| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | April 16, 1974 | ||||||
| Season | Season 5 (1973-1974) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird displays a number 9, and demonstrates it by spinning around 9 times. ("Why, you'll really be able to call me a spinney!") He gets dizzy after his performance, and his eyes see Maria split into multiple people. |
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Muppets | "Wonderful/Yucchy" (First: Episode 0177) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A mandrill carries her young. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0039) |
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Cast | Kids comment as Bob's legs, torso, and head move into place. (First: Episode 0489) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — A tough guy named Tough Eddie accidentally knocks over Bert's sand castle while he's sleeping. Ernie points that out to Eddie, and Eddie tells Ernie, in a threatening tone of voice, that he's "got something" for Bert. It turns out to be an ice cream cone. (First: Episode 0482) |
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Cartoon | E for elephant, eagle, everything, and egg. (First: Episode 0002) |
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Cartoon | E for End (First: Episode 0460) |
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Muppets | Grover the Assistant: Herbert Birdsfoot arranges three blocks for Grover to count. No matter how the blocks are arranged, they still add up to three. Herbert asks Grover to count some oranges as well. Grover confesses that he's good at counting blocks -- but he doesn't know how to count oranges! (First: Episode 0192) |
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SCENE 2 | Outside Hooper's Store, Big Bird encounters Mr. Hooper about to level a table leg with a saw, pointing out how one leg is shorter than the other three. Mr. Hooper needs to attend to both Bob and the ringing phone in his store, so Big Bird offers to help him with the table. Big Bird gets to work, humming, "If I were a carpenter..." |
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Cartoon | A door opens behind a mouse, who shrieks when she sees the E. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0616) |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
Big Bird shortens the three long legs to make them look like the shorter leg, but still notices an imbalance: the shortest leg is now the longest. |
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Cartoon | Do you know what it's like to be scared? (First: Episode 0547) |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
Big Bird has sawed off about half of each of the legs, but notices that one of them is still shorter than the others. |
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Cast / Muppets | Cookie Monster eats an egg with the letter E painted on it. (First: Episode 0316) |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
Big Bird finishes cleaning the area and beckons for Mr. Hooper, Bob, and Maria to have lunch outside at the table. To his horror, Mr. Hooper discovers that the table's legs are now only three inches long! Big Bird walks off in a huff after Mr. Hooper yells at him, and Bob and Maria try to console the seething storekeeper. |
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Film | Kids comment as they see how corn grows in a field. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0619) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet family arranges themselves in different ways. (First: Episode 0275) |
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Cartoon | Would you mind closing our OPEN? (First: Episode 0438) |
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Film | Various objects become OPEN. (First: Episode 0442) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #9 (First: Episode 0137) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert have pizza and grape juice. Bert complains that Ernie has more of each, so Ernie tries to make it even by eating some of his pizza and drinking some of his grape juice, but then Bert has more. And so on. (First: Episode 0256) |
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Cartoon | The more a man inflates a balloon with a tire pump, the less room he has. Artist: Bob Kurtz (First: Episode 0294) |
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Cartoon | Find the camouflaged parrot. Voice: Paul Dooley (First: Episode 0516) |
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Muppets | Lefty's boss makes sure Lefty knows the alphabet. (First: Episode 0236) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird presents the word WIND, and a gale blows Bob, Maria, and Mr. Hooper away. |
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Cartoon | Willie Wimple: Land Pollution (litter). (First: Episode 0527) |
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Cartoon | Christopher Clumsy demonstrates the things feet can do. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0455) |
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Cartoon | E for Elephant & Elk, the nominees for best E animal. (First: Episode 0486) |
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Cartoon | E for Erase (First: Episode 0486) |
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Film | "Nine Song (Song of Nine)" (First: Episode 0016) |
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Cartoon | Some kids wander into the word OPEN, where there's a party going on. (First: Episode 0394) |
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Film | A flower opens and closes. (First: Episode 0441) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie stacks cups and saucers in order to count them, making Bert quite nervous. Luckily, they're glued together. (First: Episode 0586) |
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Cartoon | The profile of a man's face morphs into different faces to the sounds of a Moog synthesizer. Artist: Etienne Delessert |
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Cast | Wally and Ralph: Wally brings home a new waste basket inside a paper bag, but doesn't know how to discard the paper bag once he's removed the waste basket from it. (First: Episode 0318) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Animals with tails. (First: Episode 0017) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Old Mother Hubbard — Kermit points out the lackluster cadence of Old Mother Hubbard's nursery rhyme. |
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Film | A police officer follows clues that lead to a bathtub stolen by a gorilla. (First: Episode 0491) |
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Cartoon | A man explains that the letter E begins both Enter and Exit. Another man named Roy runs through the doors. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Animation | Sand E/e |
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Film | Seals make noise. (First: Episode 0279) |
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Muppets | The Anything Muppets perform a "Handclapping Number". (First: Episode 0491) |
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Cartoon | The story of an old woman who lived in a nine. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0512) |
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Cartoon | E for elephant, eagle, everything, and egg. (repeat) |
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Cartoon | E for End (repeat) |
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SCENE 4 | Bob and Maria notice an “ABIERTO” (open) sign on Oscar's trash can. Oscar explains that he’s opening "Oscar's El Rancho Oscar Restaurant," specializing in Spanish foods. Maria reads the menu, also in Spanish, and Bob thinks the food sounds good until Maria starts translating such delicacies as rock soup and soap tacos. Maria invites Bob for some better Spanish food, but not before turning Oscar's “ABIERTO” sign over to write the word “CERRADO” (closed). |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #4: Third dot wants to be red (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: W for water (First: Episode 0062) |
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Cartoon | W for Wash (First: Episode 0485) |
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SCENE 5 | Maria rejects Oscar's revised menu options: Southern-fried doorknobs and rice, and chocolate gravy with prune tea. Bob announces the sponsors |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Maria and Bob hold the Sesame Street sign, and Mr. Hooper holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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