| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Rafael moves to Sesame Street; Big Bird helps Susan inflate her bike tire | |||||||
| Air date | March 25, 1974 | ||||||
| Season | Season 5 (1973-1974) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon welcomes the viewer and finds the word "TELEPHONE" near Oscar's trash can. Oscar explains that it's for his latest invention: a Grouchophone. It looks just like a regular telephone, but when Gordon holds the receiver up to his ear, the mouthpiece squirts him in the face with water, making him grouchy. |
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Cartoon | A drummer precedes C.T. Wordsworth who presents today's word: TELEPHONE. (First: Episode 0314) |
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Insert | Cookie Monster explains the purpose of a telephone. Then, Maria and Luis tease Cookie by eating the telephone! (First: Episode 0562) |
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Cartoon | Boy and the UP balloons (First: Episode 0364) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Herry asks John-John if he knows the difference between up and down. (First: Episode 0565) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates up/down with two ladders. (First: Episode 0239) |
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SCENE 2 | At the Fix-it Shop, Luis meets Rafael, a new kid on the block who only speaks Spanish. Rafael tells Luis that he's sad because he just moved and doesn’t know anyone yet. Luis remembers when he moved to Sesame Street; in a flashback, Mr. Hooper invites him into Hooper's Store for a rest. On that day, Mr. Hooper gives Luis a hot chocolate on the house, and Luis proves to be a big help translating a Spanish-speaking customer’s phone order. Back in the present, Mr. Hooper asks for Luis’s assistance again in getting Mrs. Santiago's order; Luis helps out as Rafael is introduced to Mr. Hooper. |
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Cartoon | I Thought a Thought ... about big things. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0226) |
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Muppets | The Count sings "The Song of the Count." (First: Episode 0469) |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd counts four lions. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0300) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Sharing a Cookie — Bert refuses to share his cookie with Ernie. (First: Episode 0472) |
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Cartoon | A boy leads his sister up and down a staircase. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0526) |
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Film | A man bounces a ball up the steps, and then it falls down the steps. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0435) |
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Animation | Three lines attempt to individually reach the top of the TV screen, but fail. They succeed after they combine all of their lengths. (First: Episode 0288) |
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SCENE 3 | Susan encounters Oscar singing a grouchy version of "Rock-a-bye Baby." He claims to be taking care of a baby, and proves it by showing her the baby's giant-sized rattle, diaper, and bottle. The baby happens to be a rhinoceros, whose mother charges into Oscar's back door and destroys the furniture. |
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Film | A rhino and her baby (First: Episode 0408) |
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Cartoon | Y for yawn (First: Episode 0301) |
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Muppets / Cast | Bob reads "Yolanda and the Youth", a story about a youth who wins the hand of Princess Yolanda by passing the "Y" test. (First: Episode 0174) |
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Animation | Sand Y/y |
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Cartoon | Only one of the two footprints can belong. (First: Episode 0509) |
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Muppets | Kermit asks the viewers to play a weather imagination game. First, Kermit imagines it's a warm, sunny day. Then he imagines that it's raining hard. Then he imagines that it's a snowy, windy day. (First: Episode 0325) |
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Cartoon | A man demonstrates Spanish words that start with the letter Y. (First: Episode 0470) |
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Film | Four Song (Song of Four) (First: Episode 0006) |
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Cast | Two kids cooperate on putting on smocks for painting. (First: Episode 0284) |
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Cartoon | Elephants have 4 legs. (First: Episode 0560) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert's Drum Set — Bert has acquired some drums, but he doesn't know how to play them well. Ernie teaches him how to make drum playing exciting. (First: Episode 0579) |
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Film | Marching Band #4 (First: Episode 0507) |
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Cartoon | A man demonstrates up and down. Artist: Al Jarnow (First: Episode 0276) |
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SCENE 4 | Oscar displays shapes to the viewer, asking them if it is the shape of their television screen. He finally holds up the correct one, a rectangle, and puts it on the screen to get rid of everybody bothering him. |
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Cartoon | A boy talks about his pet letter Y, named Yetta. (First: Episode 0443) |
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Celebrity | Lou Rawls sings the alphabet song to a group of kids. (First: Episode 0043) |
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Film | Y, for Yacht (First: Episode 0471) |
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Animation | A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found. (First: Episode 0268) |
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Film | Pizza is made. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0416) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster goes to the bakery for a special birthday cookie. The baker lists all the ingredients of the cookie, as Cookie visualizes it. The visualized image looks so delicious that he eats it. (First: Episode 0283) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C - Cap (First: Episode 0154) |
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Film | "Stop and Go" — film footage plays forward, freezes, and runs backward on command. (First: Episode 0047) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird offers to help Susan with her flat bike tire, believing he's a fixing expert after working with Luis. He tries to inflate it in different ways such as fanning the air with his wing and blowing at it, but Susan shows him how a tire pump works. |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd counts four lions. (repeat) |
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Cast | "Dandy David" adds flowers and flower pots. (First: Episode 0435) |
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Cartoon | A man pushes up a lazy UP. (First: Episode 0316) |
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Song | David sings "I'm Pretty" over a film of fish and other sea creatures. (First: Episode 0389) |
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Cartoon | C - Cake (First: Episode 0153) |
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Film | A gymnast demonstrates on and off. (First: Episode 0526) |
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Animation | A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0277) |
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Film | Counting to 20. (First: Episode 0421) |
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SCENE 6 | Susan finishes inflating the front tire, but Big Bird points out that now the back tire is flat. She thanks Big Bird for his "help" and starts pumping as Luis announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Mr. Hooper holds the Sesame Street sign, and Luis, Gordon, and a kid hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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