| Sesame Street | |||||
| Big Bird helps Grover get his kite down from a tree | |||||
| Air date | May 17, 1976 | ||||
| Season | Season 7 (1975-1976) | ||||
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SCENE 1 | Grover's kite is stuck in a tree and he can't get it down. While brainstorming with Big Bird, they come up with the idea of standing on each other's shoulders. Big Bird volunteers to get on Grover's shoulders, though Grover has great difficulty in trying to balance the giant bird. "It's a good thing that monsters are very strong!" says Big Bird as he reaches for the kite, but Grover can barely keep the bird up for long before finally falling over. Big Bird manages to get the kite in his beak before the fall, but it ends up split open over Grover's head. "I cannot do this anymore; I am too delicate," Grover frets. |
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Film | A mailman on horseback delivers mail in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky. (First: Episode 0493) |
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Cartoon | What if an elephant and a mouse had their features switched around? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0212) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Imaginary Baseball Game — While it's raining, Bert encourages Ernie to imagine playing baseball. (First: Episode 0410) |
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Cartoon | I - ice cream. (First: Episode 0033) |
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Cartoon | Capital I, he's quite a guy (First: Episode 0368) |
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Insert | Alaina Reed (prior to joining the cast as Olivia) sings "Quiet Is." |
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Cartoon | A boy witness a snake slither in and out of some holes. His imagination likens the sight to a train going through a tunnel. (First: Episode 0373) |
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Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School: Roosevelt Franklin talks about pride in a story about a duck who had "bad luck to be born a duck." (First: Episode 0592) |
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Animation | Henson Films: Number Twelve Rocks (First: Episode 0195) |
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Muppets | As ominous music plays, The Count walks around his castle, checks out the mirror (he has no reflection), and greets his bats. The mailman (Jim Henson) arrives, with a bunch of letters for Count. The mailman wonders why there are so many letters. The Count says that he wrote them all himself, so he could count them... and then he does. (First: Episode 0420) |
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Cartoon | Two groups of mountain goats try to pass each other on a mountain road. (First: Episode 0780) |
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Film | Apes play at the zoo. (edited) (First: Episode 0045) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet sings "I'm Cold" in the middle of a blizzard. (First: Episode 0368) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon - I: An iron irons the word. (First: Episode 0314) |
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Cartoon | "I in the Sky" (First: Episode 0368) |
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SCENE 2 | Maria plays a game of "Here Are Some Things" with Katie and Danny using pairs of objects. |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: George Washington's Cherry Tree — Young George Washington can't stop chopping down his father's cherry trees. |
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Cartoon | Jack-in-the-Box School (First: Episode 0284) |
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Cartoon | A fat man and a small man demonstrate top and bottom. (First: Episode 0525) |
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Muppets | Grover sings "I Stand Up Straight and Tall" while using some fast cutting camera trickery. |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Weaver Bird." (First: Episode 0372) |
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Cartoon | Adding up five ladybugs and five lizards (First: Episode 0277) |
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Cartoon | Different ways to use a string Artist: Paul Fierlinger |
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Muppets | Kermit talks about "top" and "bottom" using a stack of boxes Grover carries. (First: Episode 0434) |
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Cartoon | The Magnificent Splasho goes from the top of the ladder to the bottom of the water tank. (First: Episode 0655) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Cookie Monster shows David the school sign he tore off a building earlier. (First: Episode 0379) |
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Cartoon | Z for zipper (First: Episode 0025) |
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Cartoon | Two alpine climbers hike up a letter Z and stake a claim on it. (First: Episode 0281) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert Is Missing at the Beach — Sherlock Hemlock helps Ernie find Bert at the beach. (First: Episode 0278) |
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Cartoon | A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture. (First: Episode 0510) |
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Cast | The Alphabet Dancers: Lowercase letter i. (First: Episode 0462) |
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Cartoon | Letter I (Beep Beep) (First: Episode 0427) |
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Cast | "Dandy David" adds flowers and flower pots. (First: Episode 0435) |
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Cartoon | A mother bird brings her babies a huge number 12. (First: Episode 0493) |
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Muppets | The Martians find a grandfather clock. (First: Episode 0407) |
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SCENE 3 | Cookie Monster sits in Hooper's Store while Mr. Hooper studies Spanish for his night classes. He has trouble remembering the word for "kiss," so Maria writes it down for him: "beso." As she goes off, Mr. Hooper orally reviews the vocabulary while Cookie Monster chows down on the word Maria wrote. When Mr. Hooper wonders aloud what "kiss" means, Cookie burps the answer. |
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Cartoon | Five feet stick out from a barrel, all belonging to a strange five-legged being. (First: Episode 0859) |
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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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SCENE 4 | The kids play with Grover's repaired kite as Grover announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Ernie and Bert hold the Sesame Street sign, and Bob holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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