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| The Count helps Big Bird write a poem | |||||||||
| Air date | November 15, 1974 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 6 (1974-1975) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | The Count encounters a bespectacled Big Bird finishing some poems in one of his books. Count offers to help find rhyming words for his poems, which coincidentally happen to all end with numbers. Big Bird thanks the Count for his help and admires his work, enjoying how Count continues to rhyme what he's saying with even more numbers. |
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Muppets | Old West: Bad Bart is looking for Marshal Earp to give her a big surprise. The terrified townspeople try to warn Marshal Earp -- but Bad Bart explains that a surprise is something that someone doesn't expect. He orders them not to say a word. It turns out the big surprise is a cake for Marshal Earp's birthday. (First: Episode 0537) |
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Animation | Sand Q/q (First: Episode 0623) |
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Cartoon | Q for Quiet Artist: John Korty (First: Episode 0441) |
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Film | A baby monkey Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0280) |
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Cartoon | King Minus and the Disappearing Dragons (First: Episode 0345) |
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Film | Five dancers disappear one by one, until there are none left. (First: Episode 0589) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Tries Not to Wake Bert — Ernie comes home to a sleeping Bert and tries to think of things to do that won't wake him up. (First: Episode 0280) |
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Cartoon | Various renderings of the word DANGER. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0151) |
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Film | While walking and reading the newspaper, a man barely avoids DANGER on three occasions, but then gets hit by a revolving door. (First: Episode 0656) |
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Cartoon | Checkerboard transition cartoon (First: Episode 0105) |
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Film | Kids play in the snow. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0292) |
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SCENE 2 | Susan plays a "Here Are Some Things" game on the stoop with two kids using pictures of different-sized flowers. |
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Muppets | Grover volunteers to assist the Amazing Mumford in his rhyming magic trick, making three things come out of his hat that rhyme with "knee". Grover guesses the first one (key), but doesn't get the last two (ski and tree) right. (First: Episode 0455) |
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Celebrity | The Harlem Globetrotters demonstrate body parts during their basketball stunts. (First: Episode 0627) |
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Animation | Children's voiceovers (in English and Spanish) dictate how to draw a male's body. (First: Episode 0528) |
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Film | Pottery music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0169) |
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Cartoon | Q-quiet! (tree chopping) |
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Cartoon | Only one of the two footprints can belong. (First: Episode 0509) |
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Muppets | Grover demonstrates how a phone booth is used, but it becomes crowded when he receives a call asking for "Monderporg." (First: Episode 0654) |
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Cartoon | Henson: Eleven Cheer (First: Episode 0273) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet demonstrates empty by leaving his room, soon Grover and his friends, including Cookie Monster, occupy the room making it full. The Anything Muppet comes in and scares the monsters away leaving it empty. (First: Episode 0148) |
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Cartoon | A voice asks a face if it's aware of the letter S, and it is revealed that the face belongs to a snake. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0278) |
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Film | City alphabet (Joe Raposo instrumental with kid voiceover) (First: Episode 0132) |
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SCENE 3 | At the Fix-it Shop, the Count is busy counting the names in the telephone book, which is disrupting Luis and Rudy from their work. To stop him, Rudy suggests Luis show him his calculator, which the Count learns will help him add up the names in the phone book in a much quieter manner. The Count tries to suppress his urge to count out loud, but it becomes too great as it's not as much fun with the calculator. Luis and Rudy give in and join him in his counting instead. |
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Cartoon | A girl inflates a balloon in the shape of an S. (First: Episode 0414) |
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Muppets | Story: "The Geefle and the Gonk" The Geefle and the Gonk, two aliens, learn how to cooperate and gather nectarines together. (First: Episode 0452) |
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Cartoon | "It's a Lovely Eleven Morning" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0362) |
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Cartoon | A jar is full of jellybeans. The jar becomes empty, while a hungry boy is full. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0322) |
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Celebrity | The Harlem Globetrotters make 16 baskets, but miss on the 17th. |
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Film | Shopping for soup ingredients. (First: Episode 0515) |
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Cartoon | "Poverty Q”: A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself. (First: Episode 0048) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Q Game — Ernie asks Bert to play a game where they take turns counting and then saying "Q." (First: Episode 0440) |
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Film | Grasshopper (harpsichord 50s-style music) (First: Episode 0084) |
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Celebrity | The Harlem Globetrotters make 8 baskets, but miss on the 9th. (First: Episode 0649) |
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Animation | Dot & Hill A-4 (First: Episode 0164) |
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Celebrity | The Harlem Globetrotters make 15 baskets, but miss on the 16th. |
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Cartoon | Q - quarter (First: Episode 0046) |
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Celebrity | The Harlem Globetrotters make 4 baskets, but miss on the fifth. (First: Episode 0649) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Herry & John-John observe a letter Q. (First: Episode 0571) |
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SCENE 4 | Mr. Hooper delivers Susan her newspaper when they both hear off-key piano music coming from Oscar's trash can. They attempt to ask Oscar about it, but he's so angry that he can't even talk. They tell him to calm down by running around a little, then beating up a pillow. After doing so, Oscar reveals why he's angry: they knocked on his can while he was practicing the piano. He becomes even more infuriated when they interrupt him once more to apologize for their previous interruption. |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster stars in "The Ballad of Casey McPhee." (First: Episode 0516) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan and Mr. Hooper leave once Oscar continues playing his piano as Luis announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Oscar and the Count hold the Sesame Street sign, and Mr. Hooper holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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