| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Oscar invents a trash can lid lifter | |||||||
| Air date | March 18, 1980 | ||||||
| Season | Season 11 (1979-1980) | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird shows Susan his coloring book, but she points out he's colored things incorrectly. Big Bird sings "In My Coloring Book" to explain why he makes things the colors he wants. |
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Cartoon | Sign Sounds: Hand (First: Episode 1179) |
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Muppets | The Amazing Mumford: Disappearing Carrot (First: Episode 1210) |
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Cartoon | V in space (First: Episode 0481) |
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Cast | The Alphabet Dancers form the letter V. (First: Episode 0455) |
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Cartoon | Small v... (Spanish version) Artist: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0389) |
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Film | The celebration of Chinese New Year (First: Episode 0495) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: V for Vacuum (First: Episode 0774) |
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Film | A wall painter on a high-rise spells and paints the word "WET PAINT" in red, but accidentally puts his hand on one of the painted letters and looks at his hand, all painted red, and shouts, "WET PAINT!" (First: Episode 1036) |
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SCENE 2 | Gordon paints a picture of the façade of Hooper's Store/the Fix-It Shop, which Big Bird admires. ("It's almost impressionistic, and yet somehow it makes me think of Edward Hopper.") Gordon heads off to lunch and asks Big Bird to make sure nobody touches it while the paint is still wet. Big Bird accomplishes this by retrieving his WET PAINT sign, which he sticks right onto the painting itself... |
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Cartoon | A painter pops out of a box and paints a lion, then hangs a "wet paint" sign on it. |
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Muppets | Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats sing "Exit" as the audience leaves the room. (First: Episode 0666) |
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Animation | Sand V/v (First: Episode 0637) |
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Film | Kids ride horses. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0541) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for UP (First: Episode 0650) |
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Celebrity | Joe Namath tosses a football forward to a kid. The film then runs in reverse to demonstrate backward. (First: Episode 0530) |
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Film | A very busy man is asked by a voice what "forwards" and "backwards" means, but the man doesn't have time to listen. Instead, he is shown what "backwards" means by watching everything around him go in reverse motion! (First: Episode 0166) |
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Cartoon | U for Ugly: A man removes his mask, revealing a hideous monster face. (First: Episode 0468) |
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Insert | Bob, Linda and Timi show some kids how to say "butterfly" in sign language. They sing a song about it. (First: Episode 1064) |
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Cartoon | A child learns there's many things one can do with a stick. (First: Episode 0803) |
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Muppets | Caveman Days: Exit — Everyone wants to go outside the cave, but they're not sure which way to go out until the Royal Smart Person invents an EXIT sign. (First: Episode 0300) |
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Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #3 Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0978) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #3 (First: Episode 0343) |
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Cartoon | A bear counts bees and disturbs their beehive. (First: Episode 0083) |
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Cast | A Howard Cosell-type announcer narrates as athlete Maria subtracts a chair from a group of three. (First: Episode 0431) |
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Cartoon | "Uncle Gus and all of us went for a ride to Ho-Ho-Kus". Features a Snuffleupagus cameo. (First: Episode 0926) |
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Song | "Three Is My Favorite Number" (First: Episode 0429) |
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Cartoon | A bird subtracts two balloons from a group of three. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0530) |
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Cartoon | Look both ways before you cross the street Artist: Ray Favata |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon brings some cookies for the kids to snack on. However, there are six in total of them and only five cookies. They try to think of a way so they'll each have a cookie until Katie breaks each cookie in half, giving each of them a portion. |
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Cartoon | A little girl shows the building and apartment where she lives -- both with the number 6. (First: Episode 0783) |
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Cartoon | A boy imagines that if the clouds were cows, it would rain milk. (First: Episode 0650) |
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Muppets | Old West: Echoing Canyon — A cowboy shouts across a canyon to hear the echo and receives Spanish responses. (First: Episode 0698) |
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Cartoon | What if we celebrate Valentine's Day with chickens instead of hearts? (First: Episode 0488) |
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Cartoon | A photographer tries to look for some animals quietly, but they all end up secretly following him. (First: Episode 0799) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster: Rhymes with Buy — Guy Smiley helps Cookie Monster decide what to get at the bakery. (First: Episode 0481) |
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Cartoon | On a snowy day, a cold man desires firewood. He carries a huge log up the hill multiple times, but it rolls down each time. Using his "wits", he pushes his house down to the bottom of the hill to be closer to the giant log. (First: Episode 0799) |
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SCENE 4 | Oscar has made a complicated contraption involving ropes attached from his trash can lid to Big Bird's front door. He tells the viewer that when Big Bird opens his door, the contraption will open the lid without Oscar having to do any work at all. He calls for Big Bird and ducks inside the can. Big Bird opens his door, but the lid lifter only yanks the handle from the lid. |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper sets up a bucket of confetti above a door, so that whoever pulls the rope attached to the bucket will get the confetti dumped on them. Instead, a little girl walks by and pulls the rope, so that the confetti lands on Harvey! (First: Episode 0353) |
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SCENE 4 cont'd | Oscar sets up his lid lifter again, hoping this time it works properly. Big Bird comes out to Oscar's call and the lifter pulls the lid from the can, but now it's much too high for Oscar to even reach. |
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Cartoon | An old man recites a poem about the time he had the flu. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1274) |
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SCENE 4 cont'd | Oscar reattaches the lid lifter and calls for Big Bird. The lifter now lifts the entire can off its place and into the air. Oscar calls for help while announcing the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Grover holds the Sesame Street sign, while the Count holds the CTW sign. |
Notes[]
- Big Bird and Oscar are never seen in the same shot during their scenes together, allowing Caroll Spinney to perform both characters thanks to various camera edits.
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