| Sesame Street | |||||
| Linda's dad visits for her birthday | |||||
| Air date | May 13, 1976 | ||||
| Season | Season 7 (1975-1976) | ||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird has just delivered the punchline to a joke for Maria (who isn't laughing) when Linda enters the Fix-It Shop with a TV that gets picture but no sound. Big Bird wonders why that would matter for Linda since she's deaf, so Linda explains that it's out of consideration for any guests she may have over. Maria tweaks the TV and turns it on; it's now getting sound, but the vocalist (Marilyn Sokol) sounds awful. |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Sleeping Beauty: Frog Kiss — Prince Charming turns Sleeping Beauty into a frog. (First: Episode 0453) |
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Film | A male frog hops around and bulges his throat. (First: Episode 0469) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: V for Violin A musician plays a violin, which instantly breaks. (First: Episode 0052) |
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Cartoon | What if my hair were grass? (revised) (First: Episode 0514) |
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Celebrity | The Deadly Nightshade play "Rubber Dolly." |
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Film | No matter how they're arranged, George the Farmer always has three barrels, four milk jugs, and five cartons. (First: Episode 0278) |
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SCENE 2 | While Linda sits reading near the arbor, Maria, Gordon, Bob, Big Bird, and the kids tip-toe around the yard setting up a surprise. When they're ready, they all shout "Happy Birthday!" and when Linda doesn't respond, they remember that they didn't need to bother keeping quiet.
Bob realizes he never learned how to sign "Happy Birthday", so Maria approaches Linda to ask how it's done. Once Maria goes through it a couple times, and has worked Linda over to the table with balloons and cake, everyone all signs and shouts "Happy Birthday" again. Big Bird points out the lack or presents, but Maria says she's got that covered, and goes to retrieve a surprise from inside Hooper's Store. Bob covers Linda's eyes, and when she opens them, she sees her father Andy (Andy Vasnick) standing before her. He lives on a farm in Minnesota and hadn't seen his daughter in a long time, so Linda's friends all pitched in to buy him a plane ticket so that he could come and visit for her birthday. |
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Cartoon | They'd play with me if I had... (First: Episode 0815) |
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Film | A scuba diver collects shells, which some kids count in voice-over. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0474) |
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Cartoon | Birds appear around the numerals one through twenty as jazz music plays. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0134) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie's Guess What I Am Game — After Ernie pretends to be a dog and a duck, Bert's train impression works a little too well. (First: Episode 0645) |
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Cartoon | Q-quiet! (tree chopping) (First: Episode 0675) |
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Cartoon | "Ten Turtles" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0425) |
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Cartoon | "Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0048) |
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SCENE 3 | Everyone's eating birthday cake when Andy says he has some pictures of the farm that he'd like to play a game with. He'll provide the signs for various activities on the farm, and everyone has to guess what they are. |
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Cartoon | Violet climbs a vine with V words. (First: Episode 0389) |
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Muppets | OPEN the Door: Part 1: Harvey Kneeslapper hangs an "OPEN" sign on a closet and has filled it with so many toys that when somebody opens it, all of the toys in the closet will fall on that person. A girl opens the closet, but none of the toys fall out. When Harvey opens it after she leaves, they fall all over him. (First: Episode 0552) |
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Cartoon | Small v ... for voom, voice, violin, etc. Artist: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0167) |
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Muppets | OPEN the Door: Part 2: Harvey has refilled the closet. A boy tries to open it, but the door is stuck. When the boy has left, Harvey opens the closet, and the toys land on him again. (First: Episode 0552) |
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Cartoon | Small v... (Spanish version) Artist: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0389) |
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Muppets | OPEN the Door: Part 3: Harvey has refilled the closet yet again. The boy and girl come by again and open the door. Instead of toys falling, the closet leads to another place. After the two of them have gone through and closed the door behind them, Harvey opens the closet, and the toys fall on him. (First: Episode 0552) |
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SCENE 4 | Gordon sings "Here Are Some Things" with some blob-like shapes. |
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Film | A flower opens and closes. (First: Episode 0441) |
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Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School: Baby Breeze trips and slams into a desk. Instead of crying, he claims that he's fine, opening him up to be mocked by his classmates. Roosevelt Franklin states that even if he thinks he's "too cool to cry," he should cry because it lets people know that he's not okay. (First: Episode 0781) |
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Cartoon | "Imagination V" -- A surreal segment involving the Venus de Milo statue, a violin, a vampire, and vigilantes. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0050) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert go off to sleep, but Ernie starts to sing himself a lullaby. Bert then asks Ernie if he would mind singing quieter. So he does and then finds that he can even sing it the quietest. Bert then wonders what's going on and can't seem to go to sleep. Ernie then asks Bert if he's singing it to the extent that he can't hear him, then why is he not asleep yet? (First: Episode 0841) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: V for Violin (repeat) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "New Life." (First: Episode 0281) |
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Muppets / Cast | Bob tells the story of a mother who had a loud child (who screamed all the time) and a quiet child (who whispered all the time). The Amazing Mumford casts a spell to reverse their afflictions. (First: Episode 0305) |
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Celebrity | The Deadly Nightshade play a twenty second kazoo trio. |
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Muppets | Anything Muppets sing "Goin' for a Ride," while traveling in a car, train, and boat. (First: Episode 0037) |
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Cartoon | A clam tells a fisherman why he's not catching any fish: he pulled all the plants out of the pond. (First: Episode 0408) |
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SCENE 5 | Bob, Linda, and Andy sing "A Face." |
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Cartoon | Vitamins give vim, vigor, and vitality to a droopy V Artist: John Hubley (First: Episode 0311) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Herry Monster and John-John demonstrate loud and soft. (First: Episode 0432) |
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Cartoon | A kid tries to push his toy house through the front door without the door closing. Artist: Paul Fierlinger |
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Film | Bridge #8 - Rectangle Bridge B (First: Episode 0281) |
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SCENE 6 | Linda, Andy, Joey, and two other kids sit on the stoop of 123 Sesame Street and watch Alphabet Bates draw a V in the sky (First: Episode 0637). Bob announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, while Roosevelt Franklin and his mother hold the CTW sign. |
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