| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Oscar tries to have peace and quiet | |||||||
| Air date | December 18, 1974 | ||||||
| Season | Season 6 (1974-1975) | ||||||
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash — Don Music tries to write "Mary Had a Little Lamb." |
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SCENE 1 | Luis gives Big Bird a box to put things away while he cleans out his nest, but Big Bird realizes he'll need more. He goes to Hooper's Store and places his box on one of the stools. David gives him one, then another one, and quizzes Big Bird on adding all two boxes together; Big Bird keeps saying he has three. David is driven crazy until Big Bird tells him that he already got a box from Luis, showing him the one that had previously been out of David's view. |
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Cartoon | M for Mail (First: Episode 0013) |
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Cartoon | "Ladybugs' Picnic" (First: Episode 0416) |
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Insert | Jerry Nelson narrates three letters coming together to form the word FUN. The letters celebrate with confetti and streamers. (First: Episode 0458) |
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Cartoon | A girl imagines she's a rock, which becomes a statue. (First: Episode 0513) |
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Muppets | The letter R joins U and N to make the word RUN. Anything Muppets run into the scene and take the letters. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Cartoon | A man walks by different people who demonstrate what love is. (First: Episode 0292) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster encounters a green napkin. Every time he squeezes the napkin, a new number appears, allowing Cookie to count up to twenty. This creeps him out, but what's even more creepy is when Kermit shows up inside the napkin at the end of the bit -- he's also green, after all. (First: Episode 0619) |
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Cartoon | "K" - Kangaroo - A man (voiced by Gary Owens) explains what a kangaroo is, and ends up in the pouch of one. (First: Episode 0141) |
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Animation | A dune buggy is assembled. (First: Episode 0506) |
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Cartoon | A man invites an M to dinner. The M is very appreciative, and makes "Mmmmmm" sounds. It eats all of the food at the table, and winds up eating the screen! Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0276) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird paints a big letter M on a giant piece of paper outside his nest. Luis asks him why he's doing it, and Big Bird says it's for Mother's Day, which Luis points out is not today. Big Bird decides to paint it for “midnight,” but Luis explains it's daytime. Big Bird decides to have “macaroni and meatballs” for lunch, which Luis reminds Big Bird that birds don't eat. Luis lists several more M words that he likes, and Big Bird decides to give the M to him since he'll have more use for it. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie's Telephone Call — Bert wonders who could be on the other end of Ernie's involved phone call. (First: Episode 0305) |
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Cartoon | A boy does an addition problem in his head: 2 + 1 = 3 (First: Episode 0516) |
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Muppets | A Large Lavender Live Hand Anything Muppet cowboy shouts across a canyon to hear the echo. "Yippee ki-yi-yo!" is repeated back to him perfectly. When he shouts "One!" the echo repeats back, "¡Uno!" The cowboy is startled. "Two!" he shouts, and the echo repeats, "¡Dos!" "You s'pose that's Mexico over there?" he asks. He continues to count to ten, with the echo repeating the numbers back in Spanish. Frustrated, he shouts, "How are you?" "¡Muy bien, gracias!" is the reply. "Oh, this is ridiculous," the cowboy says, and throws his cowboy hat into the canyon. A sombrero is thrown back in return. |
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Cartoon | A boy does an addition problem in his head: 3 + 1 = 4. (First: Episode 0516) |
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Film | A scuba diver swims away from. (First: Episode 0537) |
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Cartoon | M in space (First: Episode 0516) |
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Muppets | Jerry Nelson narrates a story about a green Muppet hand that learns to spin a top. (First: Episode 0362) |
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Cartoon | Today's Secret Drawing: the letter M (First: Episode 0131) |
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Film | Marching band: The bandleader wants the drummer to beat the drum one time. |
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Animation | Sand M/m (First: Episode 0620) |
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Cartoon | What Do You Do With a Pet? (First: Episode 0465) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar gets bothered by the activity he overhears from Luis, David, Bob, Susan and the kids hanging around his trash can, and gets an idea. He hangs up a sign bearing a red cross, pretending to be a doctor. When the gang goes to investigate this Oscar examines Bob and Susan, making up a bunch of diseases like the greeblies and the lumps, and the only ailment is to stay home and keep quiet. David catches on and begins to examine Oscar, diagnosing him with the “quiet wobbles,” which can only be cured by being around people making lots of noise, so the gang goes back to playing catch. |
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Film | David narrates some films showing the homes of animals. (First: Episode 0452) |
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Cartoon | Four people cooperate building a table. (First: Episode 0537) |
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Insert | Bert sits outside on the street, pretending to fly a helicopter. Maria sits down with him, and the segment becomes animated as they fly through the air before returning to the Street. (First: Episode 0656) |
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Cartoon | The Pink Panther - K For Karate (First: Episode 0241) |
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Film | A man takes some blindfolded kids around the city and they have to guess a parking meter, a rabbit, a man smoking a cigarette, and produce at the market. (First: Episode 0559) |
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SCENE 4 | Still bothered by the others’ activities, Oscar comes out of his can as a conductor by the name of "the Great Grouchanini." The gang lines up and he assigns them specific notes as part of the choir for his concert titled, "All of Sesame Street Sings." Oscar instructs them not to sing unless he points to them with his baton, but he instead chooses to point to the doors, the sky, and other silent things. They catch on to his trick, and when Oscar leaves to "conduct" his kitchen the others startle him by loudly singing their notes at the same time into his can. |
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Muppets | Salesman Harvey Kneeslapper asks Tony if he gets attacked by monsters and run over by crowds. Herry Monster attacks him and a crowd walks all over him, so the answer is yes. Harvey has a simple solution for Tony: AWAY FROM! The next time those things happen to Tony, he can get AWAY FROM them. (First: Episode 0278) |
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Cartoon | La letra M es para Miguel, musica, mariposa, marinero, molino, marciano, maroma y mono (First: Episode 0464) |
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Film | Snow in the city Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0429) |
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Cartoon | "K" - Kangaroo (repeat) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ball Team — Ernie coaches his baseball team consisting of three balls. (First: Episode 0478) |
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Cartoon | A mother bird brings her babies a huge number 12. (First: Episode 0493) |
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SCENE 5 | In a final attempt to get people to be quiet, a bespectacled Oscar opens a library in front of his can. The others sit down to read his selections, but Oscar becomes paranoid when he hears everybody whispering to each other. Combined with their laughter, Oscar finds this new quieter noise to be even more annoying and yells for everybody to leave, causing him to get shushed by the group. David, in voiceover, whispers the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob, Luis, and a kid hold the Sesame Street sign, and David holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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