| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Luis trades junk with Oscar | |||||||
| Air date | February 23, 1978 | ||||||
| Season | Season 9 (1977-1978) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | As Luis cleans the Fix-it Shop, he decides to give Oscar all the junk he’s cleared out. Oscar swaps it for some junk that he himself is trying to get rid of from his can. Both of them are satisfied with everything they traded with each other, but Luis soon realizes he’s just replaced his old junk with some new junk. |
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Film | A magnetic scrapyard baler is used to lift cars into a compacter. (First: Episode 0024) |
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Cast | Bob sings "Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday" with the kids. (First: Episode 0982) |
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Film | A CERRADO sign spins around. A girl tries opening the door, but it's closed. (First: Episode 0937) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Christopher Columbus — Kermit catches Christopher Columbus before his historic voyage. (First: Episode 0578) |
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Cast | Luis tries to open a door marked with a "CERRADO" sign. He gets a running start, when Maria changes the sign to read "ABIERTO." She opens the door and Luis runs right through it, crashing. (First: Episode 0596) |
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Cartoon | J family jamboree (First: Episode 0365) |
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Muppets | A woman (Jim Henson) volunteers to assist The Amazing Mumford in his surprise magic trick. Mumford makes her disappear – but when he tries to make her reappear, Herry Monster pops up, saying "SURPRISE!" (First: Episode 0381) |
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Cartoon | A man tries to figure out where a squeaky sound is coming from; it turns out to be a giant's squeaky shoes. "Surprise!" (First: Episode 0770) |
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SCENE 2 | Bob pulls out a STOP sign and has Michelle spell it out and talk about what it means. Linda spells it in sign language, and shows them the sign for "stop." |
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Cartoon | A scientist adds legs, feet, then knees to his robot and tells it to walk, but it dances out of shot instead (as does the scientist). |
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Song | "What Kids Are Made Of" - a song about body parts. (part 1) (First: Episode 0003) |
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Cartoon | A man talks about the letter J with a jack-in-the-box, whose lid ends up crushing him. (First: Episode 0071) |
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Song | "What Kids Are Made Of" - a song about body parts. (part 2) (First: Episode 0003) |
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Muppets / Cast | David sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with the librarian and plumber. (alternate take) (First: Episode 0718) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates above and below. (First: Episode 0262) |
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Cartoon | Mr. Tweak can't sleep because his neighbor above snores, and his neighbor below sneezes. Artist: Abe Levitow (First: Episode 0528) |
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Film | Wild geese (to madrigal music) (First: Episode 0935) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Fish in the Cowboy Hat — Ernie tries to put a pot on Bert's head. (First: Episode 0305) |
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Cast | David and Maria cooperate to reach the top of the mountain. (First: Episode 0901) |
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Cartoon | "Nelly 1-10 / 10-1": Kids count numbers in a parade, which are interrupted by other participants. Artist: Harvey Kurtzman (First: Episode 0629) |
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Muppets | "J Friends" (First: Episode 0339) |
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Cartoon | Jughead Jones's J story (First: Episode 0231) |
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Song | David sings Three of These Things: Three kids riding a one-seat bicycle, and two kids riding a two-seat bicycle. (First: Episode 0450) |
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Cartoon | "The J Commercial": Two boys scrutinize a J, saying it looks like a fish-hook. A resonant voice (Gary Owens) informs them that it's the letter J. This leads to a jazzy story about Joe. Moral: "Don't jive a judge by jamming a junebug." (First: Episode 0009) |
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Muppets | Lefty sells Ernie some air, but when Ernie waves to Bert, wanting to show it to him, he drops it. According to Bert (who didn't know what Ernie had), "It couldn't have vanished into thin air." But Ernie sobs, "Yes, it could, Bert! It could!" (First: Episode 0118) |
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Cartoon | Sign Sounds: A man unscrambles the letters in a sign which reads BURP. |
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SCENE 3 | Luis and two kids enter Big Bird's nest area where Big Bird is looking at his unicycle that has been broken apart. He tries to explain what happened, but Luis and the kids offer to help put it back together by matching the unicycle picture on the wall. When Luis points out that they’ll need a wrench Big Bird volunteers to look for his own, but Luis would rather go to the Fix It Shop for his. Once he and the kids are gone, Big Bird finds his wrench and attempts to tighten the wheel himself. |
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SCENE 3 cont'd |
Over at the Fix It Shop, Luis finds his wrench when Big Bird suddenly comes riding over on his unicycle… and accidentally crashes into a wall, causing the unicycle to fall apart again. |
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Cartoon | A girl inflates a balloon in the shape of an S. (First: Episode 0414) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert tells Ernie not to eat cookies in bed, because he might get crumbs in the bed, and then he'll get crumbs in his pajamas, itch, and not be able to sleep. Ernie decides to eat cookies in Bert's bed instead. (First: Episode 0282) |
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Cartoon | Five purple konkers disappear one by one, until two of them have a yellow honker together. (First: Episode 0775) |
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SCENE 4 | Luis, Linda, Danny and Michelle play a “Three of These Things” game with Michelle holding up two fingers on both of her hands, while Danny holds up two fingers on one hand and three on the other. |
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Cartoon | Jazz #9 (First: Episode 0137) |
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Muppets | Kermit smells smoke. An Anything Muppet girl tells him that there's a fire "over there," and Kermit screams for the fireman. Grover comes along wearing a white coat and a stethoscope; then carrying a pitchfork, and talking about his cows, chickens and the barn. Kermit reminds him that a fireman puts out fires. When Grover finally arrives with a hose, they discover that the fire is coming from the girl toasting marshmallows over a small campfire. (First: Episode 0348) |
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Cartoon | A disobedient jacket, illustrating words that begin with the letter J, annoys an off-screen narrator, which reveals two kids named Jenny and Jeff inside of it. (First: Episode 0527) |
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Transition | Bridge #10 - Bricks Bridge A (First: Episode 0286) |
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SCENE 5 | Bob, Linda, and the kids make big and little bubbles in the yard as Big Bird announces the sponsors. |
 
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CLOSING SIGNS | Grover holds the Sesame Street sign, while Bert and Ernie hold the CTW sign. |
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