| Sesame Street | |||||
| Oscar takes the Hooper's Store phone | |||||
| Air date | March 24, 1976 | ||||
| Season | Season 7 (1975-1976) | ||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Susan sings that it takes "Two to Seesaw." |
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Muppets | Cheers: The Anything Muppets cheer for the letter K. (version #2) (First: Episode 0101) |
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Cartoon | The Pink Panther - K For Karate (First: Episode 0241) |
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Film | "I Am a Letter" - Vocalists sing a song describing the process of how mail is sent. (re-edited with a new song track) (First: Episode 0790) |
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Cartoon | K-kick (First: Episode 0463) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Lions walk down a trail. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0367) |
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Cast | Two kids cooperate on putting on smocks for painting. (First: Episode 0284) |
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Cartoon | What if an anteater had the features of a giraffe? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0422) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Little Things." (First: Episode 0655) |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
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SCENE 2 | Maria puts a blindfold on Mariama, then has her touch various objects to guess what they are (including a live kitten). |
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Muppets | Ernie finds a big yellow ball, which belongs to Herry Monster. (First: Episode 0191) |
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Cartoon | The Alligator King Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0411) |
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Cast | Bob chats with Junior about a painting of what makes him feel happy. |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "J Jump." (First: Episode 0131) |
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Muppets | Guy Smiley hosts "Beat the Time". In order to win a cookie, Cookie Monster has to bring in three things that rhyme with the word "rain" before the hand goes around the clock. They turn out to be an old man's "cane", a "chain" (to which Frazzle is attached), and finally a "train" which destroys the set. (First: Episode 0446) |
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Film | Building a log cabin (First: Episode 0602) |
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Cast | Luis looks for the SALIDA in a brick room. (First: Episode 0407) |
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Film | Finding round things in a supermarket (David voiceover) (First: Episode 0434) |
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Muppets | Two Anything Muppets sing "As I Was Going to St. Ives." (First: Episode 0045) |
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Cartoon | An old woman emerges from the pouch of a bouncing kangaroo. She proclaims, "K! Kangaroo!" (First: Episode 0489) |
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Cartoon | The word SALIDA exits through a white square. (First: Episode 0588) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "New Life." (First: Episode 0281) |
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Cartoon | M for mouse, mud, and mother (First: Episode 0073) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit and Grover demonstrate short and long -- Kermit sings and hops for short periods, while Grover does them for long periods. Finally Grover asks if he can do the short thing and Kermit do the long thing. To Grover's detriment, it turns out to be tickling! (alternate take) (First: Episode 0560) |
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Cartoon | Typewriter: M for magic (First: Episode 0841) |
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SCENE 3 | David and Big Bird try to say a tongue-twister: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." Big Bird makes a lot of mistakes. He eventually gets it right and challenges Susan to try saying, "Peter Piper pickle pickle pickle pickle pickle pickle pickle." |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Hippopotamus Round." (First: Episode 0413) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Divide Licorice — Ernie has a licorice whip that he offers to share with Bert. (First: Episode 0461) |
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Film | A group of Hispanic children pick members for their baseball team. A new kid, Ramon, joins them. (First: Episode 0440) |
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Celebrity | Stevie Wonder teaches Grover how to sing short and long. (First: Episode 0514) |
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Film | Pottery music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0169) |
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Muppets | A Large Lavender Live Hand Anything Muppet cowboy shouts across a canyon to hear the echo. "Yippee ki-yi-yo!" is repeated back to him perfectly. When he shouts "One!", the echo repeats back, "¡Uno!" The cowboy is startled. "Two!" he shouts, and the echo repeats, "¡Dos!" "You s'pose that's Mexico over there?" he asks. He continues to count to ten, with the echo repeating the numbers back in Spanish. Frustrated, he shouts, "How are you?" "¡Muy bien, gracias!" is the reply. "Oh, this is ridiculous," the cowboy says, and throws his cowboy hat into the canyon. A sombrero is thrown back in return. (First: Episode 0698) |
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Song | "Five Onstage Dancers" (First: Episode 0539) |
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Cartoon | K-kick (repeat) |
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SCENE 4 | Oscar the Grouch has come into Hooper's Store for a box of broken cookies. He's given a pristine box, so he breaks them himself. Just then, Maria tries to make a call to her friend about their night class, but the store phone makes no dial tone. They note how it's been on the fritz for awhile now and call it junk, giving Oscar an idea... |
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Cartoon | "Egg Chant": A girl skips rope as a boy sits with an egg on his knee. They recite an alphabet poem together. The egg hatches and a dancing lizard emerges. (First: Episode 0003) |
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SCENE 4 cont'd |
A short while later, David goes to place an order for Hooper's and finds the payphone missing. He and Maria inspect the crime scene and find a bent screwdriver, then follow the trail of screws that leads to Oscar's trash can. Despite David calling the payphone a piece of junk earlier, Oscar reluctantly gives them back the phone after he makes a call to Granny Grumble (Jerry Nelson), who suddenly pops up when David and Maria tug at the end of his very long phone cord! |
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Muppets | Cheers: The Anything Muppets cheer for the letter K. (version #2) (repeat) |
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SCENE 5 | Back at Hooper's, David wonders how he'll re-install the phone to the wall. Maria giggles as she tells him the answer: call the phone company. Luis announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, while Luis holds the CTW sign. |
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