| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Big Bird decides to become grouchy | |||||||
| Air date | May 6, 1977 | ||||||
| Season | Season 8 (1976-1977) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Buffy leaves Cody in the corner of the yard to take his nap in the shade and sits down with Big Bird to see if there's anything they'd like to do together like they used to before she had a baby. Big Bird makes a few suggestions that aren't appropriate to do while a baby naps, each time making jealous remarks to himself in his head.
Buffy says she can sing him a song, but she has to do so quietly. She plays "I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl" on her guitar, but Big Bird joins in very loudly, prompting Buffy to suggest he's being grouchy on purpose. In his head again, Big Bird decides that's exactly what he's going to do: today, he'll be just like Oscar the Grouch. |
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Muppets | Farley looks for his lost toy box. (First: Episode 0279) |
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Cartoon | A girl uses her imagination while sitting on a sofa. (First: Episode 0765) |
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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 | "Paying Attention Song" (Charlie Tyson) (First: Episode 0934) |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby tries to count 4 kids. (First: Episode 0176) |
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Cartoon | Four construction workers build a number 4. (First: Episode 0507) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Edgar Kendricks sings "Cross at the Green." |
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Cartoon | A little girl imagines what would happen if she dropped her bag of ping pong balls. (First: Episode 0583) |
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Film | David narrates some films showing the homes of animals. (First: Episode 0452) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird knocks on Oscar's trash can and tells him to open up and let him in. Oscar refuses, saying he doesn't want anyone pleasant trying to cheer him up. Big Bird hits him with a cranky attitude, and tells him he's not the only grouch around here. Oscar pops up, realizes Big Bird means what he says, and invites him inside. |
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Muppets | At the Ice Follies, Grover is asked by Kermit (in voiceover) to demonstrate Near and Far. (First: Episode 0904) |
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SCENE 3 | Maria and David are reading their horoscope from the newspaper in front of Oscar's can when Buffy comes by, explains what happened with Big Bird, and asks if they've seen him. David suggests looking in the pet store nearby where Big Bird sometimes likes to talk to the other birds. After Buffy leaves, Maria thinks of asking Oscar, so she knocks on his can. From inside, Big Bird answers and tells them to scram. She knocks again and Big Bird emerges, explaining that he may as well live here now because nobody loves him and he can't do anything right. He retreats inside the can again as Buffy comes back and asks if they've seen Big Bird yet. David and Maria reply that yes, they've seen him. |
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Film | A talking tree tells a boy about the difference between near and far. (First: Episode 0111) |
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Animation | Sand N/n (First: Episode 0633) |
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Cartoon / Film | Things that begin with N: nail, nest, net, notebook, needle, noodle, nuts, napkins, nose. (Don't make noise at night). The letter N is nice. (First: Episode 0659) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Sleeping Beauty: Prince Sleeps — Prince Charming kisses Sleeping Beauty and falls asleep. (First: Episode 0513) |
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Transition | "All right, now that you've eaten everything in sight, would you mind telling me what you plan to have for dessert?" (First: Episode 0006) |
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Film | Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be. (First: Episode 0004) |
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SCENE 4 | Buffy stands outside Oscar's can holding Cody talking to Big Bird inside. She's asking him to please come out, but Big Bird just insults her son's name. |
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Cartoon | A man carves a YES and puts it on display. (First: Episode 0366) |
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Film | A boy narrates a film of cows being fed hay during winter. Music: Robert Dennis (First: Episode 0787) |
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SCENE 5 | When a leaf falls on Cody, he becomes frightened and won't stop crying. Big Bird feels bad since the same thing once happened to him, so he comes out of Oscar's can to twitter a song his mother used to tweet to him when he was little. Cody stops crying and Buffy showers Big Bird with praise, and Big Bird declares to Buffy, David, and Maria that he is no longer "Big Grouch" but his old, friendly self. |
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Muppets | The Twiddlebugs try to get to the zoo. They notice it's too far to walk, swim, or fly. Then they notice their Twiddle-car. (short intro) (First: Episode 0603) |
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Cartoon | "Lowercase n" (First: Episode 0358) |
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Film | Marching Band #4 (First: Episode 0529) |
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Muppets / Cast | Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with the moving man and hot dog vendor. (First: Episode 0852) |
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Cartoon | Jazz Alphabet: male vocalists shout each letter. (First: Episode 0619) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert's Bottlecap Collection — Bert shows off his bottlecap collection to Ernie, who remembers that he found a Figgy Fizz bottle cap -- the very one that Bert needed to complete his collection. (First: Episode 0240) |
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Cartoon | E for Elephant & Elk, the nominees for best E animal. (First: Episode 0486) |
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Muppets | Grover climbs a mountain and counts from one to ten with his own echo. (First: Episode 0949) |
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Cartoon | Four motorcycle-riding chickens hatch out of an egg. (First: Episode 0796) |
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Animation | An orange pops out of a basket of fruits and gets "made up" as the face of Carmen, the role in the opera of the same name. While singing "Habanera," the famed aria from the opera, Carmen loses her "face" and can't resume singing until the wig returns. (First: Episode 0277) |
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Cartoon | A man shows the viewers his "YES" machine. (First: Episode 0822) |
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Film | Topi antelopes nod "yes." Music by Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0411) |
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SCENE 6 | Buffy asks Big Bird to tweet some more of the song he learned from his mother. As Cody sleeps, Big Bird reverses his earlier position and says that Dakota Starblanket Wolfchild is a beautiful name. Maria announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, while Bert and Ernie hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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