| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Grover’s balloon | |||||||
| Air date | December 13, 1976 | ||||||
| Season | Season 8 (1976-1977) | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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Cast | Buffy sings "My Jim Dog" with a Muppet dog. (First: Episode 0868) |
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Film | D is a very useful letter -- there are animals, jobs, and hobbies that begin with D. (First: Episode 0367) |
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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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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Frog Struggle Song." (First: Episode 0492) |
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Cast | Maria and David look for each other in the park, but have trouble finding one another. The concepts of above and below are demonstrated. (First: Episode 0567) |
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Cartoon | Mr. Tweak can't sleep because his neighbor above snores, and his neighbor below sneezes. (First: Episode 0528) |
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Muppets | Super Grover: Janet Fringle needs help carrying many boxes. Super Grover suggests gluing them together, but she eventually figures out that taking them one at a time will work. (original airing) (First: Episode 0588) |
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Cartoon | D-dart (First: Episode 0292) |
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Cartoon | A construction worker explains the uses of a folding ruler. (First: Episode 0572) |
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Film | A woman repairs wires for the telephone company. (First: Episode 0771) |
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SCENE 1 | Cookie Monster comes to the Fix-it Shop with a large concrete block. Luis uses a chisel and a hammer to round out the block, making it a concrete cookie, which Cookie Monster then eats. The heavy meal inside his tummy drags him to the floor. "This time, I think he bit off a little bit more than he can chew," Luis remarks. |
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Film | Horses compete in a contest to see who can pull the most cement. (First: Episode 0556) |
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Muppets | Ernie sings "Dee, Dee, Dee" as Cookie Monster hastily demonstrates each D word. (alternate take) (First: Episode 0319) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: D -- Dog (role reversal between man and dog) (First: Episode 0016) |
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Film | Kids use shapes to make a train. (First: Episode 0137) |
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Muppets | Little Jerry and the Monotones sing "Proud." (First: Episode 0408) |
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Cartoon | Two green martians fight over a flower, until they see a monolith crumble to form the word AMOR. (First: Episode 0821) |
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Cast | Maria assembles an R, which is broken in several parts. |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: R for Rope (First: Episode 0765) |
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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 | A man blows 7 bubbles. (First: Episode 0639) |
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Film | Body Parts vs. Heavy Equipment: Three boys (including Brian Henson) pretend to be steam shovels, playing in the dirt. This segues into footage of real construction vehicles. A parallel is drawn between the machinery and how the boys' arms and mouths work. (First: Episode 0003) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — John-John and Herry Monster count to twenty. (First: Episode 0441) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird calls out for a small crowd (Luis, Susan, and the kids) to see an amazing act - Grover blowing up a balloon. Grover inflates it, but Big Bird asks him to make it bigger, then the biggest balloon of all. The balloon gets so big, it lifts Grover up into the air. Grover suggests they now talk about high, higher and highest. |
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Cartoon | Jazz #7 (First: Episode 0136) |
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Cartoon | Two men push two large bird eggs on top of two hills. (First: Episode 0773) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit talks with Chris about teaching his little sister, Stephanie, to talk. Chris practices the alphabet. (First: Episode 0495) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Kids narrate a film of an African plain and the animals that live there. (First: Episode 0128) |
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Muppets | Visual Thinking: A hipster and a square imagine shapes. (First: Episode 0361) |
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Cartoon | The Alligator King Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0411) |
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Cartoon | Which footprint doesn't belong? (First: Episode 0491) |
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Muppets | Two Anything Muppets (Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson) use a tape measure to figure out how far apart they are from each other. It turns out that thirty-seven feet separate them. (First: Episode 0905) |
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Cartoon | A penguin repeats the rhythms of the sounds it hears, which include a drum, a door knock, a saw and a typewriter. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0239) |
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Film | A bulldozer moves dirt up a construction site. (First: Episode 0799) |
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SCENE 3 | Susan and Adrian play a “Three of These Things” game, sorting triangles by size. Grover, still floating in the sky, knows the right answer. |
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Cartoon | "Daddy Dear" (First: Episode 0367) |
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Film | Kids compare animals and human tools and technology. (First: Episode 0491) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird tries to get Grover down with a large net, but can't reach him. Grover announces the sponsors before he starts to rise higher into the sky. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, while Luis holds the CTW sign. |
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