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| Mr. Hooper gives David a hat for a gift; Big Bird the Grouch | |||||||
| Air date | January 15, 1974 | ||||||
| Season | Season 5 (1973-1974) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Mr. Hooper gives David a hat for a gift for all his hard work lately. David thinks the hat is out of style for him, but doesn’t tell Mr. Hooper. He takes it off while Maria enters the store to get the paper, but puts it back on when Mr. Hooper is around to admire it. Maria and Mr. Hooper continue going back and forth into the store, and David has to keep putting the hat on and taking it off. |
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Cartoon | "I in the Sky" (First: Episode 0368) |
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Film | A gymnast demonstrates slow. (First: Episode 0507) |
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SCENE 2 | David decides to fess up to Mr. Hooper that he doesn’t like the hat. As it turns out, Mr. Hooper just got him a more fashionable one, and he takes back the old one for himself. Now they both look stylish. |
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Cartoon | "Ten Turtles" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0425) |
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Muppets | Western: Four Anything Muppet cowboys put up a Wanted poster for "the Great Cookie Thief", who's been stealing cookies from all the bakeries in these here parts. Cookie Monster is standing in front of the poster, and the others suspect that he's the Great Cookie Thief -- he has the same googly eyes, the same blue fur, and the same Western hat. They confront Cookie Monster, but he denies the charge: "Not have same mustache!" He shouts, "Look over there!" -- and while they're distracted, he draws a mustache on the poster. They apologize -- but then Cookie Monster takes off his hat, and cookies fall out. The Great Cookie Thief makes his escape. (First: Episode 0276) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: I - ice cream. (First: Episode 0033) |
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Cast | Wally and Ralph: Wally keeps his money taped to his face, so Ralph tells him to keep his money in his piggy bank instead. To ensure he doesn't lose the key, Wally drops it inside as well. (First: Episode 0346) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #10 (Spanish) (First: Episode 0306) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — John-John wants to count backwards. Grover tells him to count backwards from 10, but he has a little trouble. (First: Episode 0547) |
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Cartoon | An ape escapes from the A train and heads over to a birthday party. (First: Episode 0293) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird looks around and sees Maria giving a shoebox to Oscar. He assumes it’s a present, and that he’ll be the next recipient, but he isn’t. He then sees David and Mr. Hooper giving Oscar some bags, and assumes that the rest of the bags are for him, but they’re Mrs. Arroyo’s groceries. Big Bird is so upset that Oscar is getting presents and he isn’t, so he decides to do something about it… |
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Film | "Ten Song (Song of Ten)" (revised version) (First: Episode 0021) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird moves into his own giant trash can and calls himself "Grouch Bird," thinking he’ll get presents if he assumes the mannerisms of Oscar. The others decide that if Big Bird wants to act like a Grouch they'll treat him like one, so his friends give Big Bird what they gave Oscar: more trash. David has a bag of birdseed, but laments that it was for an old friend whom he misses. Big Bird decides to go back to being his old self, and happily digs into the birdseed. |
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Cartoon | A little girl sings "The Alphabet Song," while continually admonished by an adult in voice-over. (First: Episode 0010) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: During Ernie's naptime, Cookie Monster tries to steal and eat Ernie's pillow by distracting him with a bell. (First: Episode 0035) |
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Film | There Once Was a Hand: Skip Hinnant narrates the story of an unhappy hand that wishes he could make a noise. (First: Episode 0007) |
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Animation | Shape organization, part 1 (First: Episode 0419) |
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Film | A gemsbok runs fast, then faster. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0416) |
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Animation | Shape organization, part 2 (First: Episode 0419) |
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Cast | Kids comment as Bob's legs, torso, and head move into place. (First: Episode 0489) |
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Animation | Shape organization, part 3 (First: Episode 0419) |
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Muppets | Kermit the Frog sings "Bein' Green". (First: Episode 0087) |
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Animation | Shape organization (all formations review), part 4 (First: Episode 0419) |
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SCENE 5 | On a vaudeville stage, Big Bird tells David that he's the fastest bird in the world. He demonstrates by "running" around the block twice (standing still to give the impression that he's faster than sight can perceive). |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: The Tortoise and the Hare — Kermit wins the race between tortoise and the hare. (First: Episode 0477) |
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Film | Kids narrate a film in which footage is slowed down and sped up. Sequences include kids on a playground, riding a roller coaster, and Big Bird jumping around and being chased in the park. (First: Episode 0358) |
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Cartoon | Jasper and Julius: Apple. (First: Episode 0485) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Eating" while animals eat. (First: Episode 0106) |
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Cartoon | "I in the Sky" (repeat) |
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Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot invents a complicated machine, to test Cookie Monster's problem-solving abilities. Cookie Monster needs to pull the string to raise the glass cover off the plateful of cookies at the other end -- but when he lets go to retrieve the cookies, the cover will fall again. Herbert hears Cookie Monster approaching, and hides to observe him. Cookie investigates the machine for a moment, then gets the cookies by karate-chopping the glass cover. (First: Episode 0132) |
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SCENE 6 | Back at the vaudeville stage, Maria poses as the country's finest lumberjack. She tell David that she used to work in the Sesame Street Forest, to which David responds that there is no forest on Sesame Street. "Sure, now!" she replies. |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Penguins take a bath. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0233) |
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Cartoon | Three birds enter a cuckoo clock to do their job. (First: Episode 0407) |
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Film | Gibbons make screeching noises. (First: Episode 0276) |
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Film | The Alphabet Dancers form a capital I. (First: Episode 0462) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie approaches Bert in a harried manner, talking rapidly. Bert tells him to talk slower so he can understand him. Ernie says, slowly, that Bert's bread is burning in the oven, which causes Bert to speak in the same rapid, harried manner. (First: Episode 0323) |
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SCENE 7 | Oscar has now taken up residence in Big Bird's giant can and orders the kids to throw in as much trash as they can. Maria announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | David and Maria hold the Sesame Street sign, while Mr. Hooper, Bob, and a child pose with the CTW sign. |
Notes[]
- Richard Hunt puppeteers Oscar in Scene 3, as Big Bird looks on.
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