Sesame Street | |||||||
Air date | April 9, 1981 | ||||||
Season | Season 12 (1980-1981) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Buffy emerges from Oscar's trash can, complaining about the living conditions she and Cody have to endure there while staying. She needs to run to the store and asks Oscar to get her bag. Oscar refuses since she says "please," something a Grouch should never have to hear. Buffy admits she dislikes it when Oscar yells just as much as he hates the P-word. She strikes a deal with him: she agrees not to say "please" as much and be grouchy sometimes, as long as Oscar keeps down the noise and says "please" once himself. "I think this is the start of a beautiful relationship," Oscar says when he and Buffy begin to argue over whether being nice or grouchy is easier. | |
Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #11 Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0988) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert asks Ernie to help him carry his heavy groceries, but Ernie is too busy thinking about all the things he can do as he sits in a chair: breathing, listening, and smelling. (First: Episode 1449) | |
Film | The Mad Painter #11 (First: Episode 0329) | |
Cartoon | At the circus, Tommy Trueheart displays his 11 trick-performing lions. (First: Episode 0816) | |
SCENE 2 | Cody assists in today's edition of Ask Oscar, handing Telly the letters. After answering a question from a Grouch in Cincinnati (Oscar: "Isn't that a little bit redundant?") about water polo, Telly reads another letter from someone in Dayton asking for help counting their 20 old cans. Oscar refuses to participate this time and leaves Telly up to the task. Cody helps Telly count to 20, and the two share a hug. Oscar assures the Grouches watching that the hugging part is not preferred. | |
Cartoon | I've Got a Mind: Wind-up toy (First: Episode 0255) | |
Film | A metal crane and a real crane look alike. | |
Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit and Grover demonstrate "here" and "there." (First: Episode 0277) | |
Cartoon | Kids hear an L poem. (First: Episode 0198) | |
Insert | The Alphabet Dancers form a letter L. (First: Episode 0449) | |
Film | A farmer takes care of baby calves. (First: Episode 0784) | |
Cartoon | L for Lion (poem) Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1149) | |
SCENE 3 | Oscar stops by Hooper's Store to do some grocery shopping. He hands David the list of items, which includes such tasty things like candied clams and peas in chocolate sauce. With each item David doesn't have in stock, he crosses them out on the list. Since David has nothing to sell him, Oscar has him cross out the whole list afterwards. He then celebrates another successful shopping trip; although he didn't buy anything, he does get a nice piece of trash to take home - the marked-out list. "Another piece of trash, and I didn't have to spend a penny!" | |
Cartoon | L for Lion (First: Episode 0798) | |
Muppets | Ernie and Bert sing "La, La, La." (First: Episode 0321) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: L--Loud (First: Episode 0783) | |
Song | "Beet Beet, Sugar Beet." (First: Episode 1171) | |
Cartoon | T is for Television (First: Episode 0024) | |
Muppets | Various letter Ts have a T party. | |
Cartoon | La letra T es para tigre, tomate, taxi, toro, telefono, televisión, y el terrible tiburon. (First: Episode 0351) | |
SCENE 4 | Oscar asks Maria to help him with something, promising her a nice, special gift when she's through. She attaches new vanity license plates (reading SCRAM) to the front and back of the Sloppy Jalopy. As she works on the back, parts of the car fall off. Oscar tells her to open the trunk to find her reward - a perfect, yellow rose, which gets tarnished by the exhaust as Oscar drives off. | |
Muppets | The Rhymies go camping, but a bear disrupts their campsite. (First: Episode 1389) | |
Cartoon | A voiceover asks kids to name where a fireman and policewoman work. (First: Episode 1463) | |
Film | Kids comment as they see how corn grows in a field. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0619) | |
Celebrity | Itzhak Perlman plays the "Gavotte en Rondeau" from Bach's Partita for Violin No. 3 for the kids (Jessica Marrero, Kathleen Reilly, Jodi Stahl, Matthew Schwartz, and David Patent) between the garage and the fire escape of 123 Sesame Street. (First: Episode 1484) | |
Cartoon | A boy's friends bring him flowers to cheer him up, not knowing that he's allergic to them. (First: Episode 1524) | |
Muppets | Grover tries to ignore three monsters who look big and scary to him. When they notice him carrying a flute, they grab his attention and ask -- in what appears to be a threatening way -- if Grover wants to play. The three monsters pull out a clarinet, an oboe and a bassoon and begin to play, urging Grover to join in. (First: Episode 1412) | |
Cartoon | A cube tries to fit through wall holes of different shapes. (First: Episode 1452) | |
Film | A kid narrates footage of a termite colony. (First: Episode 0408) | |
Cartoon | Two dots play hide-and-seek amongst different shaped blocks. (First: Episode 0780) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit and Trey talk about how to get from one place to another. (First: Episode 0548) | |
Cartoon | The weary traveler asks the Wise Man to demonstrate "here" and "there." He does so by throwing his household items off the cliff. (First: Episode 0769) | |
SCENE 5 | Big Bird helps Mr. Snuffleupagus find out how many feet he has. After losing his place trying to walk around him and count Snuffy's feet, Big Bird suggests Snuffy lift each foot as he counts it, but Snuffy notes that he'll have nothing left to stand on if he does so. Finally, Big Bird has Snuffy lift only one foot to figure out where to stop. | |
Cartoon | A white boy hangs out with his Latino friend. (First: Episode 1471) | |
Muppets | Pageant: Tooth (First: Episode 1160) | |
Cartoon | A rabbit crosses the STREET, and almost gets run over. Artist: Cathryn Aison (First: Episode 0778) | |
Film | Kids climb in and out of a tire. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0450) | |
Cartoon | I thought a thought ... about circles. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0247) | |
SCENE 6 | As Oscar and Buffy dine inside the trash can, they each speak to the other as they previously agreed upon. Maria and David pass by and overhear Buffy speaking grouchy and Oscar speaking nicely; the two can barely believe it. Snuffy announces the sponsors. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Olivia holds the Sesame Street sign, while Bob and Linda hold the CTW sign. |
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