Sesame Street | |||||||
Susan and Gordon have bad days | |||||||
Air date | December 21, 1976 | ||||||
Season | Season 8 (1976-1977) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Oscar is unenthused by the way building superintendent Winnie Wiggins has been keeping 123 Sesame Street in tip-top shape. Thus, he has a bouquet of nice flowers he intends to give her, thinking such a kind act will persuade her to grant him a favor - namely, to stop fixing things and let the building fall into disrepair. She accepts the flowers, but angrily refuses to do anything Oscar requests of her. She forces the flowers back on him, but he insists she keep them for yelling at him the way she did. | |
Muppets | Game Show: Mystery Mix-up Game (First: Episode 0834) | |
Film | SCHOOL: the sign spins around. (First: Episode 0685) | |
Cartoon | Counting 10 to 1. (First: Episode 0480) | |
Film | Ten hats on a hatrack (First: Episode 0439) | |
Cartoon | The Dog & The Bone (First: Episode 0772) | |
Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Pizza and Grape Juice — Ernie and Bert figure out how to share their pizza and grape juice. (First: Episode 0256) | |
Cartoon | Letter U salesman (First: Episode 0202) | |
Muppets | Story: "The Geefle and the Gonk" The Geefle and the Gonk, two aliens, learn how to cooperate and gather nectarines together. (First: Episode 0452) | |
Film | "Seven Song (Song of Seven)" (First: Episode 0011) | |
Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: George Washington's Cherry Tree — Young George Washington can't stop chopping down his father's cherry trees. (First: Episode 0916) | |
Cartoon | U for uniform. (First: Episode 0702) | |
Muppets | The Count counts seven flowers, and then explains that he loves to count flowers because then he gets to count sneezes. (First: Episode 0433) | |
Cartoon | Typewriter: U for Umbrella (First: Episode 0808) | |
Cast | David and Luis assemble a fractured letter U. (First: Episode 0468) | |
Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Frog on the Street: Julia — Kermit interviews Julia on the street. (First: Episode 0536) | |
Film | Kids draw various things on a blackboard. The drawings animate themselves and make their respective sounds. (First: Episode 0822) | |
SCENE 2 | David and Maria play "Three of These Things" with Percy and another kid using clocks and a telephone. | |
Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Fish in the Cowboy Hat — Ernie tries to put a pot on Bert's head. (First: Episode 0305) | |
Film | Luis announces "And now, the octopus!" Music: "Pomp and Circumstance" (First: Episode 0291) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit the Frog, Shola, and Fanny have just finished watching the previous film. Shola hugs Kermit, and he comments, "She learned a lot from the octopus ... how to squeeze!" (First: Episode 0534) | |
Film | Paper-cut triangles fade into live-action shots of triangle-shaped things. (First: Episode 0538) | |
Film | A kid marching band forms a triangle. (First: Episode 0531) | |
Cartoon | C - Cake (First: Episode 0153) | |
Muppets | Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with teachers and a newsdealer. (First: Episode 0276) | |
Film | Footage of a leopard in the plain. (First: Episode 0364) | |
Animation | Sand C/c (First: Episode 0625) | |
SCENE 3 | Maria finds Susan sulking on the stoop after what she considers to be one of the worst days she's had as a visiting nurse. She describes her day, which was filled with visits to patients who were miserable and had little interest in doing what's medically recommended of them. Maria sympathizes with her and offers to keep her company while she waits for Gordon to get home. | |
Cartoon | I Thought a Thought ... about big things. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0226) | |
SCENE 3 cont'd | David tidies up at Hooper's Store and sees Gordon glumly going by. Gordon relates his lousy day, starting from forgetting to bring some important things to school, messing up his experiments, and finally being unable to get his students on the same page as him. He hopes seeing Susan will bring up his mood. Once the two meet, they playfully argue over who will talk about their day first, as David and Maria notice an uptick in their demeanors already. | |
Song | Joe Raposo sings "Little Things." (First: Episode 0655) | |
Cartoon | Counting 10 to 1. (repeat) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover demonstrates high and low by asking Heather to scratch his back. (First: Episode 0732) | |
Cartoon | Letter U salesman (repeat) | |
Celebrity | The Pointer Sisters sing "Yes, We Can Can." (First: Episode 0793) | |
Animation | Drawing a chicken (child V/O in English and Spanish) (First: Episode 0451) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for carrot (First: Episode 0203) | |
SCENE 4 | The adults see a large truck taking up much of the sidewalk in front of 123. Biff and Sully are responsible, as they were making a delivery to Mrs. Wiggins and wanted to limit the distance they need to move. They agree to move the truck, as the others make sure they don't knock over the mailbox again. They manage to avoid doing so, but instead knock over the tree on the block. This upsets Big Bird the most, citing that the tree is where he and his bird friends always got together. ("My social life is ruined!" he cries) As the adults argue with the hardhats, Biff announces the sponsors. The story of the lost tree continues in Episode 0943. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Susan holds the street sign, and Oscar holds the CTW sign. |
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