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| Oscar's sticky lid; Big Bird imagines what he'll be when he grows up | |||||||
| Air date | December 24, 1973 | ||||||
| Season | Season 5 (1973-1974) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon introduces an audience (consisting of himself, Susan, Mr. Hooper, and the kids) to Big Bird, who recites a poem about the otter, though it ends with a lackluster rhyme. |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: "It's an Otter!" Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0284) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie's Telephone Call — Bert wonders who could be on the other end of Ernie's involved phone call. (First: Episode 0305) |
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Cartoon | Kids narrate a letter 'Z' drawing (First: Episode 0359) |
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Film | Five Song (Song of Five) (First: Episode 0006) |
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Cartoon | A girl runs home to her CASA. (First: Episode 0503) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar finishes spreading some sticky stuff onto his trash can, so people will get their hands messy and leave to wash it off instead of bothering him. Instead, Susan lets him know that the can is sticky, and Gordon rethinks giving him a gift of a couple of big, dirty rocks after getting his arm covered in the stuff. Biff comes by, singing "I'd Trade All of My Tomorrows" and suspects Oscar put the gunk on the can to keep the rain out, and compliments him on the idea. Oscar starts wiping the stuff off the can, berating his bad idea. |
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Cartoon | Two alpine climbers hike up a letter Z and stake a claim on it. (First: Episode 0281) |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | Oscar has finished cleaning his can. Susan and Mr. Hooper pass by, and Susan happily lets Oscar know that the sticky stuff is no longer there. Oscar has a fit. |
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Muppets | Two Anything Muppet kids argue over a cookie. Cookie Monster arrives and says that the smallest person should get the cookie, and then, as the kids argue over which one is smaller, Cookie Monster shrinks himself. (First: Episode 0253) |
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Muppets | Jerry Nelson narrates a story about a green Muppet hand that learns to spin a top. (First: Episode 0362) |
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Celebrity | The New York Knicks make 4 baskets in a row, but miss on the 5th. (First: Episode 0154) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #5 (First: Episode 0007) |
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Film | Jerry Nelson introduces the letters U and N. Other letters join them and become SUN, RUN and FUN. (First: Episode 0230) |
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SCENE 3 | Mr. Hooper is about to whip up some pancakes at his store when his wooden spoon reminds him of a game. He shows the viewer some pictures, and asks them to find the shape of a spoon hidden in each one. |
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Cartoon | A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture. (First: Episode 0510) |
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Film | Things you can carry Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0515) |
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Cartoon | The letter X (First: Episode 0482) |
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Film | The Alphabet Dancers make a letter X. (First: Episode 0456) |
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Muppets | Western: A cowboy comes to see Adam T. Glaser, who is such a jack-of-all-trades that he forgets what a dentist does. (First: Episode 0408) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird thinks about what he’d like to be when he grows up. He imagines himself as a birdseed salesman, pushing a cart of bagged seed and hawking it to Susan, but she doesn't care for any. Mr. Hooper also doesn't want it as he already has a big bag of it to sell, and Mauricio would rather have sandwiches for his lunch. Back in reality, Susan sees Big Bird moping over his potential failure to sell birdseed, and suggests he imagine selling birdseed to birds instead of people. In his fantasy, Big Bird successfully sells some bags of seed to Little Bird (Jerry Nelson) and a small group of flying canaries. After the fantasy, Susan mentions that she could also use some birdseed for Pete, her pet parakeet. |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Ostriches walk and run. (piano music) (First: Episode 0339) |
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Cartoon | Z In Space (First: Episode 0509) |
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Muppets | "The Zizzy Zoomers" (First: Episode 0359) |
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Cast | Wally and Ralph try to unroll a rug, but a chair in the way presents a problem. (First: Episode 0323) |
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Cartoon | "Alphabet Imagination": A female voice quickly recites the alphabet followed by a male voice narrating each letter in a series of psychedelic vignettes. (First: Episode 0345) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: Z for zipper (First: Episode 0025) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan says, “Z … zipper.” The zipper animation transition (First: Episode 0291) reveals Mr. Hooper zipping up his jacket. The same setup occurs with Oscar introducing Gordon unzipping his coat, and Big Bird revealing Susan once more. |
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Muppets | Grover, Herry, and Billy rearrange themselves in different ways and count to three, until they get exhausted and faint. (Spanish) (First: Episode 0364) |
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Cartoon | A peacock counts twenty feathers on his tail. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Celebrity | The New York Knicks make 8 baskets in a row, but miss on the 9th. (First: Episode 0146) |
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Cartoon | The Square (First: Episode 0536) |
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Film | George the Farmer saws the legs off a table. (First: Episode 0297) |
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Cartoon | Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole and says that he fooled the viewer. He then walks into a wall. (First: Episode 0439) |
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Muppets | Lefty sells Ernie some air, but when Ernie waves to Bert, wanting to show it to him, he drops it. According to Bert (who didn't know what Ernie had), "It couldn't have vanished into thin air." But Ernie sobs, "Yes, it could, Bert! It could!" (First: Episode 0118) |
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Cartoon | Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole, and falls into another hole. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0439) |
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Song | "Five Onstage Dancers" (First: Episode 0539) |
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Cartoon | A chair displays the word SIT, and a beast sits on him. (First: Episode 0399) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert tells Ernie not to eat cookies in bed, because he might get crumbs in the bed, and then he'll get crumbs in his pajamas, itch, and not be able to sleep. Ernie decides to eat cookies in Bert's bed instead. (First: Episode 0282) |
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Cartoon | A turtle, a bird, and a butterfly demonstrate small, smaller, and smallest. (First: Episode 0356) |
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Cartoon | A man makes a CASA for both him and his dog, who then makes a CASA for a bird. |
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Muppets | Zs come out of Herry Monster's mouth as he snores. (part two) (First: Episode 0359) |
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Cartoon | Z In Space (repeat) |
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Cartoon | Willie Wimple went a-boatin' and polluted the river. Artist: Abe Levitow |
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SCENE 6 | Gordon and Susan mingle in the yard with the kids as Big Bird announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Mr. Hooper holds the Sesame Street sign, and Gordon and Susan hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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