| Sesame English | |
| Plot | Tingo babysits Jake, Niki's cousin, and tries to teach him some new words. |
| Writer | Scott Cameron |
| Director | Rick Fernandes |
| Sponsors | 6 |
| Releases | Animals & Pets 1 |
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SCENE 1 | Tingo is babysitting Jake, Niki's little cousin, and decides to try and impress Niki by teaching him some words, before she comes back from the store. He tries in vain to get Jake to learn the words "eyes", "nose", and "mouth", which the child says, but pointing to the wrong features on his face. Jake takes better to viciously bonking Tingo on the head with Ducky, his stuffed toy. |
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Cartoon | Abstracted all-black facial features slowly appear on the screen, with a voiceover describing what-is-what. Eventually the image gains background colors, and is revealed as "Bust Of A Woman With A Hat" by Pablo Picasso. |
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SCENE 2 | Tingo's efforts of teaching Jake his facial parts continue to fail. |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moments Grover speaks to two kids. The first segment, Grover talks to Carrington about their nose and how they both have it in the same place. The second segment, Grover talks to Chelsea about what their ears, eyes, nose, and mouth can do. Chelsea mentions that they both have them and also have feet, hands, bellies, necks, arms, back, and shoulder. Grover replies they have a cornucopia of parts, which means they have a lot of good stuff. |
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Film | Six children dance in a colorblock grid. |
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Muppets | In the park, Elmo, Rosita, Telly, Merry, and two AM Monsters are supposed to show 6 of something, but they don't have anything with them... until they realize that they have each other to count. (edited) |
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SCENE 3 | Tingo plays a musical game with Jake, asking him to "Show Me" certain facial features. Jake continues to point at the wrong parts of his face. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Elmo sing "One Fine Face." (middle dialogue edited out) |
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SCENE 4 | Niki arrives home from the store, and without mention of what Tingo was trying to teach Jake, enthusiastically tells him she taught Jake new words. She asks Tingo to watch, which he does, but highly doubtingly. Jake proceeds to point to and name facial features on demand, even saying "mouth" deeply, in a adult male voice. Niki then asks Jake to kiss Tingo, to which he makes a disgusted face, eventually doing so. Tingo kisses back. |
Cast[]
- John Tartaglia as Tingo
- Kelly Karbacz as Niki
- Roger Bart as Jake
Archive segments, in order of first appearance
- Frank Oz as Grover
- Kevin Clash as Elmo
- John Kennedy
- Peter Linz as Blue AM Monster
- Joey Mazzarino as Merry Monster
- Carmen Osbahr as Rosita
- Marty Robinson as Telly
- David Rudman as Green AM Monster
- Jim Henson as Ernie
Releases[]
VHS2004
Schlessinger Media
Schlessinger Media
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