| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Air date | January 30, 1981 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 12 (1980-1981) | ||||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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Muppets / Celebrity | C-3PO and R2-D2 help Big Bird with his counting with a performance of "Beep." |
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Cartoon | B is for bear, bicycle, bump, branch and bee. (First: Episode 0008) |
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Film | Kids paint pictures of things that start with B. Producer: Ken Snyder Enterprises (First: Episode 0008) |
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Cartoon | The story of Aesop's "The Lion and the Mouse". (First: Episode 0773) |
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Muppets | Monsterpiece Theater: Upstairs, Downstairs — Grover runs up and down a flight of stairs. (First: Episode 1162) |
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Film | The Fabulous Four Flying Flatirons, a group of trapeze artists, demonstrate up and down. (edited) (First: Episode 1039) |
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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. |
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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. |
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Animation | Three balls try to match three holes. (First: Episode 0572) |
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Cartoon | A horse falls apart into a jigsaw puzzle. (First: Episode 0784) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie 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) |
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Cartoon | The Ringmaster presents 9 elephants. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1366) |
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Film | Luis announces "And now, the octopus!" Music: "Pomp and Circumstance" (First: Episode 0291) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit the Frog, Shola, and Fanny 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) |
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Film | Some kids watch a film of a man working in a greenhouse, and try to guess what his job is. (First: Episode 0772) |
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Cartoon | Kids on a bench wait for the bus: "Here comes the bus!" (First: Episode 0632) |
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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) |
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Cartoon | "Martian Beauty" has nine hairs, nine bows, nine eyes, nine nostrils, nine arms, and nine toes. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0316) |
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Film | Kids comment as they watch tomatoes grow in a field. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0624) |
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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. |
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Cartoon | A for Acrobats (First: Episode 0797) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert and Shola talk about taking a nap. (First: Episode 0537) |
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Cartoon | A story about an ape and a bird, using the letter A. (First: Episode 0158) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates up/down with two ladders. (First: Episode 0239) |
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Cartoon | A girl explains (in poetry) how she failed trying to make a snowman without using snow. (First: Episode 0480) |
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Film | A scuba diver shows up and down. (First: Episode 0526) |
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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) |
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Cartoon | A woman displays a BUS STOP sign to a crowd. Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 1350) |
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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!" |
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Cartoon | A boy does an addition problem in his head: 2 + 1 = 3. (First: Episode 0516) |
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Film | Spinning Bus Stop sign (First: Episode 0931) |
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Cartoon | A boy solves a math problem: 3 + 1 = 4. (First: Episode 0516) |
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Muppets | The Beetles perform "Letter B." |
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Cartoon | Jack waters a B, which grows into a B-stalk. He climbs it and travels to the Land of B. (First: Episode 0277) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Herry Monster asks Kimberly to identify geometric shapes. (First: Episode 0899) |
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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. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Maria holds both the Sesame Street sign and the CTW sign. |
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