| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Oscar opens a Grouch school | |||||||||
| Air date | January 3, 1975 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 6 (1974-1975) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Bob disturbs Oscar's peace as he calls out for Remy and Adrian to join Trey and Shola on their way to school. Bob explains what school is to Oscar, who thinks it's silly to go to school when he already knows a lot that he learned from his Uncle Ebenezer Grouch. As Bob and the kids leave, Oscar thinks that he can teach the kids some things as well... |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #2" (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 2 | Some older kids (Martie, Corey, Todd, and Shannon) arrive at Oscar's Grouch school, where Oscar the teacher praises them for being a half-hour late. David and Susan interrupt as everyone recites the Grouch pledge, and notice that the students all have dirty faces, wear torn clothes, bring junk, books, and boxes with them, and have sour pickles for lunch. One kid brings an old watering can for show-and-tell, and Oscar teaches the importance of the word “yucchy.” Oscar fetches his baton to lead everyone in a music lesson - “I Love Trash.” |
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Cartoon | L is for Ladder (First: Episode 0036) |
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Animation | Sand L/l (First: Episode 0632) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar gives the kids the big “Grouch test,” which is to have them make someone really angry. He tries to get the students to bother Susan and David, but instead they give Oscar some flowers, ice cream and cookies, a jump rope, and finally a big kiss, which makes him so angry that he dismisses school forever. |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert and Shola discuss the difference between "heavy" and "light". (First: Episode 0549) |
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Song | "Watch the Dance": A calypso singer points out the body parts of a dancer. (First: Episode 0654) |
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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 Count. The mailman wonders why there are so many letters. 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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Cartoon | A man counts two ears, two eyes, and two arms. He picks up each leg to count two legs, and then falls down. Animation by Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0406) |
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Film | "Doll House" (First: Episode 0131) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Hickory Dickory Dock — Kermit witnesses various animals attempting to run up the clock. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: L for Light (First: Episode 0147) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert sing "La, La, La." (First: Episode 0321) |
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Cartoon | L es para luz (First: Episode 0373) |
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Song | Bob sings "Three of These Things" about three kids playing basketball and one kid sweeping. (First: Episode 0606) |
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Muppets | Super Grover: Grover Kent sees a lost little girl in trouble and tries to find a phone booth to change in, the same one she wants to use to call home. (First: Episode 0647) |
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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 | Joe Raposo sings "Kangaroo Blues." (First: Episode 0277) |
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Cartoon | L is for Lips (First: Episode 0147) |
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Muppets | Guy Smiley hosts The Weather Show. (First: Episode 0385) |
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Cartoon | A shoemaker shows how he measures (human) feet with his ruler. (First: Episode 0618) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie has an important note for Bert, but he can't find it. He looks through the trash can for it and finds the note, which is a reminder that it is Bert's day to clean the apartment. (First: Episode 0255) |
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Celebrity | Listen My Brother sings their own version of "The Alphabet Song." (First: Episode 0228) |
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Cartoon | A man talks about the letter J with a jack-in-the-box, whose lid ends up crushing him. (First: Episode 0071) |
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Song | "Starfish" (First: Episode 0280) |
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Cartoon | A man has a J under his hat. (First: Episode 0231) |
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Muppets | Simon Soundman sings a song about finding a (MEOW!) stuck in a tree. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Cartoon | The letter J Artists: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0133) |
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Muppets | "The King's Picnic" (First: Episode 0419) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: L is for Lunchbox (First: Episode 0031) |
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Song | Joe Raposo asks the musical question, "Which Comes First, the Chicken or the Egg?" (First: Episode 0276) |
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Cartoon | L es para Lonchera (First: Episode 0476) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird recites a poem about "heavy" and "light." The birdseed he has is light, but the bag is so heavy that it takes Susan, David, Gordon, and the kids to help put it into his nest. |
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Cartoon | A man jumps into a poster of Lake Lillian. (First: Episode 0347) |
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Muppets | Ernie explains how a scale can determine what is heavier than another object. With the scale, he was planning to split some cookies with Bert, but can't figure out how to do it. Cookie Monster shows him his way of solving the problem: he eats the cookies off each side of the scale until there are no cookies left. Ernie is disappointed since all he's left with is a "really good scale". Cookie disagrees--he's tasted better. (First: Episode 0264) |
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Film | Women put dolls together and package them at a doll factory. (First: Episode 0538) |
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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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Cartoon | Train #2 (First: Episode 0353) |
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SCENE 5 | David and the kids play football in the yard; David narrates his great play like an announcer as the others pile on top of him. Susan announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Big Bird holds the Sesame Street sign, and Bob holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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