| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | December 22, 1981 | ||||||
| Season | Season 13 (1981-1982) | ||||||
| Written by | Ray Sipherd | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Grandma Grace is the new crossing guard in the area. Big Bird wishes to be one too, and has even made up his own pretend street to practice on using his toy cars. Grace walks through her job with Big Bird, who practices with the kids and then a busy Olivia. |
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Cartoon | Capital I, he's quite a guy (First: Episode 0368) |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover: Grover informs Mr. Johnson that the restaurant is out of a lot of items that are on the menu. The only thing still at the restaurant is milk... but there are no glasses. (First: Episode 0976) |
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Cartoon | "I in the Sky" (First: Episode 0368) |
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Cartoon | Animated quilt patterns. (First: Episode 1470) |
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Celebrity | Madeline Kahn plays a pair of twins that take turns counting to 20. (First: Episode 1139) |
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Cartoon | Two dots play hide-and-seek amongst different shaped blocks. (First: Episode 0780) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird and company sing a song of crossing the street safely - "You'll Never Cross Alone." |
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Cartoon | Pinball #10 Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0990) |
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Film | Ten hats on a hatrack (First: Episode 0439) |
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Cartoon | "Ten Turtles" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0425) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Pied Piper of Hamelin — Kermit takes over for the Pied Piper. (First: Episode 0519) |
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Cartoon | Two kids find different uses for a cooking pot. (First: Episode 0795) |
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Film | A girl meets a blind woman who has a seeing-eye dog. (First: Episode 0952) |
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Cartoon | What if my hair were grass? (First: Episode 0514) |
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Film | There Once Was a Hand series: the right hand plays with a ping-pong ball and tricks the left hand into thinking an egg is one. (First: Episode 0668) |
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Insert | Olivia and Susan hear beautiful piano music (Chopin's "Fantaisie-Impromptu") coming from Oscar's trash can. He admits that he's only just started practicing, but his teacher has assured him that with more practice, he'll be sounding awful in no time. (First: Episode 1290) |
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Cartoon | A boy passes by various signs before reaching the SALIDA. (First: Episode 0458) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster shows all, some and none using a bag of cookies: he pours all the cookies on the plate, eats some of them, but leaves none for Ernie. (First: Episode 1437) |
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Film | SALIDA (word spins around) (First: Episode 0967) |
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Cartoon | A cat chases a mouse into a mouse hole. The cat and mouse make music as they hit the wall, until the cat breaks through the mouse hole. Artist: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0244) |
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Insert | Oscar's playing has begun to take a turn for the worse (to his delight). (First: Episode 1290) |
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Film | As a boy plays with a tugboat in the bathtub, we watch footage of a real tugboat. (First: Episode 0801) |
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Muppets | Two-Headed Monster: One head wants to play the trumpet, but the other head wants to sleep. (First: Episode 1390) |
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Insert | Oscar's practice is paying off and sounds even worse than before. (First: Episode 1290) |
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Muppets | Grover volunteers to assist the Amazing Mumford in his rhyming magic trick, making three things come out of his hat that rhyme with "knee". Grover guesses the first one (key), but doesn't get the last two (ski and tree) right. (First: Episode 0455) |
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Film | A rhino and her baby (First: Episode 0408) |
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Cartoon | I Thought a Thought ... about small things. A man thinks about small things, and lists them. A sea monster thinks it is small, especially when compared to its father! Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0241) |
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Cast | Finger Theater: Linda's fingers act out a story. (First: Episode 1517) |
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Cartoon | Kids count dinosaurs, octopuses, and paper dolls. (First: Episode 0926) |
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Muppets | The Martians discover a radio. They tune into three different styles of music, none of which they like. Then they tune into some static, which they start joyfully dancing to. (First: Episode 1329) |
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SCENE 3 | Watching the kids pass by, Grace and Mr. Macintosh reminisce about their youth and sing "I Remember." |
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Song | "Fall Song" (First: Episode 1286) |
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Cartoon | W For Wilbur (First: Episode 0366) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit and Grover demonstrate short and long -- Kermit sings and hops for short periods, while Grover does them for long periods. Finally Grover asks if he can do the short thing and Kermit do the long thing. To Grover's detriment, it turns out to be tickling! (First: Episode 0560) |
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Film | Kids narrate a film about bank tellers and the machines they use. (First: Episode 0783) |
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Cartoon | "Wanda the Witch" Animation by Tee Collins (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Herry Monster are fighting over a bicycle, when Kermit suggests they share it. The two monsters cooperate, and devour the bicycle together. (First: Episode 0978) |
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Cartoon | Madrigal Alphabet Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0615) |
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SCENE 4 | The kids and the seniors play soccer together in the yard as David announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Barkley holds the Sesame Street sign, while Luis holds the CTW sign. |
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