| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Mr. Hooper hires Mr. Ortiz, a Spanish-speaking helper | |||||||
| Air date | January 25, 1978 | ||||||
| Season | Season 9 (1977-1978) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Mr. Hooper tells Maria and Luis that David is out sick, so he's called a local employment agency to send someone over in his place. The agency didn't tell him anything beyond the fact that he's a man around Hooper's age and he has experience running his own store. A man, Mr. Ortiz, arrives, speaking Spanish and inquiring if this is where has been sent by the agency. As he hears Mr. Hooper describe the job, he becomes unsure of his place here - he doesn't speak English well and believes the agency made a mistake. Mr. Hooper claims that he knows a few Spanish words (showing off the store's "Se Habla Espanol" sign) and encourages the man to stay, even though he has some difficulty understanding him. |
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Cartoon | Pinball #10 Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0990) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Tall, Taller, Tallest — Ernie is tall, Bert is taller, and Big Bird is the tallest. (First: Episode 0284) |
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Cartoon | A short bird stands under a tall bird, which lays an egg on its head. (First: Episode 0303) |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
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Muppets | On a very slow day of counting, The Count plays some funky music that is irresistible to dance to. He then counts 6 dancing children that come by. (First: Episode 0868) |
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Film / Cast | Gordon joins a class for some exercises. |
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Cartoon | "Ten Turtles" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0425) |
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Muppets | Farley looks for ME. (First: Episode 0464) |
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Film | A man writes the word ME in the snow. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0294) |
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SCENE 2 | Mr. Hooper admits to Maria and Luis that things haven't been working out too well with Mr. Ortiz due to the language barrier. They have him imagine the situation being reversed, where the store is a Puerto Rican bodega under Mr. Ortiz's supervision and Mr. Hooper is unable to speak Spanish well. Mr. Ortiz helps his new employee by teaching him some basic Spanish words about the products they sell. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | Back in reality, Mr. Hooper uses this method to teach Mr. Ortiz some English words, as well as to learn some Spanish himself. |
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Cartoon | A red man tries to think of words that begin with H, but a yellow man keeps spewing them out until Red draws a hole under Yellow, who yells "HELP!!" (First: Episode 0020) |
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Cast | Maria, Luis, Susan and David put together a fractured letter H. (First: Episode 0422) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates short and tall. (First: Episode 0254) |
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Cartoon | A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture. (First: Episode 0510) |
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Film / Animation | Part 1: A boy declares he wants to build a building. He and an adult voiceover describe how the building will be made, intercut with stop-motion animation and live-action footage. The two then wait for the foundational cement to dry... (First: Episode 0142) |
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Cartoon | H for hair (First: Episode 0475) |
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Film / Animation | Part two: With the cement dried, the boy's building is brought to completion. (First: Episode 0142) |
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Celebrity | The Deadly Nightshade play a twenty second kazoo trio. (First: Episode 0914) |
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Cartoon | A witch turns a little girl into a variety of things, but the girl insists "I'm still ME!" (First: Episode 0793) |
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Film | A giant panda walks around. (First: Episode 0920) |
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Cartoon | A girl talks about preparing to play with her new sled. Artist: Jim Simon (First: Episode 0413) |
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Muppets | Ernie finds an apple on a brick wall, and wants to know who it belongs to. Sherlock Hemlock helps solve the mystery, and realizes that Ernie has a brown paper bag with a hole at the bottom, and that Ernie had an apple in the bag, therefore the apple belongs to Ernie. (First: Episode 0137) |
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Cartoon | H - Horse (First: Episode 0474) |
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Film | Letter H hoist Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0336) |
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Insert | Susan sings "How Do You Walk" with the kids, Mr. Macintosh and Bob, demonstrating how people's feelings affect how they walk. (First: Episode 1033) |
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Cartoon | A picture of a girl playing a guitar is drawn as off-screen kids (speaking English and Spanish) try to guess what the drawing will be. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Insert | In voiceover, kids count out twelve in a deck of playing cards. (First: Episode 0480) |
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Cartoon | Two men on a park bench turn their radios up louder and louder, each trying to drown the other's out, until they reach a station they can agree on. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0796) |
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Film | A baby monkey Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0280) |
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Cartoon | A big elephant and a small elephant make lowercase Hs come out of their trunks. Artist: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0162) |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover: Grover brings Mr. Johnson a bowl of alphabet soup. Mr. Johnson complains that some of the letters are missing, and makes Grover run back and forth to the kitchen to bring the missing letters. When all the letters are there, Johnson complains that the soup is cold, and makes Grover take it back. (First: Episode 0276) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar asks Mr. Ortiz to teach him some Grouchy phrases to tell Maria when she comes by. Luis translates for Mr. Ortiz and the two plan a trick. Mr. Ortiz delivers an angry-sounding, Spanish message to Oscar, who repeats it back to Maria. To Oscar's dismay, Maria gives him the English translation - "Maria, I think you're very pretty. Please come here and give me a great big kiss," which she does. |
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Cartoon | "The Story of A": A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A involving an ant's apple getting stolen by an archer. (First: Episode 0130) |
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Muppets | Tony tends to an Anything Muppet shopping for a fur coat who ends up wearing a monster (Cookie Monster, to be exact). (First: Episode 0145) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: A for airplane (First: Episode 0770) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Prepares to Do the Laundry — Bert makes his best attempt at getting Ernie to properly fill up the laundry basket. (First: Episode 0458) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Flies on Animals" over footage of animals bugged by pests. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Transition | Bridge #16 - Hourglass Slow/Empty (First: Episode 0360) |
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SCENE 4 | At the end of the day, Mr. Hooper and Mr. Ortiz thank each other for helping them learn new languages today. Maria and Luis also bid farewell, as the two older men declare the other a new friend. Mr. Hooper proudly admires his "Se Habla Espanol" sign as Luis announces the sponsors in Spanish and Maria announces the CTW slogan in English. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Ernie and Bert hold the Sesame Street sign, while Maria holds the CTW sign. |
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