Episode 1112

Sesame Street
The Amazing Mumford makes Sesame Street disappear (repeat of 0886)
Air date	February 14, 1978
Season	Season 9 (1977-1978)
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Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Herry Monster shows Bob, Maria, and the kids how he's been practicing all week to open and close a door without pulling it off his hinges. Maria is so proud of him, she's going to buy him a glass of milk. Herry offers to open the door to Hooper's Store, but Bob doesn't want him to push his luck.
	Cartoon	A flea sets up camp on a dog. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1004)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Ernie reads a story for Bert that he's written on his typewriter. It turns out to be a dramatic reading of the alphabet.
	Cartoon	Four people cooperate building a table. (First: Episode 0537)
	Film	A dented car door is repaired and repainted at an auto body shop.
	Muppets	"Sing After Me" by Grover and Madeline Kahn.
	Cartoon	The story of a king who learns to take a bath. Artist: Bruce Cayard (EKA: Episode 1083)
	SCENE 2	Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus decide to play house, but they both want to play the mommy. They pace around for a bit to figure out how to solve their problem, because a family can only have one mommy. They eventually decide to take turns playing the mommy, so Big Bird says he'll go first. Snuffy also wants to go first, so to avoid another conflict, they decide to play doctor instead.
	Film	Kids narrate a film of animals moving in different ways. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0098)
	Cartoon	A guru counts to twenty. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0276)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — It's late at night and Bert isn't home yet. Ernie worries that he may have been abducted by monsters and is being forced to party with them... maybe even having fun. When Bert gets home, Ernie shares his stream of emotions he felt when he'd imagined something had happened to Bert: fear, sadness and anger. Bert assures him that he was fine -- he never has fun. (First: Episode 0929)
	Film	The Mad Painter #4 (First: Episode 0344)
	Animation	Scanimate Films #4 (First: Episode 0132)
	Muppets	Four Anything Muppet cheerleaders give four big cheers for the number 4. (First: Episode 0132)
	Cartoon	Two alpine climbers hike up a letter Z and stake a claim on it. (First: Episode 0281)
	Cast	Linda and a boy sign the word "CLOSED." (First: Episode 1082)
	Cartoon	Z For Zebra & Zoo (First: Episode 0281)
	Muppets	An Anything Muppet boy watches a circle around him get bigger and smaller. (First: Episode 0285)
	Insert	Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus sing a song about being best friends. (First: Episode 1075)
	Cartoon	Z In Space (First: Episode 0509)
	Film	Snow in the city Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0429)
	Cartoon	zip, zoom, zoom, zig, zag, zany, zoo. (First: Episode 0359)
	Muppets	Sesame Street News Flash Instead of a bone, Old Mother Hubbard brings her dog various objects which rhyme with "bone", including a stone, a throne, and finally a phone (which the dog uses to order take-out from a Chinese restaurant). (First: Episode 0642)
	Animation	Sand Z/z (First: Episode 0639)
	Film	A hand tickles another with a feather. When it tries again, the ticklish hand growls and frightens the other away. (EKA: Episode 0757)
	Cartoon	A red man illustrates abierto, while an angry blue man shows cerrado. (First: Episode 0784)
	Muppets	Muppet & Kid Moment — Big Bird tells Shola that he's been having some trouble figuring out big and little. Shola says that she's little and Big Bird is big. Big Bird says, "Oh! That must be why they call me Big Bird." Shola answers, "Yeah! You're Big Bird. I'm Shola." (First: Episode 0306)
	Film	A showcase of J words (First: Episode 0631)
	Muppets	Kermit at Home: Grover is outside in the snow, freezing. He keeps knocking on Kermit's door, asking how to get warm, and Kermit keeps telling him to come inside. Grover, missing the point, tries ideas of his own to get warm, but they don't work. Finally, Kermit tells Grover that if he wants to get warm, he should come inside. Excited, Grover pulls Kermit aside and slams the door, locking Kermit outside. Grover goes to sleep in Kermit's armchair while the frozen frog scrapes at the window. (First: Episode 0598)
	SCENE 3	The Amazing Mumford gathers Bob, Maria, and the kids to witness a magic trick. He says his magic words — "à la peanut butter sandwiches" — and makes the newsstand disappear. Everyone's amazed, but Mumford had something else in mind, so he brings it back. On a second attempt, he makes the table and chairs go away, but he's still displeased, so he conjures them back up again. For his third try, he urges everyone (including the viewer) to say the magic words along with him this time. After a final puff of smoke, Mumford has made Sesame Street disappear, placing himself and his companions in a staticky void.
	Film	Geese and their goslings swim in the water. (First: Episode 0388)
	Cartoon	A song about the parts of a boy's body and the sounds they can make. Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 0923)
	Cartoon	Jughead Jones's J story (First: Episode 0231)
	Muppets	Old West: Five good men are needed to form a posse and catch Bad Bart, the meanest man in the West. The sheriff counts five men in the saloon, and tries to organize them. But it turns out that there are only four good men -- one of them is Bad Bart! (First: Episode 0554)
	Cartoon	A man talks about the letter J with a jack-in-the-box, whose lid ends up crushing him. (First: Episode 0071)
	SCENE 4	Everyone is impressed with the vanishing act, but they'd like their home back, so Mumford conjures up the street again. He resigns to rest after his work and makes himself disappear in a puff of smoke. While Bob, Maria, and the kids look around for him, Mumford announces the sponsors from the echoey vastness of the void.

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