| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Deena wants to play / Pictures of a bowl of fruit | |||||||
| Air date | March 26, 1980 | ||||||
| Season | Season 11 (1979-1980) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | At Hooper's Store, David meets Deena, a young monster who wants to play. David is too busy working to partake in any games, but Deena insists on playing. He turns the process of stocking shelves as a game of catch for her. However, she keeps tossing him boxes as he struggles to keep up. |
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Muppets | "The Opposite Song" (First: Episode 1111) |
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Cartoon | A wizard turns into R things. (First: Episode 0369) |
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Film | A conductor yells "STOP" to his off-key violinist trying to play Vittorio Monti's "Czardas". (First: Episode 0516) |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
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Insert | Bob and Andy talk about his drawing of his happy face. (First: Episode 0858) |
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Cartoon | A man teaches his dog Rover how to read the word SIT. (First: Episode 0304) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie and Bert talk to Shola about heavy and light. (First: Episode 0549) |
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Cartoon | A painter paints all around the screen, eventually painting over himself. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0227) |
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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 | T is for Trash and Ticket Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0020) |
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Muppets | The Count plans to count apples but, when he's not looking, Cookie Monster sneaks in and eats them. He gives the Count the apple cores to count. |
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Film | A STOP sign spins around. (First: Episode 0930) |
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Animation | 6 dots - 1 = 5 dots (First: Episode 0302) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird and Deena play cars together, when Susan calls Big Bird in for dinner. Deena would rather stay and play. |
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Film | Kids talk about how many things they can do now that they're five years old. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | Deena finally joins the group inside, but still would rather play than eat. Everyone exaggerates how great their food is, enticing Deena to eat as well. She still finds a way to turn eating into a game, and she and Big Bird start pretending their dinners are racecars driving into their mouths. |
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Film | Parts of a clown are shown in close-up as kids guess what it is. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0428) |
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Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster sounds out the word "Fall" and leaves fall on them. Then, they fall over. (First: Episode 1319) |
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Film | Kenneth sees how his dad's shirts is pressed at Cooper Stuyvesant dry cleaners. (The space is now a doctor’s office) |
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Muppets | Biff and Sully move a piano. Biff tries to play a scale and talks about practice. While Biff is away, Sully plays a full concert piece. (First: Episode 0911) |
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Film | Luis announces "And now, the octopus!" Music: "Pomp and Circumstance" (First: Episode 0291) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit the Frog, Shola and Fannie have just finished watching the previous film. Shola hugs Kermit, and he comments, "She learned a lot from the octopus ... how to squeeze!" (First: Episode 0534) |
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Cartoon | R is for Rooster, and Robber, and Rake ... Artist: Fred Calvert (First: Episode 0011) |
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Animation | Sand R/r (First: Episode 0635) |
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Cartoon | The O in STOP bounces around, and the other letters tell it to stop. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0149) |
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Muppets | Guy Smiley hosts The Weather Show. (First: Episode 0385) |
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Animation | The inhabitants of a farm feel like celebrating when it rains during a hot, dry summer. Artist: Peter Wallach |
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Insert | Big Bird sings "I Say Banana" with R2-D2. |
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Film | The Mad Painter #5 (First: Episode 0345) |
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Cartoon | Counting 10 to 1. (First: Episode 0480) |
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Film | City alphabet (Joe Raposo instrumental with kid voiceover) (First: Episode 0132) |
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Cartoon | A horse falls apart into a jigsaw puzzle. (First: Episode 0784) |
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Muppets | Ernie tries to help a Pumpkin Anything Muppet mailman deliver a package to Mrs. Mary Ann ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. (First: Episode 0038) |
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SCENE 3 | Maria brings over a bowl of fruit for Big Bird and Susan to take from. Big Bird calls it "pretty as a picture," inspiring Susan to take a photo of it. She tells them to put the fruit back in the bowl so she can get a picture. |
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Cartoon | The Ringmaster #5: Five fantastic floating fools fall from the big blue blimp. (First: Episode 1310) |
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SCENE 3 cont'd | Susan snaps a photo and allows the others to start eating. However, Gordon now stops them, as he wants to take his own picture of the bowl of fruit. |
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Cartoon | The weary traveler seeks advice from the Wise Man on the difference between heavy and light. (First: Episode 0945) |
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SCENE 3 cont'd | Gordon snaps a photo of the bowl of fruit with his instant camera. Before everyone begins to dig into the fruit, Big Bird now stops them. He feels like the only one without a picture of it, and the others think it's only fair to wait for him. However, Big Bird doesn't have a camera, and instead grabs an easel to paint the bowl of fruit. |
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Cartoon | A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (First: Episode 0011) |
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Film | A young girl mashes away at the keys of a piano. As the years go by, she practices more and more until she's an adult playing at a recital. (First: Episode 0637) |
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Cartoon | A boy puts a red and green monster together using a diagram. (First: Episode 1014) |
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Muppets | The Count sings "The Song of the Count." (First: Episode 0469) |
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Film | Five dancers disappear one by one, until there are none left. (First: Episode 0589) |
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Cartoon | T is for Television (First: Episode 0024) |
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SCENE 4 | Deena now bugs Oscar about playing a game with her and the kids. Oscar can't get her to leave, then comes up with a subtraction game they can all play. David doesn't think it'll work given his previous encounter with Deena, but Oscar proceeds anyway. Oscar demonstrates subtraction as Deena and the kids subtract themselves from sight, just as Oscar intended. However, Deena returns, wishing to play the game again. Deena (and David) playfully prod the Grouch into playing some more as Gordon announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Olivia and a kid hold the Sesame Street sign, while Luis holds the CTW sign. |
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