| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Bob thinks he's been burgled | |||||||||
| Air date | January 16, 1981 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 12 (1980-1981) | ||||||||
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Insert | Oscar the Grouch caters to Maria and David at "Chez Oscar" in front of his trash can. (First: Episode 1215) |
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Film | Horses compete in a contest to see who can pull the most cement. (First: Episode 0556) |
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Cartoon | P for Pack (First: Episode 0504) |
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Film | A boy paints a picture of a porcupine on glass. (First: Episode 0064) |
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Cartoon | A boy and girl have different feelings about Stanley. (First: Episode 0793) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Peter Piper — Kermit interviews Peter Piper's family. (First: Episode 1342) |
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Cartoon | "Nelly 1-10 / 10-1": Kids count numbers in a parade, but they are interrupted by other participants. Artist: Harvey Kurtzman (First: Episode 0629) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Cookie Monster shows David a sign that says STREET. (First: Episode 0423) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: P for Pencil (First: Episode 0782) |
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Film | A young girl mashes away at the keys of a piano. As the years go by, she practices more and more until she's an adult playing at a recital. (First: Episode 0637) |
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Cartoon | P is for Puddle (First: Episode 0452) |
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Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot invents a complicated machine, to test Cookie Monster's problem-solving abilities. Cookie Monster needs to pull the string to raise the glass cover off the plateful of cookies at the other end -- but when he lets go to retrieve the cookies, the cover will fall again. Herbert hears Cookie Monster approaching, and hides to observe him. Cookie investigates the machine for a moment, then gets the cookies by karate-chopping the glass cover. (First: Episode 0132) |
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Cartoon | A man uses a wheelbarrow to carry blocks needed to make a staircase. Artist: Tom Gabbay (First: Episode 1335) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Run." (First: Episode 0372) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet boy watches a circle around him get bigger and smaller. (First: Episode 0285) |
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Song | "Fall Song" (First: Episode 1286) |
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SCENE 1 | Bob returns from his concert tour and Big Bird reports he did a good job watching his apartment while Bob was gone, with some help from Mr. Snuffleupagus. They arrive at Bob's place to find everything is missing. Big Bird explains that he and Snuffy got bored while watching the stuff, so they brought it all to Snuffy's cave while they played there. Bob is instead convinced somebody broke in and stole everything. He resolves to call the police, despite Big Bird's protests. |
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Cartoon | Words that rhyme with BALL (voices of Bob Arbogast and Daws Butler) (First: Episode 0773) |
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Muppets | A group of female Anything Muppets sing about the many things "Women Can Be." (First: Episode 0773) |
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Animation | Slide puzzle: Ernie (First: Episode 0403) |
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Film | A baby chick hatches from an egg. (Music: Joe Raposo) (First: Episode 0690) |
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Cartoon | 9 Ants Artist: Owe Gustafson |
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Muppets | Forgetful Jones and Buster the Horse brush each other's teeth. (First: Episode 1446) |
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Cartoon | The story of an old woman who lived in a 9. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0512) |
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Film | "Nine Song (Song of Nine)" (First: Episode 0016) |
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SCENE 2 | Bob uses the phone, the only thing left behind, to call the police about his situation. In the meantime, Mr. Hooper and the kids bring up the table and chairs from the yard for Bob to use. Luis and Linda then arrive with Linda's small couch. Officer Landon (Dale Soules) arrives and thinks she's in the wrong place - Bob's report said his apartment was empty, but it looks pretty full to her. |
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Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #9 Animation by Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1032) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Sharing a Pie — Ernie has two slices of apple pie. He takes the big piece and gives Bert the small piece. (First: Episode 1166) |
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Cartoon | Fruta Manzana sings about keeping the place clean by throwing away fruit peels and apple cores. Artist: Irra Verbitsky |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby plays twins who recite the alphabet together. (First: Episode 0131) |
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Muppets | Two-Headed Monster: HAT (First: Episode 1349) |
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SCENE 3 | As Bob describes the scene to Landon, Oscar (aided by his pet elephants) brings him one of his old, ratty pianos to replace his "stolen" one. Bob is very grateful and begins playing the piano, which is very out of tune. Officer Landon can hardly believe what she sees. |
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Cartoon | "Nelly 1-10 / 10-1": Kids count numbers in a parade, but they are interrupted by other participants. (repeat) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Sharing a Cookie — Bert refuses to share his cookie with Ernie. (First: Episode 0472) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: B for Bug (First: Episode 0137) |
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Song | "Sticky" (First: Episode 1352) |
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Cartoon | A needle and spool of thread cooperate to fix the king's torn pants. Artist: Bruce Cayard |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper asks a man, "Do you know where I wanna be?" The man says he doesn't know. Harvey says, "I wanna B -- right here!" and slaps a letter B on the man's sweater. Harvey runs off, laughing. (First: Episode 0277) |
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Cartoon | With one mighty blow of his baseball bat, a boy knocks several B items (including a basket, bandit, and ball) off of a wall. Voice: Casey Kasem (First: Episode 0237) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird and Snuffy have pushed all of Bob's furniture outside the building. Snuffy darts off to his cave to check if he forgot anything else just as Bob and Officer Landon exit the building. Bob is surprised that all his furniture is returned and has a hard time explaining Big Bird's side of the story to the officer. Snuffy announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Ernie and a kid hold the Sesame Street sign, while Oscar holds the CTW sign. |
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