| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | January 11, 1978 | ||||||
| Season | Season 9 (1977-1978) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Oscar shows Bob his brand new automatic mud detector, which he intends to use during their upcoming trip to Hawaii. He sets out a bowl of mud to show how it works. Bob uses the searching prong, which beeps louder and louder depending on how close he gets. He finally finds the bowl of mud and the device sucks it all up. Upset, Oscar moans, "That's the last time I ever buy anything for four cents and a box top!" |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie eats the ice cream that Bert was saving for later, so he tries to pass off a smashed up banana with ice and gravy as a substitute. Bert expresses his disgust just as Oscar the Grouch comes in with two ice cream cones. He intends to give only one of them away, but swaps the other in exchange for the smashed banana with cold gravy. (First: Episode 0213) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Little Things." (First: Episode 0655) |
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Cartoon | I am crying / estoy llorando (David and Maria voiceover) (First: Episode 1041) |
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Muppets | In a Dragnet parody, Sergeant Thursday and Ben hunt for a wanted W. (First: Episode 0395) |
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Cartoon | W is for Worm (First: Episode 0001) |
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Insert | Big Bird and Olivia sing "Walkin' Down My Street." (First: Episode 1044) |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
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Film | In a gymnasium, a teacher and some kids play catch with a balloon. |
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Cartoon | W - wallpaper (First: Episode 0291) |
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Film | Kids narrate a film of an African plain and the animals that live there. (First: Episode 0128) |
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Muppets | Same Sound Brown shows Farley that "That's What Reading's All About." |
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Cartoon | W for Wash (First: Episode 0485) |
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Muppets | Biff hangs numbers under Salvador Dada's paintings in an art museum. (First: Episode 0707) |
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Film | A girl gets on, in, and under a blanket in a park. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Cast | Bob, Maria, and David demonstrate in, on and under in their own ways. (First: Episode 0796) |
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Muppets | Grover attempts to sell a weather machine to Kermit the Frog. (First: Episode 0848) |
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Song | "Hello, Scale," a film about measuring weight. (First: Episode 0578) |
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Cartoon | W for Wilhelmina (First: Episode 0512) |
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Cast | Linda helps a boy sign "DON'T WALK." (First: Episode 1061) |
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Film | A rhino and her baby (First: Episode 0408) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: L--Loud (First: Episode 0783) |
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Muppets | Ice Follies: Grover and Cookie Monster get into zany antics as they try to play leap frog. (First: Episode 0795) |
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Film | A film of two kids and a goat riding a turtle at a petting zoo is narrated in English and Spanish. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0486) |
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Cartoon | A red PELI and an explosive green GRO form the word PELIGRO. (First: Episode 0787) |
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Celebrity | Paul Simon and the kids make up a song together and then sing a portion of "Get Back" by the Beatles. |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet girl shows the viewers that the number 11 is the same right side up and upside down. (First: Episode 0183) |
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Cartoon | Henson: Eleven Cheer (First: Episode 0273) |
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Muppets | "High, Middle, Low" (First: Episode 0236) |
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Insert | Michael Christensen juggles some balls by the stoop. Paul Binder comes in with his lunch and offers to share some of it, which Michael juggles. (First: Episode 1026) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie can't decide which of the two different shelves he should place a large vase on, so Bert tells him to use his imagination. Ernie imagines the vase falling off the little shelf and Bert kicking him out of the apartment. Then, Ernie imagines putting the vase on the big shelf, and Bert rewarding him with a big surprise party. (First: Episode 0277) |
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Cartoon | Fisherman Jones demonstrates in, on and under with the help of a big fishy. (First: Episode 0370) |
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Transition | Bridge #14 - Hourglass Slow/Fill (First: Episode 0303) |
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Film | There Once Was a Hand series: the right hand plays with a ping-pong ball and tricks the left hand into thinking an egg is one. (First: Episode 0668) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar teaches the kids (Marlena, Debbie, Billy, and Janice) how to make ugly faces. Bob announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Grover holds the Sesame Street sign, while the Count holds the CTW sign. |
Notes[]
- The original script for the episode contains street scenes not used in the final episode. The weekly "Play to Grow" spot was to have Bob and the kids prepare a salad in Hooper's Store. Later scenes would have featured Big Bird showing "on," "in," and "under" with the kids, and Susan discovering Oscar has developed a cold.
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