| Sesame Street | |||||
| Big Bird tries to run away (repeat of 0633) | |||||
| Air date | March 2, 1976 | ||||
| Season | Season 7 (1975-1976) | ||||
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SCENE 1 | While happily walking down Sesame Street, Big Bird overhears his friends’ conversations. Bob and Susan talk about someone who’s “tall and cute, but awkward” and “bumps into everything.” In the Fix-it Shop, Luis complains about all the feathers on the floor. In Hooper's Store, Maria talks on the phone about getting rid of a nest; she’s sure no one’s gonna need it. Big Bird assumes he is no longer wanted around, and goes home to pack. |
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Animation | Sand N / n (First: Episode 0633) |
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SCENE 1 cont'd |
The adults encounter Big Bird as he runs away, dragging his nest and the rest of his belongings. He repeats to them what he heard them saying, and they all correct him: Susan and Bob were talking about Gordon, whom Susan says can’t dance; Luis was complaining about the feathers that fell out of a pillow he was trying to fix; and Maria was talking about an abandoned bird’s nest in the awning above Hooper’s. Big Bird is relieved, and Bob and Susan help move his things back home. |
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Cartoon | The man is only afraid of one thing: FEAR. (First: Episode 0816) |
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Muppets | Super Grover: Young Willy Nilly is scared to get his hair cut. Super Grover tells Willy that haircuts are scary, but he must be brave. However, Max the barber shows them both that haircuts do not hurt, and soon they are no longer afraid of hair cuts. (First: Episode 0717) |
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Cartoon | "Lowercase n" (First: Episode 0358) |
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Film | Horses compete in a contest to see who can pull the most cement. (First: Episode 0556) |
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Film | David asks the viewer to find some triangles in a fence. (First: Episode 0434) |
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Cartoon | Abierto: Ali Baba arrives a bit late and gets run over by the 40 thieves leaving. (First: Episode 0467) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster encounters a green napkin. Every time he squeezes the napkin, a new number appears, allowing Cookie to count up to twenty. This creeps him out, but what's even more creepy is when Kermit shows up inside the napkin at the end of the bit -- he's also green, after all. (First: Episode 0619) |
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SCENE 2 | Maria sits on the steps asking some kids what they want to be when they grow up. A Muppet named Joanna (Caroll Spinney) asks if a girl can be a doctor. Maria assures her that a girl can be a doctor, or a lawyer, or a police officer, or anything. |
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Film | A trip to the doctor's office. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0471) |
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Cartoon | Two monkeys argue over what to watch on TV, growing bigger the angrier they get. (First: Episode 0762) |
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Animation | A pair of scissors cut a piece of paper. (First: Episode 0806) |
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Cartoon | Henson: Eleven Cheer (First: Episode 0273) |
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Muppets | Bert shows off his bottlecap collection to Ernie, who remembers that he found a Figgy Fizz bottle cap -- the very one that Bert needed to complete his collection. (First: Episode 0240) |
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Cartoon | At the circus, Tommy Trueheart displays his 11 trick-performing lions. (First: Episode 0816) |
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Cast | "Dandy David" adds flowers and flower pots. (First: Episode 0435) |
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Cartoon | A red man illustrates abierto, while an angry blue man shows cerrado. (First: Episode 0784) |
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Animation | Slide puzzle: Ernie (First: Episode 0403) |
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SCENE 3 | Susan displays a board with three sections — one with one shape, two with two shapes, and one with three shapes - and sings the “Enumeration Song” with the kids. |
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Cartoon | A little girl tries to figure out why a dog is crying. |
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Film | "Stop and Go" — film footage plays forward, freezes, and runs backward on command. (First: Episode 0047) |
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Muppets | Kermit at Home: Grover comes to Kermit's house to fix his sink. Kermit fills him in on a demonstration of "big, bigger and biggest" when it comes to wrenches. Even so, the sink repair goes awry, and the house floods. (First: Episode 0821) |
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Cartoon | A tiny ant pushes the huge N into its place in the alphabet. (First: Episode 0780) |
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Celebrity | Richard Pryor recites the alphabet. (First: Episode 0779) |
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Cartoon | Nancy the nanny goat nibbles her nails and notices noodles. Artist: Tee Collins (First: Episode 0240) |
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Film | There Once Was a Hand series: The left hand hears a ball falling from above at a great distance (indicated by a whistling sound). He catches the ball, ponders where it came from, then drops it. The ball's long descent continues until it lands with an enormous thud. |
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Cartoon | Things say that other things are small, but then something comes along that's bigger, or smaller, or whatever. (First: Episode 0320) |
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Muppets | A boy watches a circle around him get bigger and smaller. (First: Episode 0285) |
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Cartoon | "It's a Lovely Eleven Morning" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0362) |
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SCENE 4 | Oscar reads a poem about the crocodile from his book of Grouch poems, which he thinks are better than Big Bird’s. |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Crocodile Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0410) |
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Cartoon | Eugene wants his talking crow Willis to name some N words, and Willis replies with "no," "nothing," "nobody" and "never." (First: Episode 0101) |
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Animation | 2 houses plus 2 equals 4. (First: Episode 0298) |
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Cartoon | Eugene wants his talking crow Willis to name some N words, and Willis replies with "no," "nothing," "nobody" and "never." (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0358) |
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Cast | In limbo, a voice (Maria) instructs Luis (dressed as a yokel) to point out the features of his face. He doesn't do so well and she remarks that he'd forget his head if it wasn't attached. The camera cuts wide as his body walks away without his head. (First: Episode 0840) |
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Animation | Stop-motion: A hammer slowly pounds a nail into the ground. (First: Episode 0797) |
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Cartoon | L for Lion (First: Episode 0798) |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover: Hamburger - Mr. Johnson wants a hamburger. The restaurant offers two sizes: the big hamburgers and the small hamburgers. When the small hamburgers are too small, he orders a big one, but because there have been some problems with the big hamburger, Grover tries to convince him to order several small ones. (First: Episode 0705) |
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Cartoon | A man jumps into a poster of Lake Lillian. (First: Episode 0347) |
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Transition | Bridge #5 – 4 Corner Bridge C (First: Episode 0282) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan and the kids sweep up the stairs, Bob rides a bicycle with a kid, and Maria plays with a kid on the tire swing while Luis and Big Bird announce the sponsors in voiceover. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Maria and Susan hold the Sesame Street sign, and Bob and the kids hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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