| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | December 24, 1980 | ||||||
| Season | Season 12 (1980-1981) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Deena wants to play with Barkley (or "Big Bow-Wow" as she calls him), who is currently resting next to 123 Sesame Street. She wakes him up and assumes his growling means he's pretending to be a ferocious lion. Gordon tells Deena that she should leave Barkley alone while he tries to sleep and should respect his feelings for not wanting to play. Gordon leaves, and Deena then pretends that Barkley is "Sleeping Beauty" and that she's the princess who blows kisses trying to wake him up, becoming worried that she'll have to wait a hundred years before he does so. |
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Cartoon | They'd play with me if I had... (First: Episode 0815) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Cookie Safe — Ernie has a bag of cookies, and locks them in a safe to protect them from Cookie Monster. (First: Episode 0581) |
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Film | Old Time Movies: Anne Meara narrates a silent movie of a girl who is stuck IN the quicksand. (First: Episode 0511) |
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Cartoon | A colorful, rhythmic demonstration of the word IN (First: Episode 0337) |
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Film | In a gymnasium, a teacher and some kids play catch with a balloon. (First: Episode 1088) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C - Cap (First: Episode 0154) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Who Took Bert's Cookies — Bert accuses Ernie of stealing his cookies, but they soon discover that the culprit is Cookie Monster... dressed as Ernie. (First: Episode 0158) |
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Film | A man makes a shadow puppet of a swan. (First: Episode 1118) |
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Cartoon | Black cat, white cat, orange cat, marmalade cat, mouse cat, bird cat, chasing balls of string cat. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1141) |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
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SCENE 2 | Olivia and Gordon play "Limbo" in the yard, where Big Bird and the kids go under the pole. After each round Big Bird asks the grown-ups to lower the pole, coming to a point where the kids are still able to crawl under but Big Bird is much too big to fit. He instead steps over the bar and hightails it after his joke, and the other kids start going over it as well. |
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Song | Joe Raposo asks the musical question, "Which Comes First, the Chicken or the Egg?" (First: Episode 0276) |
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Cartoon | What if we celebrate Valentine's Day with chickens instead of hearts? (First: Episode 0488) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster tells his little cousin monster to get him something special that starts with the letter C. He hopes she'll bring him a cookie, but she brings a carrot, a cucumber, a cauliflower, and an ear of corn. Finally, she realizes that cousin also starts with C, and assumes he was referring to her. (First: Episode 1319) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: C-cat (First: Episode 0779) |
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Muppets | Little Jerry and the Monotones sing "Telephone Rock." (First: Episode 0733) |
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Cartoon | A hand draws a telephone booth. (First: Episode 0791) |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon sings "Day of Rainbow," pointing out a rainbow forming after a rainfall. |
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Film | Marching band cymbal crash #2 (First: Episode 0527) |
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Cartoon | The Ringmaster charms two snakes with his saxophone. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1287) |
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Cast | Maria trains Bob and David to be waiters in a restaurant by showing them which door to go IN and which to go OUT. She uses a few sung 'jingles' to help them remember which is which. Bob 'catches on,' but David has a hard time doing so. (First: Episode 0786) |
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Animation | Arthur and Annie look for the letter A, while a shadowy figure observes all the A words they say. Features the voice of Jim Thurman (First: Episode 0781) |
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Celebrity | Richard Pryor uses his hat to participate in playing cars with kids. (First: Episode 0779) |
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Cartoon | An orchestra conductor asks "May I have an A, please?" at which point a giant letter A falls from the sky. (First: Episode 0770) |
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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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Cartoon | A man (Jim Thurman) tries to get his dog to speak, but it makes other animal noises instead. Artist: Tom Gabbay (First: Episode 1407) |
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Film | A man makes a shadow puppet of an elephant. (First: Episode 0593) |
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Muppets | The Twiddlebugs attempt to exit a roller skating rink. |
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Film | Two kids help an old man (Taro Yashima) get his dragon kite in the air. (First: Episode 0444) |
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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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Cartoon | Little Red Riding Hood is prepared for her trip to Grandma's. |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird sees Barkley in the yard, whimpering as his front half is stuffed inside of a barrel. Big Bird finds this odd and wonders what's going on before witnessing Gordon, Olivia, and the kids attempting to get him out. Big Bird starts piecing together that Barkley must be stuck and begins to panic just as everyone else has freed Barkley (and the ball he chased after) from the barrel. Big Bird sees Barkley is free and assumes he wasn't stuck after all: "Well, I guess anyone can make mistakes!" |
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Cartoon | Uncle Ned likes to make a "Twenty Pickle Pie." (First: Episode 1244) |
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Film | A boy narrates a film of cows being fed hay during winter. Music: Robert Dennis (First: Episode 0787) |
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Cartoon | C - Cake (First: Episode 0153) |
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Film | Three kids want to paint, but each of them has only one item, so they all cooperate. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0318) |
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Cartoon | C is for Canary (First: Episode 0703) |
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Film | A man and children observe the life along the river. (First: Episode 0409) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit the Frog and Brian demonstrate the parts of the face. (First: Episode 0126) |
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Cartoon | Two giraffes Artist: Owe Gustafson |
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SCENE 5 | Oscar snickers as he peers into a small box. Telly Monster begs for a glance: "I wanna see!" Instead, Oscar teases him and proceeds to hand him the many letter Cs he has in his can. Gordon announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Maria holds both the Sesame Street and CTW signs. |
Notes[]
- The music played during the limbo game in scene 2 was originally used for part of the extended opening of Episode 1316.
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