| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Oscar and the D.O.G | |||||||
| Air date | April 2, 1981 | ||||||
| Season | Season 12 (1980-1981) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Oscar and Osvaldo, el Gruñón try to think of a game to play, while Telly Monster is around to make sure it's quiet to prevent waking up Buffy, who's staying over inside Oscar's trash can. Telly rejects their idea of pretending to be a nurse and patient at a Grouch hospital (where they yell instead of speak softly) and thinks it's better if they pretend to be farmers, which is a quiet business. However, the Grouches wake up Buffy as they pretend to be the farm animals. |
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Animation | Sand P/p (First: Episode 0634) |
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Cartoon | P for Penguin Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1190) |
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Song | "Sawmill" - Folk singers detail how lumber is made into usable wood. (beginning edited) (First: Episode 0657) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: What to Paint — Bert wants to paint a bowl of oatmeal, while Ernie wants to paint a purple monster. (First: Episode 1446) |
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Cartoon | A family of snakes makes shapes, and rolls away. (First: Episode 1506) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar has received a distressing grouch-o-gram from his lodge brothers at the D.O.G. (Disagreeable Order of Grouches), alerting him he's broken one of the club rules by allowing not one, but two nice people to stay with him. One of the Grouches from the lodge (Richard Hunt) comes by to make sure it's true. Buffy tries to tell him she's not nice by acting like a Grouch, which almost convinces the D.O.G. representative. Unfortunately the neighbors come by and act very friendly towards Buffy, handing her and Cody some balloons, a bouquet of fresh flowers, and offering to sing "You Are My Sunshine" to her. The D.O.G. member stomps off in disgust. |
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Cartoon | The weary traveler asks the wise man to demonstrate none, some, most and all with a basket of oranges. (First: Episode 0939) |
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Muppets | Bip Bippadotta and friends show none, some and all. (First: Episode 0615) |
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Film | An osprey flies around. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0293) |
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Cartoon | A toothbrush talks to a mouth about what could happen if not taken care of. (First: Episode 1476) |
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Celebrity | Victor Borge talks about practice by playing the scales, but needs some help from the sheet music. (First: Episode 1166) |
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Cartoon | A scientist builds a robot that has real feelings, such as sad, happy, and afraid. (First: Episode 0769) |
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SCENE 3 | Buffy continues to apologize to Oscar for the trouble she's caused when the lodge Grouch returns to officially kick Oscar out of the club. Oscar is forced to return his hat, rulebook, and ring, which he sadly hands over. Buffy tells the lodge Grouch off about his treatment of Oscar, saying that it's because of nice people like her that Grouches have anything to complain about. The lodge Grouch finds that she's right, and is so moved by her attitude that he not only gives Oscar his club things back but decides to induct Buffy as well, handing her the same things and an initiation gift of a handful of dust. |
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Cartoon | Six camels Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1503) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Block Pyramid — Ernie asks Bert to keep an eye on his pyramid of blocks. The Count (in his debut appearance) walks by, and counts the blocks, moving them out of the pyramid shape. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Film | Things you can carry Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0515) |
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Cartoon | Moonlight count to 20 (First: Episode 1456) |
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SCENE 4 | Buffy, on guitar, and Oscar, on "yucch-a-lele," play a duet of "Plink-a-Plink-a-Plink." Oscar hates to admit it, but they make a really rotten team. |
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Cartoon | B is for bear, bicycle, bump, branch and bee. (First: Episode 0008) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Hey Diddle Diddle — A cat preps a cow to jump over the moon. (First: Episode 0634) |
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Cartoon | Big Daniel Boone looks for a bear. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0627) |
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Cast | Maria and the kids (including Joey) put together a fractured B. (First: Episode 0922) |
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Film | Addition and subtraction using three trapeze artists (version "B") (First: Episode 1041) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird presents a magic circle (which is drawn onscreen via a telestrator). Big Bird orders the circle to be drawn around various things, and the magic circle complies. He finally asks it to be drawn around a "handsome, smart, friendly bird" and the circle is drawn around Poco Loco instead. |
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Muppets | In ancient times, Grover invents the wheel to help Biff move a stone up a hill. (First: Episode 0915) |
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Cartoon | What Do You Do With a Pet? (First: Episode 0465) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: None, Some, and All — Cookie Monster demonstrates quantifiers for Ernie. (First: Episode 1437) |
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Cartoon | The word entrada tries to run through a wall, then runs through the entrance. (First: Episode 0939) |
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Film | "I'm Your Friend," with film of kids playing. (First: Episode 1341) |
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Cast | Gordon sings "Let Your Feelings Show." (First: Episode 0934) |
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Cartoon | A magician tries to make six circles disappear. (First: Episode 0783) |
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Film | Fish swim around. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0284) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: P for Pencil (First: Episode 0782) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert Is Missing at the Beach — Sherlock Hemlock helps Ernie find Bert at the beach. (First: Episode 0278) |
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Cartoon | P is for Painting (First: Episode 0764) |
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Film | A boy paints a picture of a porcupine on glass. (First: Episode 0064) |
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Animation | Three lines attempt to individually reach the top of the TV screen, but fail. They succeed after they combine all of their lengths. (First: Episode 0288) |
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SCENE 6 | Buffy and Oscar close the show by singing a nonsense song for the kids. It starts of with "doodilys" and "yucchetys" and Buffy sneaks in some "huggitys" and "kissities" just to irritate Oscar. Susan announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Grover holds the Sesame Street sign, while Kermit and a kid hold the CTW sign. |
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