| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Air date | February 20, 1978 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 9 (1977-1978) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Bob conducts the Sesame Street Kazoo Gang as they play along to the opening music. Oscar doesn't consider this music, and sings "Noise" while playing an old, warped record of various annoying sounds. |
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Cartoon | A rabbit crosses the STREET, and almost gets run over. Artist: Cathryn Aison (First: Episode 0778) |
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Muppets | Grover the Salesman: Grover wants to sell Kermit some earmuffs, but Kermit doesn't have ears, so Grover gives Kermit some big human ears. (First: Episode 0800) |
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Film | Old paper, new paper Music: "Blue Nosed Gopher" by Graham Preskett (First: Episode 0911) |
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Celebrity | Judy Collins sings "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" with some kids on the shore. (First: Episode 0971) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #6 (First: Episode 0011) |
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Muppets | The Anything Muppets cheer about the letter F. (First: Episode 0093) |
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Cartoon | A self-proclaimed "handsome" fly (voiced by Casey Kasem) is indignant about appearing in a segment about the letter F with a "fat and ugly" frog. The frog solves the problem by eating the fly. (First: Episode 0034) |
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Insert | The Alphabet Dancers make the form of the letter F. (First: Episode 0446) |
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Cartoon | Fleas have fun in fur! Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0630) |
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SCENE 2 | Bob sings "Three of These Things" with the kids using pictures of a hippopotamus, a giraffe, an elephant, and a kitten. |
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Cartoon | What if a dog looked like a bird? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0226) |
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Film | Lobster fisherman (First: Episode 0966) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Cookie Monster shows David a sign that says STREET. (First: Episode 0423) |
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Cartoon | E for End (First: Episode 0460) |
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Cast | Bob and Luis put together two halves of a painting of a train tunnel. When they fit the parts together, a train goes through the tunnel and zooms to take up the entire screen, frightening Bob and Luis so much, they take down the tunnel again. (First: Episode 0549) |
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Song | "Pinball Number Count" #6 (First: Episode 0983) |
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Film | A marching band counts from 1 to 20. (First: Episode 0504) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Reading the Newspaper — Ernie has a question but decides to wait until Bert is done reading the newspaper to ask. (First: Episode 0042) |
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Film | A little girl needs HELP getting on a horse. (First: Episode 0484) |
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Cartoon | I've Got a Mind: Fish Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0195) |
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Film | Kids comment on a film of the process of peanuts being made into peanut butter. (First: Episode 0194) |
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Film | A woman holds a painting of five chickens. (First: Episode 0769) |
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SCENE 3 | Bob and Luis sing "Let's Make a Face." |
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Cartoon | E for Elephant & Elk, the nominees for best E animal. (First: Episode 0486) |
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Film | A film shows parts of an elephant. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0034) |
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Muppets | The Twiddlebugs try to figure out how to get to the zoo. They notice it's too far to walk, swim, or fly. Then they notice their Twiddle-car. (First: Episode 0603) |
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Cartoon | Before and after: Several kids are sad, but become happy when a fruit vendor appears. (First: Episode 0631) |
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Cast | In a circus routine, Luis the ringmaster demonstrates "before" and "after". Freeze-frame technology allows his assistant, Linda, to show each action as she jumps through a hoop, slips on a banana peel, and gets a bucket of water thrown at her face. (First: Episode 0728) |
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Cartoon | Antes y despues: Several kids are sad, but become happy when a fruit vendor appears. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0631) |
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Film | A girl and her mother go on a journey to find out where potatoes come from. (First: Episode 0984) |
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Cartoon | Sign Sounds: A man rearranges a LIMK sign to make the word "MILK". |
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Insert | Big Bird announces that Grover will demonstrate the number 2 by doing two chin-ups. He does it, but then Big Bird asks him to do two more sets, to make sure the audience gets it. When Big Bird thinks they've got it, he announces that Grover will now demonstrate the number 18! Grover faints. (First: Episode 0547) |
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Muppets | "It's Funny" (First: Episode 0897) |
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Cartoon | A nutty dragon blows 5 puffs of smoke, which are blown away by a fan-hatted man. (First: Episode 0980) |
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Muppets | Ernie tries to count his balloons. The balloons are arranged in a circle, so he continues counting around the circle, and counts some of them twice. Grover has a solution -- he pops each of the balloons as he counts them. (First: Episode 0133) |
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Cartoon | A self-proclaimed "handsome" fly (voiced by Casey Kasem) is indignant about appearing in a segment about the letter F with a "fat and ugly" frog. The frog solves the problem by eating the fly. (repeat) |
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Cartoon | One cowpoke tells another this town isn't big enough for the two of them, so the two trot off to Florida instead. (First: Episode 0911) |
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Song | Caroll Spinney sings "Rock-a-bye Baby" to a sleepy koala. (First: Episode 0048) |
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Cartoon | A football player talks about his favorite sport. Artist: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0135) |
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Muppets | The Anything Muppets cheer about the letter F. (repeat) |
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SCENE 4 | As Luis and the kids march around the street, Bob announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Baby Breeze, Betty Lou, & Prairie Dawn hold the Sesame Street sign, while two kids hold the CTW sign. |
Gallery[]
behind the scenes footage from the TV special Sesame Street Unpaved
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