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| Big Bird wants to help build the new house at the New Mexico ranch. (repeat of 0815) | |||||
| Air date | April 28, 1978 | ||||
| Season | Season 9 (1977-1978) | ||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird finds out that everybody on the New Mexico ranch gets up early because they have work to do. He tries out the chicken feed that a woman is throwing to the chickens, and says it's pretty good. |
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SCENE 1 cont'd |
Big Bird wanders around, and finds Gordon and some kids feeding alfalfa to a bunny. He then walks over to Maria and Roberta, and they show him how they make adobe bricks. Then he passes by Bob building a window. |
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SCENE 1 cont'd |
Oscar is tending to his morning chores, too -- helping Señor Romo feed slops to the pigs. |
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Cartoon | A man's profile changes shape to the sounds of a Moog synthesizer. Artist: Etienne Delessert (First: Episode 0642) |
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Film | An I-beam is molded at a steel factory as heavy industrial-type music underscores the action. The segment ends on a video freeze of the finished beam, which is shaped like the letter "I." (First: Episode 1077) |
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Animation | Sand I/i (First: Episode 0619) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Cinderella at the Ball — Kermit interviews Cinderella and Prince Charming at the ball. (First: Episode 0516) |
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Cartoon | A song about the parts of a boy's body and the sounds they can make. Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 0923) |
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Film | The kids form a capital I. (First: Episode 0462) |
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Cartoon | A boy and a dog fight over a letter "I." (First: Episode 0143) |
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SCENE 2 | "Buffalo" Bird dresses up in cowboy vest and spurs for his first horse-riding lesson. Maria brings the horse, Princess, but she notices that Big Bird is nervous about the horse. She shows Big Bird how to be gentle with the horse. |
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Film | The Steam Shovel (First: Episode 1144) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet man arrives at a gas station, hoping to be filled in a short time. Instead, his car takes a long time to fill while the attendant fills other cars in a short time. (First: Episode 0540) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #10 (First: Episode 0193) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #10 (First: Episode 0328) |
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SCENE 3 | Bob notices some T words around the farm -- "truck", "tire"... and when he sees that the tire is flat, he's found "trouble." |
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Cartoon | T for typewriter and toe Artist: John Korty (First: Episode 0506) |
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SCENE 4 | Having inflated the tire himself, Bob has become "tired." |
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Film | While watching her goldfish, a girl wonders what the world is like from her goldfish's perspective. (First: Episode 0288) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — At the beach, Ernie notices that Bert is missing; all he sees is Bert's hat. Sherlock Hemlock helps find Bert, and in the process, it turns out that Ernie accidentally buried Bert under the sand. (First: Episode 0278) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter has an electric train. (First: Episode 0785) |
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Film | Spinning Bus Stop sign (First: Episode 0931) |
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Cartoon | Kids on a bench wait for the bus: "Here comes the bus!" (First: Episode 0632) |
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Muppets | A Lavender Anything Muppet and a choir sing "Lonely." |
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Film | Russian nesting dolls 10-1 (First: Episode 0563) |
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Film | A flock of sheep crosses the river. |
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SCENE 5 | Luis, Gordon, Maria and Bob are all working hard building the new house. Big Bird offers to help, the work is too dangerous, and everyone tells him to go play. Big Bird gets upset -- he came to New Mexico to help, too! The adults confer, and then they say that they can't get their work done unless somebody goes and gets them some water. Big Bird is thrilled to have a job to do. |
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Muppets | Pageant: The Four Seasons |
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Film | To a jazz rhythm soundtrack, the camera zooms in on flowers growing on a tree. (First: Episode 0156) |
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Cartoon | Letter I (Beep Beep) (First: Episode 0427) |
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Film | A boy visits the hospital to see his mother's new baby. (First: Episode 1125) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert is preparing to give his nephew Brad a bath, but Ernie chastises him for not providing any bath toys. He brings so many toys that Bert feels there is no longer room for Brad. So as not to waste the water, Ernie hops into the tub. (First: Episode 1134) |
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SCENE 6 | Luis and a boy ride on a horse. |
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Cartoon | AT words: A fat cat with a hat sat on a mat. A bat scared the fat cat. (First: Episode 1101) |
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Song | David sings "I'm Pretty" over a film of fish and other sea creatures. (First: Episode 0389) |
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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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Muppets / Cast | "We're a Family" |
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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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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: I for Island. (First: Episode 0314) |
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Film | Knock knock. Who's there? The woodpecker! (First: Episode 0437) |
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Animation | Sand I/i (repeat) |
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SCENE 7 | Their work is done, so the Sesame Street friends sing about "Goin' Home." |
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SCENE 7 cont'd |
Emotions swell up within Luis as he knows he's about to leave his childhood home again. He says goodbye to his family. |
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SCENE 7 cont'd |
Maria announces the sponsors. As the end credits roll, everybody gets in the truck... except for Big Bird, who's so excited that he stands with the family waving goodbye. As the truck pulls away, he remembers that he's supposed to be on it. His friends stop for him, and help him onto the truck. They drive away, back to Sesame Street. (The season 7 credit crawl graphic used for Episode 0815 is kept for this airing.) |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, while Luis holds the CTW sign. |
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