Sesame Street | |||||||
Slimey's grouch launch into space | |||||||
Air date | December 29, 1981 | ||||||
Season | Season 13 (1981-1982) | ||||||
Written by | John Glines | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | A rainstorm begins as Slimey prepares to be launched into outer space. Maria watches as Telly, filling the "Mission Decontrol" position, attempts a countdown, but counts forwards instead of backwards. Maria and the viewer help him properly countdown to the launch. The rocket instead sputters in place and falls over, which Oscar notes is how a successful Grouch space launch should go. | |
Cartoon | Jazz #8 (First: Episode 0016) | |
Muppets | Muppets cheer on a rocket launch. (First: Episode 0567) | |
Film | Mad Painter #8 (First: Episode 0326) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — On a boring day, Ernie suggests some ideas to Bert, but then Bert has an exciting idea of his own. He shows off his bottlecap collection to Ernie, who remembers that he found a Figgy Fizz bottle cap -- the very one that Bert needed to complete his collection. (First: Episode 0240) | |
Cartoon | A boy puts a red and green monster together using a diagram. (First: Episode 1014) | |
Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) | |
SCENE 2 | Olivia prepares a game for Frankie, Jamie, Caitlin, and Erica where they find embedded letter Ls in a picture of a person dancing on stage. Alphabet Bates drops from the sky to provide them with an extra letter L. Dominique drives him away to the aerodrome afterwards. | |
Cartoon | L for Lion (poem) Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1149) | |
Insert | The Count (in voiceover) counts three kids who arrange themselves in different configurations with three boxes. (First: Episode 1352) | |
Cartoon | L is for Lips (First: Episode 0147) | |
Muppets | Cookie Monster introduces the word "AMOR". (First: Episode 0601) | |
Cartoon | Two green martians fight over a flower, until they see a monolith crumble to form the word AMOR. (First: Episode 0821) | |
Song | Joe Raposo sings "New Life." (First: Episode 0281) | |
Cartoon | One of these shoe pairs ... (First: Episode 0503) | |
Insert | Stevie Wonder teaches Grover how to sing loud and soft. (First: Episode 0514) | |
Cartoon | Find the Square quiz | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Herry and John-John demonstrate loud and soft. (First: Episode 0432) | |
Film | A man shows a boy how to make a wheelbarrow. (First: Episode 1488) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert sing "Imagination." (First: Episode 0493) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for UP (First: Episode 0650) | |
Muppets | Old West sketches: A couple of cowboy Muppets meet the Alphabet Kid, who claims that he can write the alphabet faster than any man alive. To prove it, he quickly draws his crayon and speedily writes out the whole alphabet. (First: Episode 0307) | |
Cast | David and Luis assemble a fractured letter U. (First: Episode 0468) | |
Cartoon | A boy needs a letter U to complete the word UP. (First: Episode 0416) | |
Muppets | The Martians examine a grandfather clock. (First: Episode 0407) | |
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 | Sign Sounds: DON'T WALK (First: Episode 1162) | |
Film | Jerry Nelson counts 20 backflips performed by a monkey. (First: Episode 1097) | |
Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Little Miss Muffet — The spider scares Kermit away. (First: Episode 0601) | |
SCENE 3 | Big Bird runs into Gordon, who has a cold and describes how he intends to get well. Big Bird then finds a Honker in his nest area, also feeling under the weather. Big Bird reiterates what he heard from Gordon and recommends the Honker not do any honking until he feels better. They try finding an alternate means of communicating, when the Honker starts ringing a bell. This attracts Barkley and the two chat in barks and rings. When Big Bird joins in and adds to the commotion, Gordon (trying to get rest inside) complains from his window. | |
Cartoon | Ten little Greeblies (bug-like creatures) keep getting separated from their group, teaching a lesson in counting backward. (First: Episode 0006) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Tanya helps Grover learn the difference between up and down so they can play a game about it. | |
Cartoon | 8 cows Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1531) | |
Muppets | Lefty the Salesman wants to sell an 8 to Ernie, who ran out of money buying some 9s. Ernie then offers to sell Lefty his 9s. (First: Episode 0079) | |
Film | Geese and their goslings swim in the water. (First: Episode 0388) | |
Cartoon | Typewriter: U for Umbrella (First: Episode 0808) | |
Muppets | The Beetles are "Thinking of U." (First: Episode 1486) | |
SCENE 4 | Gordon drags himself out of his place to ask Maria if he can rest in her apartment. He points her toward the noise coming from Big Bird's nest, where more Honkers have joined in the noise making. Maria hands over her keys and tries announcing the sponsors over the noise. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | David holds the Sesame Street sign, while Oscar holds the CTW sign. |
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