| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Oscar's musician cousin visits | |||||||
| Air date | April 28, 1980 | ||||||
| Season | Season 11 (1979-1980) | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Olivia sings "A Song with a Rhyme" to Deena. |
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Cartoon | The life of a Yellow Yahoo (First: Episode 0043) |
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Muppets | Grover volunteers to assist the Amazing Mumford in his rhyming magic trick, making three things come out of his hat that rhyme with "knee". Grover guesses the first one (key), but doesn't get the last two (ski and tree) right. (First: Episode 0455) |
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Film | Lemurs rest on tree branches. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0390) |
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Cartoon | A man demonstrates Spanish words that start with the letter Y. (First: Episode 0470) |
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Cast | "Theater Without Words" presents Linda enacting the story of "The Farmer and the Seed" with some voice-over by Bob. (First: Episode 1030) |
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Cartoon | Y for Yak Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1184) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Herry Monster are fighting over a bicycle, when Kermit suggests they share it. The two monsters cooperate, and devour the bicycle together. (First: Episode 0978) |
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Muppets | Big Bird presents the letter X, but it is upside down. |
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Cartoon | The Story of Cowboy X, with the voices of Jean Shepherd (First: Episode 0325) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert complains that he can't sleep, because Ernie left the faucet dripping. Ernie drowns out the sound of the water dripping with louder noises. (First: Episode 0131) |
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Film | The Deadly Nightshade star in a story of "Old MacDonald." The three live in a New York City apartment, but when they get fed up with the noise, they relocate to the country. There, they sing "Old MacDonald" and soon get weary of the noisy animals. (First: Episode 1115) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper: X Marks the Spot! (First: Episode 0456) |
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Animation | Sand X/x (First: Episode 0638) |
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Cast | The two Chaplins open umbrellas. (First: Episode 1174) |
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Cartoon | A cleaning lady (reminiscent of Carol Burnett's character) wanders into a music rehearsal room, plays each instrument, and puts all the sounds back into the wrong instruments. (First: Episode 0774) |
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Muppets | Grover wants to play a game with Oscar. Oscar decides to play a sound game, in hope that the sounds will be so annoying that Grover will want to go away. (First: Episode 0615) |
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Film | The sign CLOSED spins around. (First: Episode 0955) |
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Celebrity | Oscar can't get an energetic Slimey to go down for his nap. James Galway plays a jig on his flute, which Slimey dances to until he gets too tired and falls asleep. "You sure have a way with worms," Oscar notes. |
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Cartoon | Henson: Eleven Cheer (First: Episode 0273) |
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Muppets | The Hands count to 11. (First: Episode 0217) |
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Cartoon | A boy talks about his pet letter Y, named Yetta. (First: Episode 0443) |
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Film | A boy talks his observations and experiences with the rain as he and his father go for a walk in it. (First: Episode 0149) |
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Cartoon | A boy can yell and yodel, and his dog can yelp and yowl. They can both yawn. (First: Episode 0353) |
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Muppets | In the kitchen, Ernie bakes some cookies of different shapes, which he lets Cookie Monster eat after he finishes displaying each one to the viewer. (First: Episode 1158) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar tells Maria, Luis, and the kids that he's got a visitor in his trash can today that happens to be a musician. He gives them clues as to what instrument he plays, and Maria and Luis worry when they realize the instrument turns out to be the bagpipes. His cousin, Sir Campbell McGrouch (of the Royal Grouch Fusiliers), appears and plays them a horrid tune. |
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Film | Two box-beings make each other look same and different by piling different objects on each other. (First: Episode 0226) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Herry Monster and Christopher explore the ways they're the same and different. (First: Episode 1200) |
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Cartoon | A lost man in the desert asks a stranger for directions to the city. He builds a pretend city out of sand to show what it looks like. As it turns out, the stranger is an alien. (First: Episode 0763) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar and Sir Campbell visit Hooper's Store, where Sir Campbell orders a glass of lemonade. The drink costs five cents and Sir Campbell digs around in his sack, pulling out trash as he finds the five pennies he needs. After his drink, he feels refreshed enough to serenade Mr. Hooper on the bagpipes (to Mr. Hooper's dismay). |
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Cartoon | Subtracting three mules (First: Episode 0767) |
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Muppets | The Count extinguishes electric candles by counting them with his finger. As he heads up the stairs for bed, he steps on Fatatita. He also tells his wolf Yuba to run and play with his friends. (First: Episode 0545) |
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Animation | Dot Bridge #2: Last dot is late and travels through the others (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 4 | It's time for Sir Campbell to head back to the lowlands of Scotland. He plays the gang a parting tune on his bagpipes as he exits, backed by the Grouch Fusiliers offscreen. Luis and Olivia are grateful they're finally spared of the noise, until Oscar reveals Sir Campbell has gifted him his own set of bagpipes and he begins to play a rotten version of the "Sesame Street Theme." Sir Campbell announces the sponsors as the others recoil. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, while Ernie and Bert hold the CTW sign. |
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