| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| A Martian explores Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Air date | March 19, 1976 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 7 (1975-1976) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Maria works in the Fix-it Shop trying to fix a staticky radio. While she goes to look for a new tube, a Martian (Jerry Nelson) appears, sees the radio, and guesses that it’s either a cat, a chicken, or a doggy. After failing to communicate with the radio (which somehow begins to work again), a commercial for the Sleepy Slumber Mattress Company (narrated by Richard Hunt) plays, causing the Martian to become drowsy. He falls asleep on the counter as an extended program of violin music plays when Maria returns, wondering how her radio is working again. |
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Cartoon | A housewife screams because there is a mouse in her house. Her husband's solution is to continually bring in animals to chase it out, with each animal making an even bigger mess than the previous one. (First: Episode 0240) |
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Muppets | Lefty the Salesman wants to sell Ernie a painting of a tree, which he says is a picture of four elephants. Ernie doesn't see the four elephants, so Lefty offers to show him the elephants if Ernie will buy the picture for a nickel. Lefty points out the elephants, which are actually spaces in the tree's branches. Ernie shells out for the picture. Ernie wants to pull the same trick on Bert, but Bert notices the elephants right away. (First: Episode 0292) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A kid recites a poem about adding penguins. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0255) |
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SCENE 2 | Maria is dumbfounded over how the radio got to work by itself. She picks up the sleeping Martian, thinking him to be a rag, and is shocked when the creature wakes up. The Martian thinks Maria is a monster (claiming the radio is an Earth person), but she tries to prove she’s not by comparing herself to a picture of Herry Monster. The befuddled Martian notices that like Herry, she has two eyes, a nose, a mouth, and shaggy hair – only Herry's hair is all over his face. She assures him that there are nice monsters on Sesame Street and shakes tentacles with the Martian, who identifies as “Snork.” |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Elk feeding. Music: Robert Dennis (First: Episode 0793) |
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Muppets | A female Anything Muppet discusses the concept of "same" using her reflection in the mirror. The reflection begins speaking on its own. The girl faints and the reflection decides to do the same. (First: Episode 0376) |
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Cartoon | Only one of the two footprints can belong. (First: Episode 0509) |
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Film | A band plays and children dance at a Cinco de Mayo celebration. (First: Episode 0438) |
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Muppets | Pageant: Ernie plays the role of Bart, a farm boy who plants a flower. Herry Monster plays the sun, and a nervous Cookie Monster plays a cloud. Bert reluctantly plays the flower. When it is said that Bert made the leaves for his costume out of lettuce leaves, Cookie and Herry proceed to eat the leaves and rip the costume apart. (First: Episode 0578) |
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Cartoon | S for sing (First: Episode 0824) |
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Film | Five dancers disappear one by one, until there are none left. (First: Episode 0589) |
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Cast | Luis demonstrates how to use a can opener to open a can of spaghetti ... not realizing that it's open on the bottom already. (First: Episode 0469) |
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Cartoon | S is for subway, sailboat, sled, scooter, skates, skis, and stop. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0279) |
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Muppets | The Miss Muffet Play (First: Episode 0280) |
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Cartoon | A painter paints all around the screen, eventually painting over himself. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0243) |
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Film | Baby animals nurse. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0546) |
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Cartoon | The profile of a man's face morphs into different faces to the sounds of a Moog synthesizer. Artist: Etienne Delessert (First: Episode 0642) |
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SCENE 3 | Bob plays a "Here Are Some Things" game using tools and Snork, whom he believes is a ragdoll. Maria comes over to retrieve her hammer and introduces Snork to Bob, much to his surprise. |
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Film | A gorilla sits on a park bench with a lunchbox full of bananas. Noticing the woman seated beside him, he decides to share his bananas with her. She keeps answering "YES" every time the gorilla offers one until he runs out of bananas. (First: Episode 0524) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert's Purple Hand — Bert can't go to the beach with Ernie because his hand has purple paint on it. (First: Episode 0386) |
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Cartoon | The word "YES" follows a man. |
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Film | A turtle walks slowly. Music: "Funeral March of a Marionette" by Charles Gounod (First: Episode 0281) |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby tries to count 4 kids. (First: Episode 0176) |
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Cartoon | E for End (First: Episode 0460) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit the Frog talks with twins Corey and Todd about how they're same and different. (First: Episode 0557) |
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Cartoon | Five feet stick out from a barrel, all belonging to a strange five-legged being. (First: Episode 0859) |
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SCENE 4 | Bob and the kids look up in the sky and see Alphabet Bates make the letter E (First: Episode 0061). |
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Cast / Muppets | Cookie Monster eats an egg with the letter E painted on it. (First: Episode 0316) |
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Cartoon | I've Got a Mind: Fish Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0195) |
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Muppets | Anything Muppets (including Farley) shout "E!" (First: Episode 0408) |
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Cast | Maria demonstrates how a hammer is used by hammering a nail into a wall to hang up a picture. Then, the wall tips over on her. (First: Episode 0469) |
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Cartoon | E for Eel (First: Episode 0408) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A kid recites a poem about adding penguins. (repeat) |
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Cartoon | E for End (repeat) |
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SCENE 5 | Oscar talks to Snork about the day he’s had so far, knowing Maria has been showing him all of the nice sights in the neighborhood. He sings about a much better place than Sesame Street: "Swamp Mushy Muddy." Snork responds by translating a word from his home planet to Earth-talk - "Blech!" |
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Cartoon | S is for subway, sailboat, sled, scooter, skates, skis, and stop. (repeat) |
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Muppets | Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" about a baker and a shoemaker. (First: Episode 0208) |
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Cartoon | Find the camouflaged parrot. Voice: Paul Dooley (First: Episode 0516) |
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Film | A magnetic crane picks up large pieces of metal. (First: Episode 0009) |
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Transition | Bridge #7 - Rectangle Bridge A (First: Episode 0290) |
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SCENE 6 | Bob has Debbie count the carriage house steps in Spanish as she walks down them. Snork announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Oscar holds the Sesame Street sign, and Bob and the kids hold the CTW sign. |
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