| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Herry Monster lifts 4,000 tons | |||||||
| Air date | January 19, 1979 | ||||||
| Season | Season 10 (1978-1979) | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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 | COLD OPEN | 10th Season Intro Still |
 | SCENE 1 | Herry Monster calls everyone over to witness a never-before-seen feat - he will lift a 4,000 ton weight! He struggles immensely to even move it, but with encouragement from his friends, Herry finds the strength to lift the weight. |
 | Animation | Three lines attempt to individually reach the top of the TV screen, but fail. They succeed after they combine all of their lengths. (First: Episode 0288) |
 | Muppets | The Martians find a telephone. (First: Episode 0398) |
 | Animation | Sand E/e (First: Episode 0642) |
 | Song | Joe Raposo sings George Gershwin's "Funny Face." (First: Episode 0006) |
 | Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Big Bird and Crystal demonstrate big and little. (First: Episode 0559) |
 | Film | A group of kids enter a door marked ENTRADA. (First: Episode 0939) |
 | Muppets | An Anything Muppet boy watches a circle around him get bigger and smaller. (First: Episode 0285) |
 | Cartoon | A man saws a letter E through the wall. (First: Episode 0370) |
| | SCENE 2 | Gordon blends together the parts of Barkley's name. |
 | Cartoon | E for End (First: Episode 0460) |
| Insert | Buffy and Fred the Wonder Horse sing "Cripple Creek." (First: Episode 0908) |
 | Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: The Pied Piper has trouble luring mice with his music, but Kermit the Frog lures them by whistling. (First: Episode 0519) |
 | Cartoon | E for elephant, eagle, everybody, and egg. (First: Episode 0002) |
 | Film | Things you can carry Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0515) |
 | Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert, and Shola demonstrate "big," "small," "smaller, and "smallest" with four balls. (First: Episode 0544) |
 | Cartoon | Things say that other things are small, but then something comes along that's bigger, or smaller, or whatever. (First: Episode 0320) |
 | Celebrity | Richard Pryor recites the alphabet. (First: Episode 0779) |
| | SCENE 3 | Big Bird dons some fake facial hair and glasses in an attempt to fool Mr. Snuffleupagus into thinking he's somebody else. Sure enough, when Snuffy arrives, he believes the disguised Big Bird as an entirely different bird. He notes the similarities and differences between the two until Big Bird reveals himself. Snuffy is glad to see his friend - "Things just aren't the same when you're not around." |
 | Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #8 (First: Episode 0998) |
 | Film | The Deadly Nightshade star in a story of "Old MacDonald." The three live in a New York City apartment, but when they get fed up with the noise, they relocate to the country. There, they sing "Old MacDonald" and soon get weary of the noisy animals. (EKA: Episode 1210) |
 | Muppets | Ernie & Bert — After Bert gets mad at Ernie, Ernie imagines what life would be like without Bert. (First: Episode 1034) |
 | Cartoon | A woodpecker drills through a tree to demonstrate entrada and salida. (First: Episode 0808) |
 | Song | "Song of Eight" (First: Episode 0016) |
 | Cartoon | "Alphabet Imagination": A female voice quickly recites the alphabet followed by a male voice narrating each letter in a series of psychedelic vignettes. (First: Episode 0345) |
| | SCENE 4 | Maria sits out on the stoop with her newspaper and a carrot. The Count happens by and starts counting the bites she takes. She asks that he not do this and he conceals himself behind the railing, still able to count the loud crunches. His thunder-and-lightning tips off his location. |
 | Film | Russian nesting dolls 10-1 (First: Episode 0563) |
 | Muppets | Waiter Grover: Grover serves Mr. Johnson a bowl of chicken soup. Johnson says that he can't eat the soup, and Grover can't guess why. "That settles it," Johnson sighs. "From now on, I'm bringing my lunch to work in a paper sack." He finally explains to Grover that he can't eat the soup because he doesn't have a spoon. (First: Episode 0358) |
 | Film | Ostriches walk and run. (piano music) (First: Episode 0339) |
 | Muppets | Cookie Monster demonstrates that egg starts with the letter E; he swallows the egg and faints. (First: Episode 0316) |
 | Cartoon | E for Erase (First: Episode 0486) |
 | Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie eats one of Bert's cookies and doesn't know what to tell him. Bert observes that there are four cookies when there should be five. No matter how Ernie arranges them, there are still four cookies. Since Bert doesn't want to see four cookies, Ernie eats another one, making it three instead of four. (First: Episode 0238) |
| | SCENE 5 | Everyone plays ball around Oscar's trash can. Oscar gets upset and wishes he were all alone. He imagines being the only one on Sesame Street and soon finds it's not as appealing as he thought. When his fantasy ends, he's glad his friends are still around so he can tell them to scram. |
 | Cartoon | F - Face Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1200) |
 | Insert | Three of These Kids are wearing winter gear in the cold, but one is not. (First: Episode 0463) |
 | Cartoon | Frances Fairy displays several F words. (First: Episode 0335) |
 | Film | Corn grows in a field. (edited) Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0082) |
| | SCENE 6 | Goodbye |
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