Sesame Street | |||||||
Dancing on Sesame Street | |||||||
Air date | March 18, 1974 | ||||||
Season | Season 5 (1973-1974) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | David tunes his radio to some funky music which he and the others dance to. Big Bird is surprised to learn that the kids are teaching the grown-ups some new moves: Reggie shows Maria how to do "the Basketball" while Shaun and Luis step in time, and David and Joey flail their arms and legs. Big Bird feels he's too clumsy to join but eventually gives in and starts having a ball, bobbing his head back and forth and criss-crossing his legs. The others start calling his dance "the Big Bird." | |
Cartoon | A song about a rolling O Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0011) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie comes up with a way for him to remember to put his basketball away before he goes to sleep: he remembers things with his brain, which is in his head; his head is round, and so is the basketball. His plan works the first time, but not when Bert wants to go to sleep. (First: Episode 0134) | |
Cartoon | "Ten Turtles" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0425) | |
Film | A female voice notes when girls' skirts as either long or short (or both) as they walk and play. | |
Cartoon | La letra O - opera, oeste, orquidea, ojos, ocho, y el orquestra de orangutanes. (First: Episode 0338) | |
Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin and his mother sing "Roosevelt Franklin Counts". (First: Episode 0068) | |
Cartoon | A horse is drawn as kids guess what it is. (First: Episode 0377) | |
Film | The Mad Painter #10 (First: Episode 0328) | |
Cartoon | Tiger likes going to school. (First: Episode 0549) | |
SCENE 2 | David leads Joey and Shaun in "The Alphabet Dance." | |
Animation | Sand O/o | |
Muppets | A Carmen Miranda-style Anything Muppet sings "No Matter How You Count Them, they come out the same!" (First: Episode 0227) | |
Cartoon | An O rolls over and over a horse. The horse eats the O. Artist: John Paratore (First: Episode 0173) | |
Film | "Ten Song (Song of Ten)" (revised version) (First: Episode 0021) | |
Film | Pottery music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0169) | |
Cartoon | What if a frog and a fly switched bodies? What do you think would happen? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0406) | |
Film | A mom and her son comment on a film of various animal babies and their moms. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0107) | |
Muppets | Lefty the Salesman wants to sell Ernie a painting of a tree, which he says is a picture of four elephants. Ernie doesn't see the four elephants, so Lefty offers to show him the elephants if Ernie will buy the picture for a nickel. Lefty points out the elephants, which are actually spaces in the tree's branches. Ernie shells out for the picture. Ernie wants to pull the same trick on Bert, but Bert notices the elephants right away. (First: Episode 0292) | |
Cartoon | Which footprint doesn't belong? (First: Episode 0491) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Cookie Monster shows David the school sign he tore off a building earlier. (First: Episode 0379) | |
Film / Cartoon | The letter O introduces many words he starts. | |
Film | A film insert of kittens playing, with child voiceovers in English and Spanish. (First: Episode 0429) | |
Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit asks Grover to use ladders to demonstrate the difference between short and long. Kermit's amazed that Grover can carry the long ladder by himself, but then sees that Grover is on both ends. (First: Episode 0276) | |
SCENE 3 | Mr. Snuffleupagus wants to teach Big Bird's friends a dance, but is too shy to do it in front of anybody. He leads the reluctant grown-ups in "Doin' the Snuffleupagus" while in Big Bird's nest area with everyone else on the other side of the construction doors. After Snuffy leaves, the adults wonder how Big Bird was able to pull off the music and voice. They rush in once Big Bird says it's Mr. Snuffleupagus, but there's no one to be found. | |
Cartoon | M in space (First: Episode 0516) | |
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) | |
Cartoon | O limerick (First: Episode 0146) | |
Film | Elephants (African percussion soundtrack) (First: Episode 0389) | |
Muppets | Waiter Grover: Mr. Johnson wants a bowl of hot alphabet soup, and he really wants it to be hot. He looks to make sure that each letter of the alphabet is in his soup, but he is missing some. By the time Grover brings in all the missing letters, the soup is cold. (First: Episode 0276) | |
Film | Old Time Movies: Anne Meara narrates a silent film about an automobile that can be either long or short. (First: Episode 0521) | |
Muppets | "Would You Like to Buy an O?" (First: Episode 0364) | |
Film | Joe Raposo: Insects (instrumental w/ kid VO, same music as "Peacock") (First: Episode 0410) | |
Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Little Red Riding Hood and the Woodsman — Little Red Riding Hood and the Woodsman chase the Big Bad Wolf. | |
Animation | Dot & Hill A-3 (shortened) (First: Episode 0146) | |
Film | A wheel rolls away from a junkyard. A boy captures it to complete his wagon. (First: Episode 0522) | |
SCENE 4 | After Mr. Macintosh stops him from counting anymore of his fruit, The Count counts as David turns Maria while they dance the cha-cha. He then counts a dizzy Maria's one fall. | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie has a licorice whip that he offers to share with Bert. He divides it in half with a pair of scissors, but then discovers that Bert's half is longer than his. He cuts off a little bit of Bert's half, and eats it. Then he discovers that his own half is longer than Bert's, and that's not fair, so he cuts a bit off of his own, and eats it. Ernie goes back and forth, cutting off more and more, until the licorice whip is gone. (First: Episode 0461) | |
SCENE 5 | David and Maria are too dizzy to dance for the Count anymore, so they get the kids (including Troy) to spin and dance instead. The Count continues his counting as Luis announces the sponsors. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Oscar and the Count hold the Sesame Street sign, and Luis holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
Notes[]
- The script for this episode was originally written for Arthur Mitchell to play Brynne's dance teacher; he would've also appeared in the scenes with Big Bird and the Count. His name has been whited out in a majority of the scenes in the script before the show had been rewritten, suggesting he may not have been available for the original story. He would eventually appear on Sesame Street in Episode 3320.
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