Sesame Street | |||||||
Oscar hosts the worm circus (repeat of 1280) | |||||||
Air date | February 20, 1981 | ||||||
Season | Season 12 (1980-1981) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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Insert | Susan greets Big Bird walking down Sesame Street in a slump because he wanted to talk to Luis's grandmother on the phone in New Mexico, but he couldn't think of anything to say. He's told that he was just shy, and she sings to him "Everyone Feels a Little Shy Sometimes". (First: Episode 0964) | |
Cartoon | Olga the lonesome robot (First: Episode 1446) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie gets Bert to participate in a rhyming game, but Ernie ends the game just as Bert is starting to enjoy it. (First: Episode 0798) | |
Cartoon | Eight spiders subtract themselves. Artist: Bruce Cayard | |
Film | A young baboon sits on the back of their parent as they cross the plain. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0299) | |
Cartoon | A schoolyard of gloves invites other gloves to join them. (First: Episode 1481) | |
Film | Knock knock. Who's there? The woodpecker! (First: Episode 0437) | |
Cartoon | "Candy Man" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0359) | |
SCENE 1 | As rousing march music plays, Oscar calls out for his neighbors to see "the creepiest, crawliest show on Earth!" David, Olivia, Mr. Hooper, and the kids gather around Oscar's trash can as Slimey the Great makes his entrance from a miniature circus tent. Oscar introduces three tricks Slimey will do - a somersault, climbing up to a high diving board, and jumping into a bowl of mud. The last trick is Oscar's favorite, as it results in everyone receiving a face full of mud when Slimey lands. | |
Cartoon | A baby bird tries and tries again to fly from its nest. Artist: Irra Verbitsky | |
Muppets | Ernie has two bags of cookies, one of which has several cookies, and one that only has one cookie. Ernie asks Cookie Monster which he'd rather have, and Cookie Monster naturally chooses the bag with many cookies. However, Cookie is disappointed that his cookies are very small, while Ernie's one cookie is very big, so Ernie breaks his cookie into several small pieces. (First: Episode 1359) | |
Cartoon | H for hair (First: Episode 0475) | |
Cast | Bob, Linda and Luis assemble a lowercase h. (First: Episode 1056) | |
Cartoon | A man weighs himself to demonstrate how a scale works. (First: Episode 0572) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert, and Shola demonstrate "big," "small," "smaller, and "smallest" with four balls. (First: Episode 0544) | |
Cartoon | Thelma Thumb: Thelma saves an ice fisherman when the ice around him cracks. Artist: John Korty | |
SCENE 2 | Oscar and Slimey practice Slimey's new trick - being shot from a cannon. Oscar fires the cannon, and Slimey flies past Olivia, David, and Mr. Hooper into a basket of apples on the counter of Hooper's Store, which makes David reconsider his dessert order. ("On second thought, make it the cherries jubilee.") | |
Cartoon | Consonant Sound Limerick: H - Horse (First: Episode 1167) | |
Film | People of all ages ride bicycles. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0616) | |
Muppets | Some fruits in a bowl sing a "Bilingual Fruit Song" about their Spanish names, and agree that two names are better than one. (First: Episode 1306) | |
Cartoon | H for hello (voice of Gary Owens) (First: Episode 0020) | |
Cartoon | H for hola (Spanish soundtrack). (First: Episode 0362) | |
Insert | Two ballet dancers do a classical performance to the music of Swan Lake. | |
SCENE 3 | Big Bird recites a poem entitled "The Turtle," leading to... | |
Film | Baby turtles swim around. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0294) | |
Cartoon | A boy counts 10 stairs as he climbs them with his sack of toys. (First: Episode 0997) | |
Muppets | Grover climbs a mountain and counts from one to ten with his own echo. (First: Episode 0949) | |
Cartoon | Tiger likes going to school. (First: Episode 0549) | |
Song | "School Song" (First: Episode 0986) | |
Cast | Linda helps a boy sign "DON'T WALK." (First: Episode 1061) | |
Cartoon | A hammer and chisel cooperate to carve a triangle out of wood, which a pencil uses to draw some. (First: Episode 0932) | |
Muppets | Forgetful Jones tries singing the "Song of Forgetful Jones" to Clementine, but needs help remembering the song's original context. | |
Cartoon | A boy gets lost, and encounters a man with a yo-yo, who tells him to remember everything he passed. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0408) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie has two slices of apple pie. He takes the big piece, and gives Bert the small piece. Bert takes offense to this, saying that he would have given Ernie the big piece and kept the small piece for himself - but the outcome is the same, so what's Bert angry about? (First: Episode 1166) | |
Film | Things that begin with G (First: Episode 0357) | |
SCENE 4 | Oscar is feeling very ill and believes he's come down with the Grouch Grippe. His friends dote on him and do what they can to help - David fetches a blanket, Olivia checks his temperature (150 degrees when it should be 148), and Mr. Hooper brings over a bowl of chicken soup. Oscar doesn't care for the hospitality and wants a second opinion; "You're ugly," Mr. Hooper and Olivia respond. "If I was feelin' better, I'd tell them all to get lost," Oscar tells the viewer. "If I was feelin' worse, I'd feel better... I wonder what I mean by that." | |
Cartoon | Seven chicks plus 1 alligator makes 8. Artist: Owe Gustafson | |
Film | Kids play in the snow. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0292) | |
Muppets | An Anything Muppet girl exercises in preparation for coaching her team as they play. The team turns out to be three string musicians and she's their conductor. | |
Cartoon | The Typewriter gets stuck in a spot of glue, and types "G: Glue." (First: Episode 0775) | |
Film | Various sporting events involving throwing things are shown from around the world. (First: Episode 0809) | |
Cartoon | Words that rhyme with BALL (voices of Bob Arbogast and Daws Butler) (First: Episode 0773) | |
SCENE 5 | Mr. Hooper and Olivia stand by as Oscar sleeps, planning to continue helping him. Oscar awakens and is back to his old grouchy self. He demands everybody get away from his can (including the viewer) as David announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. In this airing, the season 12 credits with Barkley are used, but the audio from the season 10 credit sequence from its original airing is heard; as a result, Barkley barks but makes no sound. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, while Olivia holds the CTW sign. |
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