| Sesame Street | |||||
| Two flies drive Oscar crazy | |||||
| Air date | February 4, 1976 | ||||
| Season | Season 7 (1975-1976) | ||||
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SCENE 1 | Bob and Rafael encounter Sam the Robot, who has a problem with his internal circuitry: every time he feels happy, he feels sad instead. David and Maria join in to try and figure out what's wrong by tapping Sam's side and checking his parts, but Sam ends up switching to being afraid, then angry. They discuss the problem as Big Bird comes by showing off his unicycle skills. He ends up crashing into Sam, making him switch to being happy again. |
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Animation | Sand X/x (First: Episode 0638) |
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Film | A young girl mashes away at the keys of a piano. As the years go by, she practices more and more until she's an adult playing at a recital. (First: Episode 0637) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — When Bert can't sleep, Ernie suggests that he imagine himself doing something he likes. Since Bert likes ice skating, he imagines himself doing so. A full-bodied version of Bert is used in the ice skating sequence, in a clip from the Ice Follies show. (First: Episode 0796) |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings about animals in groups of five on a farm. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0323) |
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Cartoon | Heavy and light characters are weighed on a scale. |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
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Cast | Bob sings "Follow the Leader," inviting the children at home to play along with him. He touches his head, ear, nose, hips and lips. (First: Episode 0828) |
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Cartoon | A boy names his own body parts. (First: Episode 0809) |
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Cartoon | A girl and elephant show heavy and light. (First: Episode 0785) |
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Film | Trees are very nice places, for animals and for people. (First: Episode 0455) |
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SCENE 2 | David wants to take the kids (including Rafael and Joey) to the park, but he can't be too far from Hooper's Store. Instead, everybody imagines taking a walk to the park while staying in the yard, and a jazzy drum rhythm and sound effects punctuate their overcoming obstacles such as jumping over puddles, taking the subway, sliding down a fire station's pole, and hailing a taxi to escape "Big Bully Bubba" before arriving in the park. David needs to get back to work, so they do everything backwards as fast as they can. |
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Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School: Roosevelt Franklin talks about pride in a story about a duck who had "bad luck to be born a duck." (alternate take) (First: Episode 0592) |
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Cartoon | The letter X (First: Episode 0482) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper: X Marks the Spot! (First: Episode 0456) |
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SCENE 3 | A girl tries to master the pogo-stick, but finds it difficult. David helps her out and relates the same troubles a little boy had with their own pogo-stick. In a flashback we see the boy struggle, but David narrates how the boy didn't give up and eventually succeeded. David reveals later that the boy he was talking about was really himself as a kid, and proceeds to bounce around on the girl's pogo-stick. |
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Cartoon | "Poverty X": A peanut-shaped figure lists the words that the letter "X" can be found in. (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | Grover volunteers to assist the Amazing Mumford in his rhyming magic trick, making three things come out of his hat that rhyme with "knee." Grover guesses the first one (key), but doesn't get the last two (ski and tree) right. (First: Episode 0455) |
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Cartoon | A shoemaker shows how he measures (human) feet with his ruler. (First: Episode 0618) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A widow bird flies from one tree to another. (First: Episode 0391) |
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Cartoon | Kids guess what two circles drawn onscreen will become. They turn out to be the eye of a friendly monster. (First: Episode 0248) |
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SCENE 4 | Herry Monster encounters Maria carrying a package to mail to her mother, a glass-framed picture of herself. Herry offers to throw it all the way to Puerto Rico for her, but she declines since the package is much too fragile. He also can't carry it to Puerto Rico or put it on a plane flying overhead, but he can put it in the mailbox. He drops it in before Maria informs him that the package doesn't have stamps yet, so Herry uproots the mailbox and goes to the post office to send the whole shebang to Maria's mother. |
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Film | The Mad Painter #5 (First: Episode 0345) |
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Cartoon | "Eggs Are Oval" Artist: Etienne Delessert (First: Episode 0654) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Grover helps Kermit show the number 5 using blocks, but Grover doesn't know how many to get (he can't count to 5). Kermit has him go back and forth bringing one until there is five. (First: Episode 0475) |
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Cartoon | A man talks about going to the city, without noticing he's walking right through it. (First: Episode 0770) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter gets a check-up with help from an x-ray. (First: Episode 0787) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit and Grover demonstrate the difference between heavy and light. Grover carries heavy objects, and Kermit carries light objects. Grover gets tired, and asks Kermit if he can carry something light for a change. Kermit obliges. He carries a giant sandwich... while Grover picks up a helium balloon, which carries him away! |
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Cartoon | A baby cries whenever he gets a beso. (First: Episode 0433) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A lobster and a crab. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0317) |
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Animation | Children's voiceovers (in English and Spanish) dictate how to draw a male's body. (First: Episode 0528) |
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Muppets | "The Subway" (First: Episode 0762) |
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SCENE 5 | A pair of flies is driving Oscar crazy. His flyswatter is no use, so he tries killing them with bug spray. Maria protests explaining how such poisons can end up in the air or in the water, and should only be used as a last resort for bigger areas. Since Oscar is only trying to rid himself of two flies she gives him a bug repellent, which not only smells awful but is more environmentally safe. Oscar uses only a small amount to get rid of the flies, then pours the rest of it onto himself to repel everybody else. |
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Cartoon | L is for Ladder (First: Episode 0036) |
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Cartoon | A man's wagon is heavy with a large dog riding in it. He gives the animal the boot, making the wagon light. |
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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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Cartoon | L for Lion (First: Episode 0798) |
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SCENE 6 | The kids play in the yard as Maria announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Mr. Hooper holds the Sesame Street sign, and David holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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