| Sesame Street | |||||
| Sam the Machine plays a game with Oscar. (repeat of 0688) | |||||
| Air date | February 22, 1977 | ||||
| Season | Season 8 (1976-1977) | ||||
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SCENE 1 | Sam the Robot wants to play, but Susan says he can't jump rope since he doesn't have feet, Big Bird says he'll break the rope swing since he's too heavy, and Bob tells him he sings like a railroad train when he tries to join in with him and Luis. He tells his woes to Oscar the Grouch, who recommends they instead not do all the things Sam can't - by just sitting there. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — At the movies, Ernie reacts to a sad, funny, scary movie, to Bert's embarrassment and the annoyance of the other viewers. (First: Episode 0627) |
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Cartoon | Do you know what it's like to be scared? (First: Episode 0547) |
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Film | T is for toes. (First: Episode 0506) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter has an electric train. (First: Episode 0785) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Herry Monster sing "Up and Down." (First: Episode 0154) |
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Cartoon | Various demonstrations of DOWN and UP (First: Episode 0847) |
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Film | A police officer follows clues that lead to a bathtub stolen by a gorilla. (First: Episode 0491) |
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Muppets | Professor Grover talks about parts of the head, with help from a reluctant Maria. (First: Episode 0728) |
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Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #2 Artist: Jeff Hale |
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Film | A group of kids enter a door marked ENTRADA. (First: Episode 0939) |
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Cartoon | The word entrada tries to run through a wall, then runs through the entrance. (First: Episode 0939) |
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Song | Three kids dance to a rock version of "Three of These Things" while one of them sits and reads. (First: Episode 0551) |
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Cartoon | Boy and the UP balloons (First: Episode 0364) |
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Insert | Ernie and Bert get into a big fight and decide to go their separate ways, Ernie moving out west to become a cowboy and Bert going to the North Pole to study fish. Maria convinces them not to do so, because then they'd never see each other again. (First: Episode 0672) |
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Film | Lizards (First: Episode 0047) |
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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. (First: Episode 0916) |
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Cartoon | "Two headlights, two eyes, two schoolbooks, two pies..." (First: Episode 0926) |
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Insert | The Alphabet Dancers form the letter T. (First: Episode 0454) |
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Cartoon | T is for Television (First: Episode 0024) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Two Noses — Ernie has a solution to Bert's assertion that he only has one nose. (First: Episode 0061) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: T for train (First: Episode 0022) |
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Film | A giant panda walks around. (First: Episode 0920) |
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Cartoon | A man goes to the grocery store to buy apples, but he can't decide how many to get. This frustrates the grocer, who has to keep adding and subtracting the amount of apples on his scale. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0132) |
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SCENE 2 | Bob shows off some of the Spanish phrases he's been learning to Luis and they close up the Fix-It Shop. When they get outside, Bob struggles with another phrase; Luis eventually figures out he's trying to say "I locked the keys inside." |
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Cartoon | A female head is drawn as its voice-over lists its parts, ending with earrings that "do nothing" ... (First: Episode 0787) |
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Film | Footage of a Chinese noodle factory. (First: Episode 0984) |
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Cartoon | T es para telefono (First: Episode 0362) |
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Muppets | Kermit has Grover help him demonstrate up and down by having Grover climb UP a sky-high flight of stairs -- while Kermit takes the elevator to the top. Exhausted, Grover faints and rolls DOWN the staircase. (First: Episode 0693) |
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Animation | A roof finds its way to the top of a house. (First: Episode 0505) |
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Film | A female voiceover counts 20 backflips performed by a monkey. (First: Episode 0217) |
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Cartoon | A guru counts to twenty. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0276) |
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SCENE 3 | Bob apologizes to Luis again for locking the keys in the Fix-It Shop. While they work on opening the door together in the dark, they sing "Loud and Soft." They finally get the lock opened and discover that it's only three hours until the shop opens again. |
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Cartoon | The dot gets on top of the lowercase letter i. Artist: Fred Garbers (First: Episode 0462) |
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Film | A girl goes to the shoemaker and watches him as he repairs her shoes. |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Herry Monster asks John-John if he knows the difference between up and down. (First: Episode 0565) |
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Cartoon | A boy leads his sister up and down a staircase. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0526) |
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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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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: T for train (repeat) |
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Muppets | Grover reads "The Cursed Prince" (David turns into Kermit) (First: Episode 0969) |
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Cartoon | I-Ink (angry bird) (First: Episode 0462) |
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SCENE 4 | After Bob walks up to his apartment to get some sleep, Luis realizes he's locked himself out again. Susan announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Luis and Susan hold the Sesame Street sign, and Bob and the kids hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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