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Sesame Street
Air date January 30, 1981
Season Season 12 (1980-1981)
Directed by Jon Stone
Production October 15, 1980
Sponsors A, B, 9

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
Droids-beep
Muppets / Celebrity C-3PO and R2-D2 help Big Bird with his counting with a performance of "Beep."
Bearbicycle
Cartoon B is for bear, bicycle, bump, branch and bee.
(First: Episode 0008)
Paintingb
Film Kids paint pictures of things that start with B.
Producer: Ken Snyder Enterprises
(First: Episode 0008)
CartoonLionMouse
Cartoon The story of Aesop's "The Lion and the Mouse".
(First: Episode 0773)
Mpiece.updownstairs
Muppets Monsterpiece Theater: Upstairs, DownstairsGrover runs up and down a flight of stairs.
(First: Episode 1162)
Trapeze-UpAndDown
Film The Fabulous Four Flying Flatirons, a group of trapeze artists, demonstrate up and down. (edited)
(First: Episode 1039)
3087.redgreenmonster
Cartoon A boy puts a red and green monster together using a diagram.
(First: Episode 1014)
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SCENE 1 Bob observes all the different kinds of things the kids are sculpting with clay at the Day Care Center, including a castle, a ball, and a house. Oscar intrudes on today's activities as he likes using sticky, messy clay, and wants to show how he's the "Michelangelo of Grouchdom." Oscar lets himself in, hushing Bob not to ruin his inspiration.
1495c
SCENE 1 cont'd Bob checks out more of the kids' sculptures before looking at what Oscar has made, which appear to be just a series of flattened pieces. Oscar specifies how each one has been given more thought than that: a vase of flowers hit by a steamroller, a rocking chair after an elephant sat on it, and a refrigerator hit by a Conrail train.
Ballsholes
Animation Three balls try to match three holes.
(First: Episode 0572)
Horsejigsaw
Cartoon A horse falls apart into a jigsaw puzzle.
(First: Episode 0784)
1186y
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie buys a newspaper after hearing the newsboy yell out the headline: "Four People Fooled!" Ernie reads the paper, but finds no such news in the paper, making him the fifth person fooled.
(First: Episode 1164)
3959zd
Cartoon The Ringmaster presents 9 elephants.
Artist: Jeff Hale
(First: Episode 1366)
Andnowtheoctopus
Film Luis announces "And now, the octopus!"
Music: "Pomp and Circumstance"
(First: Episode 0291)
SholahugsKermit
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentKermit the Frog, Shola and Fannie have just finished watching the previous film. Shola hugs Kermit, and he comments, "She learned a lot from the octopus ... how to squeeze!"
(First: Episode 0534)
Imagardener
Film Some kids watch a film of a man working in a greenhouse, and try to guess what his job is.
(First: Episode 0772)
Herecomesthebus
Cartoon Kids on a bench wait for the bus: "Here comes the bus!"
(First: Episode 0632)
Specialoftheday
Muppets Waiter Grover: Grover tells Mr. Johnson the menu, which has the items numbered. Number 9 is the special of the day. It turns out to be a real number nine, but Mr. Johnson doesn't want it. (It's medium rare, and he likes his nines well-done.)
(First: Episode 1377)
MartianBeauty
Cartoon "Martian Beauty" has nine hairs, nine bows, nine eyes, nine nostrils, nine arms, and nine toes.
Artist: Bud Luckey
(First: Episode 0316)
1454-Tomato
Film Kids comment as they watch tomatoes grow in a field.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0624)
1495d
SCENE 2 A young girl enters Hooper's Store to use the phone, but she's too small to reach it. Mr. Hooper offers to dial the number and hold her up, but she insists that she do it herself and cites the call as a personal one. She then asks for a box to stand on, and is able to use the phone. "That's a smart kid," Mr. Hooper observes to the viewer.
Toon.Acrobats
Cartoon A for Acrobats
(First: Episode 0797)
EBSholaNap
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentErnie, Bert and Shola talk about taking a nap.
(First: Episode 0537)
Aapestory
Cartoon A story about an ape and a bird, using the letter A.
(First: Episode 0158)
2059e
Film George the Farmer demonstrates up/down with two ladders.
(First: Episode 0239)
3159c
Cartoon A girl explains (in poetry) how she failed trying to make a snowman without using snow.
(First: Episode 0480)
1449-Scuba
Film A scuba diver shows up and down.
(First: Episode 0526)
SuperGrover BusStop
Muppets Super Grover: A boy is confused -- his mother told him to take a bus home, but he doesn't know where to find the bus. Super Grover arrives, and they soon discover a sign that says "Bus Stop". The boy believes they found the answer, but Super Grover insists that his mother told him to take a bus home, not a sign.
(First: Episode 0708)
BusStop.Verbitsky
Cartoon A woman displays a BUS STOP sign to a crowd.
Artist: Irra Verbitsky
(First: Episode 1350)
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1495f
SCENE 3 Back at day care, Linda and Telly Monster have joined Bob and the kids in making clay sculptures. Jim, one of the kids' caretakers, arrives with his guitar and everyone sings "I Know a Cute Monster Who Swallowed a Fly" as Linda signs the lyrics, with everyone doing the signs for all the animals. Telly chimes in after each verse to sing, "I think she'll cry!"
TwoPlusOne
Cartoon A boy does an addition problem in his head: 2 + 1 = 3.
(First: Episode 0516)
2990bus
Film Spinning Bus Stop sign
(First: Episode 0931)
3plus1equals4
Cartoon A boy solves a math problem: 3 + 1 = 4.
(First: Episode 0516)
Thebeetles
Muppets The Beetles perform "Letter B."
Wateringbstalk
Cartoon Jack waters a B, which grows into a B-stalk. He climbs it and travels to the Land of B.
(First: Episode 0277)
Herry and Kimberly shapes
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentHerry Monster asks Kimberly to identify geometric shapes.
(First: Episode 0899)
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1495h
SCENE 4 Everyone at day care makes sock puppets, and Bob instructs the viewer on how they can do the same with an old sock and some markers. Telly finishes making one and introduces it to everybody as "Socko," and Bob uses his to announce the sponsors with Stephanie's help. The credits follow.
1449-Sign01

Maria1736
CLOSING SIGNS Maria holds both the Sesame Street sign and the CTW sign.


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