| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Big Bird tries to be older | |||||||||
| Air date | February 14, 1975 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 6 (1974-1975) | ||||||||
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Muppets | Here Is Your Life: Loaf of Bread — A Loaf of Bread is presented with a vignette of her life. (First: Episode 0709) |
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Cartoon | "Poverty T” (First: Episode 0020) |
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SCENE 1 | Maria, Luis, and Gordon are working on repairing the front door to the Fix-It Shop (after another incident with Herry Monster). Big Bird comes by and offers to help, but he's told he's too young. He storms out of the store in a huff and vows to find a way to prove them wrong. |
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Cartoon | A poem filled with T words, including a teacher, toys, Texas, and "turtles with brains". Voice: Bob Arbogast (First: Episode 0024) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird dons a hat, glasses, a grey beard, and cane to pass himself off as "Old Bird," who will now be able to do anything a grown-up can. He returns to the Fix-It Shop to help fix the door, but they've repaired it now. Instead, the grown-ups go over to the yard and start a conversation about bond issues, a topic of little interest (and knowledge) to the bird. Some of the kids come by and ask him to play, but "Old Bird" must decline. They then ask if he's seen Mr. Snuffleupagus lately. Once he learns that grown-ups can't have imaginary friends, Big Bird gives up the ruse and goes off to have fun with his fellow youngsters. |
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Insert | Scanimate Films #10 (First: Episode 0134) |
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Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School: Roosevelt has Baby Breeze teach the class about traffic. Smart Tina thinks all one has to do is look at the traffic lights, but Baby Breeze tells her one should also look out for cars. (First: Episode 0517) |
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Film | Field of hay (kid voice-overs) Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0504) |
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Film | The letter T is a very useful letter. (First: Episode 0402) |
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SCENE 3 | Luis, Gordon and Maria find Big Bird in the midst of fixing his nest. They offer to help, but he feels they might not be up to it. They assume he's turning the table on them for earlier, but he ultimately allows them to help. When they're instructed to start chewing up sticks and then pack them in with mud, they retreat. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Cups and Saucers — Ernie stacks cups and saucers in order to count them, making Bert quite nervous. (First: Episode 0586) |
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Cartoon | Today's Secret Drawing is a mailman. (First: Episode 0220) |
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Film | "Hey, let's make a road!" Kids do so at the beach, while a construction crew does the real thing. (First: Episode 0295) |
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Cartoon | T is for Television (First: Episode 0024) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #10 (First: Episode 0328) |
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Cartoon | T is for Television (Spanish) (First: Episode 0298) |
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Cast / Muppets | "The People in Your Neighborhood": Cleaner and Shoemaker (First: Episode 0436) |
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Cartoon | What if a frog and a fly switched bodies? What do you think would happen? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0406) |
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Insert | The Alphabet Dancers form the letter T. (First: Episode 0454) |
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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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SCENE 4 | Gordon hears Maria and Luis making small talk, but in Spanish, it sounds so much more interesting to him. The two perform a tango number about more phrases they can make more interesting by saying them in Spanish. |
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Muppets | The Trading Game — Contestants Sally Screamer and Oscar the Grouch trade for the contents of a mystery box. (First: Episode 0279) |
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Cartoon | A woman fixes her car by putting a letter r under the hood, and it goes "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" (First: Episode 0410) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Kangaroo Blues." (First: Episode 0277) |
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Cartoon | A wizard turns into R things. (First: Episode 0369) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Statue of Bert — Ernie makes a clay bust of Bert, but runs out of clay for the nose. (First: Episode 0463) |
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Cartoon | T for typewriter and toe Artist: John Korty (First: Episode 0506) |
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Celebrity | Flip Wilson shows how his teacher, Miss Johnson, taught the ABCs. (First: Episode 0151) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #10 (Spanish) (First: Episode 0306) |
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Muppets | Farley explains things one can do with their mind - he plans on going to the door, he imagines who's knocking at it, he remembers it's not his mother and he hopes there's not a scary monster at the door. Herry Monster surprises him by bursting through the door, frightening Farley away. Herry's sorry Farley ran away; he wanted to play. (First: Episode 0180) |
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Cartoon | Various renderings of the word DANGER. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0151) |
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Cast | Maria sings "Whipped Cream Pies" (which she eventually gets pelted with). (First: Episode 0637) |
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Animation | An orange pops out of a basket of fruits and gets "made up" as the face of Carmen, the role in the opera of the same name. While singing "Habanera," the famed aria from the opera, Carmen loses her "face" and can't resume singing until the wig returns. (First: Episode 0277) |
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Cartoon | A man talks about the capital T, but the top line slides down, forming a lowercase one. (Spanish) (First: Episode 0376) |
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Muppets | Grover demonstrates heavy and light. First, he picks up a heavy barbell. Then he tries to pick up a light feather, but he can't move it. It turns out that the feather is attached to the top of Big Bird's head. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: T for train (First: Episode 0022) |
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SCENE 5 | Gordon checks the mail and hands it out to Maria on the stoop, as Luis announces the sponsors and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Roosevelt Franklin and his mother hold the Sesame Street sign, while Sherlock Hemlock observes the CTW sign. |
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