Sesame Street | |||||||
Big Bird plays airport; Officer Krupky looks for Maria | |||||||
Air date | January 21, 1974 | ||||||
Season | Season 5 (1973-1974) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Bob exits his door over the garage and see Big Bird playing airport below in the arbor. Bob explains that he can't just open an airport on Sesame Street because it needs lots of people coming and going to and from far off places. Big Bird calls to Maria on the street and asks her where she's from. "Puerto Rico, you know that." Big Bird turns back to Bob and asks if that's far enough away for him. Bob says he's still missing a transport vehicle, but Big Bird can't hear him over the sounds of an airplane. Bob leaves him to his devices and Big Bird communicates over the radio with... | |
Cartoon | Alphabet Bates makes the letter N. (First: Episode 0041) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert โ Bert asks Ernie to share a banana with him. Ernie gets the inside of the banana, and gives Bert the peel. (EKA: Episode 0464) | |
Film | Season's Song (1:40) | |
Muppets | The Girl, the Tree and the Terrible Troll (part 1): In a three-part story, a young girl is sent to the forest by her mother to cut down a tree for firewood. A terrible troll encourages her to cut down some trees, but she sees that the trees are home to birds and perfect for resting under. Her decision to not cut them down causes the troll to turn into his true form - a handsome prince, who grants her any wish. She asks that he chop down a tree and bring it back home for her. (EKA: Episode 0428) | |
Cartoon | A baby bird falls from a tree. A boy puts him back, and in return, the mother bird saves the boy from embarrassment. | |
Muppets | The Girl, the Tree and the Terrible Troll (part 2) | |
Film | Where the buffalo roam ... | |
Muppets | The Girl, the Tree and the Terrible Troll (part 3) | |
SCENE 2 | Mr. Snuffleupagus has joined Big Bird playing airport as a ticket agent. He tells Big Bird that he's helping a lady going to Detroit who has four suitcases, but he can only find three of them. The kids help Snuffy by singing which of these things in relation to three flowered suitcases, and one plain suitcase. | |
Film | (live action) Nursing (1:22) | |
Cartoon | "Jazz #3" | |
Film | (live action) Blindfold #2 (1:51) | |
Insert | Maria tries to replicate a block tower. | |
Film | Mad Painter #3 (EKA: Episode 0343) | |
Cartoon | I've Got a Mind: Bird Artist: Cliff Roberts (EKA: Episode 1076) | |
Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin tells the story of an old king named Morty Moot Mope, from the kingdom of Boebitty Bope, who loves to hear words that sound the same. Morty has trouble finding words that rhyme with his name, so he calls upon Same Sound Brown to do it. (EKA: Episode 0534) | |
Film | (live action) N - Neighborhood (Katz) (0:53) | |
SCENE 3 | Sam the Robot says "N", the camera cuts to shots all around Sesame Street, and back to Sam again who says "Neighborhood". | |
n - miniscula (small) (Spanish) (0:35) | ||
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moments: Ernie's lost the nickel he was going to use for candy, so Shola gives him another one. | |
Film | What do birds eat? (EKA: Episode 0514) | |
Film | In On the Hill (0:13) | |
Film | George the Farmer demonstrates in and out. (EKA: Episode 0293) | |
SCENE 4 | Mr. Hooper is on the phone in Hooper's Store taking an order from Mrs. Goldfarb. Big Bird rushes in and has a request from Gordon that he can't remember. After Mr. Hooper lists a few things in the store that it could be, Big Bird remembers that it rhymes with door โ Gordon needs help with the door. Mr. Hooper and Big Bird rush over to the top of the steps at 123 Sesame Street to help Gordon with the door, but they're too late and he drops his boxes, breaking them. | |
Muppets | Grover the elevator operator gives a demonstration of in and out which annoys the passengers. | |
Film | Walk - Live Action (1:05) | |
Muppets | Ernie and Bert: At the beach, Ernie notices that Bert is missing; all he sees is Bert's hat. Sherlock Hemlock helps find Bert, and in the process, discovers that Ernie accidentally buried Bert under the sand. (First: Episode 0278) | |
Film | Country #3 (0:30) | |
Film | (live action) Threes (0:52) | |
Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie has a bag of cookies, and locks them in a safe to protect them from Cookie Monster. When the monster discovers that the cookies are locked up tight, he eats the safe. | |
VTR #12 Activities - Bicycle (0:58) | ||
Insert | Big Bird announces that Grover will demonstrate the number 2 by doing two chin-ups. He does it, but then Big Bird asks him to do two more sets, to make sure the audience gets it. When Big Bird thinks they've got it, he announces that Grover will now demonstrate the number 18! Grover faints. | |
Film | In - Collins (0:37) | |
Muppets | Grover, Herry, and Billy rearrange themselves in different ways and count to three, until they get exhausted and faint. (EKA: Episode 0271) | |
Film | (live action) #3 Bridge - Marching Band (0:13) | |
Film | Walk - Cars (0:40) | |
Cartoon | "Jazz #3" | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment: Kermit & Joey sing The Alphabet Song. (EKA: Episode 0536) | |
SCENE 5 | Officer Krupky (the human role is played on-screen by Frank Oz)[1] is looking for someone on Sesame Street named Maria who is Puerto Rican, has black, curly hair, and dark eyes. He describes her and shows her picture to Mr. Hooper, and then Gordon, who point him in Maria's direction, but can't be told why a police officer is looking for her because it's official business. He finds Maria, confirms that she is Puerto Rican, has black, curly hair, and dark eyes, and tells her he's there on official police business. When Maria asks what she can do to help, Officer Krupky holds up a card with the word "beso" on it, and he needs her to translate it for him. Maria takes off his hat, gives him a kiss on the head, and tells him it means "kiss". Krupky wonders why he gets all the mushy assignments. | |
Film | n - paratore | |
SCENE 6 | Goodbye |
Sources
- โ Bailey, Joseph. Memoirs of a Muppets Writer, pages 189-191
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