| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Gordon and Susan accidentally lock themselves out | |||||||||
| Air date | March 3, 1978 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 9 (1977-1978) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | In the early morning, Gordon takes out the trash, and accidentally locks himself out of 123 Sesame Street. Wishing not to disturb Susan, he tries to get through the living room windows, but they are also locked shut. He sneaks into Big Bird's nest area to try to get into the kitchen window. He wakes up Big Bird in the process and explains his situation. |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | Just then, Susan traipses in, having locked herself out just now as well. Big Bird points her towards the open window and remarks she can catch up to Gordon. |
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Cartoon | A little girl imagines what would happen if she dropped her bag of ping pong balls. (First: Episode 0583) |
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Muppets | Kermit sings "This Frog." (First: Episode 0944) |
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Cartoon | Two men hammer a stake into a hole. (First: Episode 0785) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Kangaroo Blues." (First: Episode 0277) |
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Cartoon | Two men, one named Virgil Veep, discuss the letter V as they stand atop a capital V. (First: Episode 0110) |
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Cast | The Alphabet Dancers form the letter V. (First: Episode 0455) |
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Cartoon | The Villain in the Panama Hat (V) (First: Episode 0507) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Me." (First: Episode 0421) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar the Grouch is pleased to see Buffy in a bad mood over the day she's had with her disobedient son Cody. Oscar thinks Cody has the makings of a Grouch and wishes to have him visit - "He sounds like my kind of people!" |
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Animation | Sand V/v (First: Episode 0637) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie's doctor comes over. Ernie keeps trying to tell the doctor why he called him, but the doctor is too occupied with checking on Ernie, hardly allowing him to get a word in edgewise. (First: Episode 0137) |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
From outside Oscar's trash can, we hear Oscar encouraging Cody to make similar messes. |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: V for Vacuum (First: Episode 0774) |
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Film | Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be. (re-recorded music) (First: Episode 0004) |
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Cartoon | A bully says the alphabet to a mild-mannered gardener, who hits him in the face with a pie at the end. (First: Episode 0279) |
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Film | A boy climbs up a tree to gather coconuts. |
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Cartoon | Sign Sounds: One Way |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Hey Diddle Diddle — A cat preps a cow to jump over the moon. (First: Episode 0634) |
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Animation | A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found. (First: Episode 0268) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates noisy and quiet. (First: Episode 0241) |
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Animation | A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0277) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Cookie Monster asks David to read a DANGER sign. (First: Episode 0279) |
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SCENE 3 | Sheldon gives Cody a bath, but gets wet in the process. |
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Film | Kids watch a silent movie with a man resting on the train tracks with an oncoming trolley - DANGER! (First: Episode 0480) |
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Muppets | Grover reads a sign that says DANGER and looks around for said danger. He doesn't find it anywhere until he trips and falls on the sign. (First: Episode 0182) |
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Cartoon | Four construction workers build a number 4. (First: Episode 0507) |
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Song | "Sawmill" - Folk singers detail how lumber is made into usable wood. (beginning edited) (First: Episode 0657) |
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Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #4 (First: Episode 0984) |
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Film | Future careers: footage of a kid acting out a certain job, followed by an adult doing "the real thing." Includes a girl singing the "Sesame Street Theme" and another watching a sketch with Cookie Monster and Kermit the Frog. (First: Episode 0796) |
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SCENE 4 | Buffy lets Big Bird take Cody for a stroller ride. He sings “Little Brother,” about what it would be like to have a younger sibling. |
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Cartoon | A peacock counts twenty feathers on his tail. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Film | A boy visits the hospital to see his mother's new baby. |
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Muppets | Bert says that he's going to demonstrate quiet by talking quietly to Ernie. But when he tries, Ernie claims that he can't hear what Bert is saying. Finally, Bert gets frustrated and shouts at Ernie; Ernie tells Bert not to be so loud. (First: Episode 0150) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Otters in the zoo (First: Episode 0487) |
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Insert | Three of These Kids are wearing winter gear in the cold, but one is not. (First: Episode 0463) |
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Cartoon | A woman fixes her car by putting a letter r under the hood, and it goes "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" (First: Episode 0410) |
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Film | A girl catches a lobster. |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird sees all the toys in Cody’s play pen and imagines him as a fireman, chef, football player, doctor, and dogsled driver. He ultimately concludes Cody is better off just being a kid. |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Edgar Kendricks sings "Cross at the Green." (First: Episode 1040) |
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Cartoon | A man encounters someone with a DANGER sign hanging on the end of his nose, and doubts there's any danger until the character sneezes. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — At the movies, Ernie makes some loud noises while he eats his candy bar and peanuts and drinks his soda. Bert loses his temper and shouts at Ernie to be quiet, at which point the usher enters and throws Bert out. (First: Episode 0536) |
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Film | Ten hats on a hatrack (First: Episode 0439) |
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Cartoon | A wizard turns into R things. (First: Episode 0369) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Loren demonstrate loud and soft. (First: Episode 0432) |
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SCENE 6 | Gordon and Susan accidentally forget their keys again, and have to climb through the window in Big Bird's nest. He remarks, "Boy, I sure have strange neighbors!" Buffy announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Kermit and a kid hold the Sesame Street sign, and Maria holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
Notes[]
- This episode's street scenes would later be remade as Episode 2703, with Maria, Luis, and Gabi taking the place of the Wolfchild family.
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