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