| Sesame Street | |||||||
| The Count celebrates a batty birthday | |||||||
| Air date | April 6, 1978 | ||||||
| Season | Season 9 (1977-1978) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Slimey doesn't look his best today, so Oscar has contacted a vet to make a house call. Dr. Purrenbark arrives on the scene and is a bit taken aback; he's never treated a worm before. He proceeds with the examination and finds Slimey has a cold. After recommending a cure, he starts to leave when Oscar asks him to now examine his pet dragon Charles, who seems to have caught Slimey's cold. Dr. Purrenbark faints. |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: L for lion (First: Episode 0762) |
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Film | A toymaker makes an airplane out of wood. (First: Episode 0762) |
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Cartoon | A boy says he has a big surprise in his hand. (First: Episode 0557) |
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Film | Animals fight. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0567) |
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Muppets | Super Grover When a boy has trouble finding the gate in a fence, Super Grover attempts to bend the pickets. But eventually, the boy finds an EXIT sign. (First: Episode 0746) |
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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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Film | Fireworks Alphabet (First: Episode 1104) |
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Cast | The cast shows different L words - Maria turns on a lamp, Luis finds an L in his lunchbox, and Bob lassoes a letter L. (First: Episode 0972) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert has a present for his Aunt Matilda, but Ernie thinks that the present is for him, so he makes several guesses about what it is first, then unwraps it. (First: Episode 0165) |
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Film | Kids draw various things on a blackboard. The drawings animate themselves and make their respective sounds. (First: Episode 0822) |
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Cartoon | Consonant Sound Limerick: D—Dog Artist: Jeff Hale |
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Celebrity | The Harlem Globetrotters demonstrate body parts during their basketball stunts. (First: Episode 0627) |
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Film | A trip to the doctor's office. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0471) |
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SCENE 2 | Maria and the kids see Alphabet Bates write an L in the sky (First: Episode 0031). |
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Cartoon | L for Lion (poem) Artist: Jeff Hale |
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Insert | The Alphabet Dancers form a letter L. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Film | A figure skater illustrates forward and backward. (First: Episode 0439) |
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Insert | Musical Bridge #3 - an organist, drummer (Steve Little), and guitarists play a funk tune. (First: Episode 0651) |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd counts six snails, six ships, and six whales. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0324) |
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Film | "Six Song (Song of Six)." (First: Episode 0011) |
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Celebrity | The Mummenschanz perform a routine as a blob-like creature. (First: Episode 1115) |
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Cartoon | "Pinball Number Count" #6 Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0983) |
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Animation | 6 dots - 1 = 5 dots (First: Episode 0302) |
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Film | Jerry Nelson narrates a story about a green Muppet hand that learns to spin a top. (First: Episode 0362) |
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SCENE 3 | Simon Soundman makes sounds of things one can do with their hands (such as playing a trumpet or sawing) and the kids guess what the sounds are and act them out. He ends the game with the sounds of applause. |
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Muppets | "There's a Hole in the Bucket" (First: Episode 0834) |
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Cartoon | L for Lion (First: Episode 0798) |
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Film | A bulldozer moves dirt up a construction site. (First: Episode 0799) |
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Muppets | Maria reads the "Legend of Lord Lester." Lord Lester and his wife, Lady Lulu, love the letter L so much, they send their loyal lackey Louie to fetch things that start with L. He returns with a multitude of items, becoming so exhausted, he quits and decides to live in a lighthouse. |
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Cartoon | A man jumps into a poster of Lake Lillian. (First: Episode 0347) |
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Film | David (in voice-over) finds rectangles. (First: Episode 0481) |
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Film | EXIT (First: Episode 0935) |
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Film | Finding round things in a supermarket (David voiceover) (First: Episode 0434) |
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Cartoon | A small man and his assistant Dudley attempt to demonstrate both the capital and lower-case letter D. (First: Episode 0016) |
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SCENE 4 | Maria and David see the Count is throwing a birthday party for his bat, Beauregard, who is one-year old today. David thinks the party might not be as fun for the Count, as there's not much for him to count (one bat, balloon, cake, candle, and Batman comic book as a gift). The Count then calls for the kids to toss the confetti and he begins to count the hundreds of little pieces. |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper approaches a man and says, "Knock, knock!" The man asks, "Who's there?". Harvey says, "Dion." The man asks, "Dion who?" Then Harvey slaps a letter D on the man's chest and says, "D on you!" (First: Episode 0292) |
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Animation | Children's voiceovers (in English and Spanish) dictate how to draw a male's body. (First: Episode 0528) |
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Celebrity | Richard Pryor demonstrates emotions. |
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Film | Comparing a boy's skin to animals' fur, feathers, skin, and other coverings. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0108) |
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Muppets | "The Rhymies at Sea" - Larry, Mary, and Barry sail on a ship, which sinks. |
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Song | Luis sings "Three of These Kids" -- three kids are playing basketball, and one is playing baseball. (First: Episode 0418) |
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Film | A rhino and her baby (First: Episode 0408) |
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SCENE 5 | Now nighttime, the Count has counted over 840,000 pieces of confetti. David announce the sponsors, with the Count chiming in for the number and Maria for the CTW slogan. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, while Gordon holds the CTW sign. |
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