| Sesame Street | |||||
| The Little Theatre of the Deaf acts out life on the farm | |||||
| Air date | February 22, 1979 | ||||
| Season | Season 10 (1978-1979) | ||||
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COLD OPEN | 10th Season Intro Still |
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SCENE 1 | Bob, Maria, Olivia and Mr. Hooper wait for Linda and her friends from the Little Theatre of the Deaf to arrive back from a trip to Andy's (Linda's father) farm. As they head toward the bus stop, they witness Alphabet Bates making a letter "U" overhead (First: Episode 0036). |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | Linda and the crew (including Andy) arrive and Bob greets them while reacting to the skywriting: "U...you!" |
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Cartoon | "Poverty U" -- A figure gives a salute to the letter U, and presents the letter with a bouquet of flowers. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0036) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Letter U — Ernie demonstrates a ukulele; Cookie Monster plays "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" on Ernie's ukulele, then eats it. (First: Episode 0047) |
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Cartoon | A man nearly falls down a chasm, but the word HELP saves him and helps him across. (First: Episode 0788) |
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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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Muppets | An Anything Muppet family arranges themselves in different ways. (First: Episode 0275) |
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Cartoon | A penguin repeats the rhythms of the sounds it hears, which include a drum, a door knock, a saw and a typewriter. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0239) |
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SCENE 2 | The Little Theatre members describe their days on the farm and mime the chores (with the kids' help), as well as a stalk of corn being picked and eventually eaten. |
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Cartoon | The uses of water (First: Episode 0139) |
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Cartoon | The uses of water (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0278) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: The Elves and the Shoemaker — The elves gift the Shoemaker with items that rhyme with shoe. |
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Film | Kids identify pairs of animals in a zoo. (First: Episode 0364) |
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SCENE 3 | The performers now imitate the different animals on Andy's farm including cows, pigs and chickens. |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings a two-step for pairs of animals. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0342) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Bert and Ingrid count backwards from ten to one. (First: Episode 0527) |
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Film | A little girl needs HELP getting on a horse. (First: Episode 0484) |
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Cartoon | A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture. (First: Episode 0510) |
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Muppets | Farley goes to the hat shop. (long take) (First: Episode 0244) |
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Insert | Luis places an "ABIERTO" sign in the window of the Fix-It Shop. Business doesn't seem active, so he changes it to "CERRADO" and steps out. While he's gone, Bob and Susan try to stop by and discover the shop is closed. Luis returns and opens the shop, where business still seems slow. (First: Episode 0948) |
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Cartoon | A monster sees a box that keeps opening and closing, saying "Abierto" and "Cerrado." (First: Episode 0771) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Newspaper Expedition — Ernie makes an elaborate plan to go buy a newspaper. (First: Episode 0093) |
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Cartoon | A magician tries to pull a rabbit out of his hat, but instead finds the numbers 1-20, which the rabbit repeats at the end. (First: Episode 0337) |
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SCENE 4 | Maria is surprised to hear how much work is done on a farm. Andy mentions that now there's more machinery and the performers act out those machines which consist of a tractor and a hay baler. They wish they had an apple picking machine, and demonstrate how it would work. |
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Muppets | Kermit demonstrates his "What Happens Next" machine, which is designed to turn on his radio. None of the parts of the machine work properly. (First: Episode 0089) |
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Film | Building a log cabin (First: Episode 0602) |
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Cartoon | A real Indian boy tells two boys who are playing Cowboy and Indian that Indians don't say "ugh." The other kids tell him that they heard the expression on TV. (First: Episode 0771) |
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Muppets | Big Bird builds a model of himself and calls it "ME." (First: Episode 0635) |
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Cartoon | He, She and It: The IT knows all about the lightbulb. (First: Episode 1170) |
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Celebrity | Victor Borge talks about practice by playing the scales, but needs some help from the sheet music. (First: Episode 1166) |
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Cartoon | "Lowercase n" (First: Episode 0358) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Two Noses — Ernie has a solution to Bert's assertion that he only has one nose. (First: Episode 0061) |
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SCENE 5 | Oliva and Mr. Hooper watch Andy and Linda conversing in sign language and wonder what it would be like to hear their conversation. Bob and Olivia translate their conversation into a song, "Do You Remember?" |
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Film | A rhino and her baby (First: Episode 0408) |
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Animation | Sand N/n (First: Episode 0633) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet boy watches a circle around him get bigger and smaller. (First: Episode 0285) |
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Film | Pizza is made. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0416) |
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Cartoon | A hand draws a guitarist serenading a maiden, as well as the background. (First: Episode 0791) |
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SCENE 6 | As dusk falls upon Sesame Street, Bob tells the group that he's exhausted just listening to all the activity on the farm. Linda and the gang demonstrate one last thing they'd do after dinner - square dance! As they dance, the others hum "Turkey in the Straw." Maria announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Ernie and a kid hold the Sesame Street sign, while Oscar holds the CTW sign. |
Guest cast[]
- Andy Vasnick as Andy
- Little Theatre of the Deaf:
- Candy Broecker
- Ben Strout
- Carol Aquiline
- Sam Edwards
- Timothy Johnson
- The Kids: Sandy Ames, Rafael Figuroa, Melissa Padro, David Ames, Michael Cole, Janice McPhillips, Andrea D'Amico, Patrick Alexander
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