Sesame Street 
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| Big Bird tries to find a rhyme for "turtle" | |||||||||
| Air date | January 14, 1974 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 5 (1973-1974) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Luis is concentrating on work outside the Fix-It Shop and is dismayed when the Count appears. Luis insists that he needs to concentrate and claims the Count's counting always distracts him. The Count agrees, and instead lists the things he won't count, though he goes ahead and counts them in passing. |
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Cartoon | Jazz #9 (First: Episode 0137) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Seven Balloons — Ernie tries to count his balloons. (First: Episode 0133) |
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Film | Russian nesting dolls 1-10 (First: Episode 0540) |
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Film | Empty / full playground (time-lapse) (First: Episode 0415) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Cookie Monster and Genelle say the alphabet. (First: Episode 0320) |
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SCENE 2 | Susan sees it's about to rain and proposes Big Bird and the kids play a game finding things that rhyme with "rain." Big Bird digs through his nest area, finding only a toy locomotive, a toy jet and a stick. Susan and the kids regroup, where they show what they have brought (including an Anything Muppet girl named Jane). Susan points out that the items Big Bird has set out are actually a train, plane and cane. Big Bird declares, "What a brain!" |
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Cartoon | "The Story of A": A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A involving an ant's apple getting stolen by an archer. (First: Episode 0130) |
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Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School: Using pictures on the blackboard, Roosevelt Franklin tells the class a story about two little dogs who find a big ol' bone in a doghouse. They try to take the bone, but it turns out that it belongs to a big, mean dog, who chases them away. The moral of the story: "If something's not yours, leave it alone; could be a big ol' dog in the doghouse." (First: Episode 0529) |
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Cartoon | A man tries to explain how to put wallpaper up. Artist: Jim Simon (First: Episode 0527) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Banana in the Ear Part 1 — Bert asks Ernie if he's aware of the fact that he's got a banana in his ear. (First: Episode 0258) |
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Cartoon | A is for ape. (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Banana in the Ear Part 2 — Ernie claims he still has the banana in his ear to keep the alligators away. (First: Episode 0258) |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon sings "Which of These is a Square?" with the kids, asking them to identify the shape on an art board. |
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Muppets | The Amazing Mumford waves his magic wand over a transparent glass cookie jar and makes the jar become full of cookies and then empty (over and over) as an anxious Cookie Monster watches. (First: Episode 0287) |
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Film | Subway Train Empty & Full. (First: Episode 0415) |
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Cartoon | A jar is full of jellybeans. The jar becomes empty, while a hungry boy is full. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0322) |
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Film | Two glasses are filled with fluid, but one glass overflows as a hand keeps pouring into it. The same thing happens using salt shakers and bowls of nuts. Finally, the glasses are filled again, only one glass barely fills up as fluid is poured into it. The camera pulls out, revealing the glass is filling into another one below, which overflows as before. |
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Cast | A Volkswagen Beetle pulls up in a limbo space. A voiceover (Jerry Nelson) points out that the car is full. Some of the cast exits and the voice assumes the car is empty, until more and more people (including Big Bird and even Mr. Snuffleupagus) exit from the car. (First: Episode 0476) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #9 (First: Episode 0338) |
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Cartoon | What if an anteater had the features of a giraffe? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0422) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper: Do Ya Have an A on Ya? (First: Episode 0293) |
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SCENE 4 | At his nest, Big Bird reads a brief poem he's written about the turtle. He doesn't like the rhyme he's crafted ("shirt-le"), so he tells the viewer to hang tight... |
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Film | Baby turtles swim around. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0294) |
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SCENE 4 cont'd | Big Bird now rhymes "turtle" with "dessert-le," another bad rhyme. He brings up the previous film once more... |
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Film | Baby turtles swim around. (repeat) |
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SCENE 4 cont'd | Big Bird now instead rhymes "dirt" with "turt." Frustrated, he tosses his pad and pencil away. He makes a wish to jump in the river like a fish, realizing this makes a perfect, rhyming poem. He frantically searches for his writing tools to record this. |
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Film | A garfish swims around. (First: Episode 0254) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet demonstrates empty by leaving his room, soon Grover and his friends, including Cookie Monster, occupy the room making it full. The Anything Muppet comes in and scares the monsters away leaving it empty. (First: Episode 0148) |
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Cartoon | Three chickens eat grain, and become full, fuller and fullest. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0506) |
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Film | Two kids cooperate on putting on smocks for painting. (First: Episode 0284) |
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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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SCENE 5 | Big Bird notices Gordon fiddling around with an accordion, Susan biting into an apple, Willy adjusting his apron, and Luis fixing an axe. Big Bird senses a pattern here, prompting him to sing "The Sound of the Letter A." |
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Cartoon | Words that begin with A, ending with ambulance (Spanish soundtrack) Animated by Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0371) |
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Film | A film shows parts of a flower. Music: Vivaldi's Concerto for lute, 2 violins and continuo in D Major II - Largo (First: Episode 0008) |
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Cartoon | "Bumble Ardy #9" -- Young Bumble Ardy invites nine pigs to his birthday party while his mother, Sweet Adeline, is away. (First: Episode 0283) |
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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 | A STOP sign commands a train to stop. (First: Episode 0493) |
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Muppets | Lefty tries to sell Ernie a STOP sign. (First: Episode 0134) |
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Cartoon | B is for bear, bicycle, bump, branch and bee. (First: Episode 0008) |
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Film | A conductor yells "STOP" to his off-key violinist trying to play Vittorio Monti's "Czardas". (First: Episode 0516) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #9 (repeat) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #9 (repeat) |
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Cartoon | A boxer explains the letter "B". (First: Episode 0006) |
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SCENE 6 | The sponsors are announced. |
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