| Sesame Street | |||||
| David leaves Linda in charge of Hooper's Store | |||||
| Air date | April 26, 1976 | ||||
| Season | Season 7 (1975-1976) | ||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird makes his way to Hooper's Store humming a tune and finds that Linda is minding the store while David is out. He wants to ask for bird seed, but he doesn't know how he'll communicate it with her since she's deaf. He stops Bob on the street and asks if he'd place the order for him since he knows more sign language than he does. Instead, he teaches Big Bird how to ask for bird seed himself using the signs for "bird," "food," "please," and "thank you." Big Bird nervously enters the store, successfully signs his request, and Linda fulfills his order by putting a bag of bird seed on the counter. Pleased with himself, Big Bird signs it again to see if the signing still works, which Linda takes as another order for bird seed. He decides to try again... |
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Film | A voiceover lists many R words. (First: Episode 0661) |
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SCENE 2 | The store counter is now littered with dozens of bird seed bags; Big Bird continues to ask for them in sign language, and a noticeably fatigued Linda continues to provide them. David returns and asks what's going on; Big Bird explains what he's learned and that he's been practicing, convincing David to try it, too. David repeats the signs and Big Bird hands him a bird seed bag in response. Big Bird insists they continue practicing, giving a bag to David each time he signs for them as Linda watches, amused that she's not the victim this time. |
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Cartoon | A girl trains her dog on here and there. (First: Episode 0769) |
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Cartoon | A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (First: Episode 0011) |
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Muppets | Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with the Anything Muppets, who portray the Florist and Electrician. |
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Cartoon | Jazz #8 (First: Episode 0016) |
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Muppets | Grover, Big Jeffie, and a Lavender girl have fun scatting to handclapping. (First: Episode 0294) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird has finished practicing signing with David, who now has most of the bags of bird seed piled into his arms. Big Bird leaves with the one bag of bird seed he initially ordered. Bob enters soon afterward, and tells David he was the one who taught Big Bird the signs. Bob repeats the signs, and a spiteful David hands Bob all of his bags, as well as pouring one right onto his head. |
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Animation | "The King of Eight" (First: Episode 0225) |
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Muppets | Anything Muppet kids and upside-down 8 (First: Episode 0282) |
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Song | "What Kids Are Made Of" - a song about body parts. (part 1) (First: Episode 0003) |
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Cartoon | A wizard turns into R things. (First: Episode 0369) |
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Song | "What Kids Are Made Of" - a song about body parts. (part 2) (First: Episode 0003) |
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Celebrity | Flip Wilson shows how his teacher, Miss Johnson, taught the ABCs. (First: Episode 0151) |
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Muppets | Little Jerry and the Monotones sing "Proud." (First: Episode 0408) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: R for Rope (First: Episode 0764) |
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Cast | David and Maria cooperate to reach the top of the mountain. |
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Cartoon | A small frog is jealous of how big an ox is, so he expands himself into a very large, round frog. He becomes so self-important and big he ends up exploding. Artist: Etienne Delessert (First: Episode 0660) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Matching Gloves and Shoes — Cookie Monster helps Ernie match things. (First: Episode 0135) |
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Film | Footage of a baby learning to walk. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0427) |
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SCENE 4 | On the side of 123 Sesame Street, Linda plays "Three of These Things" using pictures of a lemon, a pineapple, some bananas, and a shoe. The camera nods and shakes to help confirm the answer. |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster: Cookie Monster goes to the carnival and plays the "test your strength" game. Unbeknownst to him, the carnival barker is a dishonest man who rigged the game so nobody can win -- until Cookie finds out what the prize is. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Animation | Sand R/r (First: Episode 0635) |
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Film | Letter R hoist Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0315) |
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Song | Marilyn Sokol sings "Pockets" over a montage of different types of pockets. (First: Episode 0764) |
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Cartoon | Two men discuss who they love, as one man asserts that you can't love an ice cream cone. (First: Episode 0292) |
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Celebrity | Lily Tomlin performs "Sing" while signing the lyrics for a pair of deaf children. |
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Muppets | Snow White accidentally visits the cottage of the six dwarves. (First: Episode 0279) |
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Song | "Here Come the Beans" (First: Episode 0537) |
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Cartoon | M is for Moo Music: Larry Rosen and Charles Myers (First: Episode 0276) |
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SCENE 5 | Bob, Linda, and David stop by Oscar's trash can, noticing a TNT charger and sign reading "BLASTING AREA: DANGER." Oscar explains that a construction crew is running low on workers and asked him to help out demolish a nearby building. After hearing the three-whistle warning, Oscar pushes the plunger as the others watch the building's downfall (shown in stock footage) from a distance. The others are impressed but surprised that Oscar agreed to be so helpful. Oscar reveals that he made a deal with the construction crew: if he helped out, he could then use the device to rearrange his furniture, and immediately starts setting off blasts from inside his can! |
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Cartoon | The weary traveler asks the Wise Man to demonstrate "here" and "there." He does so by throwing his household items off the cliff. (First: Episode 0769) |
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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 mouse takes a bite out of a good-smelling M. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0725) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: a herd of giraffes move their way through a field. (First: Episode 0316) |
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Cartoon | A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (repeat) (First: Episode 0011) |
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Cartoon | Krazy Kat proves his love for Ignatz Mouse with a block of cheese. Ignatz carves it into the word "LOVE." (First: Episode 0615) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper tells the mailman that he has a letter for his mother: the letter R. (First: Episode 0583) |
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SCENE 6 | The others watch as Oscar continues blasting away, dissatisfied with whenever things go wrong (like his chiffonier not landing in his bedroom). Bob announces the sponsors, with Linda signing the letters and number and Oscar chiming in with the CTW slogan ("Sesame Street is a destruction of..."). |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Luis and Susan hold the Sesame Street sign, and Mr. Hooper holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
Notes[]
- The stock footage used for scene 5 was previously used in Episode 0442, when Oscar was once again put in charge of helping demolish buildings. The dialogue for this episode however suggests that he no longer holds his demolition job that he previously got in season 4.
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