| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Big Bird tries to get a good night's sleep | |||||||
| Air date | January 14, 1975 | ||||||
| Season | Season 6 (1974-1975) | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Oscar has built a wall of tin cans on the sidewalk in front of his trash can so that anyone wanting to walk along will have to go through it, and eventually make a mess of the street (instead of himself making the mess and everyone complaining about it). Maria walks by reading "The Death of Don Alonzo of Aguilar" and catches on to Oscar's trick. She walks through the wall and Oscar shames her for what she did, but Maria restores it by waving her arms (and with a reverse-tape edit), stupefying Oscar. |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: To demonstrate "through", Kermit tries to get Cookie Monster to run through a piece of tissue paper. Instead, Cookie offers other alternatives, ultimately choosing to go around it. He helps Kermit with his demonstration by passing the tissue paper through Kermit. (First: Episode 0289) |
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Film | A gymnast demonstrates over and under. (First: Episode 0517) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #9 (First: Episode 0137) |
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Muppets | Three witches attempt their own individual spells, which don't work out to their liking. They decide to cooperate by bringing all of their ingredients together, thus making chicken soup. (First: Episode 0407) |
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Cartoon | Jasper thinks that he has lost his elbow, but Julius shows him his elbow by bending his arm. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0410) |
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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 | Super Grover: Young Willy Nilly is scared to get his hair cut. Super Grover tells Willy that haircuts are scary, but he must be brave. However, Max the barber shows them both that haircuts do not hurt, and soon they are no longer afraid of hair cuts. |
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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 | Z In Space (First: Episode 0509) |
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Cartoon | zip, zoom, zoom, zig, zag, zany, zoo. (First: Episode 0359) |
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Muppets | Big Bird builds a model of himself and calls it "ME." (First: Episode 0635) |
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Cartoon | Z for zebra and zoo (First: Episode 0281) |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover: Grover serves Mr. Johnson a bowl of chicken soup. Johnson says that he can't eat the soup, and Grover can't guess why. "That settles it," Johnson sighs. "From now on, I'm bringing my lunch to work in a paper sack." He finally explains to Grover that he can't eat the soup because he doesn't have a spoon. (First: Episode 0358) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Green Tree Snake Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0285) |
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Muppets | Zs come out of Herry Monster's mouth as he snores. (part two) (First: Episode 0359) |
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Cartoon | Two boys notice a D, saying it looks fat. A resonant voice (Gary Owens) informs them that it's the letter D. This leads to a jazzy story about a dog who digs for dice, wins a duck, and buys a dinosaur with a dime. Moral: "If you dig a dinosaur, drop your duck for a dime." (First: Episode 0016) |
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Muppets | "City-Country Song" (First: Episode 0681) |
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Film | A gymnast demonstrates 'around'. (First: Episode 0517) |
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Muppets | The Magic Painting Lady shows off her magic painting of a doorway which will help show "through". Three Anything Muppets in the painting come through the doorway. When it comes time for Grover's turn, he ends up breaking through the painting. (First: Episode 0580) |
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Film | Footage of a leopard in the plain. (First: Episode 0364) |
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Muppets | A long-haired hippie sings "Adding" to Cookie Monster. (First: Episode 0243) |
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SCENE 2 | Bob, David, and Maria tell Big Bird to get a good night's sleep so he can be rested and go to the beach for a picnic tomorrow. Instead of sleeping, Big Bird remembers all the outdoor sounds that usually wake him up, so he starts thinking of ideas to prevent from hearing such noises. |
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Muppets | Alien Alphabet (First: Episode 0277) |
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Cartoon | Two alpine climbers hike up a letter Z and stake a claim on it. (First: Episode 0281) |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
Big Bird puts lots of buckets and pans of water around his nest, just in case there's a fire while he's sleeping and the fire engine won't have to blare its siren. Just when he thinks he's conquered that problem, the thought of a traveling salesman comes to mind. |
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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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SCENE 2 cont'd |
Big Bird puts a big pile of pillows outside the construction doors so he won't wake up if a salesman comes by to give him a free sample of birdseed. He's about to get into his nest when he remembers that the early birds in the trees sometimes wake him up in the morning. |
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Cartoon | Sand Z/z (First: Episode 0614) |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
Big Bird has set up some trays with birdseed, including a fancy platter for the goldfinches ("They're such fussy birds.") and almosts settles for bed... until he remembers the ice cream truck that comes around. |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Baby pigs run in a field, and drink their mother's milk. (First: Episode 0169) |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
Big Bird now has an electric fan, which will blow a breeze and make the ice cream man think it’s too cold and no one will want any ice cream. Then he remembers Mr. MacIntosh and his fruit cart, a neighbor's trumpet, people asking for the bus stop... |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert Is Sick — Ernie consults a medical book to discover that Bert is sick. (First: Episode 0435) |
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Film | George the Farmer saws the legs off a table. (First: Episode 0297) |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
Big Bird has taped up a whole bunch of different signs telling people to stay quiet, hoping to keep away the construction workers, cars, people popping bubble gum, etc. Then he realizes that his alarm clock might not work, and goes to look for another one. |
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Cartoon | Triangles are found in various things such as a see-saw, ice cream cone, etc. (First: Episode 0544) |
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Muppets | The Count's bats are upset; he always gets to count, but the bats don't. The Count decides to let the bats count all of the Counts, while the Count counts all the bats... but there's only one Count. (First: Episode 0625) |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
Big Bird has set up multiple clocks around his nest so he’s sure he’ll wake up on time, and finally goes to sleep. Right then and there, all of the clocks begin to chime as it's now eight in the morning. David, Bob and Maria are all ready to go to the beach, but all they find is a sleeping bird surrounded by all his precautions. |
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Cartoon | Jazz #9 (repeat) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #1 (First: Episode 0001) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #9 (First: Episode 0338) |
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SCENE 3 | David, Bob and Maria lead a snoring Big Bird down the street towards the beach as Oscar announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | David holds the Sesame Street sign, and Maria and Bob hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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