| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| A gift for Granny Bird | |||||||||
| Air date | December 26, 1980 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 12 (1980-1981) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird welcomes the viewer, telling them that Granny Bird's birthday is next week and he has a gift to mail her. He asks Gordon to help wrap it, until it's revealed the gift is a live goldfish. Gordon tells Big Bird he can't put this in the mail, as Big Bird realizes that the water might escape the bowl during the trip (not to mention getting the mail carrier wet). Big Bird decides to give him the fish as an early birthday gift for Gordon, and dashes off to find something else for Granny Bird. |
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Film | A mailman on horseback delivers mail in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky. (First: Episode 0493) |
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Cartoon | A door opens behind a mouse, who shrieks when she sees the E. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0616) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie tries to put a pot on Bert's head. Bert asks Ernie why he's doing that, and Ernie says that he broke a cookie jar. Ernie has to put the cookies somewhere, so he put them in the sugar bowl – and put the sugar in the flowerpot, which meant that he had to put the flower in a milk bottle. He put the milk in the soda bottle, the soda into the fishbowl, and the fish in Bert's cowboy hat. Bert asks, "Now what am I going to wear when I want to play cowboy?" Ernie puts the pot on Bert's head and says, "Ride 'em, cowboy, Bert!" (First: Episode 0305) |
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Cartoon | A man saws a letter E through the wall. (First: Episode 0370) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird's next gift idea is a bouquet of flowers in a water-less vase, learning the potential problems from before. Gordon again explains that this gift can't be mailed either - the flowers would wilt and die by the time they reached Granny Bird. Big Bird gives the flowers to Gordon as another birthday present before running out for a new gift. |
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Cartoon | Animated quilt patterns. |
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Muppets | "Come Join Us" |
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Film | Two glasses are filled with fluid, but one glass overflows as a hand keeps pouring into it. The same thing happens using salt shakers and bowls of nuts. Finally, the glasses are filled again, only one glass barely fills up as fluid is poured into it. The camera pulls out, revealing the glass is filling into another one below, which overflows as before. (First: Episode 0576) |
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Animation | A ball looks for its match on a brick wall. |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird's next gift is a birthday cake complete with (unlit) candles, but he realizes it will get smushed in the mailing process. For a third time, Gordon is given the present. |
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Film | The Mad Painter #4 (First: Episode 0344) |
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Muppets | Grover demonstrates how a phone booth is used, but it becomes crowded when he receives a call asking for "Monderporg." (First: Episode 0654) |
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Film | Empty / full cafeteria (time-lapse) (First: Episode 0415) |
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Cartoon | A ship captain orders the numbers 1-20 into a boat - which promptly sinks. Artist: Harvey Kurtzman (First: Episode 0614) |
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SCENE 4 | Gordon is hesitant to see what Big Bird's cooked up this time for Granny Bird: "So far, we're 0 in 3 in the Good Ideas Department, you know." Big Bird reveals a drawing he's made, showing the various other gifts he intended to send on a table with text reading "Happy Birthday Granny Bird! Love from Big Bird." Gordon is speechless, and thinks it's a marvelous gift. Big Bird asks him to wrap it, along with an ice cream cone he thinks Granny Bird will like as well. |
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Film | A trip to the chewing gum factory (First: Episode 0498) |
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Muppets | Snow White accidentally visits the cottage of the six dwarves. (First: Episode 0279) |
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Cartoon | Cars WALK. (First: Episode 0556) |
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Film | The WALK sign flashes in a montage of people (and even dogs) walking in the city. (First: Episode 0498) |
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Celebrity | Michael Christensen and Paul Binder arrive to set up a bowling alley. They first can't agree on where to set it up on the sidewalk, then who will set them up. (edited) (First: Episode 1026) |
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Cartoon | A man explains that the letter E begins both Enter and Exit. Another man named Roy runs through the doors. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Rumplestiltskin — Kermit helps the miller's daughter guess Rumpelstiltskin's name. (First: Episode 0724) |
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Cartoon | E for Eel (First: Episode 0408) |
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SCENE 5 | Maria sets out an old shirt of hers near Oscar's trash can with the intention of letting Oscar have it. Big Bird comes across it first and fixes it up so it's good as new. Maria appreciates his efforts, but explains that it was going to be a gift for Oscar. Big Bird undoes the fixes he's made to the shirt (by reversing the footage). |
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Film | Kids go roller-skating in a playground as ragtime music plays. (First: Episode 1234) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie turns on the radio to hear his favorite exercise show, Get Moving. He engages the viewer to do all the exercises he does, such as touching toes and jumping. Bert joins in, and has so much fun jumping that he doesn't notice that his favorite program, Pigeons in the News, is coming on. (First: Episode 1025) |
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Cartoon | E for Elephant & Elk, the nominees for best E animal. (First: Episode 0486) |
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Muppets | Grover sounds out the word FALL. A nearby house and tree fall over, then he faints. (First: Episode 1348) |
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SCENE 6 | Oscar invites Maria and the kids to look through Slimey's photo album. They look at some of the pictures where Slimey is barely visible amongst his surroundings (a plate of spaghetti, surrounded by hot dogs, and standing upright with some birthday candles). The last photo is of Slimey sleeping; the photo, naturally, is completely dark. |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby counts three kids, but a fourth keeps hiding behind him. (First: Episode 0154) |
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Muppets | Lefty's boss makes sure Lefty knows the alphabet. (First: Episode 0236) |
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Film | A baby messes around (literally) with a chocolate cookie, as Cookie Monster (in voice-over) wishes it were for him. (First: Episode 0407) |
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Cartoon | A mad scientist (voiced by Daws Butler) teaches his monster how to say the words "Fred," "foot", and "Friday." (First: Episode 1162) |
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SCENE 7 | The kids play in the yard as Maria announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Kermit holds the Sesame Street sign, while the kids hold the CTW sign. |
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