| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Sam the Machine tries to act like a grandmother | |||||||
| Air date | November 7, 1974 | ||||||
| Season | Season 6 (1974-1975) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | The Count coaches David through filling some candy jars with beans and explains he's going to play the sorting game; although not with sizes, but with numbers. David explains no one could ever count as many beans as he's poured into the jars; no one, that is, except for the Count. As a compromise, he places three sets of two beans and one set of three beans on the table and sings "One of These Things." When he's done singing, he can see that the Count is sad about the game being over, so David tells him he's always wanted someone to count just how many beans are in Hooper's Store. |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings about animals in groups of five on a farm. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0323) |
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SCENE 2 | The Count has counted 7,956 beans, so he starts subtracting them as David takes out each bean, one by one. |
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Muppets | Grover the Assistant: The Amazing Mumford's pineapple subtraction act (First: Episode 0280) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #5 (First: Episode 0345) |
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Cartoon | G For Giggle (voice of Allen Swift) (First: Episode 0357) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Big Bird and Crystal demonstrate big and little. (First: Episode 0559) |
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Film | Swimming and flying pelicans. (First: Episode 0322) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet boy teaches "forward" and "backward" with a group of Muppet kids, hippies, and Grover who keep running over the boy when his back is turned. (First: Episode 0069) |
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Film | A figure skater illustrates forward and backward (First: Episode 0439) |
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Muppets | Simon Soundman has the viewers guess what sound he is making. He makes the sound of a train, car, and a horse. When Simon makes the sound of the horse, a cowboy uses his lasso to capture Simon, mistaking him for a real horse. (First: Episode 0294) |
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Animation | Sand G/g (First: Episode 0643) |
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SCENE 3 | Sam the Robot spots Oscar the Grouch looking at a picture of his grandmother longingly. Sam says he'll practice his grandmothering on Oscar and procedes to spray him with oil and attempts to shine his chrome. Oscar explains that grouch grandmothers don't do those things; they pinch you in the ribs and help put mud on your shirt. Sam leaves to go find someone else to grandmother. |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Pied Piper of Hamelin — Kermit takes over for the Pied Piper. (First: Episode 0519) |
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Song | "1-2-3-4-5!" (First: Episode 0144) |
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Song | "Look Around, Look Around," a song about seasons. (First: Episode 0556) |
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Cartoon | Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes displays a G, for "good." She gets kissed by a monster, who says, "Gee, that was good!" (First: Episode 0279) |
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Muppets | Grover and George sing "Two G Sounds." (First: Episode 0358) |
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SCENE 4 | Sam finds Maria writing a letter to her abuela in the yard, so she lets him pretend to be her grandmother. Sam tries all the things Oscar says a grandmother does, but none of it goes over well with Maria. He then tries to do what his own grandmother did, but Maria explains that her abuela would tell her stories and make her food when she had a stomachache. "Boy, some people are sure hard to please," Sam notes before rolling off. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie keeps taking glasses of water outside the apartment. Bert thinks of possible uses Ernie could have for this water. As it turns out, the kitchen faucet is broken, and Ernie's trying to get rid of the water before the apartment floods. (First: Episode 0425) |
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Film | Things that begin with G (First: Episode 0357) |
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Film | A band plays and children dance at a Cinco de Mayo celebration. (First: Episode 0438) |
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Cartoon | Letter G drawing with kid voice-over. (First: Episode 0306) |
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SCENE 5 | At the Fix-it Shop bench, Sam talks to a sad vacuum cannister (Sonia Manzano) who's missing her grandmother, but he's reluctant to grandmother her after how poorly his previous attempts went. She eventually convinces him and Sam finds her grandmother cared for her much in the same way his grandmother looked after him. He happily takes care of the cannister and sings her a lullaby (made up of various mechanical noises). |
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Cartoon | Workmen construct a D building, filled with everything that begins with D. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Muppets | As ominous music plays, The Count walks around his castle, checks out the mirror (he has no reflection), and greets his bats. The mailman (Jim Henson) arrives, with a bunch of letters for him. He wonders why there are so many. The Count says that he wrote them all himself, so he could count them...and then he does. (First: Episode 0420) |
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Film | Male and female snow people narrate their own construction. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0277) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster sings "One of These Things." (First: Episode 0174) |
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Film | Scenes of individuals running from around the world. (First: Episode 0605) |
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Cartoon | La palabra cerrado (First: Episode 0481) |
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Cast | Luis tries to open a door marked with a "CERRADO" sign. He gets a running start, when Maria changes the sign to read "ABIERTO." She opens the door and Luis runs right through it, crashing. (First: Episode 0596) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — (Part 1) Bert tells Ernie to clean up the messy apartment. (First: Episode 0010) |
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Film | Lions walk down a trail. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0367) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — (Part 2) Ernie has finished cleaning up the apartment, but the toy chest is still a mess, so he throws toys all over the place. (First: Episode 0010) |
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Cartoon | Once there were two men. Each had his own idea. One man told his thought to the other man, then the other man told his idea to the first man. Now both men knew twice as much. (First: Episode 0268) |
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Song | "1-2-3-4-5!" (repeat) |
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Cartoon | A little girl imagines what would happen if she dropped her bag of ping pong balls. (First: Episode 0583) |
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SCENE 6 | Sam takes a victory lap around Sesame Street, inviting some nearby kids to take a walk with "Granny." Maria announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Oscar and the Count hold the Sesame Street sign, while Maria and David hold the CTW sign. |
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