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Sesame Street
David's poem about Maria / Oscar argues with his voice recording
Air date January 7, 1974
Season Season 5 (1973-1974)
Written by Joseph A. Bailey[1]
Production August 13, 1973
Sponsors Q, S, 4

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0571 01
SCENE 1 David shows Maria and the kids how a tape recorder works by sampling some audio of their voices and playing it back. He flips the tape over to side B to hear what else he's recorded, thinking maybe it's some notes he took for class. After a moment, his voice is heard in a poetic cadence, "Just a few thoughts I'd like to say about Maria..." He immediately switches it off, but Maria wants to hear the rest after hearing her name. David insists the Maria he's talking about is his sister's new cat, but she convinces him to play the rest back anyway. Finally he admits that the poem was about her, which Maria says was very nice.
Film-BuildingGrows01
Film / Animation Part 1: A boy declares he wants to build a building. He and an adult voiceover describe how the building will be made, intercut with stop-motion animation and live-action footage. The two then wait for the foundational cement to dry...
(First: Episode 0142)
0571 02
SCENE 2 David and Maria use the recorder to capture audio of Oscar the Grouch inside his can telling them to leave him alone. Oscar eventually emerges and they play back the tape out of view on the 123 Sesame Street steps. The resulting exchange with his own voice recording convinces Oscar that he's quarreling with another grouch.
0597.Santa
Cartoon S is for snow, Santa, and sleigh.
(First: Episode 0134)
Erniebeforeafter
Muppets Ernie and Bert: Before and AfterBert explains the concept of "before and after" to Ernie using a plate of cookies.
(First: Episode 0007)
Film-BuildingGrows02
Film / Animation Part two: With the cement dried, the boy's building is brought to completion.
(First: Episode 0142)
0571 03
SCENE 3 Big Bird demonstrates "before" and "after" by opening and walking through the construction doors next to his nest, but he knocks Maria over in the process.
Jazzyspies4
Cartoon "Jazz #4"
(First: Episode 0006)
Herbert and Grover 2
Muppets Grover the Assistant: Herbert Birdsfoot arranges three blocks for Grover to count. No matter how the blocks are arranged, they still add up to three. Herbert asks Grover to count some oranges as well. Grover confesses that he's good at counting blocks -- but he doesn't know how to count oranges!
(First: Episode 0192)
Song.newlife
Song Joe Raposo sings "New Life."
(First: Episode 0281)
Erniebertcountsheep
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie 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)
1709c
Cartoon Willie Wimple: Tree Destruction
Artist: Abe Levitow
(First: Episode 0516)
LuisMagician
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)
Gorilla-no
Film A gorilla chases a woman, who registers her protest by shouting "No." She triumphantly drags the gorilla off.
(First: Episode 0546)
0871l
Cartoon Hypnotic "Q" rainbow
(First: Episode 0440)
KermitTreyQ
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentKermit asks Trey if he's seen a letter Q before. At first Trey denies it, but eventually draws one in the air with his finger.
(First: Episode 0440)
1095x Cartoon A trainer announces that his talking dog will say YES, but he says NO instead.
Artist: Derek Lamb
(First: Episode 0511)
0571 04
SCENE 4 Sam the Robot offers to make change for Bob to use on the bus. After inserting a one dollar bill into him and making a comment about the weather, Sam goes on and on with meteorological details. Bob asks if Sam knows what the word "stop" means, and Sam goes into another overly-detailed lesson on the word. He mentions having a STOP button on his back, which Bob proceeds to push. This shuts Sam down completely, resulting in Bob missing his bus because he couldn't get the change back from Sam.
Onelittlepenguin
Film A kid recites a poem about adding penguins.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0255)
4construction
Cartoon Four construction workers build a number 4.
(First: Episode 0507)
Teachersinyrnbhd

Newsdealerinyrnbhd
Muppets Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with teachers and a newsdealer.
(First: Episode 0276)
QuietKorty
Cartoon Q for Quiet
Artist: John Korty
(First: Episode 0441)
CRoberts.Mouseelephant
Cartoon What if an elephant and a mouse had their features switched around?
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0212)
RFAlphabet
Muppets Roosevelt Franklin says his ABCs.
(First: Episode 0103)
Qwords
Cartoon "Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself.
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0048)
BabyMonkey
Film A baby monkey
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0280)
EB.NOsign
Muppets Herry Monster holds a sign with the word "NO" on it and tells Ernie that he can make him read his sign. Ernie replies "Oh no you can't!", and eventually gets the joke. He tries it on Bert, but the gag backfires when Bert bets he can get Ernie to read the sign.
(First: Episode 0416)
Madpainter4
Film The Mad Painter #4
(First: Episode 0344)
0571 05
SCENE 5 Big Bird reads a poem he forgot he'd written and hadn't finished. It's called "My Friend" and describes someone who's big and brown, but the name is left off of the end. Mr. Snuffleupagus comes along and can't think of who it might be since he's never met any of Big Bird's friends. After he leaves, Big Bird thinks about writing a poem for Snuffy. Bob helps him rhyme Snuffleupagus which makes Big Bird think about his previous poem mystery.
Dot & Hill A3
Animation Dot & Hill A-3
(First: Episode 0146)
Marchingband4
Film Marching Band #4
(First: Episode 0529)
Cosby4Kids-2
Celebrity Bill Cosby tries to count 4 kids.
(First: Episode 0176)
Serpiente
Cartoon S - Serpiente
(First: Episode 0382)
Dot & Hill A4
Animation Dot & Hill A-4
(First: Episode 0146)
0871k
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentHerry & John-John observe a letter Q.
Jazzyspies4
Cartoon "Jazz #4" (repeat)
0571 06
SCENE 6 Oscar gathers everyone around for some grouch lessons, having them stick their tongues out, glower with their eyebrows, and hold their noses. He finishes by having everybody imagine making a sandwich out of disgusting things like moldy bread, mud, earthworms, and hair tonic; everyone vocalizes their disgust, which Oscar thinks make them sound even more like Grouches.
Qthatfunnything
Cartoon Q -- that funny looking thing.
(First: Episode 0131)
0571 07
SCENE 7 Snuffy announces the sponsors while everyone plays in the yard.
David0571

Mariasign1
CLOSING SIGNS David holds the Sesame Street sign, while Maria holds the CTW sign.

Sources[]

  1. Muppet Mindset interview December 20, 2011

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