| Sesame Street | |||||
| Grover loses his airplane (repeat of 0446) | |||||
| Air date | April 14, 1975 | ||||
| Season | Season 6 (1974-1975) | ||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird demonstrates the difference between fast and slow with his toy box: first, he dumps the toys on the ground and picks them up one by one (slow). Then, he dumps them out again, and they all go back into the toy box themselves with a reverse-tape edit (fast). |
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Cartoon | What Do You Do With a Pet? (First: Episode 0465) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster asks Ernie if he has any cookies. Ernie says that he doesn't have any cookies but an apple and he can't give the apple to him because "an apple a day will keep the doctor away." Later Cookie Monster comes disguised as Doctor Monster and gives Ernie a medical checkup. After the checkup, Ernie asks what he owes Doctor Monster. By sheer coincidence, his bill is one apple. (First: Episode 0691) |
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Film | Scenes of individuals running from around the world. (First: Episode 0605) |
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Celebrity | Tennis star Arthur Ashe plays slow and fast. |
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Film | Paper-cut triangles fade into live-action shots of triangle-shaped things. (First: Episode 0538) |
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Cast | Susan, Bob, and Maria give a lesson on addition and subtraction. (First: Episode 0633) |
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Cartoon | "Poverty F” (First: Episode 0128) |
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Film | F for Factory (First: Episode 0447) |
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Muppets | Game Show: "Dialing for Prizes Movie": Guy Smiley gives the lucky caller a group of monsters as a prize. (First: Episode 0629) |
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Cartoon | Fleas have fun in fur! Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0630) |
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Insert | The Alphabet Dancers make the form of the letter F. (First: Episode 0446) |
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SCENE 2 | Grover has gotten his toy airplane stuck above the carriage house doors and has recruited his large friend Big Bird to retrieve it. However, even at his height, Big Bird still comes up short when trying to reach it. Grover gets the idea to cooperate and has Big Bird stretch out, then he will climb on him and get the airplane. Once Grover reaches his head, Big Bird feels a sneeze coming on. Grover keeps the beak closed, but it's not enough. Big Bird sneezes and both Grover and the airplane plummet below. From the rubble, Grover relays some advice his mommy has given him - "Never sneeze when somebody is standing on your beak!" |
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Film | Peacock Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0278) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: The Tortoise and the Hare — Kermit wins the race between tortoise and the hare. (First: Episode 0477) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #10 (First: Episode 0193) |
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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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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A turtle swims in a tank. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0283) |
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Cartoon | A man takes advantage of his television appearance to display his giant ME sign. |
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Muppets | Lefty sells Ernie an invisible ice cream cone; Ernie pays for it with an invisible nickel. (First: Episode 0687) |
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Cartoon | A man wants a hat, but the hat shop owner's hats are all the same - except for a ten-gallon hat, which complements the customer's horseback riding nicely. |
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Cartoon | Four plus one makes five. (First: Episode 0568) |
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Cast | David pitches a slow ball to catcher Maria. He then makes fast, faster, and fastest pitches (the latter of which knocks Maria out of place). (First: Episode 0676) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: F for Fly (First: Episode 0032) |
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Animation | Sand F/f (First: Episode 0629) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster introduces the word "AMOR". (First: Episode 0601) |
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Cartoon | A flower picks up a man and says he smells beautiful. (First: Episode 0284) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar is tired of people dumping garbage into his trash can, which always results in him being covered in garbage. He makes a sign that says "Dump Garbage Here," with an arrow meant to point to the adjacent trash can. He goes inside his own can to get tools to nail the sign to his can, resting the sign on the box next to him. With the sign now pointing towards his can, Marty comes by and follows its instruction, much to Oscar's dismay. |
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Animation | Three lines attempt to individually reach the top of the TV screen, but fail. They succeed after they combine all of their lengths. (First: Episode 0288) |
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Muppets | The Anything Muppets perform a "Handclapping Number". (First: Episode 0491) |
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Cartoon | A letter for "me" |
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Celebrity | Arthur Ashe counts to 20. |
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Animation | Arthur and Annie look for the letter A, while a shadowy figure observes all the A words they say. Features the voice of Jim Thurman |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert refuses to share his cookie with Ernie, who tells Bert that if the cookie was his, he wouldn't mind sharing. Ernie takes the cookie, and asks Bert to ask him if he would share it. (First: Episode 0472) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #10 (First: Episode 0328) |
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Cartoon | A man displays his invention, the A-box, which only takes the letter A. |
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SCENE 4 | At Hooper's Store, Cookie Monster asks Mr. Hooper if he can teach him to count backwards, as he struggles doing it on his own. Mr. Hooper then produces 10 cookies, which Cookie Monster eats one by one as he counts them backwards. |
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Cartoon | Jazz Alphabet: male vocalists shout each letter. (First: Episode 0619) |
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Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School: Baby Breeze trips and slams into a desk. Instead of crying, he claims that he's fine, opening him up to be mocked by his classmates. Roosevelt Franklin states that even if he thinks he's "too cool to cry," he should cry because it lets people know that he's not okay. |
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Song | "Starfish" (First: Episode 0280) |
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SCENE 5 | Luis sings “Believe in Yourself” to the kids. |
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Film | A gymnast demonstrates slow. (First: Episode 0507) |
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Cartoon | Typewriter: F for Fly |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Eats." (First: Episode 0407) |
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SCENE 6 | Grover scales the Sesame Street lamppost, commenting that next time he'll try to lose his airplane up there (it's easier to scale). He then announces the sponsors, with Cookie Monster chiming in with the production announcement. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Cookie Monster holds the Sesame Street sign, and Big Bird and Mr. Hooper hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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