| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | December 31, 1980 | ||||||
| Season | Season 12 (1980-1981) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird introduces today's letters, but isn't sure what the number is. Luckily, he and the kids use the Number of the Day Machine to find out. They begin to count, and the machine goes haywire with balloons, spring-loaded snakes, ping-pong balls, flags, and confetti popping out when they reach number 7. |
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Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #7 Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0989) |
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Song | "Spring Song" (First: Episode 1295) |
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Cartoon | A man chases a runaway "no." (First: Episode 0794) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Princess Chooses a Prince — A princess selects Kermit as her prince. (First: Episode 0859) |
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Cartoon | An elevator fills up with 10 passengers, but quickly breaks when the mouse gets on. (First: Episode 0003) |
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Film | A gymnast demonstrates beginning and end. (First: Episode 0532) |
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Cartoon | Can a cat bark? (First: Episode 0859) |
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Film | A flock of sheep crosses the river. (First: Episode 1165) |
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Animation | A kerosene lamp assembles itself in stop-motion. |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
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SCENE 2 | Gordon has Kim and Mundi put together a puzzle of a letter of the alphabet as Big Bird watches. At first it appears to be a letter C, but Gordon introduces another piece that turns it into a G. |
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Cartoon | A goose and gander visit the land of the G's. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1141) |
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Muppets | Anything Muppets sing "Oh, G" in praise of the letter G. (First: Episode 1167) |
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Film | Elephants in the zoo. (First: Episode 0283) |
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Cartoon | AT words: A fat cat with a hat sat on a mat. A bat scared the fat cat. (First: Episode 1101) |
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Muppets | Grover tries to ignore three monsters who look big and scary to him. When they notice him carrying a flute, they grab his attention and ask -- in what appears to be a threatening way -- if Grover wants to play. The three monsters pull out a clarinet, an oboe and a bassoon and begin to play, urging Grover to join in. (First: Episode 1412) |
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Film | Pizza is made. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0416) |
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Animation | Slide puzzle - elephant (First: Episode 0389) |
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Muppets | Herry Monster holds a sign with the word "NO" on it and tells Ernie that he can make him read his sign. Ernie replies "Oh no you can't!", and eventually gets the joke. He tries it on Bert, but the gag backfires when Bert bets he can get Ernie to read the sign. (First: Episode 0416) |
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SCENE 3 | Telly Monster tries teaching the kids to count in Spanish, but he doesn't know how. Maria sings them "The Spanish Counting Song." Telly reprises the song to teach the kids, but starts worrying what will happen if someone asks him to count in Russian or Portuguese. |
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Cartoon | C is for Cowboy (First: Episode 0703) |
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Film | Kids identify broccoli through close-ups. (First: Episode 0357) |
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Cartoon | C is for Candle (the candle blows back) (First: Episode 0703) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A widow bird flies from one tree to another. (First: Episode 0391) |
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Muppets | Kermit describes the beginning, middle and end using a cookbook with assistance from Cookie Monster. (First: Episode 1352) |
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Film | A gorilla chases a woman, who registers her protest by shouting "No." She triumphantly drags the gorilla off. (First: Episode 0546) |
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Muppets | Grover the Assistant: The Amazing Mumford's pineapple subtraction act (First: Episode 0280) |
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Cartoon | Subtracting three mules (First: Episode 0767) |
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Film | A dolphin walks backwards on the water. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0278) |
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Insert | Bob shows Janice that the letter C stands for "coat." (First: Episode 1142) |
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Cartoon | Thelma Thumb: Thelma looks for a pair of binoculars that Cyrus has lost. Artist: John Korty (First: Episode 1178) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — It's late at night and Bert isn't home yet. Ernie worries that he may have been abducted by monsters and is being forced to party with them... maybe even having fun. When Bert gets home, Ernie shares his stream of emotions he felt when he'd imagined something had happened to Bert: fear, sadness and anger. Bert assures him that he was fine -- he never has fun. (First: Episode 0929) |
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Film | A film shows parts of a flower. Music: Vivaldi's Concerto for lute, 2 violins, and continuo in D Major: II - Largo (First: Episode 0008) |
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Muppets | A young girl bangs her stick across 7 fenceposts, which turn out to be the teeth of a large monster. (First: Episode 1401) |
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Cartoon | 7 Starfish Artist: Owe Gustafson |
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SCENE 4 | Professor Oscar rings his makeshift bell to bring his School of the Grouch in session, teaching the youth of the area to be more like Grouches. Susan watches him teach them the word NO, which is what Grouches love to respond to questions with. Susan turns the tables on him by asking him questions he ordinarily wouldn't refuse, like whether he'd like some clam dip ice cream or for her to go away. |
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Cartoon | G For Giggle (voice of Allen Swift) (First: Episode 0357) |
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Muppets | Old West sketches: The town doctor ("Doc") comes to a saloon to meet Mean Manny and his gang, even though Manny is the toughest guy in town and plans to have a "shootin' party." Manny and his posse arrive on time and meet with Doc and his medicine...he gives them all measles shots. (First: Episode 1166) |
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Cartoon | Lots of bunnies are needed to pull the huge carrot from the ground. Artist: Irra Verbitsky |
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Insert | Three of These Kids are playing policeman, but the other one is playing fireman. (First: Episode 0408) |
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Cartoon | Millie and Molly find a place for their picture of their favorite rock star, Danny. (First: Episode 1295) |
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Film | Through close-ups, children identify mushrooms. (First: Episode 0357) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter gets stuck in a spot of glue, and types "G: Glue." (First: Episode 0775) |
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Muppets | Leslie Mostly takes us to Charlie's Restaurant for an interview with Grover about being a waiter. (First: Episode 1453) |
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Animation | Sand G/g (First: Episode 0643) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird begins to pester Gordon by thinking of words that begin with G as Maria announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, and David holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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