| Sesame Street | |||||
| Oscar tries to have peace and quiet (repeat of 0698) | |||||
| Air date | February 10, 1977 | ||||
| Season | Season 8 (1976-1977) | ||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Luis gives Big Bird a box to put things away while he cleans out his nest, but Big Bird realizes he'll need more. He goes to Hooper's Store and places his box on one of the stools. David gives him one, then another one, and quizzes Big Bird on adding all two boxes together; Big Bird keeps saying he has three. David is driven crazy until Big Bird tells him that he already got a box from Luis, showing him the one that had previously been out of David's view. |
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Cartoon | Sally the Spider skates with different combinations of her legs. (First: Episode 0625) |
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Muppets | Ernie tries to count his balloons. The balloons are arranged in a circle, so he continues counting around the circle, and counts some of them twice. Grover has a solution -- he pops each of the balloons as he counts them. (First: Episode 0133) |
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Cartoon | "Cracks" A girl lying in bed imagines seeing cracks in the wall turning into animals and a monster. (First: Episode 0818) |
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Film | A girl meets a blind woman who has a seeing-eye dog. (First: Episode 0952) |
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Cartoon | M is for Marvelous Martha (First: Episode 0013) |
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Cast / Muppets | Maria reads the story of "Ike and the Ilk." (First: Episode 0464) |
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Cartoon | Melvin the Moving Man has magnificent muscles. Music: Dick Lavsky and Alan Cagan, Narrator: Allen Swift (First: Episode 0207) |
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Film | A little girl gets herself a glass of AGUA. (First: Episode 0929) |
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Cartoon | The word AGUA fills up with water. (First: Episode 0448) |
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Song | "Three of These Kids" (barbells) (First: Episode 0474) |
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Cartoon | Things that are the same or different are displayed like a slot machine. (version #2) (First: Episode 0335) |
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Cartoon | A mouse takes a bite out of a good-smelling M. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0725) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird paints a big letter M on a giant piece of paper outside his nest. Luis asks him why he's doing it, and Big Bird says it's for Mother's Day, which Luis points out is not today. Big Bird decides to paint it for “midnight,”, but Luis explains it's daytime. Big Bird decides to have “macaroni and meatballs” for lunch, which Luis reminds Big Bird that birds don't eat. Luis lists several more M words that he likes, and Big Bird decides to give the M to him since he'll have more use for it. |
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Cartoon | A girl shows how good she is at drawing buildings. (First: Episode 0454) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — It's late at night and Bert isn't home yet. Ernie worries that he may have been abducted by monsters and is being forced to party with them... maybe even having fun. When Bert gets home, Ernie shares his stream of emotions he felt when he'd imagined something had happened to Bert: fear, sadness and anger. Bert assures him that he was fine -- he never has fun. (First: Episode 0929) |
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Cartoon | Children and animals numbered 1-12 race in a marathon. The #9 runner wins. (First: Episode 0926) |
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Cast | David charms a 1 and a 2 out of their baskets to form a 12. (First: Episode 0504) |
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Film | Photographic collage demonstration of ALL, MOST, SOME and NONE of an apple. Artist: Frank and Caroline Mouris |
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Film | Lemurs rest on tree branches. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0390) |
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Cartoon | A man wants a hat, but the hat shop owner's hats are all the same - except for a ten-gallon hat, which complements the customer's horseback riding nicely. (First: Episode 0781) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar gets bothered by the activity he overhears from Luis, David, Bob, Susan and the kids hanging around his trash can, and gets an idea. He hangs up a sign bearing a red cross, pretending to be a doctor. When the gang goes to investigate this Oscar examines Bob and Susan, making up a bunch of diseases like the greeblies and the lumps, and the only ailment is to stay home and keep quiet. David catches on and begins to examine Oscar, diagnosing him with the “quiet wobbles,” which can only be cured by being around people making lots of noise, so the gang goes back to playing catch. |
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Cartoon | "Poverty K" - Karen the Kangaroo talks about words that start with the letter K. Featuring the sped-up voice of Gene Moss. (First: Episode 0142) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Rumplestiltskin — Kermit helps the miller's daughter guess Rumpelstiltskin's name. (First: Episode 0724) |
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Cartoon | A kid tries to push his toy house through the front door without the door closing. Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 0914) |
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Film | Two box-beings make each other look same and different by piling different objects on each other. (First: Episode 0226) |
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Cartoon | "Ladybugs' Picnic" (First: Episode 0416) |
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SCENE 4 | Still bothered by the others’ activities, Oscar comes out of his can as a conductor by the name of "the Great Grouchanini." The gang lines up and he assigns them specific notes as part of the choir for his concert titled, "All of Sesame Street Sings." Oscar instructs them not to sing unless he points to them with his baton, but he instead chooses to point to the doors, the sky, and other silent things. They catch on to his trick, and when Oscar leaves to "conduct" his kitchen the others startle him by loudly singing their notes at the same time into his can. |
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Cartoon | M is for Moo Music: Larry Rosen and Charles Myers (First: Episode 0276) |
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Film | A male frog hops around and bulges his throat. (First: Episode 0469) |
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Cartoon | Melvin the Moving Man has magnificent muscles. (repeat) |
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Celebrity | Ray Barretto talks with Maria and the kids about las claves. (First: Episode 0966) |
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Cartoon | A girl draws her version of a (stick-figure) man. A boy draws his version of a woman - the Mona Lisa. (First: Episode 0780) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert says it's Ernie's turn to go to the laundromat. He puts numerous things in the laundry basket, including storybooks, cookies, his boots, and a radio. Before long, the basket has no room for the laundry, so he decides to go play baseball instead. (First: Episode 0458) |
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SCENE 5 | In a final attempt to get people to be quiet, a bespectacled Oscar opens a library in front of his can. The others sit down to read his selections, but Oscar becomes paranoid when he hears everybody whispering to each other. Combined with their laughter, Oscar finds this new quieter noise to be even more annoying and yells for everybody to leave, causing him to get shushed by the group. David, in voiceover, whispers the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob, Luis, and a kid hold the Sesame Street sign, and David holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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