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| Air date | April 5, 1974 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 5 (1973-1974) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Susan tells Bob and Luis what she heard from Big Bird: when he was young, he couldn’t see well, was kept in the dark, and was often alone. They all assume he had a troubled childhood because of that, so they visit him. Big Bird shows them his family album, and finally reveals why he couldn’t see when he was young: he hadn’t come out of his egg yet. |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie and Cookie Monster discuss hope. Ernie has something in a brown paper bag, and asks Cookie Monster what he hopes it is. Cookie Monster hopes that it is a cookie. It turns out that Ernie has ten cookies in the bag. (First: Episode 0233) |
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Cartoon | A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (First: Episode 0011) |
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Cartoon | A woman fixes her car by putting a letter r under the hood, and it goes "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" (First: Episode 0410) |
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Muppets | Farley goes to the hat shop. (long take) (First: Episode 0244) |
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Cast | Maria and David find two sets of sacks, which have incorrect numerical labels. (First: Episode 0505) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Seahorse (First: Episode 0183) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird builds a model of himself and calls it "ME." |
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Muppets | Grover and the letter R, which ROLLS, ROCKS, RUNS, and ROCKETS. (First: Episode 0194) |
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Film | Kids narrate a film about where you get ice cream: from the cow, to the factory, to the ice cream shoppe. (First: Episode 0168) |
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Cartoon | The word EXIT walks out of the room. |
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Muppets | Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Fireman and Postman. (First: Episode 0023) |
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Cartoon | Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole and says that he fooled the viewer. He then walks into a wall. (First: Episode 0439) |
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Cartoon | P is for Puddle (First: Episode 0452) |
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Cartoon | Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole, and falls into another hole. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0439) |
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Muppets | Caveman Days: EXIT sign (First: Episode 0300) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #2 (First: Episode 0309) |
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Cartoon | Train #2 (First: Episode 0353) |
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SCENE 3 | Bob acts as though he wants to sell Mr. Macintosh some fruit, which he and Susan use to play a "Here Are Some Things" game. Mr. Mac doesn't want the fruit, of course, but he takes the clock picture that doesn't belong. |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Green Tree Snake Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0285) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie says that he has "flying fingers," and tries to find ten different things that his fingers can do. (First: Episode 0617) |
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Cartoon | I've Got a Mind: Bird Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0269) |
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Film | Some kids watch a silent film featuring a lady in a burning house. They instruct her to "go to the EXIT!" (First: Episode 0536) |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby plays twins who recite the alphabet together. (First: Episode 0131) |
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Muppets | A boy watches a circle around him get bigger and smaller. (First: Episode 0285) |
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Film | "Doll House" (First: Episode 0131) |
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Cartoon | Julius and Jasper: "Why are you holding one leg up in the air, Jasper?" "Because if I hold two legs up in the air, I fall down!" Animation by Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0406) |
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Muppets | Two Anything Muppets sing "Me" in both English and Spanish. (First: Episode 0372) |
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Cartoon | A letter "P" sits on an island before a rotating sunset. The ridges of the letter "P" moves along the letter and flash in different colors. (First: Episode 0452) |
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Cartoon | A man teaches his dog Rover how to read the word SIT. (First: Episode 0304) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert, and Shola demonstrate "big," "small," "smaller, and "smallest" with four balls. (First: Episode 0544) |
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SCENE 4 | Luis sings "Believe in Yourself" to the cast. During the instrumental break, Mr. Mac does a dance and Bob juggles some fruit. |
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Cast | Wally and Ralph: Wally borrows Ralph's comically-large pencil, but has trouble writing because he's holding it upside down. (First: Episode 0360) |
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Animation | A dune buggy is assembled. (First: Episode 0506) |
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Cast | Maria supervises as Luis and Gordon put together a fractured letter R. (First: Episode 0531) |
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Cartoon | Things say that other things are small, but then something comes along that's bigger, or smaller, or whatever. (First: Episode 0320) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Cookie Monster note that they're the same in a lot of ways, and then become paranoid that they can't tell each other apart. An Anything Muppet tells them how they are different, which relieves them of their stress. |
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Film | Two birds Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0295) |
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SCENE 5 | Oscar the Grouch will read one of his Grouch poems, provided that the viewer leave him alone afterwards. He recites a poem with rhymes for "trash" and is displeased when there's no response. |
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Film | Letter R hoist Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0315) |
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Animation | Sand R/r |
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Cartoon | Train #2 (repeat) |
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SCENE 6 | Bob and Dirk try to unravel a garden hose as Susan announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob and Luis hold the Sesame Street sign, and Maria and Susan hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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