| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | January 27, 1981 | ||||||
| Season | Season 12 (1980-1981) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Telly Monster is supposed to introduce today's number, but has forgotten what it is. Big Bird brings in his "Number of the Day Machine" to help, but Telly is certain he'll break it somehow. They start counting up from one and the machine doesn't respond, which Telly takes as being his fault. Big Bird encourages him to keep counting up, and once they reach 6 the machine does its usual fanfare. Big Bird celebrates while Telly becomes despondent: "I broke your machine!" |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd counts six snails, six ships, and six whales. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0324) |
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Muppets | At a library, Cookie Monster asks an Anything Muppet librarian for a box of cookies. The librarian becomes extremely frustrated because Cookie Monster doesn't understand the library doesn't have cookies! (First: Episode 0926) |
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Film | "Six Song (Song of Six)." (First: Episode 0011) |
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Cast | Mass Communication (Maria, Olivia, Susan and Linda) perform their hit song "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10." (First: Episode 1401) |
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Film | A group of Hispanic children pick members for their baseball team. A new kid, Ramon, joins them. (First: Episode 0440) |
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SCENE 2 | Gordon and the kids think of words beginning with S. Oscar tries to chime in with his favorite S word, which Gordon is certain will be something like "scram" or "skedaddle" given Oscar's history with such lectures. He takes the kids somewhere else, while Oscar reveals the S word he had in mind was Slimey. |
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Cartoon | S for Snail Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1158) |
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Muppets | Ernie finds an apple on a brick wall, and wants to know who it belongs to. Sherlock Hemlock helps solve the mystery, and realizes that Ernie has a brown paper bag with a hole at the bottom, and that Ernie had an apple in the bag, therefore the apple belongs to Ernie. (First: Episode 0137) |
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Cartoon | Today's Secret Drawing: A camel. (First: Episode 0158) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar introduces a segment about today's word by hanging a sign on his trash can: "CLOSED." |
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Cast | David tries demonstrating the word "CLOSED," but the door keeps opening. He stands in front of it, preventing it from opening, as the wall around it topples over. (First: Episode 1360) |
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Cartoon | "Four Seasons" (First: Episode 0276) |
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Muppets | A Large Lavender Live Hand Anything Muppet closes everything. (First: Episode 1270) |
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Cartoon | O for orange Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0673) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Elk feeding. Music: Robert Dennis (First: Episode 0793) |
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Cartoon | The O falls off a man's grocery store sign; he tries replacing it with a donut, then a pizza, neither of which work. Finally, the sign man paints it on. (First: Episode 1242) |
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Insert | Maria asks the viewer to imagine her as a baseball player, a princess and a baker. (First: Episode 0558) |
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Cartoon | At night, a group of mice are scared of a monster in the woods. They describe its features until the feared monster looks like an elephant - who is more scared of the mice. (First: Episode 0814) |
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Muppets | "Disco Toothbrush" (First: Episode 1314) |
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Cartoon | A man appears out of a yo-yo string and narrates two poems about over, under, around, and through: one about a fish swimming around the wreck of the good ship Mary Lou, and another about a worm who eats through the center of an apple. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1389) |
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Film | George the Farmer puts his head through a barrel stave. He also goes through the barn. (First: Episode 0299) |
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SCENE 4 | Telly enters Hooper's Store in another fit of worrying. He tells Mr. Hooper that he's running an errand for Big Bird to pick up two pounds of birdseed, but he has no way of knowing how much that is. Mr. Hooper produces his scale to measure the amount, then bags it so Telly can't worry about how he'll carry it. Mr. Hooper anticipates more things that Telly might worry about along the way back to Big Bird's nest, but Telly suggests for Mr. Hooper to relax and not worry so much. |
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Film | Alone Song (First: Episode 0921) |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby tells his young friends a story that involves "over" and "under". He mixes the words up, and the kids correct him. (First: Episode 0136) |
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Cartoon | S is for snow, Santa, and sleigh. (First: Episode 0134) |
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Muppets | Captain Breakfast unsuccessfully encourages a little girl to eat breakfast, the most important meal of the day. |
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Cartoon | A girl inflates a balloon in the shape of an S. (First: Episode 0414) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan sings a guessing game song to describe an animal that's inside her box. She opens it up to reveal... (In a continuity error, the animal Susan describes is a snake, though the following film does not feature such.) |
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Film | Joe Raposo: Insects (instrumental w/ kid VO, same music as "Peacock") (First: Episode 0410) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Jack Be Nimble — Jack struggles to make his way over the candlestick. (First: Episode 0723) |
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Film | People jump. (First: Episode 0774) |
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SCENE 6 | Big Bird and the kids play basketball when the ball rolls into the street. Big Bird knows precisely what to do - get a grown-up (Gordon) to help cross the street and retrieve it. After this happens once more, the ball winds up flattened. Big Bird knows what to do now as well - get a grown-up to find a new ball. |
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Cartoon | S is for subway, sailboat, sled, scooter, skates, skis, and stop. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0279) |
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Muppets | "Sammy the Snake" (First: Episode 0278) |
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Film | Joe Raposo sings "Look a Little Closer". The object is a tire. (First: Episode 0179) |
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Cartoon | The Ringmaster displays six marvelous monkeys who do stunts. (First: Episode 1289) |
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SCENE 7 | Gordon, Susan, and the kids are in on the game of basketball when Mr. Hooper comes over to watch. They encourage him to play too, but he doesn't think he has the knack for it. After they get him to make a practice shot, Mr. Hooper is able to sink a basket the next time. He continues to try to make more baskets (some while facing backwards) as Big Bird announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Olivia holds the Sesame Street sign, while Bob and Linda hold the CTW sign. |
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