| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Big Bird imagines that he's married | |||||||
| Air date | April 20, 1976 | ||||||
| Season | Season 7 (1975-1976) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird, not having gotten enough sleep, sits on the steps of 123 Sesame Street to take a short nap. He sets an alarm clock next to him, which will go off in a few minutes. Cookie Monster happens by, spies the alarm clock, and eats it. Maria wakes Big Bird up, and Big Bird notices his clock is missing. They search for it, but soon figure out where it went when they hear ticking and ringing every time Cookie opens his mouth. When asked why he ate it, he says it's because he thought it was a toaster. |
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Muppets | "It's Funny" |
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Film | Four Song (Song of Four) (First: Episode 0006) |
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Cartoon | Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole and says that he fooled the viewer. He then walks into a wall. (First: Episode 0439) |
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Muppets | Maria reads "The Boy Who Cried Monster." A terrible, cookie-stealing monster helps to teach a mischievous Anything Muppet boy an important lesson. (First: Episode 0412) |
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Cartoon | Elephants have 4 legs. (First: Episode 0560) |
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Film | A film insert of kittens playing, with child voiceovers in English and Spanish. (First: Episode 0429) |
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Cartoon | Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole, and falls into another one. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0439) |
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Film | Male and female snow people narrate their own construction. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0277) |
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Cartoon | A child runs through a crowd shouting for MAMA. (First: Episode 0458) |
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SCENE 2 | After seeing Gordon and Susan leave for work, Big Bird wonders what it would like to be married. Grover comes along and helps imagine what it's like by pretending to be the wife and Big Bird is the husband. Soon Grover's imagination runs wild when he starts inventing children, a pet dog named Butch, and neighbors coming to visit. All of this tires Big Bird out, so he suggests playing pirates instead. Grover agrees, and calls all of the imaginary family and neighbors to come onboard his husband's pirate ship. |
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Muppets | Four Anything Muppet cheerleaders give four big cheers for the number 4. (First: Episode 0132) |
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Cartoon | Triangles are found in various things such as a see-saw, ice cream cone, etc. (First: Episode 0544) |
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Film | Geese and their goslings swim in the water. (First: Episode 0388) |
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Cartoon | Christopher Clumsy demonstrates shapes. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0416) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert and Shola count fingers. (First: Episode 0464) |
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Cartoon | A man goes to the grocery store to buy apples, but he can't decide how many to get. This frustrates the grocer, who has to keep adding and subtracting the amount of apples on his scale. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0132) |
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Insert | Child voiceovers declare the street wastebasket is empty. The adults and Big Bird toss their trash into it, making it full. After a garbage man (Richard Hunt, making a cameo) collects its contents, the kids announce that it is now empty. (First: Episode 0854) |
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Muppets | The Amazing Mumford waves his magic wand over a transparent glass cookie jar and makes the jar become full of cookies and then empty (over and over) as an anxious Cookie Monster watches. (First: Episode 0287) |
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Cartoon | Three chickens eat grain, and become full, fuller and fullest. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0506) |
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Song | David sings Three of These Things: Three kids riding one seat bicycle, and two kids riding two seat bicycle (First: Episode 0450) |
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Cartoon | One of these shoe pairs ... (First: Episode 0503) |
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Celebrity | Edgar Kendricks sings about the "Parts of the Body." |
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Animation | Sand Y/y (First: Episode 0626) |
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Cartoon | The life of a Yellow Yahoo (First: Episode 0043) |
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Film | Various sporting events involving throwing things are shown from around the world. (First: Episode 0809) |
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Cartoon | A man demonstrates Spanish words that start with the letter Y. (First: Episode 0470) |
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SCENE 3 | Grover encounters a sad Maria, and tries to cheer her up with a coloring book, a joke from a jokebook, a funny hat, his teddy bear, and a radio playing music. Maria feels better, knowing she has Grover as a friend. |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash — Don Music writes "Drive, Drive, Drive Your Car." |
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Cartoon | A boy can yell and yodel, and his dog can yelp and yowl. They can both yawn. (First: Episode 0353) |
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Cast | Luis tries to open a door marked with a "CERRADO" sign. He gets a running start, when Maria changes the sign to read "ABIERTO." She opens the door and Luis runs right through it, crashing. (First: Episode 0596) |
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Film | Lizard! Music: Joe Raposo (same as "birds") (First: Episode 0418) |
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Cartoon | In Spanish, a man makes everything in the room cerrada, and considers making the basket abierto if only for the guitar band inside. (First: Episode 0771) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Is Special — Bert convinces Ernie that he's special. (First: Episode 0276) |
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Cartoon | The Villain in the Panama Hat (V) (First: Episode 0507) |
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SCENE 4 | After Oscar the Grouch finishes telling a Grouch version of Cinderella to his nephew (Richard Hunt), he sings him "The Grouch's Lullaby." |
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Cartoon | This is a big letter V poem (First: Episode 0507) |
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Animation | A dune buggy is assembled. (First: Episode 0506) |
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Cartoon | Cat / fat / hat / sat / rat / bat / scat / splat / flat / pat Voice: Daws Butler (First: Episode 0770) |
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Film | Empty / full cafeteria (time-lapse) (First: Episode 0415) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Bert & Ingrid count backwards from ten to one. (First: Episode 0527) |
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Film | Empty / full classroom (time-lapse) (First: Episode 0475) |
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Cartoon | Counting 10 to 1. (First: Episode 0480) |
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Film | Empty / full subway car (time-lapse) (First: Episode 0415) |
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SCENE 5 | Oscar falls asleep, but his nephew wakes him up screaming. Oscar complains of never babysitting again as Grover announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, while Gordon holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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