Episode 1141

Sesame Street
Big Bird's insomnia
Air date	March 27, 1978
Season	Season 9 (1977-1978)
Sponsors C, G, 9 Releases Paley Center Archive

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Big Bird and Grover clean the Fix-It Shop window, when they notice a conflict: Grover is hanging upside down cleaning the top, while Big Bird is squatting down to clean the bottom. Since Big Bird is taller than Grover, they decide to switch places.
	Cartoon	I have all, I have none (men w/ grapes) Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0624)
	Film	Some clowns, more clowns (EKA: Episode 1017)
	Cartoon	A boy acts out his feelings as animals. ("There's a zoo in me!") (EKA: Episode 0796)
	Muppets	Sesame Street News Flash Kermit explores the lab of Professor Nucleus Von Fission, who has just built a robot called the Six Dollar Man, out of parts that cost him a total of six dollars! The robot destroys the lab, while Von Fission laughs. Kermit is horrified, but Von Fission explains, "What do you expect for six dollars?" (EKA: Episode 1115)
	Film	Doll factory (EKA: Episode 0560)
	SCENE 2	Big Bird and Grover's plan worked, but since Grover is so short and Big Bird is so tall, the middle of the window is still dirty.
	Cartoon	A man carves a YES and puts it on display. (EKA: Episode 0840)
	Film	A gorilla sits on a park bench with a lunchbox full of bananas. Noticing the woman seated beside him, he decides to share his bananas with her. She keeps answering "YES" every time the gorilla offers one until he runs out of bananas. (EKA: Episode 0783)
	Muppets	Bob asks a blank-faced Large Lavender Live Hand Anything Muppet how he feels. The Muppet answers, "I don't feel anything." Bob sticks a nose and angry eyes on the Muppet, who then starts to feel mad. He walks off in a huff, and we hear a crash off-screen. The Muppet comes back and ad-libs, "It's okay, Bob, I just dropped my watch!" (First: Episode 0491)
	Cartoon	"Martian Beauty" has nine hairs, nine bows, nine eyes, nine nostrils, nine arms, and nine toes. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0316)
	Song	Northern Calloway sings "Who You Looking At, Tiger?" (written by Joe Raposo). (EKA: Episode 0418)
	Cartoon	Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover). (EKA: Episode 0277)
	Muppets	Same Sound Brown shows Farley that "That's What Reading's All About." (First: Episode 1088)
	Cartoon	A man slips on his daughter's skate, and she points out that it makes him feel angry. (EKA: Episode 0850)
	Cast	Linda shows a little girl how to say "wet paint" in American sign language.
	Cartoon	Number count to 20 (w/ cameo appearance by Cookie Monster), followed by cast list at the end. (First: Episode 0350)
File:Antelopes.YES.jpg	Film	Antelopes nod "yes." Music by Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0411)
	Muppets	Western : A cowboy comes to see Adam T. Glaser, who is such a jack-of-all-trades that he forgets what a dentist does. (First: Episode 0408)
	SCENE 3	Maria shows the letters C and G, and expects Cookie Monster to say that the cookie she has starts with C, but he outsmarts her: "It GINGER SNAP!"
	Cartoon	C for canary (role reversal) (First: Episode 0703)
	Cartoon	G for giggle. (EKA: Episode 0305)
	SCENE 4	Maria approaches Cookie Monster with a cinnamon cookie, but he outsmarts her again: "It GERMAN cinnamon cookie!"
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: G for gorilla (in man suit). (First: Episode 0085)
	Cartoon	C for cap (oversized cap) (First: Episode 0154)
	SCENE 5	This time, Maria brings a cream-filled cookie, which happens to be a girl scout cookie; C.M. eventually gives in
	Cast	On a desert island, a parched Luis finds a coconut, which has a letter C inside. (First: Episode 0703)
	Cartoon	Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover in Spanish). (EKA: Episode 0277)
	Cartoon	C for candle (blows man away). (First: Episode 0703)
	Film	A voiceover recites a poem about trees, to music by Joe Raposo. (First: Episode 0455)
	Cartoon	C is for Cat Artist: Bud Luckey
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Bert is trying to write a letter to Mr. Rogers, but finds it difficult when Ernie operates his electric fan right next to him. Bert blows up at Ernie and says he is "hot and bothered," and Ernie has just the thing for that: more cool air! (First: Episode 0544)
	Film	From toy to the real thing (steam shovel) featuring a young Brian Henson. This film was shown in the Sesame Street Pitch Reel.
	Cast	Buffy sings "Quit Kickin' My Dog Around" with a Muppet dog. (EKA: Episode 1126)
	Muppets	Clap, clap, clap (three-bar split screen, all the AMs join in) (First: Episode 0491)
	Film	Footage of wolves. (First: Episode 0982)
	Cartoon	I've got some (hair), I've got more, but I've got the most. (First: Episode 0524)
	Celebrity	Richard Pryor sits on a park bench with a basket of strawberries; a kid wants him to share them.
	Cartoon	Four people cooperate building a table. (First: Episode 0537)
	Cast	No matter how you arrange these nine people, they're still nine people. (First: Episode 0413)
	Cartoon	Square (string animation) (EKA: Episode 0536)
	Cartoon	C for cat (impostor) (First: Episode 0029)
	Muppets	Muppet & Kid Moment — The Count and Ingrid count to twenty in Spanish. (EKA: Episode 0587)
	Film	Footage of a Chinese noodle factory. (EKA: Episode 0984)
	Cartoon	A man shows the viewers his "YES" machine. (First: Episode 0822)
	SCENE 6	Big Bird can't get to sleep; Bert helps him out by putting on his favorite record, "The Marching Lullaby"!
	Film	Bald eagle (child voice-overs). Music by Joe Raposo (EKA: Episode 0734)
	Muppets	Two Anything Muppets with hair over their eyes recite the alphabet. (First: Episode 0779)
	Cartoon	A goose and gander visit the land of the G's. Artist: Jeff Hale
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Sleeps." (First: Episode 0406)
File:Dots1.jpg	Cartoon	30 dots (perfect!). (First: Episode 0001)
	SCENE 7	"Marching Lullaby" cont'd; Big Bird marches away and sleeps in the arbor.

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