| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Susan and Gordon have an argument | |||||||
| Air date | January 2, 1978 | ||||||
| Season | Season 9 (1977-1978) | ||||||
| Written by | David Korr | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Old King Cole — Old King Cole calls for his pipe, etc. (First: Episode 0922) |
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Cartoon | A female head is drawn as its voice-over lists its parts, ending with earrings that "do nothing" ... and promptly wiggle around. Artist: James Rizzi (First: Episode 0787) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Families." (First: Episode 0454) |
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Cartoon | A red man illustrates abierto, while an angry blue man shows cerrado. (First: Episode 0784) |
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Film | A kid enters a tunnel made of snow to demonstrate "head first" and "feet first." (First: Episode 0290) |
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Cartoon | The Story of Cowboy X, with the voices of Jean Shepherd (First: Episode 0325) |
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SCENE 1 | Gordon and Susan present Oscar with an old, decrepit chair, which he thinks will be perfect for his living room. They move it around in different ways trying to get it to fit into Oscar's trash can, but nothing seems to work. Oscar offers a solution, and asks them to hand him the chair. He tosses it out in front of him, smashing the chair into rubble on the pavement. Now all the pieces will fit, and it looks even better to Oscar than before! |
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Cartoon | "Poverty X": A peanut-shaped figure lists the words that the letter "X" can be found in. (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper: X Marks the Spot! (First: Episode 0456) |
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Cartoon | The letter X (First: Episode 0482) |
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Film | Joe Raposo: Insects (instrumental w/ kid VO, same music as "Peacock") (First: Episode 0410) |
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Animation | Sand X/x (First: Episode 0638) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert and Shola talk about the letter X. (First: Episode 0560) |
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Cartoon | One of These Footprints says "excuse me." (First: Episode 0487) |
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Cast | A king (David) and his knights (Luis, Bob and Maria) assemble for their meeting at the round table, but discover their table is actually a square. They fetch a triangle, then rectangle table before finally getting a round one, which they eat their lunches off of. (First: Episode 0952) |
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Cartoon | First, Middle, Last (men on horse) (First: Episode 0827) |
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Animation | First leaf, last leaf (First: Episode 0794) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: The Count Sleeps Over Part 1 — When the Count can't sleep, Ernie instructs him to try counting sheep. (First: Episode 0941) |
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Cartoon | Magical Herman's number trick (First: Episode 0773) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: The Count Sleeps Over Part 2 — The Count stayed up counting sheep all night, much to Ernie's dismay. (First: Episode 0941) |
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Film | Addition and subtraction using three trapeze artists (version "A") (First: Episode 1036) |
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Cartoon | A girl demonstrates that she is scary-looking to a sleeping monster. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0797) |
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Film | "Body Song" (First: Episode 0264) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar shows off his "Grouch earplugs" so he doesn’t have to listen to all the friendly conversations around him, including those that he may hear during his trip to Hawaii. He then witnesses an argument between Gordon and Susan about who needs to use the car, but he can't hear them at all. Right as he gets his earplugs off, the couple settles their argument. |
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Cartoon | A magician tries to pull a rabbit out of his hat, but instead finds the numbers 1-20, which the rabbit repeats at the end. (First: Episode 0337) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Is Special — Bert convinces Ernie that he's special. (First: Episode 0276) |
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Film | "Three Song (Song of Three)." (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cartoon | Kids count dinosaurs, octopuses, and paper dolls. (First: Episode 0926) |
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Film | Luis announces "And now, the octopus!" Music: "Pomp and Circumstance" (First: Episode 0291) |
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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) |
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Cartoon | "I in the Sky" (First: Episode 0368) |
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Muppets | Benny and his boss have been waiting for Lefty for a long time. Benny wonders how they will know when it's Lefty at the door, so he reminds him that Lefty will knock three times - their secret knock to enter their hideout. Lefty forgets the number, and has to be hinted from his boss what the number of knocks are to gain access, finally giving the correct amount. When they let him in, the boss reprimands him for his poor memory, and warns him that he'll be in big trouble if he forgets again. To test his memory, the boss and Benny lock themselves out, telling him not to let them in until they give the secret knock. Despite the boss' warning, Lefty forgets once again, and finally having enough, he fearfully runs out the back door, leaving the other two stranded outside yelling, "Let us in!" as they angrily pound on the door trying to get in. (First: Episode 0722) |
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Film | Old paper, new paper Music: "Blue Nosed Gopher" by Graham Preskett (First: Episode 0911) |
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SCENE 3 | Mr. Hooper reads with Big Bird when Susan comes by and shows them a present she's gotten for Gordon to make up for the argument they had earlier. After she leaves, Gordon also comes by and shows them the gift he's going to surprise her with. Angling to get a present too, Big Bird asks Mr. Hooper if he'd like to get in an argument as well. |
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Cartoon | Letter I (Beep Beep) (First: Episode 0427) |
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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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Film | Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball is ground up into a powder. (First: Episode 0254) |
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Cartoon | 3 song (butterflies, birthday presents, waving pennants etc.) (First: Episode 0927) |
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Film | David narrates some films showing the homes of animals. (First: Episode 0452) |
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Muppets | Beat the Time: Cookie Monster — Cookie Monster competes to win a cookie. (First: Episode 0446) |
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Cartoon | The letter X (repeat) |
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SCENE 4 | Gordon shows Big Bird the gift Susan got him - a can of car polish. Big Bird begins to pester him about the spots he misses while polishing as Mr. Hooper announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Grover holds the Sesame Street sign, and the Count holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
Notes[]
- The scripts for scenes 1 and 2 would later be recycled for Episode 2012.
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