| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Oscar's washing machine/Gordon and Susan invite Big Bird for a trip | |||||||
| Air date | May 12, 1976 | ||||||
| Season | Season 7 (1975-1976) | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Little Red Riding Hood and the Woodsman — Little Red Riding Hood and the Woodsman chase the Big Bad Wolf. (First: Episode 0621) |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
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SCENE 1 | David plays a relay game with the kids, where they first have to hop, then get a balloon from Maria, and finally get a big hug from Big Bird in the yard. Big Bird observes that the game isn't over yet as David and Maria join in for some hugs as well. |
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Cartoon | A turtle, a bird, and a butterfly demonstrate small, smaller, and smallest. (First: Episode 0356) |
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Film | Two hands make sounds from other sides of a wall. (First: Episode 0649) |
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Muppets | Caveperson Days: King Ernie has a problem -- the cavemen write everything on rocks, which are too heavy to carry around. He calls upon the Royal Smart Person to invent something lighter to write on. (First: Episode 0409) |
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Cartoon | Four people cooperate building a table. (First: Episode 0537) |
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Film | A man makes a shadow puppet of an elephant. (First: Episode 0593) |
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SCENE 2 | Susan and Maria are surprised to hear the sound of a washing machine coming from Oscar's trash can. Oscar shows that he is indeed properly using it as evident by his box of detergent (a prop from The Electric Company), but tells them that his work has nothing to do with getting his clothes clean. Instead, he’s filling up his can with the suds from the washing machine to get everything nice and wet. Soon, the can begins to overflow with soap and makes a mess both inside and outside! |
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Film | Kids draw various things on a blackboard. The drawings animate themselves and make their respective sounds. (First: Episode 0822) |
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Muppets | Simon Soundman sings a song about finding a (MEOW!) stuck in a tree. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: K is for Key (First: Episode 0879) |
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Film | The celebration of Chinese New Year (First: Episode 0495) |
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Cartoon | A lion named Kent gets a Kick out of being King of the forest. (First: Episode 0619) |
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Film | Joe Raposo: On the beach (instrumental) (First: Episode 0411) |
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Animation | Three balls compare sizes. An orange ball (voiced by Daws Butler) boasts that he's the smallest, until his little brother comes onto the scene. (First: Episode 0786) |
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Cast | Bob and Tina look at a painting that Tina made of her dolly, and talk about what makes them happy. |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: "Q", Quiet (First: Episode 0768) |
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Muppets | "The Question Song" (First: Episode 0378) |
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Film | Counting the circus clowns. (First: Episode 0501) |
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Cartoon | Q -- that funny looking thing. (First: Episode 0131) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Edith Ann tells Herry about feeling proud. |
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Animation | Sand Q/q (First: Episode 0623) |
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SCENE 3 | David delivers a sandwich to Maria at the Fix-it Shop, then plays a game of “Three of These Things” using the sandwich and three blenders. |
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Cartoon | A song tells the story of Max, who loves to chop down trees. One tree turns out to be a magic genie, who turns Max into a tree. Max soon grows respect for trees and once returned human, vows to never chop one down again. (First: Episode 0572) |
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Muppets | Five balls get together to play basketball. It takes them awhile to count themselves, but then they realize they don't have a ball. (First: Episode 0267) |
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Cartoon | A small frog unveils a smaller man, who unveils the smallest elephant. (First: Episode 0786) |
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Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School: Roosevelt Franklin and his class name some great people. (First: Episode 0515) |
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Film | A man karate chops 5 boards. (First: Episode 0469) |
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Cartoon | "Presenting...the plane!" (First: Episode 0540) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit asks Trey if he's seen a letter Q before. At first Trey denies it, but eventually draws one in the air with his finger. (First: Episode 0440) |
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Film | A man makes a shadow puppet of a cow. (First: Episode 0630) |
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Muppets / Cast | Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with the moving man and hot dog vendor. (First: Episode 0852) |
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Cartoon | A red man tries to get apples from a tree by himself, while a yellow man builds a ladder. (First: Episode 0779) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie brings an umbrella, a flashlight, and Bert's bowling ball to the bathtub, just in case the electricity goes out, the roof leaks, and somebody shows up asking to borrow a bowling ball. Bert thinks that Ernie is being ridiculous -- but everything happens, just as Ernie predicted. (First: Episode 0269) |
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Cartoon | A concert pianist shows up in a construction worker's lunchbox, singing the alphabet. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Cartoon | "Martian Beauty" has nine hairs, nine bows, nine eyes, nine nostrils, nine arms, and nine toes. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0316) |
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SCENE 4 | Susan and Gordon are about to take a trip to the country when Big Bird asks to come along. They reluctantly agree to let him join them, and he asks if it's okay to bring a few things. They tell him it's fine to bring "anything he likes," so Big Bird returns with a large sack full of toys so he won't get bored during the ride. As he leaves to use the bathroom before the trip, Susan asks Gordon when they first began to "lose control." |
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Cast | No matter how you arrange these nine people, they're still nine people. (First: Episode 0413) |
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Cartoon | A lion named Kent gets a Kick out of being King of the forest. (repeat) |
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Song | David sings "I'm Pretty" over a film of fish and other sea creatures. (First: Episode 0389) |
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SCENE 5 | By nightfall, Gordon and Susan have packed the car with most of Big Bird's stuff. When Big Bird returns with a small wagon train with even more toys (aided by some kids, including Debo) and leaves to get his electric train set, the couple decides to just go inside and have dinner instead. Maria announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Oscar and the Count hold the Sesame Street sign, and Maria and Susan hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
Notes[]
- Among the toys Big Bird brings along is Herry's broken drum from Episode 0867.
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