| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Oscar trains kids to be Grouches | |||||||
| Air date | December 8, 1975 | ||||||
| Season | Season 7 (1975-1976) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Tired of being the only Grouch on Sesame Street, Oscar decides to train Deones, Scott, and Renee to be Grouches. The kids have a lot of fun making faces and screaming, then Oscar hands out some pots, pans, and horns for them to make noise with. He instructs them to keep making noise even when the neighbors try to tell them to stop, but Oscar realizes that the kids are being so loud that nobody's paying any attention to him, leaving him out. Oscar tries to quell the noise, but Deones yells back Oscar's specific instructions and he and the others continue their chaos. |
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Cartoon | "Imagination V" -- A surreal segment involving the Venus de Milo statue, a violin, a vampire, and vigilantes. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0050) |
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Film | Hippos Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0415) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster introduces the word "AMOR". (First: Episode 0601) |
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Cartoon | What if a turtle and rabbit switched appearances? (First: Episode 0451) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Green Tree Snake Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0285) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Little Miss Muffet — The spider scares Kermit away. (First: Episode 0601) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: V for Violin A musician plays a violin, which instantly breaks. (First: Episode 0052) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #7 (First: Episode 0314) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird teaches "above" and "below" with David's help. Together, they imagine that Big Bird is very tiny, standing on the counter at Hooper's Store. David pours water into a glass next to Big Bird so that the water level is above and below different parts of his body, but Big Bird immediately stops imagining when the glass overflows and gets his feet all wet. |
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Cartoon | Two men, one named Virgil Veep, discuss the letter V as they stand atop a capital V. (First: Episode 0110) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — At the beach, Ernie notices that Bert is missing; all he sees is Bert's hat. Sherlock Hemlock helps find Bert, and in the process, discovers that Ernie accidentally buried Bert under the sand. (First: Episode 0278) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #7 (First: Episode 0136) |
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Cartoon | Violet climbs a vine with V words. (First: Episode 0389) |
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Film | Footage of various bird species including hens, flamingos, pigeons, owls, ostriches, cockatoos, and others. Music: (piano and whistling) Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0019) |
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Cartoon | A male "AM" and a female "OR" fall in love to become the word "AMOR." |
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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. (First: Episode 0781) |
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Cartoon | Building a dog house is easy if you have a ruler. (First: Episode 0630) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird has Gordon guess what he’s going to do with a file cabinet, a farmer's hat, a boot, and a dollar bill. Gordon isn't able to figure out what all of the things have in common, so Big Bird reveals his plans: he’s going to grow lettuce! He’ll use the cabinet to break the sidewalk to find dirt (dropping it off from the roof of 123 Sesame Street), carry away the concrete pieces with the hat, water the lettuce seeds with the boot, and use the dollar bill to get himself something to eat at Hooper's when he gets hungry. |
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Cartoon | Vitamins give vim, vigor and vitality to a droopy V Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0311) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert has acquired some drums, but he doesn't know how to play them well. Ernie teaches him how to make drum playing exciting. (First: Episode 0579) |
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Animation | A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found. (First: Episode 0268) |
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Film | Kids narrate a film about bank tellers and the machines they use. (First: Episode 0783) |
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Animation | A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0277) |
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Celebrity | Richie Havens sings "Here Comes the Sun." (First: Episode 0777) |
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Film | As a boy plays with a tugboat in the bathtub, we watch footage of a real tugboat. |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird plays a “Three of These Things” game using pictures he's drawn of Sam the Robot, Grover, Mr. Snuffleupagus and himself. Big Bird gets confused when he points out how any of them can be the right answer, but Maria thinks that the Snuffleupagus picture obviously doesn’t belong because he’s "imaginary." |
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Cartoon | The Villain in the Panama Hat (V) (First: Episode 0507) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and John-John count to 20. (First: Episode 0476) |
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Cartoon | The Story of the Crow and the Pitcher (First: Episode 0777) |
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SCENE 5 | At Hooper's, Big Bird wants to make sure that Maria (who's tending the store) isn't disturbed while she's studying. He starts putting utensils and kitchenware away so she can have all the time she needs to study, but he's not sure where each item goes. He ends up calling for Maria's help several times, only to find the proper place for each thing by the time Maria gets there. |
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Cartoon | Small v ... for voom, voice, violin, etc. Artist: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0167) |
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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 | Ernie is a coach for his baseball team of three balls. In front of him are three small caps and a huge cap. Each of the balls tries on the big cap and gets completely covered up. Ernie puts the small caps on them, and they're ready to start. As Ernie wonders where that huge cap came from, a basketball named Big Bill (captain of the opposing team) bounces in, demanding his cap back. Ernie ends up postponing the game once he sees the competition. (First: Episode 0478) |
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Cartoon | Mr. Tweak can't sleep because his neighbor above snores, and his neighbor below sneezes. Artist: Abe Levitow (First: Episode 0528) |
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Cast | Maria and David look for each other in the park, but have trouble finding one another. The concepts of above and below are demonstrated. (First: Episode 0567) |
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Cartoon | Men in boxes sound out the word RUN. (First: Episode 0369) |
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Cartoon | A girl draws her version of a (stick-figure) man. A boy draws his version of a woman - the Mona Lisa. (First: Episode 0780) |
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Film | A voiceover lists many R words. (First: Episode 0661) |
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SCENE 6 | Some of the kids jump along the garage steps as Maria announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, and David holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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