| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Maria guards Cookie Monster’s cookie | |||||||
| Air date | December 20, 1973 | ||||||
| Season | Season 5 (1973-1974) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Number 3 quickies:
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Film | The Mad Painter #3 (First: Episode 0343) |
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Cartoon | Simple Simon meets some strange-looking animals, all of whom have their parts switched around. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0540) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: World's Greatest Counter — Ernie proclaims himself to be the world's greatest counter, yet he counts very slowly, and starts all over again if Bert interrupts him. (First: Episode 0107) |
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Cast | A Howard Cosell sound-alike narrates Luis and Gordon running a race in a demonstration of short and long. (First: Episode 0490) |
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Cartoon | T is for Television (Spanish) (First: Episode 0324) |
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Cast | David and Maria dine in spaghetti. Maria polishes off her plate in a short time, but David starts to eat each piece individually, which takes very long. (part 1) (First: Episode 0429) |
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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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Cast | David's plate is about half-empty now. (part 2) (First: Episode 0429) |
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Cartoon | Three men in a horse costume want three cups of coffee. (First: Episode 0473) |
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Cast | Maria has fallen asleep by now, when David finally finishes eating his spaghetti. He then beckons a waiter (Bob) to bring him another serving... (part 3) (First: Episode 0429) |
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Film | Marching Band #3 (First: Episode 0517) |
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SCENE 2 | Despite his belief that he doesn't have a nice singing voice, Mr. Hooper encourages Bert to sing "One of These Things" for the kids with pictures of different-sized pigeons. |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover: Mr. Johnson wants a bowl of hot alphabet soup, and he really wants it to be hot. He looks to make sure that each letter of the alphabet is in his soup, but he is missing some. By the time Grover brings in all the missing letters, the soup is cold. (First: Episode 0276) |
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Cartoon | "Imagination V" -- A surreal segment involving the Venus de Milo statue, a violin, a vampire, and vigilantes. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0050) |
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Song | "Starfish" (First: Episode 0280) |
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SCENE 3 | Cookie Monster asks Maria to guard his last cookie for him that he wants to save for dessert, no matter how much he begs her for it. He immediately changes his mind, and she eventually gives in to his begging; he eats the cookie, then scolds her for not listening to him when he told her not to. Mr. Hooper gives him another cookie, which he gives to Maria to guard. Maria refuses to give him the cookie this time and walks away, and Cookie Monster vows to get it back. |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Baby pigs run in a field, and drink their mother's milk. (First: Episode 0169) |
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SCENE 4 | Cookie Monster disguises himself as a hungry old man who hasn't eaten for three months. Luis and Maria play along with it, but then Maria gives in and gives him the cookie. He devours it, but then scolds her again. Mr. Hooper gives Maria another cookie, which she swears she will not give to Cookie Monster this time. |
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Cartoon | This is a big letter V poem (First: Episode 0507) |
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Film | A man takes some blindfolded kids around the city and they have to guess a parking meter, a rabbit, a man smoking a cigarette, and produce at the market. |
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SCENE 5 | Cookie Monster approaches Maria disguised as a farmer, singing "The Farmer in the Dell." He's seeking to plant a cookie tree and needs the cookie as a seed, but he doesn’t fool Maria. |
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Song | "Three Is My Favorite Number" (First: Episode 0429) |
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Cartoon | The Villain in the Panama Hat (V) (First: Episode 0507) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: a herd of giraffes move their way through a field. (First: Episode 0316) |
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Cartoon | "Poverty T” (First: Episode 0020) |
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SCENE 6 | Cookie Monster disguises himself as a fairy godmother who will give Maria three wishes in exchange for her cookie. No dice. |
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Film | Kids compare animals and human tools and technology. (First: Episode 0491) |
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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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Cartoon | Two men, one named Virgil Veep, discuss the letter V as they stand atop a capital V. (First: Episode 0110) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit and Joey count to 20. (First: Episode 0436) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Sharing a Cookie — Bert refuses to share his cookie with Ernie. (First: Episode 0472) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Big Bird and Crystal demonstrate big and little. |
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Cartoon | Vitamins give vim, vigor and vitality to a droopy V Artist: John Hubley (First: Episode 0311) |
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Film | David asks the viewer to find a rectangle and two circles in the picture of a doorbell. (First: Episode 0434) |
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SCENE 7 | Reading clumsily from a script, an Anything Muppet (Spinney) announces — within earshot of Maria — that a gorilla is on the loose. Maria nods to the camera as a small gorilla comes running out of Big Bird's nest and chases Maria. Playing it up, Maria surrenders on the 123 Sesame Street steps and asks what the gorilla wants of her. When he answers "cookies," she removes the head from the gorilla suit to reveal Cookie Monster, and can't stop herself from laughing at him. |
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Film | An Hispanic boy gets up, gets dressed, and goes to school as Spanish music plays (A la luna no voy yo). (First: Episode 0429) |
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Cast | Gordon is a street corner salesman hawking umbrellas. No one wants to buy them on a hot sunny day, but then it rains. Gordon sells all his umbrellas, but then doesn't have one himself, so he uses his box instead. (Jerry Nelson narrates). (First: Episode 0492) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: TV Chair — Herry Monster tricks Ernie and Bert into vacating their chair. (First: Episode 0207) |
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Cartoon | Small v ... for voom, voice, violin, etc. Artist: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0167) |
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SCENE 8 | As Luis and the kids play in the yard, Maria announces the sponsors, with Cookie Monster still begging her for the cookie. She relents and gives it to him; he eats it, then he scolds her again. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, while Grover and Cookie Monster hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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