| Sesame Street | |||||
| Harvey Kneeslapper sings "Tell a Joke" | |||||
| Air date | January 13, 1976 | ||||
| Season | Season 7 (1975-1976) | ||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Grover greets the viewer from atop the Sesame Street sign post, and drops down to talk about circles. He points out a bicycle tire, the clock Bob is carrying, and the frisbee Angela is playing with. To show one more, he climbs up the sign post again and points out the street light's globe at the top of the post. |
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Cartoon | A boy imagines staying in the jungle at night when he goes to sleep. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0798) |
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Film | There Once Was a Hand series: the right hand plays with a ping-pong ball and tricks the left hand into thinking an egg is one. (First: Episode 0668) |
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Cartoon | "Magic Pig" Artist: Vince Collins (First: Episode 0772) |
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Muppets | Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats sing "Exit" as the audience leaves the room. (First: Episode 0666) |
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Cartoon | A white furball catches a train going through a door marked EXIT. (First: Episode 0800) |
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Cartoon | C - Cake (First: Episode 0153) |
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SCENE 2 | Bob asks Oscar the Grouch to help him demonstrate the number twelve. Oscar says "no" twelve times. |
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Cartoon | C is for Canary (First: Episode 0703) |
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Cartoon | A little girl imagines what would happen if she dropped her bag of ping pong balls. (First: Episode 0583) |
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Cartoon | C is for Cowboy (First: Episode 0703) |
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Cast | "Sluggo the Great" (David) puts on his baseball gear, but isn't sure which body parts to put them on. (First: Episode 0492) |
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Film | Future careers: footage of a kid acting out a certain job, followed by an adult doing "the real thing." Includes a girl singing the "Sesame Street Theme" and another watching a sketch with Cookie Monster and Kermit the Frog. (First: Episode 0796) |
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Cartoon | Rumba pencils (first, last, Crazy Melvin) (First: Episode 0638) |
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Cartoon | A man gets a letter C in the mail. (First: Episode 0294) |
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SCENE 3 | Luis is feeling glum, Susan is feeling a bit tired, and Bob is feeling terrific. However, Bob informs the others that they'll all feel worse in a moment, because he sees Harvey Kneeslapper coming by. Harvey wants to tell them a great joke, but they aren't in the mood for jokes, which Harvey says is the best time for jokes, as he sings "Tell a Joke", a song about telling jokes. During the song he tells a number of jokes, which make the others leave, one by one, before the song is finished. |
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Cartoon | C is for Candle (the candle blows back) (First: Episode 0703) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert Is Locked Out — Bert speculates on why Ernie has asked him to stay out of the apartment. (First: Episode 0461) |
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Animation | First leaf, last leaf (First: Episode 0794) |
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Cartoon | "Imagination Rain" (First: Episode 0353) |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover: Simon Soundman wants a chicken sandwich, which he orders as a "cluck-cluck" sandwich. Grover has trouble figuring out what his customer wants. Simon Soundman says that his brother always eats at that restaurant, implying that Mr. Johnson might be his brother. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Cartoon | First, Middle, Last (men on horse) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: C-cat (First: Episode 0779) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie and Cookie Monster discuss hope. Ernie has something in a brown paper bag, and asks Cookie Monster what he hopes it is. Cookie Monster hopes that it is a cookie. It turns out that Ernie has ten cookies in the bag. (First: Episode 0233) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor) (First: Episode 0029) |
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Cartoon | "Danny knows the alphabet, and is he proud! If you can follow him, then sing out loud!" (First: Episode 0406) |
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SCENE 4 | Bert sings "One of These Pigeons" in front of the construction doors. |
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Cartoon | At night, a man's toothy smile is shown as he hears the sounds of tools being used ... to demolish his house. Artist: Bill Davis (First: Episode 0796) |
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Muppets | Snow White accidentally visits the cottage of the six dwarves. (First: Episode 0279) |
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Cartoon | The word EXIT walks out of the room. (First: Episode 0635) |
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Film | A film of butterflies Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0406) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster sings a rock song about his cookie obsession. (First: Episode 0506) |
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Cartoon | A mother bird brings her babies a huge number 12. (First: Episode 0493) |
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Cartoon | A supermarket worker stacks 12 cans, which keep collapsing every time someone grabs one. (First: Episode 0782) |
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Film | "It's an Otter!" Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0284) |
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Cartoon | A square is fit into many different things, such as a truck, window, television, etc. (First: Episode 0316) |
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Cartoon | Counting 10 to 1. (First: Episode 0480) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan asks Grover to guess who she's drawing (it's Grover). |
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Cartoon | A for Acrobats (First: Episode 0797) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Tries Not to Wake Bert — Ernie comes home to a sleeping Bert and tries to think of things to do that won't wake him up. (First: Episode 0280) |
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Cartoon | A man displays his invention, the A-box, which only takes the letter A. (First: Episode 0781) |
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Film | A pride of lions feasts on an animal carcass. (First: Episode 0407) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: C for Cat (repeat) |
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SCENE 6 | Harvey Kneeslapper announces the sponsors while Susan draws one of the kids. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Oscar and the Count hold the Sesame Street sign, while Mr. Hooper, Luis, and a kid hold the CTW sign. |
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