| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Grandma Grace visits | |||||||
| Air date | April 21, 1980 | ||||||
| Season | Season 11 (1979-1980) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | David is about to make a delivery, when Big Bird stops him to play a guessing game involving a hypothetical visit from a family member. It turns out that his grandmother Grace is visiting the street today! |
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Cartoon | S is for snow, Santa, and sleigh. (First: Episode 0134) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie decides to set up an apple-selling stand, and has everything he needs, leaving out the apples. (First: Episode 1219) |
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Animation | A number 9 looks for a house with his number on it. (First: Episode 0283) |
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Muppets | A furry, purple creature whooshes to the counter of Hooper's Store and counts 5 apples. He subtracts one, leaving 4. (First: Episode 0400) |
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Cartoon | A girl inflates a balloon in the shape of an S. (First: Episode 0414) |
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Muppets | The creature returns to subtract one more apple, leaving 3. (First: Episode 0400) |
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Film / Song | "At the Animal Doctor": Two boys take their dog to the vet (First: Episode 1016) |
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Muppets | Again, the creature appears to remove another apple, leaving 2. (First: Episode 0400) |
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Cartoon | The man is only afraid of one thing: FEAR. (First: Episode 0816) |
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Celebrity | The Deadly Nightshade perform "1-2-3 Song." (First: Episode 0884) |
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Animation | Big, bigger, biggest (oxen pulling rocks) (First: Episode 0764) |
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Muppets | Another apple is subtracted, thus leaving only 1. (First: Episode 0400) |
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Animation | A set of blocks reveal a square, a triangle, and a circle. (First: Episode 1184) |
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Muppets | The creature takes away the last apple, leaving 0. (First: Episode 0400) |
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Cartoon | Big / bigger / biggest (bikes) (First: Episode 1245) |
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SCENE 2 | Grace shows Big Bird and David some photos of her home in the country and talks about her life there. Big Bird thinks living in the country would be nice, while Grace observes the city has plenty of nice things too. Big Bird agrees, claiming that if everyone lived in the country with her, she wouldn't be able to visit. |
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Animation | Sand T/t (First: Episode 0636) |
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Cast | The two Chaplins (Maria and Linda) find ways to balance both sides of a see-sawing park bench. (First: Episode 1181) |
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Cartoon | T is for Television (First: Episode 0024) |
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Cast | Gordon, Maria and Luis show T words as they brush their teeth. |
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Cartoon | T is for Television (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0298) |
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SCENE 3 | Grandma Grace has some homemade loaves of bread for Maria and Olivia, while Oscar complains nearby. She has prepared him a loaf of bread too, namely "sour Grouch bread," made from a concoction of unorthodox ingredients. |
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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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Muppets | Two-Headed Monster: HAT (First: Episode 1349) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #6 (First: Episode 0335) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie asks Bert to keep an eye on his pyramid of blocks. The Count walks by, and counts the blocks, moving them out of the pyramid shape. Then he counts them again, putting them back into the pyramid. Bert yells at the Count for moving Ernie's blocks, so the Count counts the blocks again, taking the pyramid apart. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Cartoon | "I'm six years old today!" Artist: Jim Simon (First: Episode 0357) |
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Song | "Me and You," over footage of rhinos in love (First: Episode 0940) |
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SCENE 4 | Olivia sits out in the yard in a lounge chair, reading a book. Barkley starts barking endlessly with no discernible reason why. When Olivia gets up and explains the situation to Grace, they discover Barkley wanted to lounge in the chair himself. |
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Cartoon | Typewriter: S for spring (First: Episode 0792) |
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Cast | Big Bird conducts a choir of Susan, Mr. Hooper, Gordon and Mr. Macintosh, who say the "S" sound in "SONG." (First: Episode 0932) |
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Film | Footage of a leopard in the plain. (First: Episode 0364) |
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Muppets / Cast | Jeffery tells Olivia a monster is chasing him, which she interprets as fear. Olivia tells him a story about a brave little girl who found out how nice monsters are, even when everyone else was afraid of them. As it turns out, Jeffery is playing hide-and-seek with a monster. (First: Episode 1208) |
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Film | How a steel drum is made (First: Episode 0828) |
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SCENE 5 | Grace introduces Big Bird to the zucchini. She tells him it can be eaten many ways; he just has to use his imagination. The two then take this literally and pretend their zucchinis are telephones. David then tends to the real telephone and tells the caller that Big Bird can't come to the phone - "He's talking on the zucchini." |
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Cartoon | La palabra cerrado (First: Episode 0481) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Cookie Monster and Jason identify the letter S, for shoe. (First: Episode 1158) |
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Animation | Today's Secret Drawing is a fireman. (First: Episode 0200) |
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SCENE 6 | Before heading in for the night, Grace sings Oscar "The Lousy Lullaby." |
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Film | Body parts song sung in Spanish. (First: Episode 1113) |
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Animation | David spots an octagon out in space. |
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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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SCENE 7 | At night, Barkley roams about the block before settling down to sleep on the 123 stoop. Olivia announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Gordon holds the Sesame Street sign while Bob holds the CTW sign. |
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