| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | December 8, 1981 | ||||||
| Season | Season 13 (1981-1982) | ||||||
| Written by | Judy Freudberg | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Mr. Snuffleupagus arrives on Sesame Street at the crack of dawn, hoping to be seen by somebody as everyone wakes up. It's so early that he falls back to sleep, resting in the yard. David, Maria and Luis go by to get to work and don't even notice Snuffy behind them. Big Bird comes outside and learns from the viewer that Snuffy is around. Big Bird wakes up Snuffy, who finds that he may not have been seen by the adults, but he has been seen by Big Bird and the viewer (making his plan successful). |
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Film | Marching band forms a square. (First: Episode 0514) |
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Cartoon | "Two headlights, two eyes, two schoolbooks, two pies..." (First: Episode 0926) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #2 (First: Episode 0309) |
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Muppets | Two-Headed Monster: Kermit Draws a 2 — The monster helps Kermit the Frog draw a 2. (First: Episode 1479) |
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Cartoon | A girl tries on big, bigger, and the biggest shoes. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0252) |
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Film | Lions walk down a trail. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0367) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird learns about braille from Aristotle, who reads samples from his "Little Red Riding Hood" book. This scene was released on Old School: Volume 3. |
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Cartoon | A boy uses his pet inchworm to measure his toy car and toy truck. Afterward, the inchworm wants to measure the Empire State Building. (First: Episode 1512) |
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Muppets | Lefty wants to sell Ernie a scale. He uses two pounds of bananas and two pounds of apples to demonstrate how the scale works. Ernie is impressed. He already has a scale at home, but he'd like to buy the apples and bananas. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Cartoon | A monster sees a box that keeps opening and closing, saying "Abierto" and "Cerrado." (First: Episode 0771) |
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Cast | David struggles to keep a door CERRADO, as it keeps opening itself. He slams it shut, shattering the wall behind it. (First: Episode 1511) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Touch, Hold, Feel." (First: Episode 0504) |
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Cartoon | E for Eel (First: Episode 0408) |
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Celebrity | James Galway plays the alphabet of notes (which only goes up to G) as Big Bird identifies them. (First: Episode 1429) |
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Cartoon | A man tries to get to sleep, but is woken up by a fly, a chicken and a drum-playing rabbit, all of whom call him on the phone after he throws them out. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0257) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash — Dr. Nobel Price invents galoshes. (First: Episode 1465) |
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Cartoon | A boy learns to put his mom's letter in the mailbox all by himself (with a little help). (First: Episode 1497) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird tries teaching Barkley how to play fetch. He tosses a small stick, only Barkley returns with a big one, then a bigger tree branch, and finally the biggest thing: a whole tree! |
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Cartoon | Big, bigger and biggest elephants (First: Episode 0389) |
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Film | Animal camouflage with kid voiceovers. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0366) |
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Cartoon | A flea circus performs feats beginning with the letter F. (First: Episode 0309) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bed Making Cooperation — Ernie and Bert attempt to make a blanket even on both sides of the bed. (First: Episode 1388) |
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Cartoon | E Imagination Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird has a yardstick to measure himself, hoping he's grown since last week, but has trouble trying to do it himself. With some help from Maria (marking his height on the carriage house steps), they find he's exactly 8'2", which was the same height he was last week. He bemoans the notion of staying so short for the rest of his life. |
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Cartoon | A man saws a letter E through the wall. (First: Episode 0370) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: The Six Dollar Man — Professor Nucleus Von Fission builds the Six Dollar Man. (First: Episode 0933) |
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Film | Body parts song sung in Spanish. (First: Episode 1113) |
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Cast | A voiceover instructs Maria as Chaplin where to put the shirts and the towels. (First: Episode 0541) |
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Cartoon | F - Face Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1162) |
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SCENE 5 | Aristotle comes into Hooper's Store to help David. He teaches Ari how to make a bologna sandwich by feeling the different shapes and textures of the ingredients, and asks him to make two of them. Ari ends up making many more, which he can use to start a bologna sandwich collection. |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster goes to the carnival and plays the "test your strength" game. Unbeknownst to him, the carnival barker rigged the game so nobody can win -- until Cookie finds out what the prize is. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: E for egg A cow hatches a chick, which says "Moo." (First: Episode 0002) |
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Muppets | Three monsters (Billy, Fenwick, and Pamela) demonstrate big, bigger, and biggest. (First: Episode 0474) |
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Cartoon | A man explains that the letter E begins both Enter and Exit. Another man named Roy runs through the doors. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Film | Bus trip around town (guitar soundtrack) (First: Episode 0926) |
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Muppets | Grover sounds out the word FALL. A nearby house and tree fall over, then he faints. (First: Episode 1348) |
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Cartoon | Two giraffes Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1468) |
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SCENE 6 | The kids play "Red Light, Green Light" in the yard as Aristotle announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Olivia and a kid hold the Sesame Street sign, while Gordon holds the CTW sign. |
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