| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Big Bird's EXIT sign | |||||||
| Air date | March 5, 1979 | ||||||
| Season | Season 10 (1978-1979) | ||||||
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COLD OPEN | 10th Season Intro Still |
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SCENE 1 | Oscar peers from his trash can at the usual business going about on Sesame Street: the kids cheerfully walk by before coloring on the sidewalk, David and Susan greet each other warmly, Bob finds a discarded brick and throws it away, and Linda returns from a run from the park before joining everybody in Hooper's Store for some breakfast. Oscar can't stand all the bright attitudes today and wishes everyone could be a Grouch like him, and begins to imagine what that would be like... |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | In Oscar's imagination Sesame Street has become "Grouch Street," covered with litter and everyone wearing tattered and dirty clothing. The kids galomph by Oscar's can, David and Susan greet each other grouchily, Bob observes the kids throwing crumpled newspapers at each other before stubbing his toe on a brick, and Linda returns from a very nasty subway ride before joining everybody in the store for a breakfast of lumpy oatmeal mixed with coffee grinds, horseradish, and catsup. |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | Back in reality, David brings Oscar some breakfast, which happens to be the same meal he imagined. "I guess I do have some imagination," remarks Oscar before digging in. |
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Muppets | "Sammy the Snake" (First: Episode 0278) |
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Cartoon | A hand draws a castle with a growling dragon inside, which scares the princess until her knight in shining armor leads the dragon away. (First: Episode 0932) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Kate make faces. (First: Episode 0795) |
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Cartoon | Superman demonstrates the letter S and some of the words it stands for. (First: Episode 0136) |
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Song | "Starfish" (First: Episode 0280) |
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Cartoon | A girl inflates a balloon in the shape of an S. (First: Episode 0414) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie wakes up and tells Bert it's time to get up, but notices that Bert isn't in his bed. He slowly ponders what happened to his best friend, coming to the conclusion that maybe some Martians took him away in their spaceship. As it turns out, Bert just got up early to fix some oatmeal. Ernie is relieved... until a real spaceship lands and the Martians enter the room. (First: Episode 1208) |
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Animation | Sand S/s (First: Episode 0622) |
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Muppets | Big Bird walks down the street, describing the difference between the actual street and sidewalks. |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment —: Grover and his friend Debo notice the letter "S" sitting on a brick wall. He exclaims that the letter is an old friend, and shouts, "Hey, S, babyyyy!" and slaps it off the wall. He remarks, "I hope he did not take that personally." (First: Episode 0467) |
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Cartoon | S for Snail Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1158) |
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Film | How milk is made, featuring the song "Hey Cow." (edited) (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cartoon | Things say that other things are small, but then something comes along that's bigger, or smaller, or whatever. (First: Episode 0320) |
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Insert | Herry Monster is angry because he doesn't know how to put his new barbells together. He receives some help from Maria and Maria (a wheelchair-bound child). (First: Episode 0808) |
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Film | Counting 6 pieces of laundry on the line (First: Episode 0419) |
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Cartoon | A dog learns about U. (First: Episode 0131) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Families." (First: Episode 0454) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Big Bird and Crystal demonstrate big and little. (First: Episode 0559) |
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Cartoon | The letters H, E, L and P try to arrange themselves to form the word "Help" while stuck on an island. (First: Episode 1176) |
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Muppets | Ernie has four apples, and wants to draw the number 4, showing that he has four apples. However, Cookie Monster wants to eat an apple, so Ernie crosses out the 4 and draws a 3. Then Cookie Monster decides not to eat the apple, causing Ernie to have to cross out the 4 again and draw another 3, over and over again. (First: Episode 0140) |
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SCENE 2 | As Linda goes over a script in the yard, David comes out to do some sweeping, setting a boombox down nearby to listen to. He gets caught up dancing to the disco music and starts dancing with the broom, to Linda's amusement. She feels the boombox to get a sense of the rhythm, and soon she and David are performing a complex disco dance together. |
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Cartoon | Jazz #6 (First: Episode 0011) |
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Animation | The number 6 is shown in a variety of ways. (First: Episode 0401) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #6 (First: Episode 0335) |
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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 | A scientist builds a robot that has real feelings, such as sad, happy and afraid. (First: Episode 0769) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird wears his finest tie for a luncheon with Susan at Hooper's Store. When she arrives he balks at her order of vegetable soup and a cheese sandwich while he orders the usual birdseed. He wonders how their luncheon can work if they eat different things, but Susan assures him that the important thing about it is that they eat together. |
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Film | A wheel rolls away from a junkyard. A boy captures it to complete his wagon. (Spanish dub) (First: Episode 0513) |
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Celebrity | The Pointer Sisters sing the "Swingin' Alphabet." (First: Episode 0773) |
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Film | Some kids watch a silent film featuring a lady in a burning house. They instruct her to "go to the EXIT!" (First: Episode 0536) |
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Cartoon | Letter U salesman (First: Episode 0202) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird brags about his intelligence after putting an "EXIT" sign on his door so he knows it's the way out from his nest. After testing it out, he finds that because the door is now marked "EXIT," he can't go back in! He feels bad about never being able to go home again when Susan creates an "ENTER" sign to hang on the other side of the door. |
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Cartoon | The word EXIT walks out of the room. (First: Episode 0635) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Sharing a Pie — Ernie has two slices of apple pie. He takes the big piece and gives Bert the small piece. (First: Episode 1166) |
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Cartoon | "Young MacDonald Went to Town" (First: Episode 0787) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird makes an "ENTER" sign of his own and places it on the street-level door to Bob's apartment. Bob comes outside and Big Bird points out that the door is for entering now, not exiting, and that Bob must now make an "EXIT" sign of his own. As Bob begins to lose his temper over this turn of events, Susan announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Ernie and a kid hold the Sesame Street sign, and Oscar holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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