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| Air date | January 10, 1979 | ||||||
| Season | Season 10 (1978-1979) | ||||||
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COLD OPEN | 10th Season Intro Still |
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SCENE 1 | Oscar counts the mismatched shoes in his collection one by one, tossing them onto the curb outside his trash can. Susan complains about the litter, but Oscar doesn't care, saying that it's the only way he can keep them separate and out of his pancake collection. Susan calls the kids over and together they show him another way of counting the shoes: as they put them into the can in front of Hooper's Store (since they're litter and technically not Oscar's anymore). |
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Muppets | The Count's bats are upset because the Count always gets to count, but the bats don't. The Count decides to let the bats count all of the Counts, while the Count counts all the bats...but there is only one Count. (First: Episode 0625) |
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Animation | Today's Secret Drawing is a fireman. (First: Episode 0200) |
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Film | Kids at school help make cornbread. |
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Cartoon | Once there were two men. Each had his own idea. One man told his thought to the other man, then the other man told his idea to the first man. Now both men knew twice as much. (First: Episode 0268) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert go off to sleep but Ernie starts to sing himself a lullaby. Bert then asks Ernie if he would mind singing quieter. So he does and then finds that he can even sing it the quietest. Bert then wonders what's going on and can't seem to go to sleep. Ernie then asks Bert if he's singing it to the extent that he can't hear him then why is he not asleep yet? (First: Episode 0841) |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird and the kids show Sam the Robot (Bob Payne) what it means to go around something, with the kids running around Big Bird. Sam makes an attempt to do it more efficiently, and succeeds in only making his eyes go up and down and blowing his stack. His next attempt results in Sam crashing through Big Bird's doors. |
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Animation | Henson Films: Number Twelve Rocks (First: Episode 0195) |
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Film / Cast | Gordon hangs out in a classroom. He joins the kids and the teacher as they play with an elastic rope and get into different shapes. (First: Episode 1068) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie plays doctor and makes Bert be the patient for his check-up. He checks Bert's heart, mouth and more. At the end, Bert wonders how he is feeling, but Ernie can't tell him that until he's a real doctor, twenty-three years from now. Bert faints after Ernie's answer and Ernie wonders if there's a doctor in the house. (First: Episode 0937) |
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Song | "Me and You," over footage of rhinos in love (First: Episode 0940) |
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Cartoon | A little girl tries to figure out why a dog is crying. (First: Episode 0862) |
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SCENE 3 | Luis and the kids spot Alphabet Bates overhead, making the letter O in the sky (First: Episode 0012). Sam the Robot prefers to feed the information into his computer, but takes much longer to process what letter was made. |
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Cartoon | A song about a rolling O Animation by John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0011) |
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Muppets | "Would You Like to Buy an O?" (alternate take) (First: Episode 0364) |
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Cartoon | Olga y la letra O (First: Episode 0338) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Rapunzel — Prince Charming attempts to rescue Rapunzel from the tower. (First: Episode 0409) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates noisy and quiet. (First: Episode 0241) |
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Cartoon | Different ways to use a string Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 0916) |
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Insert | Bert sits outside on the street, pretending to fly a helicopter. Maria sits down with him, and the segment becomes animated as they fly through the air before returning to the Street. (First: Episode 0656) |
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Animation | Sand O/o (First: Episode 0621) |
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Film | Kid voiceovers identify a horse's body parts (shown one at a time), then the complete animal. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0428) |
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Cartoon | La letra O - opera, oeste, orquidea, ojos, ocho, y el orquestra de orangutanes. (First: Episode 0338) |
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Cast | A king (David) and his knights (Luis, Bob and Maria) assemble for their meeting at the round table, but discover their table is actually a square. They fetch a triangle, then rectangle table before finally getting a round one, which they eat their lunches off of. (First: Episode 0952) |
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Cartoon | Sign Sounds: BURP (First: Episode 1119) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Herry and John-John demonstrate loud and soft. (First: Episode 0432) |
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Cartoon | A triangle wants to play catch with a group of circles, who reject the shape. When their plaything gets trapped under a ridge, the triangle is the only one able to reach it and is permitted to join the game. (First: Episode 0806) |
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Insert | Ray Barretto and his band demonstrate their different kinds of drums. (Only the first part, with the bongos, is shown in this airing.) (First: Episode 1006) |
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Film | Things that begin with G (First: Episode 0357) |
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Film | Folk song: Have You Ever Been To The Farm? (First: Episode 0138) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie thinks that he isn't special. Bert tells Ernie to feel his nose -- "That's an Ernie nose!" -- and then feel his hair, and wiggle his fingers. Bert says that nobody else is just like Ernie. Encouraged, Ernie tells the audience to do the same. (First: Episode 0276) |
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Cartoon | An owl flies, carrying a sign that says "PELIGRO." (First: Episode 0787) |
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Celebrity | Pat Paulsen says the alphabet. (First: Episode 0067) |
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Cartoon | "Ladybugs' Picnic" (First: Episode 0416) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird comes over to assist Buffy at the day care center, where it's nap time. He tries to help out by yelling for everybody to sleep when Buffy suggests something more calm such as music. Big Bird puts on a disco album which is much too loud, then switches to a nice, soothing lullaby that only puts himself to sleep. |
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Cartoon | One cowpoke tells another this town isn't big enough for the two of them. So, the two trot off to Florida instead. (First: Episode 0911) |
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Film | Snow in the city Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0429) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter gets stuck in a spot of glue, and types "G: Glue." (First: Episode 0775) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird continues to sleep surrounded by the noisy kids as Susan announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Baby Breeze, Betty Lou, and Prairie Dawn hold the Sesame Street sign, and two kids hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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