| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Mr. Hooper's birthday | |||||||
| Air date | April 11, 1979 | ||||||
| Season | Season 10 (1978-1979) | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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COLD OPEN | 10th Season Intro Still |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
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SCENE 1 | Gordon and Susan draw outlines of Lisa, Frankie, and Louie on giant pieces of paper in the yard. Luis comes by and tries identifying whose outline belongs to who, though he slightly feigns ignorance in guessing whose outline is eight feet tall. |
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Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #11 Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0988) |
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Film | Two men, Big and Little, travel around playing the tuba and violin. Even though they’re different (Big has dark skin, and Little has light skin), together they make beautiful music. (First: Episode 0016) |
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Muppets | Kermit is a casting director, holding auditions for a performance of "The Three Little Pigs". The pigs who initially try out get the part of the three little pigs, but three different wolves of different sizes try out for the part of the Big Bad Wolf. |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird and Lisa come into Hooper's Store wanting to buy identical sweaters: "This way, when we walk down the street, people'll think we're twins," says Big Bird. Mr. Hooper gives them sweaters with the same striped pattern, but Big Bird chides the storekeeper when he sees the difference in size. He learns that because they're different sizes, it results in them getting different items. Big Bird celebrates this discovery by asking for a couple of apples, and is pleased to find that Mr. Hooper only sells big-sized apples for everybody. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Get Moving — Bert joins Ernie in listening to a radio exercise program. (First: Episode 1025) |
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Film | African children play in a village, and in a modern playground. (First: Episode 0159) |
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Animation | Sand D/d (First: Episode 0640) |
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Cast | Bob and Maria visit a letter "D" museum, and observe pictures of a dark "D", a dazzling "D", and a delightful "D". Big Bird notices a dusty "D" statue, but ends up destroying the delicate "D" despite Bob and Maria's warnings. (First: Episode 0692) |
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Cartoon | A man weighs five pounds of bubble gum. He chews it all, blows a huge bubble, and flies away. (First: Episode 0617) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #11 (First: Episode 0329) |
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Cartoon | A small man and his assistant, Dudley, attempt to demonstrate both the capital and lower-case letter D. (First: Episode 0016) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper approaches a man and says, "Knock, knock!" The man asks, "Who's there?". Harvey says, "Dion." The man asks, "Dion who?" Then Harvey slaps a letter D on the man's chest and says, "D on you!" (First: Episode 0292) |
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Cartoon | "Danny knows the alphabet, and is he proud! If you can follow him, then sing out loud!" (First: Episode 0406) |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon and Susan argue over a broken statue in their apartment. After fuming for a moment, they apologize and sing how next time they'll "Try a Little Harder." |
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Animation | The word ICE is formed with ice cubes, which melt. (First: Episode 1177) |
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Cartoon | What if an anteater had the features of a giraffe? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0422) |
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Film | Kids narrate a film about water in hoses, fountains, puddles, streams, bathtubs, rivers, oceans, and other places. (First: Episode 0135) |
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Muppets | Little Bird plays an imagination game, closing his eyes and imagining he hears sounds. At the end of the game, he imagines that he hears a scary monster -- and when he opens his eyes, Herry Monster is there, growling at him. (First: Episode 0148) |
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SCENE 4 | Luis shows Linda how he's teaching Barkley to understand "Walk" and "Don't Walk" with verbal communication and a sign showing the words. Barkley gets the two phrases mixed up and Linda tries to teach him with sign language, which doesn't work either. Big Bird has his own way of making Barkley walk - setting his full supper bowl nearby. |
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Film | Kids compete in a speed skating competition (version two). Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0414) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster sings a rock song about his cookie obsession. (First: Episode 0506) |
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Film | A woman holds a painting of five chickens. (First: Episode 0769) |
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Cartoon | A man jumps into a poster of Lake Lillian. (First: Episode 0347) |
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Film | A flower opens and closes. (First: Episode 0441) |
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Cast | David goes through a series of doors marked "OPEN" (each one smaller than the one before). (First: Episode 0442) |
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Cartoon | A kid tries to push his toy house through the front door without the door closing. Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 0914) |
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Muppets | Kermit at Home: Grover comes to Kermit's house to fix his sink. Kermit fills him in on a demonstration of "big, bigger and biggest" when it comes to wrenches. Even so, the sink repair goes awry, and the house floods. (First: Episode 0821) |
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Cartoon | Workmen construct a D building, filled with everything that begins with D. (First: Episode 0406) |
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SCENE 5 | Gordon has learned that today is Mr. Hooper's birthday, and he tells Linda and Big Bird that they should throw a surprise party for him. After Big Bird almost spoils the secret by yelling about it, they all decide to use sign language to let the others know instead. They spread out to share the message with their neighbors, but Big Bird can't find anyone to invite and mistakenly tries showing the sign to Mr. Hooper, who thankfully doesn't comprehend it. Gordon muzzles Big Bird's beak when he almost clarifies it verbally. |
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Film | Counting the circus clowns (First: Episode 0501) |
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Celebrity | Whitman Mayo's Animal Guessing Game #1 (Lions) (First: Episode 0778) |
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Film | Slide puzzle - truck (First: Episode 0403) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #2: Last dot is late and travels through the others (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cartoon | A baby cries whenever he gets a beso. (First: Episode 0433) |
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SCENE 6 | Everyone is gathered in Gordon and Susan's apartment for the party, where they practice signing "surprise" for Mr. Hooper's arrival. He appears at the door with Big Bird to make a delivery and doesn't understand the sign until everyone shouts, "Surprise!" They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" while Mr. Hooper blows out the candle, and Oscar announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Grover holds the Sesame Street sign, while the Count holds the CTW sign. |
Notes[]
- Though Barkley doesn't understand sign language in this episode, he would eventually be trained to do so when Linda becomes his permanent caretaker in the 1980s.
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